What are we going to do about this AI problem, you and I? Are we going to throw it all in the trash because it uses copyrighted images to learn? I have trouble doing that because, if we’re honest, we’ve all used copyrighted material to learn. In fact, when it comes to photography, it’s pretty much impossible to not use copyrighted material to learn. We look at others’ work, form our opinions, and then either try to duplicate what we like or avoid what we don’t. AI is doing the same thing.
Okay, using AI to try and convince people that something happened when it didn’t is wrong; it’s the same as lying only with pictures. We shouldn’t do that and we should call out people who do.
HOWEVER, creating images that either cannot happen or are extremely unlikely to have happened is something that sounds like fun, especially when we’re using animals. One thing I never did much was work with animals. The animals I wanted were always big and scary and there never was a male lion around when I needed one. AI takes away that danger. Of course, its accuracy on the lion isn’t always that great, either, but sometimes that’s part of the fun. I created a lion with two tails earlier this morning. I didn’t use it, but it was fun.
So, here is a short film containing 16 images that I reprocessed this morning with AI additions to them. And animals. I wanted to be sure and include animals because, especially with the alien in the mix, I didn’t want anyone thinking that I’d stolen an image from the DoD archives or anything. None of this is real except for the people. At least, I think they’re real. I’ve not seen any of them in a while, you know.