I know some of you have privately expressed concern over my newfound obsession with AI imaging.
Me, this morning to Ben: You know, it's kind of silly, but all this AI generation I've been doing has done wonders.
Ben: How so?
Me: I mean, it's hard to say, but all I know is that it's snapped me out of my year-long depression, gotten my mind off the state of the world, and has given me a reason to get up in the morning beyond going to the next doctor appointment. I'm creating and enjoying life again.
Ben: That's great! And it's all that matters!
And before you leave comments that I'm not the one actually creating anything, I beg to differ. I do supply the source material from my personal photography that the AI works with. Occasionally I glean a public photo to incorporate in the composition. How does that differ from editing one of my own photographs and manually incorporating elements from a different photo manually in Photoshop of Photocraft to improve upon it? It doesn't. And yes, AI does all the heavy lifting to generate the image itself, but learning how to write the prompts to actually get what you want is also part of the human creative process. Does AI steal my original photos to improve its abilities? Probably, but I honestly don't care.
And like I said, it's snapped me out of a year-long depression that I didn't even realize was there until it was lifted. So...
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First and foremost: if the use of AI makes you feel better then it's the only thing that matters. And you are right BTW: your change of overall mood showed in your posts lately, something that make me happy for you.
Second: refuting the argument that you are not the creator seems quite simple. Would Kraftwerk or Jean-Michel Jarre - to name but just two - have produced the music they did if they've had to first build the synthesizers and/or computers that were heavily used in the process? I think not. It's like you said, and just like any creator does: you provide the base material, you use the tool(s) at your disposal, make corrections as per the idea and vision of what you want to achieve.
I reminds me of a controversy that recently made the news here in France regarding a very well selling book which his author supposedly wrote with the help of AI. Detractors went to declare that was plagiarism and not worth being considered an actual writer's work. In fact, it seems to me - and to many - that it's just the reaction of people having their own traditional and conservative view of how a specific thing should be done. After all, the great and still revered French writer Honoré de Balzac is now known to ha used a ghostwriter for several - if not many - of his books 🙂
I'm glad it has helped you feel better.
Mark…Again thank you😊
Buddy, you can leave all the AI images on your blog that you like. I've enjoyed every single one, but none as much as I've enjoyed this one! For transparency, my ONLY question about AI use is the impact on the environment, but that's my issue, not yours. Enjoy it!