Category: AI Art

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It’s All AI…

If it weren’t for the fact that AI still cannot spontaneously generate text in images that makes any sense (and the fact that the authors flagged them as AI), I know I’d never suspect they were computer generated fever dreams…

Once that bridge is crossed, we’re fucked—not just in the realms of pr0n, but with everything. Photographic evidence will no longer be able to be trusted without deep, forensic analysis.

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AI Slop

AI is getting good. Perhaps too good.

I recently ran across an Instagram account that at first blush looked like a great collection of hot guys. The more I got into it, however, the more I started doubting the images’ authenticity. They were perfect…with one tell. The tattoos on what were otherwise identical models were radically different from image to image—in some cases absent altogether.

Then I went back to the main account and read the description.

But seriously, if I hadn’t noticed the ink, I would’ve blithly continued believing the images were real.

The gentleman in the image above, while not from that particular account, gives me pause as well.

How can we even trust what we see as real/

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So Close, And Yet…

There’s still something unnerving about AI art, as fantastic as some of it can be. It didn’t hit me until I was watching this video that AI still struggles to insert legible letters, numbers, and words. The title cards in this video are fine (probably not AI created), but if you look at things like printed pages or license plates in the other sequences, what it feels like to me more than anything else is when you’re dreaming and trying to read something and no matter how hard you try, you just can’t make it out—how it becomes increasingly frustrating the harder you try. (I remember reading somewhere not too long ago that this is common; we aren’t wired to interpret that kind of information in our dreams.)

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The Hitchhiker

This is one of my favorite paintings, done in…1979?

Getting a version from ChatGPT took a lot of work. A dozen iterations and it’s still not exactly what I want, but it’s damn close.

For some reason it really wanted to put the guy in the road instead of off to one side.  The trouble is, with each generation it changes the car itself.

By the time I finally got the perspective right, and the hitchhiker the proper distance down the road, the vehicle had completely morphed into something that bore little resemblance to my original painting.

Maybe the guy just can’t get picked up, and these are all separate cars…