A picture is NOT worth thousand words

  Thanks to tools such as Midjourney and Stable diffusion, one can convert text to images without breaking sweat. But thats not the big picture!

Strengths of these models are also their weaknesses. Let me explain.

The models look at past visualisations for the words and replicate to the closest possible. However the written word is lot more powerful.

Any description or story line can be visualised in 100s of ways which is only limited by the reader's visualisation and the text articulation. More detailed the articulation, more specific is the visualisation. Conversely less detailed the articulation, more visualisation possibilities exist. 

Have you ever felt that a song when picturised or played on stage did not do justice to the words? It happens when your visualisation does not match with the director's. Neither is right or wrong but it only shows the number of visualisations possible against an articulation.

A specific visualisation is in effect limiting the possibilities for the articulation. Same story can be picturised in multiple ways based on perspectives. 

Word hence is always more powerful than the image as it allows us to excite neurons in our brains in multiple ways, often differently at different points of time. 

May be it is time we re-look at reading and writing not as skills in decline but powerhouses that offer more possibilities than what a model can deliver!