The conversation around AI and art generally swings between two extremes: a flood of AI slop or the total automation of creative work. The more desirable approach may be an AI that behaves as a useful collaborator. But thus far, visual artists working with text-to-image tools confront frustrating basic hurdles in their abilities to direct AI. Ask an AI to create an image of a house? Not too difficult. Direct it to make the house red, with four front-facing windows, a chimney, and ivy covering the left side? Good luck.