Category Archives: artificial intelligence

Bots don’t have Free Speech

If you ignore the clickbait title and skip the first two and a half minutes of seizure inducing “teaser” montage, this video ends up being the best discussion I’ve seen in a long time about the history of information technology and it’s effect on Democracy. Highly recommended.

https://youtu.be/78YN1e8UXdM?si=YhfRm5cFtPW3Pb4o&t=148

Twisted Lies

I’m posting this AI art I created today, because I’m thinking about the children in Springfield Ohio who are afraid to go to school because of bomb threats.  We need less lying made-up culture-war nonsense, and more discussion about the future.

#Art I made with #Midjourney #AI

Mysterious Stranger

Looking back at some of my earliest AI renders and scrounging thru the thousands of rejected varriations, I’ve been finding several interesting pieces.  This was a test image created when Midjourney was developing a “remaster” feature two years ago.  It’s a variation on the second image I ever created, re-rendered using a later Midjourney model… maybe version 3 or 4, I’m not sure.  Of course that newer version is now old and instead of seeing the improvement in the technology I’m looking at this render with new eyes and seeing it for what it is.  I love the texture and contrast of the whole thing so I fixed up the composition and re-did the color correction.

Personally I’m getting less excited by the newest versions of Midjourney.  The development seems to be barreling toward pure photographic realism, losing all the interesting artistic textures.  I’m going to have to try to find ways to add additional prompts to get some of the abstract goodness back in current version 6.1.

#Art I made with #Midjourney #AI

Drippy Seasons

I didn’t tell the machine to subdivide the frame and create four images that suggest spring, summer, fall, and winter.  It just did it.  That’s the nature of the machine.  It’s like roulette.  Ya get what ya get.

I did ask for it to be drippy…

#Art I made with #Midjourney #AI

A Light Breeze

I had a different art piece to post today because tonight is the Presidential debate, but I think I’ll leave that one for another day. This image I created is more calm and centered and that’s what I think we’ll need after tonight.

#Art I made with #Midjourney v6 #AI