How does a chat-based AI image editor handle repeated edits?

Short answer: Jordan Metzner uses the Kontext Pro edit tool in his app to add a brown cowboy hat, a western shirt with hot pink accents and a bolo tie, each edit building on the last image; he expects some continuity degradation over time.

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From Episode 10: Future in Focus: AI Tools & Big Tech, starting at 3:58.

Sam Nadler [3:57]: Yeah. Well, I've been thinking about creating, from Nashville, Tennessee, a cowboy hat brand. I would love to see, you with a, brown colored cowboy hat and a white cowboy hat on a ranch.

Jordan Metzner [4:19]: Alright. So I wrote that out there. Add a cowboy hat that is brown and update the clothes as well on a ranch in Tennessee. And as you can see right now, I'm in an office type virtual background environment. And right now, I'm using the Kontext Pro Edit tool, and here you can see the outcome. Here I am in a brown hat and I'm on a ranch. My shirt kinda looks the same, but maybe that's like ranch appropriate. And there I am. If you want, we can probably make some more changes to it if you'd like.

Sam Nadler [4:52]: Yeah. I would immediately, what I find interesting is the lighting. So on your first picture, you have this shadow across your chest. And on the second, it does you know, I wouldn't say it looks still a little AI generated, but, the lighting changes. It looks fairly natural, the lighting, on how the hat would create that shadow across your, I guess, left shoulder. But why don't we change your shirt to be more of a, like, a western button down?

Jordan Metzner [5:22]: Let's try that. So it should, if it works right with my tool, should take this new image as the root, make the changes here, process them, and

Sam Nadler [5:33]: There we go.

Jordan Metzner [5:34]: There we go. Now, you have to understand these are this is like an image of an image. So, it continues to make changes, and we'll probably see, like, some kind of continuity degradation over time. But, you know, let's see. Make the western shirt have hot pink colored accents.

Sam Nadler [6:00]: And a bolo tie.

Jordan Metzner [6:01]: And that should do it. Let's see. Hopefully, it still looks like me once it's all said and done. And there we go. Look at our progress here as we've gone from kinda like cowboy hat to western shirt, etcetera.

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