Porter vs Snider: The First Challenge

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Snider throws down the gauntlet

For the last few weeks, we’ve been kicking around the idea of an occasional feature of the Friday edition of our newsletter where we compete with one another to produce a specific task with generative AI tools. The thought would be that you, the readers, could decide the winner of each competition.

Earlier this week, Snider decided to let the games begin:

Snider’s design

For my design, I started with ChatGPT and Midjourney, but I wasn’t happy with the results. So I went to one of my favorite image tools - Ideogram. Ideogram gave me some great results with this prompt:

create a boxing poster-style logo for an event. It should say "Porter vs. Snider" in large letters and then "Challenge" smaller below that text. The logo should look like a sports event logo with bold lettering and vibrant colors. It should include cartoon-like images of two men facing each other with boxing gloves up - one young with short gray hair, gray beard and black glasses, one a little older with short brown hair and brown beard.

I then went into Ideogram’s canvas editing tool and added tattoos (what boxer doesn’t need a tattoo). Porter’s tattoo shows his love for Claude and mine shows my fandom of the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Porter’s design

I started with ChatGPT to give me an initial image to work with:

create a picture of two cartoon-y rock-em sock-em robots facing each other, one blue the other red, with both of them punching towards the center of the image, with both fists hitting a yellow comic book explosion that reads "Porter vs Snider" in black, with one word on top of the other

Next, I took the resulting image over to Google’s new image editing tool Nano Banana, and through a series of prompts, incorporated images of both myself and Snider into the image to replace the heads of the robot in the original image. Here’s the outcome:

Keep in mind that these two images were created independently of one another!

You decide!

Help us decide which logo we will use. Reply to this email with your choice and let us know the winner of the very first Porter vs. Snider. Or vote on our Instagram.