Text to image generative AIs are designed to communicate with humans using the "natural language," or the everyday language we use to communicate with one another. It opens up new creative opportunities to all human users without having to learn a special language to communicate with a machine (a.k.a. "coding").

And yet, generating images with AI tools is not a cookie cutter process. To turn our visions into visuals, human users must learn how to verbalize and communicate their ideas to AI. Since human intelligence and artificial intelligence don't work in the same way, what seems "obvious" or "natural" to humans may not be so to AI; or AI might "read into" something you mentioned and take the image in the direction you didn't intend. While these differences can make the collaboration with AI a rather frustrating experience, especially in the beginning, they also make the moment of success all the more exhilarating.