In the world of AI (Artificial Intelligence) Art, and NFT Art, there are some who believe that sort of machine-made Art is fakery, and it, therefore, does not quantify as an aesthetic effort, while others, like me, see the rise of AI in Art, and Writing, and Science, as only a good thing — at least for now, before AI inevitably becomes our Overlord — as our ability as a Human Race continues to find new ways extend our originality of imagination. Take, for example, the following set of images where I asked the Midjourney Bot V4, to create a “treehouse neighborhood in a big city.”
Here are more returns from that “treehouse urban core” AI Bot prompt, and these flowing ideas are playful, challenging, and perceptive, on a plane I did not comprehend, but now understand:
My fascination with these AI images from Midjourney extend beyond just the humiliation in creation — feeding text ideas into a machine, and having beautiful Art shot back in your incredulous face — it all helps me learn how to create whole new ideas just from “what if?”
Forget Ultra MAGA and Owning the Libs — the real danger to society is AI allowing our Cat Overlords to rank up! pic.twitter.com/NrBaPNMx4R
— David Boles (@DavidBoles) November 13, 2022
I share some of my AI Art on social media, to the concern, and consternation, of many of my NFT Artist friends who do not believe AI Art is “real Art.”
The mechanics of writing can sometimes take us away from the intention of the purpose. pic.twitter.com/Dx2DVURkvW
— David Boles (@DavidBoles) November 13, 2022
Some of those friends think AI Art is not “real Art” because a computer is involved in the development, and I answer that accusation by asking, “What Art is New Art?”
Aye, the horror of Rosemary's Baby is never lost on the terror of an AI Bot infant! #Movies #Horror #Terror #AIart pic.twitter.com/Y46fqR7r16
— David Boles (@DavidBoles) November 12, 2022
All Art across history has been influenced by what came before, so if you aren’t living in a cave thousands of years ago, and painting on the cave walls with fire ash, and scraped pigment, then you’re really only regurgitating, as an Artist what you have already seen, and experienced before, and that fact is, for some creators, a rugged reality check against their perceptive innovation.
I asked Midjourney Bot to create an AI image for the Nebraska vs. Michigan football game today, and here's the result. Go Big Baseball team against basketball team! pic.twitter.com/GQGgXjrneE
— David Boles (@DavidBoles) November 12, 2022
Instead of fighting AI Art, those artists should embrace the technology — the same way writers moved from pencil on paper, to typewriters, to word processors, to AI Text interventions — the end result is the same: Enhanced propagation of ideas.
The General of the Internet. pic.twitter.com/vLhtE2dYdi
— David Boles (@DavidBoles) November 11, 2022
Artists have been copying, and stealing, from each other for centuries. Just look at the work Leonardo da Vinci did with mirrors and you’ll know the effect of inspiration is not new, and was never real always.
AI Bots still struggle with American Sign Language. Hands and fingers are always abysmal. Today, I tried "ASL Facial Expressions" and did a little bit better. #aibot #AIart pic.twitter.com/bl5NT7Q4eY
— David Boles (@DavidBoles) November 11, 2022
Sure, some of these AI Art interventions appear odd, and even gruesome, but sometimes there is a magic added to the soul of an image that makes the process different, changed, exemplary, and actually intriguing.
The AI amazement continues this morning as I keep rerolling the seed to push the Midjourney Bot V4 to its limit of going "cartoony" with the faces, and the Bot is winning the reroll game. Life in the skin. Brightness in the eyes. Despair bleeding from the soul. #AIart #aiartist pic.twitter.com/YNwJnUIgo5
— David Boles (@DavidBoles) November 11, 2022
And then we soldier forward together — wondering what beauty shall next befell us — and we, the unwitting, and the unwise, are always astounded by what we could not yet wildly imagine.
The one thing AI Art has a hard time getting right is the face. The eyes often look diseased or out of focus. The skin is warped and weary. And then there's Midjourney V4 — and the spectacular perfection of beauty begins in a land of active imagination. #AIart #arartist pic.twitter.com/TjWsixD3Hf
— David Boles (@DavidBoles) November 10, 2022
AI also allows us to reach into recent antiquity to remake what was once lost; what was never to be held again; what was never to be determined beyond the dead past.
Some veterans have yet to be honored. pic.twitter.com/JC2UMfz0Xa
— David Boles (@DavidBoles) November 10, 2022
We can, with AI, create our own enchantments and incantations.
Where once we had to find external pleasure for purchase, we can now make our own desires real, and intentional.
Now, this is fun! You can create your own adult coloring book using AI Art! pic.twitter.com/CNMN029uKm
— David Boles (@DavidBoles) November 10, 2022
Sometimes revenge is even more delicious when enhanced with an AI sweetener to create the depths of hatred, and despair, that a longing situation creates for the misbegotten.
Hey, did you hear I'm back on Instagram after being banned for no reason whatsoever? Yeah, me neither. The page just reappeared after a Facebook friend yelled into the void for me. But! I am back — but for how long? https://t.co/1fhLPFscOa pic.twitter.com/aRHH0aulk4
— David Boles (@DavidBoles) November 10, 2022
AI can even travel us back to a childhood — and remake what once was, comprehensive, valuable, and reliable, again.
My cousin dropped dead in her room. She was 58. Her 85 yr mom found her. We used to hunt fireflies together at our grandfather's house in North Loup, NE and hold them in our hands to watch the light glow and then let them fly. Tonight, the light is all yours, Gina, and thank you. pic.twitter.com/4PlfnDUVez
— David Boles (@DavidBoles) November 10, 2022
AI is here to stay.
We cannot escape our new, artificial, reality, and that means we need to find ways to exploit AI before it begins its inevitable travel downward to control the all of us.
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