I stumbled upon an article that told me I could create an infographic from an image containing data, so I decided to try it. Here’s what happened.

The article from Forbes (New ChatGPT: 12 Game-Changing Prompts You Won’t Have Tried Before, written by Jodie Cook and available here) discussed several interesting prompts that illustrate new functionalities in ChatGPT 4o to experiment with. This one in particular caught my eye:

Create infographics

Upload an image containing data or sketches, and ask ChatGPT 4o to help you create a professional infographic.

“Create an infographic from the data in this image. Use the hex colours [include your brand colours]”

“How cool is that?”, I thought. I have to try that!

So, I did, using the statistics from my latest annual cybersecurity stats post that I publish every year on April Fools Day. I copied the stats into a Word document, formatted it so that they all fit on a single page, corrected the one stat that I intentionally published wrong (as part of the April Fools challenge), captured a screen shot of the stats and saved as an image. Took about 5 minutes. Here’s the image I used (reduced in size to fit within the blog post):

I then uploaded the image into GPT 4o and told it to “Create an infographic from the data in this image.” I didn’t worry about the color scheme as that didn’t matter to me.

GPT 4o went through its process to generate an image, and, in less than a minute, it gave me this:

Huh? Well, it looks like an infographic. But the data is absolute garbage. Yeesh.

On the off chance that was an anomaly, I decided to hit the regenerate button. This is what I got the second time:

Ick! No better. Nice design, but garbage data again.

DALL-E doesn’t do well accurately representing words on images, so I’m thinking that DALL-E is being used here to generate the infographics. Regardless, it can’t create an infographic that actually makes any sense. At least not for now.

Lesson learned here is don’t take at face value claims that an AI model can do certain things just because someone says so. Test it out yourself.

So, what do you think? Do you have any examples of failures from an AI model that you’ve experienced? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

Image created using GPT-4o’s Image Creator Powered by DALL-E, using the term “robot looking at a computer screen with an infographic on it”.

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