Unsatisfied with the results I got using ChatGPT and Midjourney to explore the film Home Alone, I shifted genres to science fiction, thinking it would be a better fit for the technology. The results I got were visually much more interesting, and the potential for creativity was broader given that there were fewer constraints on what I could use as prompts.
At this stage, I began prompting ChatGPT to come up with a specific species of alien, and based on that description then prompted Midjourney to create an image of it. I thought I could then create an Alien encyclopedia, one that treated each species in a pseudo-scientific way, mimicking the way that science fiction often attempts to use real science as a basis for its fictitious worlds.
I asked ChatGPT to create encyclopedia entries for each alien species and created a publication with the images and descriptions, but I found that the narratives were not engaging enough to be interesting and the richness of the images was somewhat lost in this format.