Dall E 3 - Collodion Pro-life Images
Okay, so once again I have underestimated the sheer power of AI. If we can ignore its artistic merits for a second, and instead stand back in awe at an AI process that can not only replicate the collodion alternative process, but can also add on further materials, whilst also computing a creatively very difficult topic. It’s absolutely fascinating to look at. I have been absolutely bowled over by the results.
I’m very interested to know where we go from here with AI. I would guess it needs to fine grain the actual creative process. At the moment, I am using Dall E 3 within ChatGPT, and I’m able to refine slightly from image to image by prompting the AI to alter the prompt itself. From here on in, I’m too scared to lose the theme/style of what I am creating, and so I revert to saying “and again” a lot. I have previously lost a very nice style by tinkering too much with the prompt. So I would like to see some more controls over this. Of course, you should just be able to go back and take the exact prompt, but the same prompt rendered on different machines seems to give different results. (I will double check this again, as it doesn’t seem right). In addition to this, as mentioned in the previous post, I would like to be able to vary the style if the generator becomes “stuck in a rut”.
Now onto the images. They are concerning pregnancy, and the pro-life movement. I wanted to see how the AI would deal with the topic using the collodion style. What seems to have been arrived at is a very scientific/anatomical style. Almost a machine making art about a biological process that it cannot quite understand. Some of the images are beautiful in a way, but in their encasings, they seem trapped, and certainly, frozen in time. Perhaps we can see the images as a warning, not in fact to dabble with God’s biological process by amalgamating with metal, wires, and chips. The beauty in them is certainly that of the biological.
I will continue with this new project for a while. I want to see if I can get it to produce art worthy of the pro-life cause. For now, it remains in an interesting, if slightly anatomical state.