Pro-life AI - The Golden Flower
I was asked to help on a small piece of AI image generation work, and so became drawn into the AI world again. My opinions haven't changed - I still find it unsettling on two fronts: that the prompting human only has a minimal impact on the creative process; and the ease and speed with which it'll destroy some industries. Despite this, AI image generators are not going away. They will only improve, and perhaps will grow to allow artistic thinkers to have a finer grained control in the end product. So, from a pro-life perspective, we need to consider the time it takes to create art manually, versus the speed at which changes are happening in the movement. From my own perspective, I have had a photography idea for about 4 months, but important commitments prevent me from setting up a studio, and finding a model for such a venture is difficult in the current climate (if anyone has any suggestions then I'd love to hear them). With this in mind, I have decided to use AI to flesh out some ideas and upload. Perhaps others can make something of the ideas before I can. So, for this particular image, The Golden Flower (see top), I was interested in the idea of the golden ratio being also referred to as the Divine Proportion, and its prevalence throughout nature and the universe. In some sense, I like to hope that in each child conceived and given to us by God, there is the potential for perfection, despite what may appear outwardly, and that for this reason and many others, we should choose to treasure every life conceived. I have also set up an Instagram community account for AI generated pro-life images: @prolifeai . Here you can use the tag #prolifeai if you wish to add any images to the community.