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Closer #010

SHOCKER: Asking AI for a direct replication of your work will give you a direct replication of your work. But does it really?

Mitchel Lensink
Jun 11, 2025
2 min read
The image shared with ChatGPT as input.
Zandvoort, The Netherlands—August 26th, 2020.

Welcome to Closer,

A weekly experiment in AI interpretation: I share a photo, ask AI to describe it, then generate an image from that description. This week we're skipping the description part though, for the sake of experimentation.

Human experience → photo → AI image. Edition #010.

Prompts are in grey boxes. Descriptions are in italics.

LLMs used

GPT-4o for image interpretation and image generation.

The input

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Please replicate this image.
The image shared with ChatGPT as input.
The image shared with ChatGPT as input.

The image above is part of my black and white square-format photography project made during the winter of 2020/2021. Take a look at the project page to find out more.

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The output

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Closer #016 The image shared with ChatGPT as input.

We are sixteen weeks into this experiment, and I'm unsure if this is still providing value. This is the third week we let AI decide how to prompt and the results are... well, you be the judge.

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Closer #015 The image shared with ChatGPT as input.

Week two of our 'experiment within an ongoing experiment' where AI is not only doing the image description and generation, but is also deciding the prompting to get to that description.

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Closer #014 The image shared with ChatGPT as input.

Hey, so, thought: you know how we're already generating AI-images, based on AI-descriptions of real life images, right? What if... we also asked ChatGPT how to properly ask for those descriptions? Would that make it better?

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