An adventure into really strange of the mind. I started by feeding my writing into an image generator AI based tool, that gave me some wonderful colors to work with, and some suggestions of form. occasionally the tools make something surprisingly good such as the eye in this piece.
I stitch together various outputs and use them as sort of a foundation for the finished piece.
its a great way to work that can be more useful than trying to find good stock photos for photobashing.
in the future, I imagine you could specify AI to make something and it would do so with little need for corrections. An exciting prospect, but one that is still somewhat far off.
until then they definitely can speed up work.