#algorithmically generated image

[moonstruck-bubble]

Put in the tags how many you got right. I got 21.

Just by choosing the worse image, you'll probably be able to get most of the right. 🤦‍♀️

#ai art #algorithmically generated image #call it what it is #its not art #anti ai art #ai #art #midjourney #lensa #dream.ai #dallE2 #fotor #jasper #deepai

[theclockworkjudas]

Ah yes. MIRO's classic game "MAROMARO"

#ai #algorithmically generated image

[thevioletcaptain]

i genuinely don't care how good a piece of ai generated art or writing looks on the surface. i don't care if it emulates brush strokes and metaphor in a way indistinguishable from those created by a person.

it is not the product of thoughtful creation. it offers no insights into the creator's life or viewpoint. it has no connection to a moment in time or a place or an attitude. it has no perspective. it has no value.

it's empty, it's hollow, and it exists only to generate clicks (and by extension, ad revenue.)

it's just another revolting symptom of the disease that is late stage capitalism, and it fucking sucks.

#''but i just want to use it to--'' don't care! it's shit! stop fucking feeding it! #if you need help generating ideas or jumping off points then join an artist or writer group online #talk to people #make connections #that's what art and writing is supposed to be about in the first place #i'm mad as hell etc. #so goddamn sick and tired of seeing ai shit get passed around on here #it's bad enough in general but every time i see more of it showing up #tagged as fan art or as fic #the angrier i get #heartfelt imperfection in art and writing will always ALWAYS be worth more than the most technically ''perfect'' ai generated image or text #fandom problems #ai generation algorithms die in a fire challenge 2k23 #just a heads up that i'm muting this post and will no longer see responses to it #because i'm tired of seeing dogshit takes from jackasses who want to ''debate'' me #there's no debate you're in the wrong on literally every level and you can die mad about it

[aurosoulart]

some before-and-after pictures of how I’ve been using AI generated images in my art lately 🤖

I share other artists’ concerns about the unethical nature of the theft going on in the training data of AI art algorithms, so I refuse to spend any money on them or to consider the images generated by them to be true art, but I’m curious to hear people’s thoughts on using it for reference and paint-over like this?

my hope is that with proper regulation and more ethical use, AI could be a beneficial tool to help artists - instead of a way that allows people to steal from us more easily.

#ai art #art #digital art #artists on tumblr #right now i use ai as an extension of how i already create art #i make regular use of reference photos and free-use stock images for a variety of different purposes #and i think that with enough of a transformation of the source material #true art CAN be created from ai 'art' #but it's a complicated subject for sure #how do we decide how much transformation is enough to consider it an original work? #how do we regulate the use of image generation algorithms as more and more people get access to them #and start to run them for themselves? #we're in extremely uncharted territory here as technological progress continues to accelerate at an unprecedented pace #it's important to think about these questions and stay informed on how we're reacting #because no matter how hard we try technology doesn't go backwards #but we do still have a say in how we choose to use it and how we feel about it

[prolibytherium]

I think there's plenty of ethical concerns re: AI art but most people criticizing it fundamentally don't understand how the image generation processes work and are imagining it as very literal 'theft', or are operating on kneejerk reactions about """""Real Art""""" that aren't fundamentally different than any other attempts to separate 'true art' from 'fake lazy art' throughout history, so the conversation is kind of doomed to be bad and annoying from the start

#my bottom line is I'm aggressively neutral on it and think its both a good and bad thing in practice #also I don't give a shit if any of my art was one of the tens of thousands of images sampled to train an image generator but #I can understand being uncomfortable with that #But also that doesn't mean IP laws should be strengthened to 'protect artists' #They shouldn't and it won't. #My concerns are mostly based in the use of automation as a cost cutting measure to exploit and replace human labor at the worker's expense #which is not an issue specific to AI art or algorithmically generated content in general #I don't really care about the rest

[3-aem]

AI art is not art. I don't understand the debate around this I really don't.

