I recently wrote about a few gull feathered friends that I found on the St. Lawrence river while visiting the jazzy city of Montreal. I could see that there were different species flying around, but I wasn't familiar with these particular kinds of gulls. At home, I learned that there are three types of gulls in that region along the St. Lawrence river: Ring-billed, American Herring, and Great Black-backed. In the image set that I posted previously, there was a photograph with three gulls perched on a railing. They appeared to be the same species (Ring-billed). So, I asked ChatGPT to recreate that photo as a scientific illustration but alter the birds so that they corresponded to the three different species.
The AI added linguistic flair to the illustration. I forgot to tell it that this was the St. Lawrence, and so it added the general title "North America," followed by the words "three species one coast", which barring the cheeky "pop-cultural" reference aside, it is not technically correct because the image was taken along the St. Lawrence river in Montreal, miles inland from the Atlantic coast. Lastly, the original iteration added the words "Seabirds of Our Shores." These are not considered seabirds but freshwater (river) gulls, so I created a new image iteration with the term "freshwater" added in its stead.
I had asked the AI to add labels for the physical characteristics of each species along with their proper names. Then I checked to see if this information was correct, and from what I can tell, it seems accurate. I could've touched up the content and design some more, but I didn't want to mess it up because I think the AI did a mighty fine job with this illustration.
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