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  AI Generated Art - Impact on Artists

  by Simon in

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  unless you've been hibernating under a rock for the last couple of years, you're probably aware that ai is the new hotness.. chatgpt gets a lot of attention but equally amazing is how capable ai is at generating art.

  if you'd been ask to name anything that would be the last holdout for humans, creative arts such as writing, painting, and music would probably be some of the things at the top of the list.. yet those seem to be the things that ai can do best.. it's fascinating to use the tools, but one thing you realize is that they are just combining patterns and shapes, there isn't yet any real "intelligence", artificial or otherwise.. as an example, you can ask it to create a painting in the style or a particular artist, with a whole raft of things you want to include.

  it will do a great job on first glance, but can often give people more arms or fingers than is normal, and lamp-posts can grow to different heights, like trees.

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  Looking to create dramatic B&W images this time
  
  
  
  Then, back to color
  
  
  
  
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  AI Generated Art - Impact on Artists

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  unless you've been hibernating under a rock for the last couple of years, you're probably aware that ai is the new hotness.. chatgpt gets a lot of attention but equally amazing is how capable ai is at generating art.

  if you'd been ask to name anything that would be the last holdout for humans, creative arts such as writing, painting, and music would probably be some of the things at the top of the list.. yet those seem to be the things that ai can do best.. it's fascinating to use the tools, but one thing you realize is that they are just combining patterns and shapes, there isn't yet any real "intelligence", artificial or otherwise.. as an example, you can ask it to create a painting in the style or a particular artist, with a whole raft of things you want to include.

  it will do a great job on first glance, but can often give people more arms or fingers than is normal, and lamp-posts can grow to different heights, like trees.

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  FatFreek 20052 days ago

  Terry, that array of AI artwork is impressive. I wouldn't be ashamed to hang some of it on my wall.
  
  Thanks!
  I have been tempted to go ahead and paint/draw some of those images but - at this far remove in time from my Art "career" I stop myself and laugh. What a stereotype I would fit!
  What I might do is create some lithographs by sending my favorites to a studio and having it reproduced photographically. But - once again - I'm kidding myself..
  Feel free to use any of those generated images any way you feel like it if it makes you happy, FF.
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  AI Generated Art - Impact on Artists

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  unless you've been hibernating under a rock for the last couple of years, you're probably aware that ai is the new hotness.. chatgpt gets a lot of attention but equally amazing is how capable ai is at generating art.

  if you'd been ask to name anything that would be the last holdout for humans, creative arts such as writing, painting, and music would probably be some of the things at the top of the list.. yet those seem to be the things that ai can do best.. it's fascinating to use the tools, but one thing you realize is that they are just combining patterns and shapes, there isn't yet any real "intelligence", artificial or otherwise.. as an example, you can ask it to create a painting in the style or a particular artist, with a whole raft of things you want to include.

  it will do a great job on first glance, but can often give people more arms or fingers than is normal, and lamp-posts can grow to different heights, like trees.

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  enoughisenough2 days ago

  well it seems impressive! how do those who have done this feel about what "you" have created? Do you feel like it is your artwork?
  _________
  
  After I left Jehovah's Witnesses and moved from Texas to California, I got my first non-crap job.
  It was as an artist in a gigantic company TRIANGLE and it 'manufactured' all sorts of "Art".
  Statuary, canvas paintings, you name it and we made it.
  From there I moved on to an Etching studio in Culver City and produced limited Edition prints for 5 years. After that, I worked at a Beverly Hills Galleries and sold limited edition prints and original art mostly to Hollywood actors and industry peripheral types.
  After that, I worked for Los Angeles Art Projects and segued into becoming an ART CONSULTANT for CREATIVE GALLERIES close to MGM STUDIOS were I sold art to set decorators.
  Last of all, I became an art agent and schlepped a portfolio of lithographs, colographs, woodprints, linocuts, and etchings to Design firms and Corporations.
  I said ALL THAT in order to SAY THIS:
  
  ART = artifice.
  FINE ART is FINished art (serves no other purpose than to exist in and of itself)
  DECORATIVE art is what mmost people have in their homes. The majority is fake/manufactured simulation of real art.
  Starving Artist art is mass produced in Taiwan and China by people who earn not much of anything and it sells whole sale for about one dollar. It is retailed for 25 times to 50 times that amount.
  GRAPHIC ART is a whole nuther thing mostly commmercial art.
  
  USING TECHNOLOGY to create an image is as legitimate as using a silk screen, block of wood, stick with animal fur glued to it, engraved steel offset, or any other device.
  
  The human brain i.e. "the mind" creates VALUE and reads it into whatever image their emotions respond to. I've spoken to auctioneers and they are very cynical people. Millionaires who collect Art
  drive up the auction value by nefarious means and the Art Magazines go along with the con.
  Bottom line?
  If I walk into a police station and describe my assailant to a sketch artist, the result is only as good as my description - right?
  Using TEXT to create A.I. produced art is about on par with that.
  