#i made one of those photo generating ais in college #it's not art it's math #it's an algorithm taking a noisy image and feeding it over and over through a complex algorithm #until you get something clearer and clearer and more resembling an image #they've taken something that has historically represented expression emotion and creativity and made it utterly soulless #i hate everyone who says ai art is art it's not #it's image generation and u suck #one of the few times where i just sit down like you are so wrong about this it's cute how UTTERLY STUPID you are

[wereh0gz]

Huh

#ramblings #this is a tag on prev post btw #i looked at their blog bc i was confused as to why would they leave that tag #and it looks like they think ai has feelings or will have feelings or something? #do they know. do they know ai as we know it today isn't actually ai #it's not even intelligent...... #it's just text/image generators. girl they don't have thoughts or feelings #i think if there were any real ai that could actually think and feel on the same level as us #they'd be pretty offended that we call algorithmic text/image generators ai. bc again not even intelligent #but i digress. i don't think this person knows what the ai we have today actually is lmao #and i'm not gonna argue honestly bc this is pretty funny #i am gonna block them bc they basically have 'not all cops are bad' in their pinned. love and light <3

[atmosphericradar]

Here is a screenshot of a misspelled tag (relating to AI art) that is popular enough to show up automatically, in case anyone was under the impression that porn bots are the only ways people spam Tumblr.

For context, Tumblr forgot all of my tags across all platforms a week or two ago. I know at least one other person whom this happened to. I have never (to the best of my memory) used this tag, and certainly not in the last two weeks. I tag AI art "algorithmically generated images" when I reblog it, because I'm a contrarian and I have compunctions against image generators.

This tag is the result of someone who is creating many posts with this tag. And a quick search yeilds that the blog @ai-pin-up-art has been rapid-firing posts for a few months recently, stopping only in July and going completely dead silent. I'm willing to bet the whole blog is automated; the misspelt tag seems like a scripting mistake.

A few other blogs have used the tag only once, which could either be mistypes, or clicking on the same misspelt suggested tag that I was given.

I wrote all this for a few reasons:

1) I went on a little sleuthing expedition and wanted to record my findings.

2) I think that one blog's actions influencing the mechanisms of Tumblr to that degree is both illuminating and kind of spooky.

3) I suspect that AI images are currently being astroturfed into all major social media ecosystems, alongside honest posts from actual adopters. This blog could be run by a technologist who just automated one of their blogs, which just so happens to post and reblog exclusively algorithmically generated porn. Maybe.

#adventures in tagging #tumblr #search #software #algorithmically generated images #subterfuge #my posts #conspriacy theories #social media

[echthr0s]

was about to get annoyed at the bad AI art being passed off as non-AI art in the #randall flagg tag and then I realised Randall Flagg is better represented by bad AI art than literally any other kind of art

#i've nothing against ai art as a rule but don't fucking lie about it is my thing. call it what it is. not ''illustration'' #sure it's *teeeecchhhhnically* an illustration but ''illustration by [name]'' has a specific connotation and you damn well know it #anyway i think if we were still in the wonky surreal brainmelty image phase of ai art it'd be even better for r.f. #lovecraft: ''indescribable horrors!'' some artmaking algorithm in the 2020s: ''indescribable? lol watch this'' #unfortunately now we just have bad image generation which is when it doesn't even look cool and weird it just looks. well. Bad. #but. at the same time. i think he'd dig that #specifically because it's Bad

[sgkjd]

they can't algorithm me into looking at my screen 24/7 because i'm autistic. don't care how many tiktok boom sounds and other engagement tactics you use. if it's not about my special interest – i'm clicking away. boring.

