Write a prompt that captures the essence of your favourite person.
Generative AI often creates stereotypical images of people—depicting leaders as men, hyper-sexualized Asian women, aggressive Black people, or beauty as smooth skin and symmetrical faces. These tropes are not only damaging but fail to reflect how we see our loved ones. Describing someone in purely physical terms overlooks their aura and the deeper, emotional connection we feel to them—the warmth of their hug, the joy of their laugh. With the exercise Prompt your Person, AIxDesign and The Hmm invite you to explore how combining both visual and emotional prompts can create more meaningful portraits. You will test how AI handles these different approaches and see how it creates identity biases, often favouring specific ‘defaults’. The exercise challenges how AI sees people, nurturing the poet inside of each of us. Can AI truly capture a person when we prompt from the heart instead of the eye?
About the artist
AIxDESIGN is an independent organization conducting critical and creative research on AI. They challenge mainstream tech narratives by making space for the rest of us—centering intersectional, inclusive, and ethical approaches through community-led projects.
