{"id":1544,"date":"2021-12-01T23:11:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T03:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2021-12-01T23:11:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T03:11:27","slug":"terrify-children-with-these-ai-generated-bible-story-trading-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2021\/12\/terrify-children-with-these-ai-generated-bible-story-trading-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrify Children with These AI-Generated Bible Story Trading Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I think about the story of David and Goliath, I like to picture David as having an extra leg instead of a left arm, ready to throw a whole torso at Goliath, who’s standing behind him amorphously in Sauron-style armor. And thanks to the power of AI, now my imagination has become reality:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"AI-generated<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Not really. I gave an AI the text prompt: “David fighting Goliath by a river,” and then it created the image by itself. The AI in question is WOMBO Dream<\/a>, a new app that generates a trading-card style image based on text you give it. While this image was the most horrifying of all the images it generated for me, it did a decent job on many Bible-related prompts. Below is a gallery of my favorites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The AI did best with prompts relating to the angel announcing the birth of Jesus to the shepherds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"AI-generated<\/a>
prompt: Angel Gabriel appears to shepherds and sheep in a field at night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"AI-generated<\/a>
prompt: Angel Gabriel appears to shepherds and sheep in a field at night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The star in the last image shows up again in this rendition of the adoration of the magi:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"AI-generated<\/a>
prompt: adoration of the magi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Gethsemane captures the essence of the scene, with a somewhat abstract robed figure collapsed while others pray:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A<\/a>
prompt: Gethsemane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The creation of the world shows the waters above and the waters below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Two<\/a>
prompt: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Perennially favorite Bible verse Jeremiah 29:11<\/a> gets a literal rendering with a giant eye in the sky:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"An<\/a>
prompt: I know the thoughts that I think toward you saith the Lord thoughts of peace and not of evil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here the rainbow in the Noah story becomes an instrument of vengeance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A<\/a>
prompt: Noah ark flood rainbow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I call this one “The Kiddie Table at The Last Supper” (are those French fries?):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A<\/a>
prompt: The Last Supper Jesus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What it’s really doing here is representing the related scenes multiple times in the same image, which is actually quite common in historical artistic depictions of biblical stories. That’s how I interpret what’s going on in this scene of Elijah being fed by ravens, where I think he appears both in the foreground and in the background:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a>
prompt: prophet Elijah being fed by ravens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Finally, here are two images where the AI came up with a conceptually interesting (to me) idea that a human artist could polish and make something thought-provoking. First, here’s a representation of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness about turning stones to bread. Here there are stones that look like bread to heighten the temptation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bread-looking<\/a>
prompt: Jesus temptation in the wilderness turn these stones to bread<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And finally, the Tower of Babel made out of words. That’s just clever:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The<\/a>
prompt: tower of Babel confusion of languages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I think about the story of David and Goliath, I like to picture David as having an extra leg instead of a left arm, ready to throw a whole torso at Goliath, who’s standing behind him amorphously in Sauron-style armor. And thanks to the power of AI, now my imagination has become reality: Not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}