AI Art - a new business model
I've opened an Etsy shop for my AI Pregnancy Vases work. It feels strange opening a shop for AI, since AI has such a heavy hand in the final image. But the prompt is important in evoking a style to your images, and then there is the selection process… Many, many, many images have to be generated in order to obtain an image that is a) bodily well formed; b) aesthetically pleasing; c) not overly simple; and d) carries the theme of your prompt well. For this project, I have been trying to c
Read MoreInstagram Shadowban for pro-life content
I have been experiencing some issues on the social media and sales platforms that I use. Is it that I am a victim of "the algorithm", or is it more likely that pro-life content is deemed unacceptable for public consumption? My latest bugbear is with instagram. I had the audacity to start up the account @prolifeai. On my fourth upload, my account status read that I had been limited due to sensitive content. This was the image in question. And here is the text in question: p Was
Read MorePregnancy Vases - an AI pro-life project
Okay, so I think I was underestimating AI in my original posts. With some more detailed prompting, I have been able to come up with some further pro-life images that are celebrating pregnancy (although perhaps a celebration on the moodier side of things). The new images have surprised me. I was under the impression before this that, at least on the traditional artistic side, artists would be safe for a little while longer. However, I no longer feel that this is the case. It seems that you re
Read MorePro-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
Read MoreThe abandonment of AI image generators (for now)
In an update to my previous post, I have abandoned AI image generators for the time being. The randomness factor is just too high to be able to realistically grant any authorship to the prompter. It isn’t recreating the image you have in your head. In fact, it was unable to manage this in any of the experiments I made. At best, it was able to give me a couple of ideas for future images. But even this I don’t like. Will an AI image now be the source for much of the art that we come into conta
Read MoreAI image generation for Pro-Life images
I thought I'd write a post on some experimentations I've made with Open AI's DALL E2. For those that don't know, it's an AI image generator. It works by taking some textual prompts from the user, before fashioning what seems to be a unique image every time. Not only can you specify what you want it to draw, but you can also specify the style you want it to be drawn in. Now, it seems to have some degree of poetic (or not so poetic) license in how
Read MoreFilm Development Outdoor Lab
The image that I have attached at the top of this page shows my film development outdoor lab that I used for developing my Entwined project large format image. It definitely makes an outdoor lab seem far more glorious than it actually is. With that being said, there are some benefits. Most obviously, the views. Then we have the clean air! (This in particular is a massive benefit. No more dirty black and white chemicals invading your nostrils and lungs). Finally, we have the benefit of not needi
Read MorePro-life Photography
It has been a long time since I began photography. There have been many, many images, some of which I think are beautiful, some not. Over time, however, the satisfaction of taking images has waned considerably. Along with other aspects of my life, my photography began to feel empty. I felt that the only things that weren’t empty for me were those that were created with some form of love. Essentially, superficial beauty had lost its appeal for me. Around this time I had a major medical crisi
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