  The rest is vanity and public opinion.
  That's all my opinion and your opinion will be mileage that varies :)
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  A Very Mysterious Place none of us should WORRY about -(nothing to see here...move along...)

  by Terry in

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  2. scandals

  nothing to see here?i was watching an old move from 2008 a couple of days ago, the bourne legacy.there was a plotpoint made in dialogue which centered on a place in the u.s. called fort detrick (in maryland).

  a military lab there had a terrible accident but the unforeseen consequence led to a discovery which the bourne legacy needed to work the plot.my head started to buzz and i thought i would do a google search on fort detrick.

  ya know - as we sometimes do when our head starts to buzz?next stop: a rabbit holehere is what i have learned so far.__________fort detrick is the center of u.s. bio-military activities.

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  If I were tasked to write a screenplay, the following would occur.
  1. Warfare using armies with conventional weapons would be replaced by the use of a pandemic with
  only the "Good Guys" prepared with the vaccine. To accomplish this task, a dry run would be needed to gather data on compliance / push-back by the populations at large.
  2. Control of Media would be necessary to silence naysayers and any whistle-blower should that arise.
  3. Medical professionals / experts could be leveraged by offering million dollar grants for future research.
  Conscientious professionals who didn't go along would be labeled, slandered, censored, cancelled.
  4. While working on an absolutely reliable vaccine / antidote - the lab experiences a careless leak into the public square.
  5. Suddenly a fail safe CYA (cover your ass) emergency drill is triggered. Public and private records of research is taken offline. Public Service Announcements put out a cover story and a BIG SHOW of competent heroism would be released.
  6. Absolute compliance would be pushed with a partially ineffective vaccine offered as a miracle cure.
  False claims would be pushed
  A. Take the vaccine and you won't get the virus
  B. Once inoculated, you can't spread the virus or become re-infected.
  C. Even kids would be pushed to take the jab.
  7. If everybody gets the vaccines no alternate comparison group would be available to falsify the claims.
  
  I think it now becomes apparent that such a screenplay would never pass muster.
  Why?
  Too far-fetched!
  
  
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  A Very Mysterious Place none of us should WORRY about -(nothing to see here...move along...)

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  nothing to see here?i was watching an old move from 2008 a couple of days ago, the bourne legacy.there was a plotpoint made in dialogue which centered on a place in the u.s. called fort detrick (in maryland).

  a military lab there had a terrible accident but the unforeseen consequence led to a discovery which the bourne legacy needed to work the plot.my head started to buzz and i thought i would do a google search on fort detrick.

  ya know - as we sometimes do when our head starts to buzz?next stop: a rabbit holehere is what i have learned so far.__________fort detrick is the center of u.s. bio-military activities.

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  NOTHING TO SEE HERE?
  
  I was watching an old move from 2008 a couple of days ago, THE BOURNE LEGACY.
  There was a plotpoint made in dialogue which centered on a place in the U.S. called Fort Detrick (in Maryland). A military lab there had a terrible accident but the unforeseen consequence led to a discovery which The Bourne Legacy needed to work the plot.
  
  My head started to buzz and I thought I would do a Google search on Fort Detrick. Ya know - as we sometimes do when our head starts to buzz?
  Next stop: a RABBIT HOLE
  Here is what I have learned so far.
  __________
  
  Fort Detrick is the center of U.S. bio-military activities. (It is in Maryland.)
  United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID) is located there.
  
  Stop right there!
  That hyphenated two word term (bio-military) is a horror term, is it not?
  But perhaps, no.
  Not if it is for “defense” purposes - right?
  
  Wikipedia says, “The United States biological defense program—in recent years also called the National Bio-defense Strategy—refers to the collective effort by all levels of government, along with private enterprise and other stakeholders, in the United States to carry out bio-defense activities.”
  Okay, let us continue …
  
  U.S. germ warfare research was ended by U.S. renouncement of all offensive biological weapons programs in 1969 and ratification to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1975.
  
  Whew! Glad to hear that - aren’t you?
  Defense is a reasonable word.
  
  Biodefense is a system of planned actions to counter and reduce the risk of biological threats and to prepare, respond to, and recover from them if they happen.
  
  Read on, gentle reader - read on …
  
  Wikipedia tells me, “Fort Detrick was the center of the U.S. biological weapons program from 1943 to 1969.”
  In 2018 President Donald J. Trump released the National Bio-defense Strategy memorandum.
  National Bio-defense Strategy elevated natural outbreaks as a vital component of the U.S. biological defense program for the first time, mostly because of the significant risk that natural outbreaks pose to civilian, animal and agricultural populations across the country.
  
  Now, what if Private Industrial interests wanted to buddy up with Military Strategists and continue
  BIO-WEAPONS program under a different banner - such as - Bio-Defense?
  Where would be a good location for that?
  
  Fort Detrick, Maryland, where the U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories were headquartered sounds ideal.
  The current mission is multi-agency, not exclusively military, and is purely to develop defensive measures against bio-agents, as opposed to the former bio-weapons development program.
  
  Do you see a problem? What problem?
  
