Proof-of-Concept Study of Image-Generating AIs As a Tool for Graphical Abstracts

Graphical abstracts are a visual representation of the abstract, to gain visibility and succinctly display the study findings. To design graphical abstract for scientific articles through image-generating AIs, we carried out a proof-of-concept study using abstracts as prompts. With prompt engineering, partial abstract parts and full abstract yielded similar images. We observe that AI's still do not reach the ability to generate a coherent image with abstract discourse, but lead to a big creative jump to build one. This bias resulted from keywords AIs attention and a non-homogeneous guideline to picture a graphical abstract over merely workflow illustrations. Relevance— To write prompts to generate graphical abstracts allowing us to use image-generating AIs as we currently work with other AIs as translators, search engines or even chats. Also to challenge current graphical abstract beyond a workflow diagram towards an abstract but illustrative picture of the article content.