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Fantasy Fish AI: Nanochromis transvestitus

In this regular blog we ask an AI image creator to produce images of the 'fantasy fish' we would like to keep if we could find or create them. Actually, to be honest, this blog originates from experiments to produce accurate images of actual fish species, many of which went horribly wrong! Maybe we should call it 'mutant AI fish experiments'...?

This time around we asked AI to create an image of "create an image of a pure Nanochromis transvestitus" and this is what we got. Nanochromis transvestitus is an actual species of West African Dwarf Cichlid, which has a red belly with blue and black stripes (or similar) on the tail fin. Not quite sure what AI was thinking here.

Many images were produced of completely different species and shapes, so here are the closest to our fantasy fish artificial intelligence could produce. As you can see, it didn't quite work out this time! This is what AI interprets as a "pure Nanochromis transvestitus" >>>

As anyone who has tangled with AI to produce specific blogs images or text will know, in its current form and without the correct prompting AI doesn't always quite produce what you need. We'll persevere and publish the most interesting examples!

If you have any thoughts on the above or ideas for fantasy fish you would like us to experiment with, please comment below and we'll have a tinker!

You can visit the whole collection of our Fantasy Fish AI fish images and other articles by clicking here.

To view our blog archive collection of fish-related articles please click here.

Photo credit(s): Mark Chinnery, asserted rights via Midjourney AI

Tags: Cichlidae, Cichlids, Fantasy fish, Tropical fish