Last week we talked about AI Art — Artificial Intelligence Art.
Whether we think it is “real” art or not will be debated for some time. Some of it is beautiful and intriguing, combining a plethora of ideas into a single artwork. Other AI Art is more enhancement, toying with an original idea and making it your own.
I wanted to show you some of the AI art my friend John Lemke has created. He is a gifted artist with pen and paper and a camera as well. Creativity starts in the mind first. These pictures are a natural progression and outgrowth of that creativity.
Humoring the Goddess 
Amazing.
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Wow! Horror movie ready. Beautiful work. Amazing.
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And so life-like! I love imaginations like his!
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Definitely shows a different side to humanity? Can you create one? How do you think it’s done? Feed a couple images into a website?
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Definitely showing different sides of our humanity. How do you think they create it? Can you try? Do they just feed some images into AI and see what comes out?
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Here is the answer from the artist himself:
“One way to use AI image creation is to allow it to modify existing images according to instructions you feed the AI. I don’t use this method. My AI image experiments are strictly made using text prompts. You can write detailed full sentences or just feed it a bunch of keywords. The more descriptive, the better. You can type red ball, and it will definitely make a generic image of a random red ball. But if you put that ball in a time and place with a couple of dozen descriptive keywords, you can get some interesting results. I tend to shoot for a surreal photography style so the images look like they could exist in some reality.
“I started out using free apps, especially Bing image creator. I have since figured out how to install a local program on my PC, and it’s much more powerful and with fewer restrictions than anything you can do on Bing or free apps. It has many settings and features that I’m still learning and experimenting with.
“Is it art? I mean, they look cool, and I’m proud of what I can get AI to dream up. However, it is cheating in a way. So, I would never sell or claim ownership of the images. They’re free to the world whoever sees them online. It’s just a fun and easy way to create, but I will always prefer real art made by humans.”
That’s pretty much my take on AI Art, too.
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