Apr 22nd, 2025

Author: donich_admin

An eggselant Easter

We went to see my Mum in Rhu for Easter.  My brother cooked lunch (a very Spanish take on lentil soup and chicken Basque) and then we did the egg painting that has become a bit of a tradition.

R (as usual) completely refused to get into the swing of things and wouldn’t even have his (broadly blank) egg put on display.  So in the best “tub of lard” /Roy Hattersley tradition of “Have I got news for you” I left a space to symbolize the missing egg he didn’t paint.  Mine was the phoenix, J did a brilliant hedgehog, N’s was a Bengal Tiger, and my Mum’s was a Picasso head.  These are them in the original photograph.

So then R tried to be a smarty pants and use AI to insert a brilliantly painted egg to be “his” effort.

So far so good R’s egg is now a fantastically painted one stolen from the Internet.  But more interesting is what the AI did with the other eggs.  Mine it turned into a rather cute stuffed chicken pom pom (with no egg).  J’s it totally ruined by being unable to recognize the hedgehog and just making it patterned.  N’s it got completely wrong and Mum’s it either improved or ruined dependent on your perspective.

I tried a rather better prompt and it came up with this.  The egg on the right is the one R ostensibly didn’t put on display because there was no black paint.