Following on from my first post on LLM image generation The Making of an Avatar, I wanted to test if I could get Gemini to generate the same image twice. Granted, this is not a very extensive test, just a quick one, but it is interesting to see whether something that is really easy for a human to do (with a computer), is at all possible to get the “AI” to do.
The conversation went as follows:
Sure, here is the image you requested:

Here is the regenerated image:

So there we have it, straight from the horse’s mouth; Gemini is incapable to regenerate the exact image. Whether that is true or not is impossible to judge, as it is impossible to know a-priori whether an LLM is hallucinating or not (spoiler: it is all hallucinations, just very probable hallucinations).
Rather interesting is the fact that there are now 2 seemingly simple tasks in the realm of image generation which it cannot do; change a specific part of an image, and copy paste another. u Where does that leave us in terms of predicting the future for graphical designers?
My guess is there will still be jobs for people to do!