Dairn Alexandre (a pseudonym) is a regular BILD guest blogger; for more information about Dairn, and to read his earlier posts, click here. Dairn has taught in Quebec and now works as a teacher in Alberta, where he lives with his wife, two kids, and dog.

The image above was created using artificial intelligence (AI), specifically a text-to-image image generator called Stable Diffusion. Despite how new this technology is, these types of programs work surprisingly well in interpreting and transforming written language to a visual one. According to Stable Diffusion’s website, every piece that it creates is wholly original, even with many of them looking like some generic No-Name Brand knockoffs of other more established artists’ works. Each image that I have created using this program technically belongs to me, so I now own the rights to not only the image above but all the ones featured in this writeup even though I haven’t invested very much time or effort into actually making any of them. 

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