AI Cover

I mentioned in the last post that I had Grok create a cover for Assignment Day. There’s more to it than that simple phrase, so let’s dig in on how it really went. All of this happened in fits and starts. Each day I went beyond the tool’s image limit since I’m using the free version and it’ll only generate so many things at a time. That’s fine. If I really intended to use the tool on a regular basis I’d pay for the added capacity and the processor time these things consume. Anyway, the first part was easy. I prompted Grok for the front cover of a book using the description I gave it of the book’s plot. It returned six images, only four of which I could see due to the image limit mentioned above. I liked the first two, the third not so much, as well as the fourth. I asked The Wife for her opinion and she also liked the fourth. I asked Grok to make a few minor changes, such as removing some meaningless words above the title (seriously, I don’t know where they came from) and make the character in the picture to be of high school, not junior high, age. It returned a really nice update and that’s where the problems started. I asked for a high-resolution, print-ready version of the cover and it said sure, I’d be happy to do that. And then it produced a completely different cover. I said no, that’s not it, I liked the one you produced before that. It gave me another variation. And so on. I finally uploaded the image of the one I liked and had downloaded and it agreed that was the one it should’ve been using. Anyway, I now have a cover for the book. I might even put it on the front page of this site and see who notices. Grok has offered to create the spine and back cover. Let’s see how that goes.