Images produced by Stable Diffusion (center) and two others from Midjourney when given the prompt “Editorial illustration showing how Russia’s annexation of Crimea led to wider war in Ukraine.”
Like ChatGPT, AI image tools lack critical thinking and empathy—skills needed to turn complicated topics into original conceptual illustration. Increasingly, however, these tools produce convincing knockoffs and deepfakes, especially when given prescriptive prompts, such as which visual metaphor to employ or which artists
