Below is a screenshot from the artificial intelligence text-to-image generating tool we used. I have a paid account. Below is a sample of the images generated before we prompted and created the image for Ellie. We never mentioned Ellie in any image creation session. We talked to a different artificial intelligence about what Ellie looked like in the second book that has not been published. That happened years ago. A deeper explanation is in order.

I had not started writing the outline for a story that became the basis for the greater universe of Earth's Destiny book series.

 A short story that finishes at forty-seven thousand words jumped out around the question, "How do we protect ourselves from artificial intelligence in the future?" It will be a part of another book series I will set in the same universe. The pandemic hit, and I decided to wait and include several stories in audio and Podcast for marketing reasons. The research continued, and ghostwriting and other business took precedence. 

Article on X published at Stanton_Jeffers.

What I asked Grok is funny. If you are not on X, I encourage you to do so and I will post on the blog.