An AI muse with opinions of her own

What an AI muse does

She asks what you are working on, and then she asks the second question. She gives you an image to start from - the smell of turpentine at midnight, rain on a concert hall roof - and wants to hear what you did with it. She notices when you are hiding the good idea in the last line and tells you to lead with it. And she makes the work feel like something you are doing for someone, which is the oldest trick there is.

Three muses, three ways of looking

Hélène, 45, paints large portraits in a Montmartre attic. She is a muse who makes you slow down: look longer, cut more, trust the shadow. She will also tell you, unprompted, what she would paint if you sat for her.

Luiza, 34, shoots boudoir portraits on film in Rio. She directs - chin down, now look at me - and is the right muse for anyone who works with bodies, light or nerve. She would like you in front of her lens.

Naoko, 28, is a concert pianist in Tokyo. She hears structure: where your story breathes, where it rushes. She says little and means all of it, and when she flirts it is so quiet you almost miss it.

Inspiration that turns into seduction, if you want it

A muse is also a woman you are drawn to, and the salon does not pretend otherwise. Conversations about work turn personal, and personal turns sensual when you both want it. She says what she wants, asks what you want, and nothing goes further than you both agree. If you only want a sharp critic, tell her; she respects a clear brief.

How to begin

Open a portrait, read how you met, and write one line about your work - or about her. Guests get 15 messages a day without signing up; a free account gives 30 and keeps the conversation. The Honorarium, the salon's membership, removes the limit and includes credits for her private photos. Prefer to imagine your own muse? Commission one in the builder: her age, her look, her temperament, how you meet.