Even more experiments with ChatGPT

There were several very interesting comments made about my very recent blog post entitled 'More experiments with ChatGPT' ... and they set me thinking about what other experiments I could try using ChatGPT.

To date, I have asked ChatGPT to:

• Create images of people (including myself) in various historical garb
• Create maps for several of my imagi-nations
• Design ironclads and early pre-dreadnought battleships
• Write portable Wargame rules for Colonial & early 20th Century Warfare and the Chaco War
• Create Victorian-style line drawings based on photographs of people and wargames

My latest experiment was to take a Victorian-era illustration and ask ChatGPT to create photographs of wargame figures based on them. The results were as follows:

A line drawing of the Union American Civil War unit, the Garibaldi Guard.

A ChatGPT generated photograph of the Garibaldi Guard as a unit of wargame figures.

I was impressed by the results produced by ChatGPT and decided to repeat the experiment using the image that was on the cover of the latest issue of the Victorian Military Society's publication, SOLDIERS OF THE QUEEN.

The original coloured illustration used on the cover of latest issue of SOLDIERS OF THE QUEEN.

ChatGPT's rendition of the above cover illustration as wargame figures.

Frankly, I think that the final illustration is extremely good ... and I also think that many people would not be able to tell the difference between it an a real photograph of a group of painted wargame figures.

These recent experiments have certainly given me pause for thought ... and show just how sophisticated AI software that anyone can use has become.