Four scoops of ice cream in a waffle tray — a photorealistic AI-generated image

Waffle or Cup?

High fidelity at no cost with AI

The choice between cup and waffle. The challenge is the same — you have to eat your way from top to bottom.

Idea: an egg tray made from waffle.

2 prompts and a new image model from ChatGPT, and I had a photorealistic illustration ready to share with others.

But couldn't you have communicated the idea of a waffle egg tray just as well with words and a hand sketch?

And that raises the question of whether the extra fidelity — the realism — does any good when communicating early-stage ideas. Fortunately, there are good academic papers written on exactly that.