Using AI to generate images for this blog

From day 1, Jonas and I decided that the content of this blog should be authentic. The text should be written by us, not by AI. But… – we also decided that the images for each blog post should be generated by AI and our dog (Akela, a 7 year old Shiba) should be the “model” for these images.

I am always using ChatGPT and the prompt used to generate the image for this blog post is:

Create an image of a computer nerd Shiba, generating pictures of shibas using ChatGPT, cartoon style, size 1024x1024

Pretty funny that it writes GPT-4 on the screen, even though it itself is GPT-5 🙂

The prompt used to create yesterdays image was:

Create an image of a Shiba Inu as a tourist in Japan watching a japanese temple, cartoon style, size 1024x1024

and running this four times, yields 4 different images:

And then I selected the 1st one.

If I had asked 4 skilled cartoonists, using the same drawing style, to draw an image following the same very weak guideline – they would also have given me 4 different images, which all fully matches the description.

BTW, Creating this image (including 4 images) could obviously be done in Paint.NET or like, but I uploaded all 4 generated images to ChatGPT and asked:

Can you combine these 4 images into one big image by putting 2 images side by side above 2 images side by side and a black line around and between the images.

Which is exactly what it did, this prompt is leaving little space for interpretation.

Let’s see how the other AIs does with the Japanese tourist prompt:

Google Gemini / Nano Banana

Nice job, but the tail looks more like a fox – you never see a Shiba tail like that.

Microsoft Copilot

Very clear that Microsoft uses GPT5 like ChatGPT.

Mistral

I kind of think I can see that this is a French tourist in Japan:-)

X | Grok

Nice photo, but it doesn’t really look like a tourist, it looks more like a Japanese Shiba Inu, which wasn’t what I was looking for.

Meta AI

and this looks more like a homeless Shiba in Japan and not really a tourist.

Verdict

You can compare the various AIs as different cartoonists who has attended different schools, yielding different drawing styles. Kind of like there is a huge difference between the way Hergé was drawing the adventures of Tintin and how Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko drew various Marvel heros.

This post was written on September 27th, 2025 – AI’s might/will change…

Until next time

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