I thought I'd be clever and use ChatGPT to generate some creative writing prompts for my weekly writing group. The results were so bland.
Every prompt was something like 'write about a character who discovers a hidden door' or 'imagine a world where people have superpowers.' Just the most generic, overdone ideas imaginable. I realized that good prompts need a human touch—they need specificity and strangeness . The prompts I've loved most from books and websites have weird constraints: 'write a recipe for something that isn't food,' 'describe a color to someone who has never seen it,' 'write a story in exactly 50 words.'
AI doesn't seem to understand what makes a prompt generative versus just a topic. Has anyone found good AI prompt generators that actually work, or are we stuck relying on human creativity for this too?
Every prompt was something like 'write about a character who discovers a hidden door' or 'imagine a world where people have superpowers.' Just the most generic, overdone ideas imaginable. I realized that good prompts need a human touch—they need specificity and strangeness . The prompts I've loved most from books and websites have weird constraints: 'write a recipe for something that isn't food,' 'describe a color to someone who has never seen it,' 'write a story in exactly 50 words.'
AI doesn't seem to understand what makes a prompt generative versus just a topic. Has anyone found good AI prompt generators that actually work, or are we stuck relying on human creativity for this too?