AI photo generation

[aurora]

Pixy edit: Gift link - wapo.st/3T0d73l

Some of these A-generated images are surprisingly realistic:

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/artificial-intelligence-images-dall-e/

I personally like the ones of the knitted soup bowl monster. But, more seriously:

...When deepfakes first emerged, experts warned that they could be deployed to undermine politics. But in the five years since, the technology has been primarily used to victimize women by creating deepfake pornography without their consent, said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Virginia and author of the upcoming book, “The Fight for Privacy.”

[aurora]

Why does so much technology come back to misogyny?

(That's a rhetorical question.)

[basilosaurus]

The most recent Good Fight had a storyline related to this, although not about misogyny. It was about creating evidence of surveillance video. Chilling.

[agnes]

I can't read it, paywall, but is it related to the one that John Oliver had an episode about? John Oliver marries cabbage: 

[basilosaurus]

Sept 29, 2022 9:16:00 GMT -5 agnes said:

I can't read it, paywall, but is it related to the one that John Oliver had an episode about? John Oliver marries cabbage: 

OMG How did I miss this?! I love that show oh so much. 

[Bad Dingo]

I want the job of the person who comes up with these prompts:
“A bowl of soup that looks like a monster, knitted out of wool.”

[pixy0stix]

I added a gift link. (PS if you have a subscription, you too can create gift links by clicking the circle that looks like a present.)

[pixy0stix]

AI photo generation really weirds me out. I think there was a post about the photo that won an art contest that was generated by AI. So to both of those it plays into the age old questions, "What is art?" and "Why is something generated by/or that looks too human so creepy?"

[basilosaurus]

Sept 29, 2022 11:41:32 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

AI photo generation really weirds me out. I think there was a post about the photo that won an art contest that was generated by AI. So to both of those it plays into the age old questions, "What is art?" and "Why is something generated by/or that looks too human so creepy?"

I'm not sure there was a post, but it was at the CO state fair, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were CPR stories about it. This article mentioned various art techniques that were considered cheating at the time. They also had comments in support of this from a judge and a competitor. find it a fascinating topic.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/02/midjourney-artificial-intelligence-state-fair-colorado/

[SwimDeep]

This isn't photo generation, but I think it fits here. I'm adding a TW for disturbing images.

Loab is an AI generated artwork that keeps showing up in different pictures. This article explains it better than I can: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/loab-artificial-intelligence-art-180980743/

The images themselves are disturbing and dark. But the AI keeps recreating her in different images, and that's just creepy. Why does Loab keep showing up? The artist who discovered her has a Twitter thread explaining that Loab appears without any specific code inputs. She just randomly decides to haunt an image.

One step closer to sentience?

[pixy0stix]

I'm fairly certain we have horror movies that center around Loab.

[seeyalater52]

Sept 30, 2022 6:06:56 GMT -5 SwimDeep said:

This isn't photo generation, but I think it fits here. I'm adding a TW for disturbing images.

Loab is an AI generated artwork that keeps showing up in different pictures. This article explains it better than I can: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/loab-artificial-intelligence-art-180980743/

The images themselves are disturbing and dark. But the AI keeps recreating her in different images, and that's just creepy. Why does Loab keep showing up? The artist who discovered her has a Twitter thread explaining that Loab appears without any specific code inputs. She just randomly decides to haunt an image.

One step closer to sentience?

Well I’m never sleeping again

[aurora]

Sept 29, 2022 9:16:00 GMT -5 agnes said:

I can't read it, paywall, but is it related to the one that John Oliver had an episode about? John Oliver marries cabbage: 

I missed that John Oliver episode, but the pictures in the WaPo article are much more realistic than the for you posted. Scarily so in some cases - would be easy to mistake them for real photos.