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Generating non-English AI images.
Hi,
I've been using the AI to make cartoon images for courses, but have run into a problem when it comes to recreating the courses for our Francophone employees (I'm in Canada and need to comply with Bill 96 for Quebec's language laws).
Even when I put in a French prompt and state the images can't have any English in them, the AI still puts English text in the images.
Does anyone have any prompt tips to address this issue?
I've been taking a screenshot of the English images and having to manually swap out the text, which is much more time consuming that it needs to be. I may avoid using the AI image generation in future courses to ensure I don't have to deal with this complication.
No, we don't use localization because, for legal reasons, we need a human translator to ensure the translation is accurate.
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Hi BenjiLukas,
This is an interesting situation!
I haven't had AI-generated images include text yet. I'm curious to learn what prompts you've used and an example of an image that's generated if you're willing to share! From there, I'll do some testing on my end.
Here are some of the English versions of the prompts.
"Create a Dilbert-style image of an office wroker working with AI effectively to summarize documents."
"Create a Dilbert comic version of a happy and modern insurance claims office with someone working on a computer with AI"
"Create a Dilbert comic-style image, but happy, employee confirms files are saved locally" (the happy was because it was making them sad, but I wanted all cartoon images to look similar to Dilbert).
I translated these and others in Google Translate, and added en Francais or No angles. Sometimes it made French images, sometimes all the words were in English. Possibly the Dilbert part of the prompt is the issue? Maybe I needed a French cartoon character? However, then I'd have to change the style of all the images rather than just the ones that had words in them.
It definitely seems to be finicky/particular but I've been able to get decent results:
I mean, decent for not looking at all like an actual Dilbert cartoon, but I'm not catching any stray anglaise either.
My first attempt didn't include "but avoid text if possible" and did return French-only images but it was generating whole speech bubbles filled with unacceptable errors and typos.
