We were playing around with an artificial intelligence image generator called Midjourney, where you supply the AI with a text prompt, and it generates an image to reflect that prompt. Really quickly, we noticed something interesting: Any prompt involving the word “love” would return a fluffy, pastel, heart-shaped scene. We couldn’t help but notice it felt a little fake. That caused a bit of concern when we looked into how AI image generators work. They’re trained on millions of real images found online, which means if the AI’s depiction of love feels fake, it’s because fake love is what we’ve shown it.
In response to this, we came up with a plan to get the AI to help us define real love — the kind of love that is difficult, vulnerable, honest, selfless, and sometimes sad. And what better way than to use Jesus’ own words in describing what it means to love? So that’s what we did. We used Jesus’ words as the text prompts and waited to see what images would result from them. We were blown away.
Scripture References for image prompts: John 21:15-17; Matthew 25:34-40; Mark 2:13-17; Luke 10:25-37; John 15:13
