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Just for fun, I asked several AI to illustrate the fourth day of Christmas, without giving them any other information. I wanted to see if they would use the song as source material.
MidJourney didn’t get the brief at all. One of the images was various dinosaurs or other reptiles dressed as Santa sitting around a Christmas tree.
Grok gave me two nice pictures of four birds sitting on a snowy branch. The birds look a bit like blackbirds, which is probably just by chance, but would be canon. The internet tells me the “four calling birds” were actually “four colly birds” in the oldest printed version of the song – blackbirds, that is. Also, it got the correct number of birds. Also, picture of birds.
ChatGPT understood and gave me a charming Christmas card illustration featuring what look like doves. Okay, there were six of them, but I’ll still call that a win.
That’s when I realized today is the fifth day of Christmas.
So there’s ChatGPT again. Wrong number of rings, but I’ll take it. Looks sweet in color.
December 29, 2025 — 5:59 pm
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