#this is a joke!! #not saying autistic ppl are superior in some way or that we're immune to the algorithm lmao #no no the pinterest sound when u save an image does its thing to me too #but it's funny to pretend like things like that are bc of my autism hahaha #; words generated by me #actually autistic #actually audhd

[gutsfics]

tbh i think that the "is ai generated content art" argument is roughly the same as "is Duchamp's Fountain art". i think that the argument of if its art is what makes it art, because it is invoking some kind of feeling. starting a conversation. if that makes sense?

that being said, absolutely there is a time and a place for it (ie not replacing the work of paid artists). and it should only be trained on artsts who have consented to it.

i dont want to read fiction made by ai bc if you didn't take the time to write something, why should i take the time to read it? and for non fiction, it'll be riddled with incorrect facts because an algorithm "decided" that this word is the most likely to go next in the sentence based on what it's database says, even if its factually incorrect.

one of my favorite pieces of art is an ai image that was sent to a company that makes paint-by-numbers, and then filled out by a person. the artist, tumblr user rigatonidanza, asks "is this art? at what point does it become art? can it never be art because its ai, or because its paint by numbers? is it art because it elicits a response from the viewer?"

the point of art is to make you think, and to make you feel. does it stop being art if its not made by human hands, the way algorithmically generated images are? is it not art if its something mass produced, made for intentions other than what the artist uses it for, like Fountain? even if looking at it makes you feel something? anything? even if that "something" is a negative emotion?

all that said. if you use generative algorithms as an excuse to not pay real artists, you are a human tar pit. may you always immedeatly stub your toe after it stops hurting from the last time you stubbed it.

#yes i am fully aware of exactly how pretentious this sounds #i think generative algorithms are a tool. one thats being severly missused every day. but still a tool #also ngl i do like the ai->paint by numbers bc the image tumblr user rigatonidanza chose for it is kinda funny as hell #but thats not the point here. maybe it is though bc thats Another Emotion #ALSO. THIS IS BY NO MEANS ME SAYING I SUPPORT GENORATIVE ALGORITHMS AS A CONCEPT. #my last boss used algorithms to make art even though *he had a human artist on his payroll* & i wanted to rip his face off like a chimpanze #he also encouraged me to steal 3d assets for the game he wanted me to help him make. genuinely all around kinda a scumbag lol #@ any and all techbros who may see this: i hate you i hate you i hate you ihate you i hate you #also: images generated from algorithms being art does Not mean that i like it. theres very few ai images i actually like

[wachi-delectrico]

Tbh i don't know what to think of AI art anymore. I don't find any utility, personally, in centring the discussion on law and copyright; there are far more interesting things to discuss on the topic beyond its use as a replacement for human artists/workforce by the upper class

#rambling #i am not saying i think using AI image generation to replace human artists and leave them jobless is a good thing - i do think that is bad #there are real concern on the ethics of its use and creation of image generation models #but i think focusing only on things like how ''off'' or ''inhuman'' it looks or how ''soulless'' it is are not only surface level complaint #but also call to question again the age old debate of what is art and what isn't and why some art is and why some isn't #and also the regard of painting and other forms of visual art production as somehow above photography in the general conscience #i would love to really talk about these things with people but talking about ai art and image generation is a gamble between talking to #an insufferable techbro who only sees profits and an artist who shuts the whole idea off without nuisance #i have seen wonderful projects by human artists using ai image generation software in creative ways for example #are those projects not art? if they are are they only art because they were made by someone already regarded as an artist? #there are also cool ai-generated images by random people who don't regard themselves as artists. are they art? why or why not? #the way AI image generation works - using vast arrays of image samples to create a new image with - has been cited #as a reason why ai-generated images aren't ''real art''. but is that not just a computer-generated collage? is it not real because it was #made by an algorithm? #if i - a human artist - get a bunch of old magazines and show them to an algorithm to generate new things from them #or to suggest ways in which new things could be made #and then i took those suggestions and cut the magazines and made the collage by hand. is that still art? did it at some point become art #or cease to be art? #i think these things are far more intriguing and important to get to the root of ethical AI usage in the 21st century than focusing on laws

[phantom-tastic]

Oh my fucking god if I have to see another untagged AI post on here, or another person arguing that people who are anti-AI art are "luddites" im going to explode

