Undisputed

This does seem remarkably reminiscent of a promotional poster for a boxing match, which—if I’m rightly understanding your pitch through its hyperbolic tone—is pretty much what’s in the book. So, good job on that, I suppose. While I don’t know how much of a target audience there might be for a book entirely based on the classic grade-school-level students’ speculative conversation “So, who do ya think would win a fight between [famous fighter] and [other famous fighter]?” maybe that’s what you’re hoping to find out by publishing this book, eh?

One thing I can’t help wondering: did you get an A.I. to produce this cover imagery—in part, or in full—for you? See, like my colleague Ron Miller here, I’ve noticed that while those two boxers do look quite real (and not like they were cut and pasted from separate photographs either; no improper lighting or strangely skewed perspectives or other telltale artifacts that there used to be something else in the background behind each of these contestants), they aren’t making proper eye contact, and their arms aren’t quite where one would expect them to be if they were actually trying to hit each other or block or dodge each other’s punches. Basically, they’re posed right for a fight, but they’re not behaving like they’re actually sparring with each other.

Part of why I ask this is because these are precisely the kind of rendering errors I’ve been experiencing in my own experimentation with A.I. text-to-art rendering engines just recently. While they can put people in exactly the right pose in exactly the right setting if you’re careful and detailed enough in describing exactly what you want, I have never yet—for the life of me—been able to get any of those A.I. engines to grasp the concepts of body language in general and eye contact in particular. No matter what you tell it the people in a given picture should be doing with their eyes and their hands, whichever A.I. you’re using always seems to insist on doing something entirely different.

All this is to say: I don’t fault you if you are using an A.I. for any of this, but if you want it to show you those boxers properly facing and fighting each other, you’re probably going to have to waltz around with whichever engine you’re using for several more months (at least) until it finally masters these somewhat more abstract concepts about human physical behavior enough to give you what you specifically request. If you’re not using an A.I. and (somehow) are just really good at cutting-and-pasting while keeping the seams from showing, then congratulations on being so skilled at image manipulation, I guess; but then you will have to master how to manipulate the images of the fighters to make them seem to be facing and fighting each other realistically.

Either way, your cover’s first draft is very high quality, but it’s not quite high enough to be a final draft yet.