Mucha Medusa (More Modern)

When a new AI model comes out, I like to test it the same way. I ask it to produce an image of Medusa and see how well it does. It dawned on me that I only have the original catastrophe from years ago published and not the newer attempts.

Tried to run it with Stable Core, but it can't use starter images, so it's not directly comparable. (And, OK, you got me. Stable Core kind of sucks for that prompt. Even when I explicitly tell it she had snakes for hair, it won't draw the snakes, for some reason. I'm still trying to get it to work.)

So here it is in Starlight XL. To be fair, I ran it with the exact same prompt (as basic as it was) as the original and with the same starter image of an Alphonse Mucha illustration.

The ancient image, back when AI had to walk uphill in the snow to get to school: