I thought I had posted this last year when I made it. This was created with Midjourney version 3 (that’s two versions ago!) It was another accident while I was trying to do something else. The accidents are always the best stuff.
I almost titled this “You are what you make” but that’s a little on the nose, don’t you think?
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I’ve chosen this as the start of a new image series that deals with anxiety and confusion. It’s about all those different voices inside our head that distract us from where we are, and where we’re going.
One thing that fascinates me is how the “Art Machine” understands what things look like but it doesn’t understand what the images mean. It doesn’t understand metaphor or surrealism. I’m hoping to get some interesting images exploring confusion and dreams.
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Back in March I was playing with Bing Image Creator which I think was in beta at the time. I was looking through those images and some of them are pretty good! Here’s one of them.
This is art made by a machine of a machine furiously making art.
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I’ve been looking at this picture for 10 minutes. It’s being presented to me on facebook as a behind the scenes picture from Star Wars 1977. I suspect this is AI…. maybe…. Here’s why:
1st – I’ve never seen this picture. I’ve seen just about every image behind the scenes or otherwise from the original Star Wars. Every once in awhile a new one does pop up though.
2nd – The Death Star doesn’t look round. It looks egg shaped to me.
3rd – What are they doing? There’s no reason to hold a bounce card that close to a model let alone curve it. It could be some sort of ad hoc preliminary light test though.
4th – Where’s the light coming from? If the guy on the left is holding a piece of diffusion the light should be coming from behind him. The light seems to be coming from the sheet he’s holding. Flexible flat panel lighting didn’t exist in 1977.
The one thing that makes me think it might be real:
The Mole Richardson wheeled light stand (with the painted brown parts) is mostly obscured by the Death Star yet the legs and wheels appear to be in the proper position. This is something that AI will almost always screw up.
This is where we are. Is it real or fake? How much of the rest of our lives will be spent trying to figure out things like this?
I wasn’t trying to make comic book art but that’s what the AI gave me. This is one of the problems with AI art right now, so much of it is arbitrary. You can get something pretty good but if you want any sort of control, it’s a roll of the dice. Roll that dice a lot and you may get close. This subject of this image is close to what I wanted but the style is not. Here’s the exact prompt:
Massive machines build a beautiful metallic woman robot in a glass tube with men around controlling the machines, In the style of a 1930s SciFi pulp magazine cover, hyper detailed
It took over a hundred tries to get something close and then I did twenty more variations of this image which all came out essentially the same. I just picked the best variation and here it is…
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I’m going back and finding interesting things in the hundreds and hundreds of images I’ve rendered out of Midjourney. They’ve had five versions now. I’m usually good at keeping notes but I’m starting to get confused. I think this is version 4 of Midjourney.
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