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.
I've only slightly dabbled in the area. I can only sit at the keyboard or looking at my my phone for so many hours a day. The altered image turned out well.
ReplyDeleteIt makes me look better than I do.
DeleteIt’s a nice image, but I’m still on the fence about the process.
ReplyDeleteThe result, is pleasing.
DeleteI'm leery of AI, though this seems like a fun application.
ReplyDeleteWe need to be mindful of that we use AI for.
DeleteVery cool! I think there are apps that would turn it into different styles of art too, like if Van Gogh had painted your portrait or something.
ReplyDeleteI have seen some work done that way. I think it is important that the finished product be clearly identified as created using AI.
DeleteRight now I am resisting AI. At this point in my life I want the real deal, the human touch, and I don't want that to be lost. Maybe I'll have a change of heart as it does pique my curiosity, but for right now, it's just me with no artificial assistance.
ReplyDeleteOn one of my other channels I have written similar feelings about digital editing of photographs, then I remember the magic moments in the darkroom, dodging and burning images, minor changes in contrast and exposure that morphed a good image into a great image.
DeleteYes, but it was YOU with YOUR knowledge of photography, taking the time to tweak the contrast and exposure to change the image.
DeleteAs the mom of a graphic artist, I do not think this is art. You might as well just xerox a photo and color it and call that art. It just isn't. But I'm glad that you acknowledge that it is AI. Some people are trying to put out art that they claim is their own when it is really AI generated.
ReplyDeleteMy ability to draw is undeveloped, I have never drawn anything even close to this. I used to say, I can't draw, and have come to understand that I have never developed what talent I might have to draw.
DeleteGood job. I've been experimenting with this kind of art for a long time. I enjoy seeing what evolves.
ReplyDeleteI can remember when digital photography was new and evolving.
Delete-- HAL, make art.
ReplyDelete-- I'm sorry, I can't do that Dave, but here's this.
Kind of like linking Rumba to Alexa.
DeleteI admit to playing on ReFace a lot. It' amazing how the face always looks like me...in or out of drag.
ReplyDeleteI thought this did a good job, it looks better than I do.
DeleteI should give it a try.
ReplyDeleteI wish I remembered what site they directed us to.
DeleteIt's a handsome portrait.
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