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# Closer #012
- URL: https://mitchellens.ink/closer/012/
- Published: 2025-06-25T18:00:39.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-06T14:33:19.000Z
- Description: Imagine a cat behind a closed door, only paws and nose peeking from under the small crack between the door and the floor. Now imagine it again. How different are those results? Quite a lot, as it turns out.
- Author: Mitchel Lensink
- Tags: Closer, Field

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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 is edition #012.

Small adjustments in the input gets you small adjustments in the output. No surprises there, unfortunately. As we proceed...

Human experience → photo → AI description → AI image. 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 describe the attached image in detail.

![The image shared with ChatGPT as input.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8a/15/8a1564aa-a008-4e21-8398-12d04de07fcb/content/images/2025/06/001_Mitchel-Lensink_210101_Bowie-Cobain-1.jpg)

The image shared with ChatGPT as input.

## The output

*The image humorously captures a cat partially hidden behind or under a white surface, likely a door or piece of furniture. Only the lower portion of the cat is visible, showing its pink nose, a bit of its mouth, and its front paws peeking out from the narrow gap.*

*Details:*

- *The cat appears to be ginger or orange and white, as indicated by the color of the visible fur.*
- *Its paws are positioned flat on the ground, with white fur on the toes.*
- *The surface above the gap is clean and minimal, possibly a cabinet or a door, emphasizing the simplicity of the scene.*
- *The lighting is soft and natural, creating a calm and intimate feel.*

*Overall, it's a playful, cozy, and slightly mysterious photo that evokes curiosity—capturing the classic cat behavior of hiding in small, unexpected spaces.*

✍️

Generate an image with an aspect ratio of 3:2 based on this description: {**the description previously generated*}

![The image generated by ChatGPT based on its description of my image alone.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8a/15/8a1564aa-a008-4e21-8398-12d04de07fcb/content/images/2025/06/ChatGPT-Image-Jun-6--2025-at-08_40_28-PM-Large-1.jpeg)

The image generated by ChatGPT based on its description of my image alone.

## Impressions

Last week we 'dumbed things down' and simply asked the image to be described. This week I've asked it to be described *in detail*. I was hoping that would give me a more elaborate description, as we've seen in previous weeks, but all we got is a '*Details:*' header at the top of the bullet points.

The resulting image? Vastly different from the input. The composition is not at all similar, the subject is shown from a different angle, and the overall result is much more... boring? I personally think my original photo is a more interesting image to begin with, though personal preferences can differ there.

That being said, the AI-gen cat *does* look a lot like my actual cat though. Perhaps that's the most surprising take away this week.

Is there anything else that caught your eye, that I missed? Feel free to send a reply.

See you next week.

Mitch

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