Need to do all the creepy hand portraits now. AI art is advancing so fast the creepy hands will soon become a nostalgic moment in the past like pet rocks and bell bottoms.
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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’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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This picture is the first image in a two part series. The second image Deus Est Machina (which is the same title in Latin) was posted previously.
Deformed hands and tangled fingers have become an iconic symbol of AI art. The art machine knows what things look like (most of the time) but it doesn’t know what they are. It starts making a girl with braided hair then somewhere along the way… does it change it’s mind? …or does it never really know what it’s trying to make? The result is almost an optical illusion. It looks correct at first glance but on closer inspection something isn’t quite right.
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I’m sure many would reject this AI render because the hands are all screwed up. The machine has a hard time with hands because it’s learning from pictures and it doesn’t really understand what a hand is. Hands look different depending on what they are holding in the training images so the machine gets confused.
For me the hands praying in this image is the point. I’m fascinated by the way AI can make something so creepy and wrong look relatively normal at first glance. She also has hair coming out of her eyes. One piece looks like it’s a disconnected continuation of a shadow on her forehead.
Great art happens at the edge of the medium you are working with. Finding those edges is the true work of the artist.
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit – all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them. — Brian Eno
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