It’s Red Hot Chili Peppers Day. No, not that RHCP…the actual sauce. Today is National Red Hot Sauce Day so whether it’s eggs, a burrito, a curry, or some crazy student drinking competition, reach for your favourite hot sauce and give it some respect. Today I wanted to create a layout with two maps, one showing global production, and one showing consumption.

AI ignored a few of my requests like map labels but the more of these maps I create the more I know that labelling is a real achilles heel at the time of writing so I’m not overly concerned. You can see some of the problems even in the legend for the map on production with different colours for different legend labels. Trying to force these to be correct often ends up with the AI hallucinating and messing up other elements.

Original Prompt (ChatGPT)

Create an image showing two world maps. On the left map, show countries categorised as a choropleth map showing annual production of chili peppers. On the right hand map, illustrate as a choropleth map countries categorised by consumption of hot sauce. Use fiery reds, oranges, and yellows throughout. Title the map “Hot hot hot!” and give the map a subtitle of “the global production and consumption of chili peppers’. Add appropriate legends and map labels. Keep the labels small to make sure they are less prominent in the design.