Wow, these are phenomenal. if not a little on the scary side. Where is technology going to take us. And how fast! It seems to be moving faster exponentially by the day. Oddly enough there was an item on the UK news today about AI generated images. A German guy won a Sony photographic competition but then admitted it was all done with AI. He just wanted to see how far it would get before people identified it was AI. Nobody did. Looking at what you have produced I can see how people were fooled, these are just exceptionally good images sir.
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Thanks Brian! The technology really is moving a such a phenomenal, break-neck speed! Just in the couple of years that i have been playing with it, and watching from the sidelines for quite a while before that, it has grown and developed exponentially. The capabilities now are amazing and it's only going to get better and more accurate moving forward. They have some programs developed that aren't open to the public that already pretty much have solved all the problems we have now.
So, who knows where it's going. I have been studying about where the AI tech is at currently on all fronts for a couple of years and we seem to be on a precipice of revolutionary advancements. Some argue this is the beginning of sentient artificial general intelligence. Personally, i think we are still a ways off from that... but it's not far around the corner based on the speed of development.
The language models can pass a BAR exam in the top 15 percentile, pass university level exams in the top 10 percentile, and make it almost impossible to determine if something is written by a human right now. (which sucks as a curator since plagiarism detection is already tough enough) So, imagine in 5 to 10 years where that will be. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time. People like Elon Musk, and myself, believe that AI has the potential to be a bigger threat to humanity than thermonuclear war. Hopefully, we won't have to see either threat realized to maybe be around to decide.
I also heard over a year ago a person in the US won a prestigious art contest with AI art, and didn't reveal the fact until after winning. The things you can get it to do art and photography wise, with enough patience and tweaking is quite amazing.
I don't post much personally, so it should be easy to find, but a few AI art posts ago i have a photograph artwork generated of a Cherokee Native American woman. Only photographers like us, or really sharp art eyes would be able to tell it wasn't authentic. At least, that's how i felt... it was so impressive. See if you can go find it when you get some time and let me know what your professional photographer eyes tell you!
In a way I do find it a little scary, but from a photographers point of view, its almost a sort of natural progression. Even back in the days of film, a lot of photography was "faked" as some people class post processing, now it almost seems standard, with software like Photoshop. So possibly adding in a bit of AI, will just be the next step. I don't know, but I am guessing once it is readily accessible and easy to use, Instagram and TikTok will be flooded with it.
I think I may have seen the Cherokee, but will check back, thanks.