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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 9/10/22: There's A.I. ... and then there's Bowie [1]

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Date: 2022-09-10

Earlier this week Belinda Ridgewood posted some fascinating examples of AI-generated video, with images culled by artificial intelligence to represent actual song lyrics (I missed the post until today). On the same subject, Benj Edwards from ArsTechnica, reports that, thanks to new open-source AI image modeling, in only a year or two the internet will be saturated with AI-generated images, including purportedly “genuine” images of people indistinguishable from the real thing.

AI image generation is here in a big way. A newly released open source image synthesis model called Stable Diffusion allows anyone with a PC and a decent GPU to conjure up almost any visual reality they can imagine. It can imitate virtually any visual style, and if you feed it a descriptive phrase, the results appear on your screen like magic.

I sometimes wonder what folks from ancient history actually looked like. Socrates, for example was said to be rather unattractive (according to one source “He had wide-set, bulging eyes that darted sideways and enabled him, like a crab, to see not only what was straight ahead, but what was beside him as well; a flat, upturned nose with flaring nostrils; and large fleshy lips like an ass.”). But it now appears that thanks to AI our days of wondering about such things are numbered. For example, here is an actual photograph of the ancient Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, amazingly taken in 500 B.C. And here are some beautiful landscape photos suitable for Facebook sharing (when your own mundane photos aren’t generating enough “likes,” I guess). As Belinda’s post noted with its Van Gogh-esque AI rendering of Kitchen Table Kibitzing’s header photo, art, too can be generated to look exactly as if a human being created it.

Like most technologically-based developments these days, open source AI modeling implicates some serious societal, artistic and ethical issues. Edwards shares this tweet:

x A new AI image generator appears to be capable of making art that looks 100% human made. As an artist I am extremely concerned. pic.twitter.com/JUSW0x8Woa — RJ Palmer (@arvalis) August 14, 2022

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