by anitakirkovska on 5/31/23, 3:49 PM with 89 comments
by belugacat on 5/31/23, 4:13 PM
Fun to the see a modern reincarnation of that idea.
(While digging around to find the above, I did find yet another camera project that does the opposite: "Matt Richardson's "Descriptive Camera" sends your pictures to Amazon's Mechanical Turk and jobs out the task of writing a brief description of each image, then outputs the text on a thermal printer. It's a camera that captures descriptions, not pictures." (https://boingboing.net/2012/04/25/descriptive-camera-prints-...)
by dmbche on 5/31/23, 6:15 PM
I've found often that the gut feel that makes you take the shot doesn't necessarily know when you have the right composition or what the subject of the shot actually is, you just hit he shutter, you know that this was the shot.
Then, when looking at the shots, you have all the time and the world to analyse and find meaning and beauty in this sliver of an instant.
By replacing this by a random seed, a 20 word prompt and gps localisation, I doubt that anyone would have a personal connection to the image, or to the instant it was taken. It become a "clean", "sanitized" image, that's only esthetic (or arguably memetic depending on your prompt), and is wholly separate from the person that took it.
You also lose all of the information that you can not consciously perceive while taking the shot/writing the prompt, since you filter what you see through the lens of language, and then back into visual.
It's neat !
by Solvency on 5/31/23, 4:07 PM
3D printed case. Resting on a table. Witness describes the suspect. 10 seconds later it prints out an AI generated ink sketch.
I mean why not? Sell it through to every police station in your state. You can even put a cute little police badge emblem on the case.
by leononame on 5/31/23, 4:05 PM
Jokes aside, I think this demonstrates that AI generation isn't too great if you have something very specific in mind, at least it looks like the generated picture deviates from the real one, though it's impressive that it's still so extremely similar.
The virtual one doesn't load for me unfortunately
by boo-ga-ga on 5/31/23, 4:31 PM
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by nonethewiser on 5/31/23, 5:29 PM
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by vngzs on 6/1/23, 3:42 PM
https://bjoernkarmann.dk/project/paragraphica
The author's site is currently struggling to load, so here is an archive link:
by icepat on 5/31/23, 7:25 PM
This isn't really a camera, it's a GPS hooked up to Stable Diffusion.
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