#i dont know how to explain to you that stealing art is bad #i dont know how to explain to you that you should care about other people #and that artists work so hard only to have techbro shitheads frankenstien all their hard work together and then brag about it #im tired. im tired of this #and it stressed me out because i cant escape ai based seach results. ai images. everywhere. #people not noticing or people deciding not to lable ai related things as such also feels really unnerving #its like we are losing distinction between random soulless algorithm generated 'content' and reality and fact. genuinely upsetting #ghost posts

[detectivenyx]

one thing that will be helpful in distinguishing ai art from real art: currently, ai art is racist and fatphobic

#i don't mean that the artworks themselves are those things #but ai currently cannot comprehend Black and fat people #humans generally can #but because of racism and fatphobia there are far less resources for ai to pull from for Black and fat art #so ai always spits out something that's been slimmed down and whitewashed #even if not completely #it was devastating for me to see an acquaintance of mine feel like she wasn't pretty unless she put herself through one of these things #but that made me realise this stupid fucking computer can't comprehend a fat person #and someone put a photo of a Black woman through the AI and it spat out a lighter skinned anime man #ergo: the algorithms are trained on racist and fatphobic biases and therefore are racist and fatphobic #i worry eventually the ai will generate decent looking hands. #but i suspect it will be a lot longer. if ever. for ai to generate images depicting Black and fat people. #thanks to the biases of a racist fatphobic society that have carried over to the AI. #- nyx (they/she)

[holy-human-freak]

This is the lamest thing to be proud of but i wrote a compute shader to generate random noise maps and it works! it can even generate 1920x1080 noise textures every frame. 

#strobe tw #I put the texture it generates from the seed 80085 under the cut since people probably dont want a big static image on their dash #no particular reason for that seed #on tumblr it looks like there are patterns but i think thats just from its compression algorithm #in unity its pretty clearly random #talking to myself

[jcmarchi]

Amazon now offers a phone-based palm scanning service for sign-up purposes - Technology Org

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/amazon-now-offers-a-phone-based-palm-scanning-service-for-sign-up-purposes-technology-org/

Amazon now offers a phone-based palm scanning service for sign-up purposes - Technology Org

Amazon’s palm scanning service now offers the convenience of sign-up directly from your mobile device.

Palm features used in personal identification. Image credit: Amazon

Instead of requiring a visit to a physical location, users can now enroll in Amazon One by capturing images of their palm using the newly launched Amazon One app, available on both iOS and Android platforms. This streamlined process enables users to set up their accounts swiftly, facilitating the use of palm scanning for authentication purposes at supported locations.

Previously, Amazon One enrollment requited visiting designated physical sites, where users could link their palm print to their Amazon account for various purposes such as making purchases or age verification.

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Presently, this service is accessible at all Whole Foods stores across the US, select Panera Bread locations, and over 150 other venues, including stadiums, airports, fitness centers, and convenience stores.

Amazon One utilizes advanced generative AI technology to analyze the unique vein structure of the palm, generating a distinct numerical vector representation for identification during in-store palm scans. It’s noteworthy that Amazon does not utilize raw palm images for identification purposes.

On the mobile app, Amazon employs AI algorithms to compare the photo captured by the phone’s camera with the near-infrared imagery obtained from an Amazon One device. Users are required to integrate a payment method within the app and upload a photo of their identification for age verification purposes if desired. Additionally, the app allows for the linking of loyalty programs, season passes, and gym memberships.

While privacy concerns surrounding the technology persist, Amazon asserts that palm and vein images are promptly encrypted and transmitted to a highly secure section within the AWS Cloud, specifically designated for Amazon One. It is in this secure environment that Amazon creates the unique palm signature.

Furthermore, Amazon emphasizes that the new app incorporates additional layers of anti-spoofing measures, and it explicitly prohibits the saving or downloading of palm images to the user’s device. Nonetheless, some individuals may remain apprehensive about relinquishing their biometric data, considering the irreplaceable nature of palm prints compared to traditional passwords.

Written by Alius Noreika

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