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I only discovered today that Chat GPT can modify photos. I gave it a photo of trees reflected in a stream and asked it to make the image look Daliesque. I also gave it a photo of a curve-billed thrasher and asked it to make the bird look other-worldly. I then combined the results in Photoshop and made major tonal changes. Chap GPT’s version of the background was dark and very low in contrast.

My ego isn’t tied up in the result. I feel only a tenuous connection to it. But I think it’s interesting.

I also found myself thinking that what I was doing differed only in degree from using tools such as generative fill or generative crop or noise reduction. Or the blemish remover. Or curves, for that matter. There’s no bright-line boundary between what we accept as ordinary processing and AI.

I was a little disappointed that Chat GPT wasn’t more adventurous in its variations. I didn’t give it very detailed instructions, though. Maybe I can learn to nudge it towards more abstraction.

Has anyone else played around with AI?

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This is actually a pretty cool image, Don. Your use of Chat GPT is an interesting take, since the two original images were your own and you used it more as a creative filter than as a source of new content. Another case of blurring the lines. When we were trying to come up with the rules for use of AI at our local county fair, we basically said that it shouldn’t be used to add significant content to the image, but could be used in processing (hard to avoid it there these days). This image exploits a loophole there.

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Thanks for the comment, Dennis. It seems to me that your rules for using AI are about as good as any rules can be.

I’m not interested in having AI provide content but it’s interesting to see how it can alter content.