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Nick Machin's avatar

Not sure there's much different here than creating a CGI effects movie. It's still art, just in a new medium. You still (currently) need the concept from the artist.

I could easily have an idea for a piece of visual art but given my unfortunate lack of talent I couldn't produce this sort of thing with the world's best AI.

I'm shit at sports too. 😂

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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

Yeah, same ;-)

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Moonshot J (JiYoung Moon)'s avatar

Totally agree with you. I believe generative AI tools enhance human creativity, not killing it 😎

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Nick Machin's avatar

On another note, we could ask AI to produce a film of Only Forward, because I'm not sure a human mind could do it.

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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

I'd love to see some of that otherworldly note it brings, especially to the architecture...

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Gareth Smith's avatar

Interesting note on it Nick but I would love to see it done by a few bent minds, rather than the AI. There is enough creativity out there to give it a real credibility, although Turn Again and Red could out the film into something beyond terrifying.

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Simon Woodward's avatar

It’s like Burning Man meets alien humdrum (in pastels). Fabulous.

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Francine Hibiscus's avatar

These are a thing of beauty and delight! I have strong feelings on AI art, but it's another thing that we will have to accept as part of the landscape. The uncanny valley might become more acceptable!

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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

Exactly :)

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Sam Matheson's avatar

More like retro-cool alien cosplayers just outside Albuquerque.

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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

That too ;-)

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Mary Jane Samuel's avatar

Love the creative expansions of boundaries... & the soothing pastels... BUT the eyes are off-putting, distant. My curiosity is up to have a go with Dali, thanks for sharing this delight!

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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

Glad you enjoyed it!

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Moonshot J (JiYoung Moon)'s avatar

Love it ❤️😎👍🏼

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Thiago Patriota's avatar

Such unique aesthetics!

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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

Yes, they're beautiful!

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Mark Plastow's avatar

I think that if something promotes an emotional reaction. It has said some worth. I like finding and photographing ‘accidental art’, but I do get funny looks when I’m pointing my camera at a drain!

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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

I like photographing that stuff too — and the habit definitely makes you more in touch with the world.

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Littleappleseed's avatar

Love these images, endless possibilities for expressing images from sci-fi minds. I tried to have a chat with ChatGPT but it was unable to answer most of my questions, was more like a slightly more advanced SIRI that just garbled together an answer from the web rather than showing any independent thought, which was slightly reassuring in a disappointingly morbid way. Was I hoping for a sign of consciousness?

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Heather Moon's avatar

I'm interested in my own response to this as I registered at first a tiny note of disappointment it was AI generated.

But plundering the Insta account further I am in love! They're like the amazing avant-garde fashion shoots I've been a fan of forever. Provoking imagination, playing on the borders of what's real and what's fantasy. They remind me of Tim Walker photographs - surreal and weirdly elegant in delicious palettes.

There is no doubt huge amounts of creative direction. I'm beginning to think my tiny note of disappointment was actually a jealousy that I (nor my digital tools) don't make such beautiful stuff.

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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

Yes - this feels like a very interesting use of AI to me: human vision and art direction, then adding (in this case very appropriately) a touch of the alien. There's a specificity here that you don't see from AIs that basically average out a huge number of other sources.

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Dan's avatar

I've actually dipped my untalented toe into this arena. As an un-gifted, stick figure artist who struggles when trying to create art for my old band's album covers, I find that AI can create an image that surprisingly visualizes what I'm trying to convey through words. I don't take any credit for it, but it sure is cool as hell to see what it dredges up for album titles like Head Ejection Device or Diameter of Irony.

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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

It is kind of eerie, the way it does that.

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Lee Hayward's avatar

I’ve just looked and they are absolutely fantastic!

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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

Yeah, some very cool stuff there — and more if you dig through the hashtags into other artists...

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Gareth Smith's avatar

I'm afraid I don't quite understand this.

Has an AI created this without human input or is it just an extension of something already put out there by human creativity?

I'm going to ask my wizardpriest Brian Moore what he thinks😋

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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

I'll be interested to hear what he says... my assumption is that the models have been carefully art-directed, with AI detailing added on top!

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Gareth Smith's avatar

That should, of course, read Alan Moore. Although the thoughts and imaginings of the ex England hooker may have some relevance...

I wonder why he was in my subconscious...

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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

MAYBE HE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS...

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Gareth Smith's avatar

It would probably explain a lot😱

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Susie W. Jones's avatar

Really beautiful. Lovely shades. First one looks, to me anyway like The Nighthawk Diner artist. Winston has it at the Cambridge condo.

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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

Yes, there is something Hopper-esque about that one...

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Susie W. Jones's avatar

Now I want hopperesque to be a word. Will try in a Scrabble match and see if I can bully an opponent into accepting it. Will only fly once though 😜someone tried zonocar on me once. Didn’t fly but laughed like hell.

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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

I know, right? Breathtaking.

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