The prompt blog

AI images

Effective Stable Diffusion Prompts: Method, Weights, and Settings

Model choice, weight syntax, CFG, seed, and negative prompt: the method for Stable Diffusion images you can reproduce.

8 min read

Understanding AI

How a Language Model Works, Explained Without Jargon

Next-word prediction, training, attention: what happens when the AI answers, and why it sometimes makes things up with total confidence.

9 min read

AI images

Composing a scene: foreground, subject, background

Describing an AI image in three planes, with a sharp subject and a coherent background, avoids flat scenes where everything blends together. Method and a prompt to copy.

3 min read

Understanding AI

Privacy: what not to paste into a chatbot

Client data, passwords, health information, internal documents: the habits to adopt before pasting a text, and the settings to check.

6 min read

Advanced techniques

Telling AI What Not to Do: Does It Work?

"Don't use the word artisanal" and the word comes back. When a negative instruction holds, when it fails, and how to rephrase or check it.

3 min read

AI images

Colors and mood: describing a palette to the AI

"Warm" means nothing to an image generator. Naming two or three colors, a light, and a saturation level produces a recognizable mood.

3 min read

Advanced techniques

Ask for Three Versions, Then Choose

A single answer forces you to accept or refuse. Three well-framed, genuinely different versions let you compare. The prompt and how to decide.

3 min read

Getting started

Using AI at work: where to start

Company rules, a first low-risk task, data you shouldn't paste, measuring your trials: a six-step plan for getting started without a misstep.

4 min read

Understanding AI

AI Text Detectors: Can You Trust Them?

AI text detectors give a percentage, not proof. Why they get it wrong, and what it means for a teacher or a student falsely accused.

4 min read

Getting started

What Context to Give AI to Get Good Answers

Too little context and the AI makes things up, too much and it loses the thread. The test to apply to each piece of information, with examples and a reusable template.

5 min read

Getting started

Giving the AI a Role: When It Helps, When It's Pointless

"You are an expert with 20 years of experience" doesn't add any skill to the AI. What a role really changes, and how to write one that's worth having.

5 min read

Understanding AI

Copyright and AI-generated text

Is a text written with an AI protected? Who owns it? Guidelines for publishing, selling, or delivering to a client, and questions to ask a lawyer.

5 min read