Ten minutes, that is all it takes. Find a photo on your phone or computer, go to Chat GPT, or Google, or whatever AI program is running on your phone, your tablet, or your desktop, and ask the AI to create art based on your photo. The product is not a photograph, it is art created based on a photo with tools that are now readily available.
Work with it a little bit, the first version of this, added a person just over my right shoulder looking at the viewer. I didn't like that, so I used the magic eraser function on my phone to take him out - what it did was turn him around facing in the other direction.
Before we mire ourselves in the debate of "is it art?" We can pause and think of the past. The guys and gals painting on cave walls with the burnt end of stick, very likely raised the same question, when someone tied a tuft of hair on the end of a stick and created the paint brush - is that really cave painting? It is, but it is different, technologies change, the creative process evolves. From oil painting to photography, portraiture changed, but it is still an art.
I took this ten minute art challenge one evening with a group of friends. I was surprised by how fast and easy it was. Try it and see if it brings you joy.
This one is going into a show with the theme of Portraits and Self-Portraits, clearly described as AI created art based on an original photograph.
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