It’s here, and we cannot get away from it, nor will it ever go away. We have opened Pandora’s Box. I’m talking about AI-generated art.
Not AI programs that edit images but Artificial Intelligence that can generate artwork by simply typing words. It doesn’t stop there. AI also makes literary copy from simple queries and even videos in the future.
So what do you do?
Do you reject it because you don’t like it?
Or do you embrace it?
The truth is, it is no different than a purist rejecting Photoshop. The key is to embrace anything to the level you are comfortable doing so. I fear that if we don’t embrace it, it will swallow us whole and reduce our chances of success in the future with our art.
In this live event, I will show you the following:
• How to embrace AI
• How this AI stuff works using MidJourney AI
• The Strengths and Weaknesses of AI-generated art
• How I use AI in my business
It is funny that AI generated the negative and positive aspects on the video since the word positive is spelled incorrectly – poisitive
haha
That was my fault 😉 Maybe I need AI to help me out more than I thought!
What happened to the last buggy wip maker? Should we bring back cursive writing? In the future when cars are self driving will kids miss the Right of Passage of learning to drive? All things change and it changes the way we do things. Or we can just ignore it..
I do not like AI myself. I do not like the way it has watered down my photo processing application. The reason is that AI does not teach you anything. If you are a beginner and you jump on AI and push a button too get a result all you learned is which button to push. I spent a lot of time learning how to prevent/element noise for example. The learning process then builds and helps me understand other aspects of post processing. I am not upset that I spent all this time and then some software developer comes out with an easies solution. I am glad that I prefer education over a solution that does not challenge me. I never used cheat notes to write a book report but I thank God every day for spell checker.
Excellent presentation and I agree with virtually everything…especially anything “fake” (like fake news) which are lies and people seem so gullible and apparently unwilling to think and see thru the lies (which are often obvious) both in words and images.
I do disagree with your phrase AI is “not going anywhere”. To me that implies it will go away and die off. I think it is better to say AI is “not going away”. In fact, it will insidiously creep into our daily lives more and more. And, unfortunately, will be more difficult to ascertain if it is AI or “real”.
I think AI art is very useful as a source of ‘thinking out loud’ to convert thoughts to images that inspire or are a source for human work. Like the person that won the art blue ribbon…started with AI, but did a lot of Photoshop work to make into his own personal human result.
Thank you! and yes, that is a much better way to say it. It is “not going away” We can turn our heads, but the monster is still there and it will just get bigger if we don’t face it.
Your strategy to use AI generated imagery as a tool to serve your creative output is refreshing. Also that your acknowledgement is commendable. AI, when used for productive and honest purposes will further innovation, knowledge and culture. Unfortunately as we have already witnessed in the development of ‘social media’ it will mostly be used for nefarious purposes like fake news. This is however not the fault of the technology but the trait of society.
Aint that the truth! Geez, has our society always been this way, or have current events, mainstream media, and social media made us this way?
It is and will never be a threat to a creative photographer. Good for the AI that will not stop or diminish the creativity of any person
Very interesting presentation Blake. Thank you for tackling this subject and opening our eyes!
Thank you for giving us a lot to ponder on. If you don’t like what’s offered to you you don’t have to keep it. However, in reality if you were to get a good dose of Botox then I presume you’d have to keep it. If we want to look after wildlife then they’ll be better off when we wear less makeup which wildlife apparently consume when not eating plastics. As you can see I’ve become tangental… Well, we can always add make up when placing orders for A1 generated photos and that’d be better for the environment. To me it looks like A1 can be useful in many facets of everyday life and I look forward to your next course in which you use your A1 generated images.
it would be hard to mistake this for normal art so not very interesting however for textures and patterns and ideas it is deftly worth looking at
You’d be surprised by what it generates, especially some of the others, like stable diffusion. They create some fantastic work that if you didn’t know what to look out for, you may mistake them.
Step wedge… when determining the best exposure for printing a neg in the darkroom, expose and print a step wedge first. Much like bracketing but all on the same print created by simply moving an opaque mask across the projected image in increments so that once processed various exposures from dark to light can be compared.
Ah, yes. I did that all the time before making my actual print in the darkroom. I’m not sure if that would be valuable in the digital world though.