In the space of AI image generators, which operate on a text prompt, the leaders seem to be Musk’s GrokAI, Open AI’s Dall-E, and Google’s Imagen. In the case of the latter
Trying out a simple prompt like “Generate an image of a bullet train speeding towards Banff”:

Imagen allows you to modify the previous image, just by referring to it: “make the train faster”

Initial versions of images are fairly literal, just mashups of other real images. For example: “Generate an image of a panda playing volleyball”:

For example: “Generate an image of a cartoon panda playing volleyball”:

Then “now add in a volleyball net”:

Kind of fun to play with. Bit scary as these images become more and more realistic over time.