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What is with this AI Image Look?

I'm concerned for our womenfolk -- they already have to deal with unattainable beauty criteria coming out of Hollywood, Victoria's Secret, Cosmo et al, and the fashion world, and now there's AI-generated perfection to which to measure up....

True. Fortunately we don't have that issue. ;)
 
I'm not sure if these videos are as robust as they look. If you can tear your eyes from the subjects of those shots for a moment, you can see lots of missing details and very strange inconsistencies in perspective / depth. It's clear these AI generators don't actually have a 3D representation of the world they're working from.

It may be that this particular tech can't go much further than what amounts to still portraits with a little motion. Has anyone asked them to render a complex fight scene or anything like that?
 
Have you thought about what will happen with something like Neural Link technology combined with this AI capability? We will be able to make everyone and everything look exactly the way we want.

It is coming along faster than anyone expected and the AI models are now able to improve themselves.
 
I'm not sure if these videos are as robust as they look. If you can tear your eyes from the subjects of those shots for a moment, you can see lots of missing details and very strange inconsistencies in perspective / depth. It's clear these AI generators don't actually have a 3D representation of the world they're working from.

It may be that this particular tech can't go much further than what amounts to still portraits with a little motion. Has anyone asked them to render a complex fight scene or anything like that?

Compare it to what existed just a year ago. There are no real limits to what it will be capable of.
 
They are getting very close to better than reality.

Perhaps if you’re an incel sat in your mums basement, oh wait…….thats the exact target audience for such creepy shit, I see the hands are still a giveaway
I'm concerned for our womenfolk -- they already have to deal with unattainable beauty criteria coming out of Hollywood, Victoria's Secret, Cosmo et al, and the fashion world, and now there's AI-generated perfection to which to measure up....

Quite a lot of “so called celebrities” in this country found out their pics have been harvested online and creeps are using AI to generate pornographic content with them, C4 news in the UK did an expose on it a few months ago. Their main newsreader Cathy Newman found out that she was in one of the fake pornographic sex videos.

And there was someone jailed last week in the UK for harvesting children’s pictures online and using them to make and distribute AI generated padeophillic content, I’d introduce his balls to a brick

There’s a lot of weird f***ks out there, and I’m including most of the tech-bros in with that statement
 
There are no real limits to what it will be capable of.
Maybe, maybe not, I don't understand the tech well enough to say where it would run aground.

Am I just getting old and cynical, though? We've had the tech to produce whatever imagery you want, with photorealistic quality, for many years now. That is, anyone that cared to seriously learn 3D rendering software could do it. All you need is a decent PC and patience.

From what I can tell most people that learned those techniques ended up making the same 10-12 images over and over again. Hot chicks, cool cars, space aliens / monsters, landscapes, portraiture, architectural renderings, robots, ad nauseam. Sometimes combinations of the above.

So now we get the same thing, but faster, more, cheaper, worse in many ways. Who wins? Tech companies? Yay. Who loses? Artists, mostly. Culture recedes, vapid crap crashes in a vast tsunami.

I just don't find much to be excited or happy about here.
 
Seems like everywhere I turn, people are using AI generated images of people. How do I know? They all have this look:

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Same bronzy, very warm look with that diffused background that doesn't look like a camera lens. Foreground is also aways sharp. An AI detection site says the above is from MidJourney. Maybe those always have the same look?

Regardless, it is getting way too obvious and tiring to look at. Above is from Totem website by the way. I routinely see thumbnails in youtube generated the same way.
while this image really cries AI, the soft background is in photogarphy called bokeh and can be achieved by a hobby photographer with an appropriate lens and other settings.
 
I think it tries too hard, sometimes.

"draw a pencil"

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"Here's the pencil you requested. Let me know if you need anything else or have another idea in mind."


"No, just draw a pencil"

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"Here's a pencil for you. Let me know if there's anything else you need!"


"There is more than a pencil in that image. Try again."

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"Here's a simpler image with just a pencil. Let me know if there's anything else you need!"


"Draw a pencil, but do not include a room, a window, a desk, coffee, a notebook, or an eraser."

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"Here's the pencil you requested. Let me know if you need anything else!"
 
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So now we get the same thing, but faster, more, cheaper, worse in many ways. Who wins? Tech companies? Yay. Who loses? Artists, mostly. Culture recedes, vapid crap crashes in a vast tsunami.

I just don't find much to be excited or happy about here.

The genie can't and won't be put back in the bottle. It isn't just artists that will be affected. Actors and actresses won't be needed for much longer. Bad writers will be useless. Most software developers working on a team will be replaced. Robotics is advancing quickly too. Add in AI to robots that can see, move and have usable hands and almost all manual labor jobs will disappear.

Saying people can be retrained for other jobs is not going to work. The majority of jobs will no longer exist.
 
"draw people being retrained for other jobs after AI makes them redundant."

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Well, they look happy!
 
At least “hand models” will still be employed :rolleyes:
 
The genie can't and won't be put back in the bottle. It isn't just artists that will be affected. Actors and actresses won't be needed for much longer. Bad writers will be useless. Most software developers working on a team will be replaced. Robotics is advancing quickly too. Add in AI to robots that can see, move and have usable hands and almost all manual labor jobs will disappear.

Saying people can be retrained for other jobs is not going to work. The majority of jobs will no longer exist.
Oh, preaching to the choir. I've been saying this for at least 15 years now. If "AGI" ever legitimately comes to pass, every job that can be done on a computer is permanently over. And along with those, anything that can be done with a robot. That doesn't leave a lot of breathing room for us non-tech billionaires.

This fundamentally changes not only the practicalities of the economy, but its meaning. Our economy is at least partially predicated on labor, but labor will finally have a true substitute. It will be possible (in principle) to have entire supply chains and even national economies without exchanging money. That wouldn't mean suddenly everything is free for everyone, it would mean that people who are rich enough could secede from the economy altogether, cutting other people out of the loop entirely. Sharing resources - at any level of production or wealth - would become optional. We are not even remotely prepared for this level of impact on society and politics.
 
Oh, preaching to the choir. I've been saying this for at least 15 years now. If "AGI" ever legitimately comes to pass, every job that can be done on a computer is permanently over. And along with those, anything that can be done with a robot.

AGI is not even required. Targeted AI modules already exist for performing functions. Lawyers who work with contracts and probably most accountants could already be replaced. No need for surveyors if a drone with laser rangefinders can perform the same function.
 
Perhaps if you’re an incel sat in your mums basement, oh wait…….thats the exact target audience for such creepy shit, I see the hands are still a giveaway

I disagree. Would any man prefer looking at or watching a movie with women with appearance deficits if there are better looking women available?

Would the James Bond movies have been as good or popular if they only included ugly women?

The audience for beautiful women is very close to including all hetero males.
 
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