FLY SOUP

I live in Sydney these days and wanted to take a super-cool author photo, with the beach in the background, on a lovely sunny day. Unfortunately, life didn't play ball and so I just took a picture inside and loaded it into an AI generator to see if I could add the beach post-production. Original boring pic. What I discovered is that AI really, really, really wishes I was more stylish/handsome/interesting/and possibly Asian. Me if I lived in an AI-generated Utopia. I wish I did look like these pictures. Maybe I need to work on my *image* 😝

I've been working on a book of family-orientated children's stories, drawing on my experiences bringing up my kids as a single father.  I asked AI to interpret one of the stories in art and it came up with this image (after a couple of dismal failures). It's actually a fair representation of the story.   Now, to begin the daunting process of finding a publisher for this collection.