Special AI issue (s)

"Beware of GEEKS bearing ART"


A response to an NPR video on the subject 
(as broadcast on the NPR News Hour on public television on Friday Mar 2, 2023)


Old McDongle did some ART:
"AI,
     AI,
            Oh."




    Straight up AI-picture after input of a text request.


    First derivative by way of personal intervention.



    The picture augmented for presentation.



It is surrealism without convictions. Abstraction
without knowing where things are abstracted from.
Type on paper without cogent words or sentences. 
The poetry of random words; yielding soul-less results.



This is not to say that the thought of AI as currently perceived is without merit: One of the fallouts is already apparent and very constructive at that: The advent of such easily accessed and usable applications is raising dialog about art what it might be in definition, what is its purpose, how is it generally perceived as and what are its uses, applications and inevitably abuses?





    But let the parrot speak for itself!





The concepts and perceptions are just emerging as I write these pages and experiment with existing applications in order to obtain a feeling of its implications.  Please join me on an exploration of the subject matter:

At this point it is safe to say that an AI program is linking assorted imagery that have some definable affinity to a selection of pictures found in some repository (likely the Internet) by way of some algorithm guided or pseudo-random.  The pictures are then processed in bits or as a whole and partially or fully morphed, mixed, mix-morphed then smoothed over and presented to the viewer who then assumes the position of editor or touch up artist. This action could then be said to be where the real artist enters the picture (no pun intended).  All else, aside from phrasing the initial parameters is mere program jockeying, no doubt an art onto itself, but of marginal significance.
(Even a blind chicken will find some nourishment if it pecks long enough through the shit on the ground. An infinite number of typists hacking away on an infinite number of typewriters will sooner or later produce a complete Shakespeare play given enough time.)


So, Let's put these ideas into practice and visit the first AI mill
Choose a format and input the following text (or any text of your choosing):
"Gustav Klimt painting in Ballywood" modified with:"Beauty and the beast"

Here is what I got after several attempts with other strings that generally resulted in lame and stiffened results:







Meanwhile and a few days later: The limitations are already evident as the service commits subside
by way of overload and censorship.  Creativity stiffeled by what the #$%^&* - software cannot,
and will not do.  Shackled and throttled by self imposed limitations that smack of overly zealous
marketing forces trying to walk a political tightrope between the creative and the culturally shackeled.




Endlessly frustrating the creative user.



--- Requiem. ---




And worse:

Some of these software packages require that you surrender your privacy just to try the software out.
They also demand your cell-phone number.  The satanic marketing department at work.





   




Other inputs having to do with dodo birds and the Snark:


































expanding and augmenting resulting pictures is possible:




























"Bier auf Wein, lass das sein."












"Wein auf Bier, das rat' ich dir."
























Attemps at useful applications: 
A Mother Goose Rhyme
applied AI:



    Birds of a Feather





                                                                                  






Birds of a feather flock together,
And so will pigs and swine.
Rats and mice have their choice,
And so will I have mine.









                                                        





And still going nowhere -     FAST!
Certainly not good without artistic intervention.

Requiem.


The bubble is likely to burst .......



Well, continuing the quest for other soft ware peddlers: It's already a morass out there.  Got to rely on the rather unreliable information given by analists with multiple agendas.  What seems to be the case is:  Unless you sink gobs of money into this quest, you won't be able to decide quickly - so good luck. It is already too late to get into the field unless you have unlimited funds and time to sift though the usual vapor ware; or at least a comercial application or another commercial interest ... a decent into the nether regions of advertising in inevitable.
Sorry.



    Coming down on puddy.




  Laced coffee ............




Someone else is pulling the strings!




NEXT:

Check out AI-Video generating - watch the demo video, they are trying to make the complex simple ! ? - This is all in the service of the advertising industry. Vapor ware for vapid production.


Here is the AI - program link once more: Well since I first used it it has already collapsed!?! Oh well ......
Well I assume this was due to a temporary overload in interest .... Go to to the link on top of this page.

Meanwhile the news are tumbeling on top of one another. AI for Dummies is surely just around the corner.

Let the goldrush begin?!
"Within four days of ChatGPT’s launch, Habib used the chatbot to build QuickVid AI, which automates much of the creative process involved in generating ideas for YouTube videos. Creators input details about the topic of their video and what kind of category they’d like it to sit in, then QuickVid interrogates ChatGPT to create a script. Other generative AI tools then voice the script and create visuals".


Or is it goldflush?

Can you get the program to write a program that will be read by another program
which will, after reading, flush and clean the bowl  ... I mean to say the monitor?
All the while tutorial sites are springing up like mushrooms after the rain. 
Where do these self-appointed experts hail from?


  Click this picture for more.


And the  NPR video  on the subject that triggered my quest.

To be continued ..........................

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