Images created by AI: 2 questions

[glen_h]

Presumably we are allowed to post post-processed versions of our own images.

In the old days, one might use scissors and glue to put parts of images together.

Now, we might use fancy software, possibly with AI.

 

It seems that if it is mostly an image we produced, it should be allowed.

Exactly where to post, I am not sure.

We could also use an AI system trained on a large set (all) of

our own images, in which case we should claim 100% of the credit.

[ericphelps]

The list of ghastly people and products pushing for attention..........................oh who cares.

[Allen Herbert]

"As a tool the creatives are experimenting and exploring new pathways" Inoneeye

And what pathways are we exploring ? A data base of stolen photographs from the internet? Of course they cannot answer other than offering a silly stolen banal image. Little else.

Armchair Photographers glued to computer screen. Sad. Imagine, going out in the real world and taking your own photos . Scary, really scary, but they will be your photos, not some computer generated image copied from a stolen data base.

Edited April 22, 2023 by Allen Herbert

[Allen Herbert]

Jus a photo from the real world of photography.

[Allen Herbert]

Bottom line is this your photo?

Or, something else?

Edited April 22, 2023 by Allen Herbert

[Allen Herbert]

" “It’s the machine and human collaboration that produces exciting results"

Really.

Sad for all those who walked before us not to have a machine collaboration. 

What the monkeys are these machines that produce exciting results?  Other that using other folks photography to blend various photos together...

 

[inoneeye]

7 hours ago, Allen Herbert said:

 

Bottom line is this your photo?

Or, something else?

 

it is something else… Ai generated imagery is a new medium.

AI has gone far beyond compositing and rearranging images scraped from the internet. The AI synthesized rendering of images made from text prompts and or with your own images can create imagery impossible to capture with a camera. William Mortensen comes to mind I wonder what he would think...?

AI has relied on photos and images found on the internet to create the vast database required to feed the neural network that is used to supply training info.  & leads to more natural features rendered if desired. Some ai creations resemble a photo and that has caused controversy and some misuse. Bringing the authenticity of calling it a photo into question and debate…encouraging a call for segregation of the ai generated images from photographs.

There is room for both. But acknowledgement of the medium is good for both. Even with the inevitable and ongoing blending of AI and photography they are different mediums. Photography is made with light and a capture AI is a collaboration of a computer algorithm and prompts… An AI generated image is not a photo.

Edited April 23, 2023 by inoneeye