Posted: April 25, 2024
Blending data visualization and storytelling, the artificial intelligence tool midjourney provides a method to include compelling illustrations in social network and social media posts about Critical Zone research.
BIG IDEAS
These three images are previously unseen results from content generation work sessions where our team generated images to highlight research presented by Big Data Cluster members at the American Geophysical Union Annual Fall Meeting in 2022.
EYE CATCHING
Sometimes it can be difficult to find an interesting image to accompany a blog post, website posting, or other science communications effort. Access to midjourney offers an amazing choice of styles to draw upon when creating illustrations. AI has difficulty generating "words" so text at this point doesn't turn out readable on AI-generated images.
EMPOWERING CREATION
Practice with any AI text-to-image tool takes time. At the start it may feel like there's no real correlation between prompt and generated image. But with practice, creators will know the best prompts and phrases to use with the tool to get the desired result.
We are at the very beginning of mainstream usage of artificial intelligence tools for illustrating and even writing content. There are many AI alignment problems to overcome. It's clear, however, that these tools have great potential. And right now, when used intentionally, they can add significant value to science communications efforts.
Big Data