  Wikipedia shows:
  
  Sure, Bio Weapons are banned - but heck - what about the good intentions of the new program:
  
  U.S. now maintains that the Article I of the BWC (which explicitly bans bio-weapons), does not apply to "non-lethal" biological agents.
  
  There ya go!
  Change the words and the problem disappears!
  
  Take non-lethal and do what? Change it into lethal. Oh.
  That must a good thing. For Science and all that.
  
  Funding?
  Don’t worry: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was slated to receive $8 billion, a $636 million increase over 2019, with a mandate written in the bill for CDC "to maintain a strong and central role in the medical countermeasures enterprise."
  
  United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID) stores almost all known deadly pathogens, such as Ebola, anthrax, smallpox, plague, and coronaviruses including SARS right here in the good old U.S.A. in Maryland at Fort Detrick.
  
  (Big Sigh)
  
  In 2003 this facility developed a novel reverse genetic system for manipulation of a full-length cDNA of the SARS-CoV, and relevant outcomes were published in a paper in 2003. According to the paper, within two months after obtaining the RNA of the SARS virus, the full-length cDNA of the virus was successfully synthesized. This shows that as early as 2003, these institutes already had the advanced capabilities to synthesize and modify SARS-related coronaviruses.
  
  
  Are you worried yet? Curious?
  
  The 2019 influenza in the United States might have overlapped with COVID-19. According to U.S. CDC statistics, there were about 39 to 56 million influenza cases between October 2019 and April 2020, resulting in 24,000 to 62,000 deaths. Given the similar symptoms, COVID-19 patients could have been misdiagnosed as influenza patients. To determine whether such cases exist, in particular in and prior to October 2019, a nation-wide retrospective investigation and research should be done in the United States.

   In March 2020, a petition was filed on the White House petition website, asking the U.S. government to disclose information related to Fort Detrick, especially the reason why the USAMRIID lab was shut down in 2019 and whether it had anything to do with COVID-19.
  The U.S. government has made no response, and the petition website has been taken offline altogether.
  Likely as not, all the above is simply CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY counter propaganda strategy, don’t you think?
  
  Or do you?
  
  I don’t know Jack Sh*t.
  
  But somebody knows something somewhere...

  https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1227219.shtml

  
  
  
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  AI Generated Art - Impact on Artists

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  unless you've been hibernating under a rock for the last couple of years, you're probably aware that ai is the new hotness.. chatgpt gets a lot of attention but equally amazing is how capable ai is at generating art.

  if you'd been ask to name anything that would be the last holdout for humans, creative arts such as writing, painting, and music would probably be some of the things at the top of the list.. yet those seem to be the things that ai can do best.. it's fascinating to use the tools, but one thing you realize is that they are just combining patterns and shapes, there isn't yet any real "intelligence", artificial or otherwise.. as an example, you can ask it to create a painting in the style or a particular artist, with a whole raft of things you want to include.

  it will do a great job on first glance, but can often give people more arms or fingers than is normal, and lamp-posts can grow to different heights, like trees.

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  In one day I generated the following images:
  
  

  Monday Bing A.I. using my text prompts
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  

  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  

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  $1000 payment by Tight pants Tony to a porn channel (So that's why he doesn't wear tight pants)

  by Terry in

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  i predict this wee april announcement will make it half way around the world very shortly before the significance of the date itself becomes apparent..

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  Today is April 1st - right?
  
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNYpBEoGW7M&t=147s

  
  
  
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  $1000 payment by Tight pants Tony to a porn channel (So that's why he doesn't wear tight pants)

  by Terry in

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  2. scandals

  i predict this wee april announcement will make it half way around the world very shortly before the significance of the date itself becomes apparent..

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  I predict this wee April announcement will make it half way around the world very shortly before the
  significance of the date itself becomes apparent.
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  CHICKEN LITTLE and the power of stupid PROPHECY

  by Terry in

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  prophecy or bad guessing spoken with authority?

  _________________________________________________________________________ (53 years ago!

  ) september 2022 broadcastgoverning body member, stephen lett:“we’re living in the final part of the last days.

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  The still-in JWs I am in contact with live lives of quiet desperation and as bored as hell.
  That says it all.
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  CHICKEN LITTLE and the power of stupid PROPHECY

  by Terry in

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  prophecy or bad guessing spoken with authority?

  _________________________________________________________________________ (53 years ago!

  ) september 2022 broadcastgoverning body member, stephen lett:“we’re living in the final part of the last days.

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  Peaceful Pete, technology has saved our bacon time and again.
  Case in point: fertilizer.
  Fear mongering actually serves a useful purpose IF the target audience is motivated
  to FIX what's broken.
  The despicable part of RELIGIOUS fear-mongering is that there is NO PRICE PAID by the
  malefactors for getting it wrong.
  
  Among Jehovah's Witnesses it work like this.
  1. The numbers go up because "All aboard the Ark".
  2. Great Disappointment due to failure of event - BUT...look at the outcome:
  a. Weak ones leave
  b. Strong believers remain and double-down
  3. All the older generations know about the flops but they've put their entire life investment of time
  and family sociability into a lottery. "What if I pull out and my number comes up?" FOMO is powerful.