The internet is all about AI and its brilliance. In fact, AI is really advanced. Do your best, write great sentences, paint pictures, win an art contest…and while we all fear AI problems, the problems are caused by humans themselves.
In fact, humanity is now facing a new problem of how to perceive art generated by AI. After all, on the one hand everything is done by neural networks, on the other hand it is done at the prompt of a person and no one has canceled the post-processing.
The viral Instagram photographer has amassed nearly 30,000 followers for his portraits.
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The first photo was published on the photographer’s account in October 2022 and has since created over 160 photos.
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American photographer Jos Avery launches his instagram account It has 28.8K followers since October last year. The author names each person in the photo and publishes a spectacular portrait that tells a story for each. Jos is happy to reply to comments, tell us what camera and lens he’s using (“Nikon D810 and his 24-70mm lens”), and thank the commenters for their enthusiastic reviews. And there’s something to admire – all the portraits are really nice.
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Recently, the author revealed the truth and confessed that all the photos were actually generated by Midjourney based on text prompts.
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But in reality, not everything went smoothly. Recently, Jos himself admitted to Ars Technica that the majority of his content (around 95% of all photos) was actually generated using his AI, namely his Midjourney service. . This is a neural network that can generate images from text descriptions. However, using such services is like mining for gold. You need a painstakingly compiled prompt to get a really nice picture in the output.
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Jos admits that the original plan for his project was to “trick people into introducing AI and writing an article about it.” But as we all know, All roads to hell are paved with good intentionsThe more followers Joss’ account gained and the more rave comments he received, the more the photographer’s attitude towards the project changed. “Now it’s an art outlet. It’s changed my perspective.” Ars Technica quotes Jos.
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Of course, the photographer also did a lot of work. In his own words, he generated over 13,000 different images of him, improving his prompts more and more. Avery then processed the resulting images in Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop. In other words, there is a clear symbiosis between human skill and machine intelligence. What is the next step in the development of art? Or just a scam? who knows?
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“I was also interested in the potential of Midjourney and similar services. I wanted to see how realistic the AI-generated photos could be,” says Ivan Strahov. Photographer from Ukrainewho asked bored panda Comment on this story. “In the same way that no camera yet has a ‘take a masterpiece’ button, neither does the AI service, he delivers great pictures with just a few word prompts. To shoot a truly great portrait, you must first have an exact picture of what you want to capture. Then you need to have a clear understanding of how the camera works, how to set the light, etc. Quality processing of the obtained images. “
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“Yes, all portraits published on this account have been carefully and properly processed using software solutions that are familiar to all photographers. I found it very well put together, but it seems to me that photographers should be aware that they are using AI, which is honestly, frankly, more interesting will be,” said Ivan.
Jos accompanies each photo with a thrilling story and various hashtags. But while many continue to praise his skills, he still barely uses #ai his hashtag under his posts.
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Jos Avery has dozens of hashtags on each post, but #ai or #aiart is only under a few of them. Some people in the comments wrote that these portraits are not true human art and that photographers should be candid about this. It contains nothing but admiration and admiration.
Additionally, you can check the photographer’s copyright on every photo, which may need to be removed immediately. I was recently told that images generated by Midjourney AI cannot be copyrightedYes, it was related to another art project, but the legal precedent has already been set.
Some commenters call it a scam, and some people think it’s the future of photography.
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Over 2000 years ago, the great Roman philosopher Seneca said, “It is human sin to make mistakes.” It’s been a long time since then, but we’re still prone to self-deception. Also, if you had the chance to chat with his very famous ChatGPT, you would have noticed that the bot itself often makes mistakes and is more than happy to admit them. It is therefore premature to worry about AI gaining true consciousness.
When artificial intelligence starts to emerge, cheating and making excuses in every way possible in response to being convicted of a mistake, there will be reason to sound the alarm. In the meantime, take a look at the photos of Midjourney and his loyal assistant Jos Avery and write him something. We have tried as well, but so far no response. After all, he’s just a human…
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