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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.

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