"I couldn't draw much else with the mouse, nothing more complicated than a lopsided house and a tree, so I would ask him, knowing full well he wasn't the artist in the family, to draw something for me; that day I asked for a dog. He tried his best, but what came up on the canvas was a misshapen thing - a kind of pig-dog hybrid that was so bad it had us laughing for a good while."
"I wasn't always sure why that random ugly dog had stayed with me for so long, but I see now it was a symbol of the connection my dad and I shared that day. This memory has resurfaced a few times now that there's so much emphasis on AI image generators - these tools that can (sometimes, for now) create breathtaking art effortlessly yet leave me, and many others, wondering about their real purpose."
"I've been thinking about what it would have been like if instead of just our best intention and some basic tools we would have had at our disposal Midjourney or something else that day, how my request to my dad would have been the same but the result much more different. The quality of the artwork itself is beside the point - the whole interaction and the unexpected moment between us it's what would have been lost."
A childhood memory recounts visiting a father's office and using his computer to make MS Paint portraits, often exaggerating features for fun. A requested dog drawing became a misshapen, humorous pig-dog hybrid that created a lasting, affectionate memory. The imperfect drawing later became symbolic of a meaningful connection and an unexpected shared moment. Contemporary AI image generators can produce technically impressive images, but those tools risk removing the spontaneous interaction and emotional value present in collaborative, imperfect human-created works. One recently named tool, Sora 2, is also noted among the emerging AI image generators.
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