There’s enough reality to deal with, without generating more.
Can you spot the skaters? I’ve neglected this blog. I think after Covid a bit of all of us gave up. What’s the point? Generative AI reinforced this attitude. Why bother, if we’re all doomed. If people prefer this new reality, then so be it, but I want nothing to do with it. It's probably because the images I’ve attempted to create by AI have been, well, a bit crap. Those highly polished AI images you see on Social Media, having been generated, with all their glaring issues, only to be airbrushed by someone on Photoshop to tidy up the flaws. Yes AI is great at generating a cat riding a unicorn playing an accordion, but anything that’s life-like, well, the fingers give the game away. Sure, there are some people out there with five, six, eight, maybe sixteen fingers on their hand, plus a thumb, but very few, and certainly not everyone. I don’t need AI to create a crap image. I have a pinhole camera to do that, and with World Wide Pinhole Day fast approaching, it’s time to dust off th