Like no other bird I've seen

When starting on a new stained glass commission, I always begin with drawings. My client wants a few specific images included in the design for his window: Table Rock Mountain, Linville Falls, an eagle, and a blue hydrangea. I was talking with my 24 year old son, Alexander, who uses AI in a number of facets of the business he runs and I mentioned I didn’t have any good reference photos to use for my drawing. He suggested I might want to try an AI bot called MidJourney but he cautioned me that the results are unpredictable. “How so?” I asked. Well, take a look! Initially in my written description, when I prompted it with the word “eagle,” the creature it created was so enormous that it greatly overshadowed all the other elements. So I thought I would swap in the word “bird” and then things started getting really weird. If you look closely at the images above, one has three wings and another has four. Another time I refined the prompt and got a bird with two heads. I played around with it for a few hours and never got anywhere near an image I could use, even as a jumping off point. An illustrator friend said AI is being widely used in her field and she is not happy about it and has heard of artists banding together to reject its use. In the stained glass world, this doesn’t seem to be an issue yet. The design work is terrible and even if I could generate something decent, I’d still have to make the window! But I find it really interesting to have tried it at this point in my career and I’m curious to see how it develops in the near future.