Having spent a considerable amount of time down the rabbit hole of revising versions of my old paintings of my co-workers from a quarter of a century ago, I would rather bring this episode to a close more than draw it out. The reason I spent so much time on it is because each iteration seems like a thrilling magic trick- my painting turned into a better painting, or a different painting, and each new idea is a surprise coming out of the AI.
But...
Looked at with a little more distance, they're rarely as successful as I dream they will be, which has been a theme in all my experiments with AI over the last few years. It is easy for the trick of AI to dazzle, but the part where a finished piece of work stands freely on its own is usually hard won and rare underneath all that. These pictures all came out of the oven, so to speak, like food out of a replicator in Star Trek. Instead of mixing and baking your cookies, the replicator just MAKES A COOKIE out of recycled matter. But in the end the cookies still have to be really delicious cookies, and the curiosity of their production becomes moot.
Nevertheless (pour tant), I do like some of these artificially generated pictures that bring a certain kind of life to my old paintings and colleagues. And so, after covering the whole of the process with one painting yesterday, today I am opening the door to the rest of them, and showing you the images that I found most interesting and successful.
I have decided commentary won't add to these individually, but some are very, surprisingly similar to my original paintings, indeed, a majority are closer to what I would call cleaned up version of my originals, but some are not so close. I limited myself to only one picture per person and as with the original pictures, tried to stick to results that were more recognizable to the original model.
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