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  AI Generated Art - Impact on Artists

  by Simon in

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  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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    enoughisenough4 days ago

    Terry, the 4 th b/w image is pretty cool
    
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    Yeah, it is rather unexpectedly elusive and fanciful. Thanks!
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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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  If somebody wants the image that never existed before you generated it using your idea and your
  prompt, and you disclose that it was A.I. generated, who would there be to complain if you sold
  it for an agreed upon price?
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  A SHADOW to NONE

  by Terry in

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  be a shadow to nonethis world’s gone all wobbly and doubly unshackledwe’re tackled by circumstance, brought to our kneesfinancial hardship, a test of all friendshipcrash and corruption; it’s death and diseasewho is our neighbor and where are our leaders?the lord of the flies may arise to the thronethough life packs a wallop a dollop of courageand brotherhood binds us; we’re not here alone+++out of the shadow we stand in the sunbackbone and muscle: we’re not yet undonebring on apocalypse you won’t see us runand we’ll be a shadow to noneno, we’ll be a shadow to none+++ buzzards and bastards, they circle disasters rats skitter scatter the old sinking shipit’s backbone bravado with faith as our mottothat binds us, reminds us: take aim, let her ripgoodness and decency stumbled and crumbledgreed is the creed of malevolent mennow is the time to remind one anotheryou are my brother, yes you are my friend+++out of the shadow we stand in the sunbackbone and muscle we’re not yet undonebring on apocalypse you won’t see us runand we'll be a shadow to noneno - we'll be a shadow to nonemy brother, we’re not yet undone+++a song i haven't bothered to finish :)

  john farnham might be a good choice for singer

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  Be A Shadow to None
  
  This world’s gone all wobbly and doubly unshackled
  We’re tackled by circumstance, brought to our knees
  Financial hardship, a test of all friendship
  Crash and corruption; it’s death and disease
  
  Who is our Neighbor and where are our leaders?
  The Lord of the Flies may arise to the throne
  Though life packs a wallop a dollop of courage
  and brotherhood binds us; we’re not here alone
  
  +++
  
  Out of the shadow we stand in the sun
  Backbone and muscle: we’re not yet undone
  Bring on Apocalypse you won’t see us run
  
  And we’ll be a Shadow to None
  No, we’ll be a Shadow to None
  
  +++
  
  Buzzards and bastards, they circle disasters
  rats skitter scatter the old sinking ship
  It’s backbone bravado with Faith as our motto
  That binds us, reminds us: take aim, let her rip
  
  Goodness and Decency stumbled and crumbled
  Greed is the creed of malevolent men
  Now is the time to remind one another
  You are my Brother, yes you are my Friend
  
  +++
  
  Out of the shadow we stand in the sun
  Backbone and muscle we’re not yet undone
  Bring on Apocalypse you won’t see us run
  
  And we'll be a Shadow to None
  No - we'll be a Shadow to None
  
  My Brother, we’re not yet undone
  +++
  
  
  A song I haven't bothered to finish :) John Farnham might be a good choice for singer
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  PFIZER DOCUMENTS and the ugly truth about the cover up

  by Terry in

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  2. friends

  video : what’s in the pfizer documents?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9y_w_30hsm&t=51s.

  brief summary.

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  For about the last decade I have felt increasingly that I'm living in one of Grimm's Fairy Tales.
  The amount of corruption, cover-up, sell-out, conspiracy, flim-flam, and flap-doodle that goes on
  every day combined with the real-life rise of robots, Artificial Intelligence and the clamor for nuclear war
  by Democrats just can't be happening...but it is.
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  PFIZER DOCUMENTS and the ugly truth about the cover up

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  video : what’s in the pfizer documents?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9y_w_30hsm&t=51s.

  brief summary.

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  VIDEO : WHAT’S IN THE PFIZER DOCUMENTS? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Y_W_30hsM&t=51s

  
  
  

  BRIEF SUMMARY

  
  

  - The release of the Pfizer documents was the result of a lawsuit against the FDA by a lawyer named Aaron Siri.

  
  

  - FDA tried to hide documents for 75 years, but a judge released them

  - Journalists struggle to understand technical language in the 55,000 monthly documents

  
  

  - Twitter colluded with White House, CDC, and possibly DHS to de-platform and smear journalist

  - 2500 experts responded to journalist's call for help in analyzing released documents

  
  

  Pfizer documents reveal the greatest crime against humanity

  - Tiny woman Amy Kelly organized 3,500 experts to analyze 55,000 documents per month

  - 58 reports were produced to reveal the truth about the Pfizer documents

  
  

  Pfizer knew vaccines didn't work to stop COVID and caused adverse events

  - Pfizer's internal documents identified vaccine failure and COVID as a side effect

  - Pfizer hired 2400 full-time staffers to process paperwork of adverse events and prepare for future flood

  
  

  Young adults were not informed of the elevated risk of heart damage from the COVID-19 vaccine.

  - Propaganda on social media, TV, and news outlets influenced young adults to get vaccinated.

  - The CDC claimed the spike protein stays in the injection site, but doctors had no evidence to support where it goes.

  
  

  Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine lipid nanoparticles bio-distribute throughout the body, including the brain and ovaries, with no known mechanism for removal.

  - Pfizer's own language confirms the biodistribution of the vaccine's lipid nanoparticles throughout the body.

  - The lipid nanoparticles accumulate in various organs over time, including the brain, liver, adrenals, spleen, and ovaries, with no known mechanism for removal.

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  Time and summary
  [02:07]
  
  The speaker discusses the Pfizer documents and their significance.

  
  

  [04:07]
  
  Pfizer documents reveal internal experiments and injections

  
  

  [06:16]
  
  Journalist de-platformed for reporting on women's health after mRNA injection

  
  

  [08:21]
  
  Pfizer documents reveal the greatest crime against humanity

  
  

  [10:07]
  
  Pfizer knew vaccines didn't work to stop COVID and caused adverse events

  
  

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  Young adults were not informed of the elevated risk of heart damage from the COVID-19 vaccine.

  
  

  [14:04]
  
  Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine lipid nano-particles bio-distribute throughout the body, including the brain and ovaries, with no known mechanism for removal.

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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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  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

  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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  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