To generate a satisfactory AI image, we must do for a machine what novelists have done for readers: translate objects, spaces and moods into words. A person on their device next to a statue of novelist Virginia Woolf. (Matt Brown/Flickr/Wikimedia)

How AI prompting turned writerly description into an everyday skill

Writing prompts to generate images combines two literary tasks at once: the realist description of concrete things and the modernist evocation of atmosphere.
Thinking seriously about “vibes” reveals something crucial: feeling is a shared form of knowledge shaped by environments — a human experience that may matter more as technology advances. (Unsplash)

#GoodVibesOnly: The shared emotions we don’t quite name

‘Vibe’ is not a vague feeling, but a shared human experience shaped by environments, design and social interaction. Understanding it matters in a reality that’s increasingly shaped by technology.

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