So, even after creating all these images, I have to say it is scary to witness the results with so little input from me. Yes, I steer it obviously, but it has a mind of it's own
sort of speak.
I stare at the layouts and tubes and internals and try to imagine the coding it would take to make these choices and construct such attractive images, and with such variety! Even though it uses a random seed generator to improve spontaneity I disabled it and set it to fixed frequency of 432. Still it can repeatably come up with nearly endless stuff, not to mention the background scenes and the choice of lighting etc. I never dictated any of that. Some are against a jet black backdrop and some are not. Why? How the hell does this thing do this?
Anyway, I decided to pack these up into short videos series on Youtube that I will put together one of these evenings. In the process of doing so I realized that I could use the AI to create the backgrounds for a theme title in each video. The first would be themed the Tesla Series where I would needed a picture of Tesla playing around with tubes in his lab.
The AI made up this:
Now if I was watching a video on Tesla and this image came on, I would have no real way of knowing that whatever the hell that is, is fake, as is the entire image. A little disturbing. In 50 years from now if the image crept into various video documentaries you can see how devastating it would be to the fidelity of the documentary. BTW, this is the lowest resolution. It can take the resolution so high that it will render dust on the surfaces of things. This is why I water mark every image. I can see a time in the future where there is no way to know what is real and what is AI, so when you do searches for stuff you will have to stop all research at the year 2023. I also predict a lot of fake news 'discoveries' coming down the pike since the world is becoming click driven, now that they can produce photorealistic fake images in minutes instead of hours or days in photoshop. Anyway, not to hijack my own thread, I just want everyone to know what we're dealing with here if you didn't already ; )
Meanwhile, I absolutely love the voting on your favorites! So far the majority are not in my personal top ten list and it makes me realize how different we all are in the fine details. No doubt we perceive sound preferences in a similar way.
Clearly to take tube amps to this visual level of art we are going to need glass blowers. Maybe these pictures will make their way to China and the hundreds of tube companies over there will get inspired to take things up a notch ; )
Steve
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