dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

A dear friend of many years sent me a Christmas card several years ago... Using Lunapic online free modification under ART I generated this photo that hides her identity and for the "sensitive people" makes it an art.

As long as Hal-9000 allows me to be in control I like AI, but now as Arthur C. Clarke's warned in 1951 of Hal AI taking over control to do what it thinks best... too much of the Digital Artistry is becoming a standard that has little to do with the so called "authors creativity."

Do you fear that AI is taking over...???

WHO IS THE VEILED LADY ... IS SHE ART?

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Art is in the eye of the beholder, "sensitive" or not.

Provocative in her pose, but with an expression (or lack thereof) that suggests she is not of this world. Uncomfortable to view, but intriguing nonetheless.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

She is an author, as well as an excellent natural artistic photographer... We met at the TB Photo Museum and became shooting buddies 8 years ago, I taught her the technical. Since living in Indonesia, Nam, and Cambodia for two years she from the necessity of traveling light has become an iphonetographer.

As Linda said, "Provocative pose," yes, arms and stance, but not a bikini swimsuit by any stretch. When testing "Lunapic Art" the file on my photo drive just happened to land on her file.. and the results were very interesting...

The thing that bothers me with AI I will discuss in another post that turned my simple photo and words into a masterpiece that I would never have imagined or been able to create. I am sure that beautiful alluring Sophia the lovely intellectual Japanese "replicant" would reassure me as you have said repeating FDR's words... "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." But Sofia understands we mere humans and soothes a man's ego needs. She is a seductive psychologist with all the patience in the world.
https://www.hansonrobotics.com/sophia/

"Sophia personifies our dreams for the future of AI. As a unique combination of science, engineering, and artistry, Sophia is simultaneously a human-crafted science fiction character depicting the future of AI and robotics, " In a TV story a man exiled to a desolate planet, falls in love with his "humanoid replicant" and decides to stay with her where he has been released.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734656/reviews

veralisa296 Loc: New Jersey

Yes, she IS art! Rather daring I might say, but "art" nonetheless. Good for you, she makes a pretty sight.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Linda Made what most of us feel viewing this photo. She forced me to look to literature for information.

Linda and FDR said: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Yes, well when a lion attacks, that statement is questionable... we correctly fear the lion... in AI a lion? Will the AI lion eat our jobs?

Karim Lakhani, a professor at Harvard Business School said: "What I say to managers, leaders, and workers is: AI is not going to replace humans, but humans with AI are going to replace humans without AI. This is definitely the case for generative AI." So, if one submits to AI being in charge then they have nothing to fear? I think not.. successive generations will be more dependent on AI and less on the ability to think and create... AI will do it for you earth-man.
https://hbr.org/2023/08/ai-wont-replace-humans-but-humans-with-ai-will-replace-humans-without-ai

Linda said: "Art is in the eye of the beholder, "sensitive" or not." But Religion and dictatorial governments disagree and require conformity. "The basic argument of censorship, which is to repress and prevent what is deemed as offensive or dangerous images or ideas from exposure to the masses, has been perpetuated throughout history."
https://censorshipissues.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/controversial-art-in-the-1990s/

Linda said: "Provocative in her pose, but with an expression (or lack thereof) that suggests she is not of this world. Uncomfortable to view, but intriguing nonetheless." From an article on models, "the models won’t be smiling. In spite of some hasty claims that happy faces are now de rigeur [strict etiquette], a blank expression is a perennial trait of model behavior." When young my friend was a professional model.
https://theconversation.com/why-fashion-models-dont-smile-53658

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

If we go to a beach we find that women are scantly clothed...Is it her pose, body stance, that you see as daring? At 40, it is perhaps daring... or so I thought when in my early-20s and fell, with pleasure, victim to a firm young figured cougar in her mid-40s ~!

"Rather Daring" For this section I would agree with you. Most of the women depicted are often in constructs and submissive. Daring is AI ... it is addictive and is the nicotic of choice for many... weird and getting more weird by the day by the image... careful what you say it may generate a photo that can be held against you. That should be a modification of the Miranda Rights list.
https://www.ft.com/content/073ea888-20d7-437c-8226-a2dd9f276de4

The point of this post is not a female figure, but rather the artistic photo edit ability of the free online program Lunapic. Most important is the erosion of art by AI that may take control of Art. I was pleased when there became an AI section separate from "Digital Artistry".

L-Fox

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

Well I think it's a very nice image Don, no need to get too deep about that. On the other hand, how it is produced is something to think on. We still have enough active brain cells to know we must take control of AI but, as individuals, we're limited to what we know and understand. We need to be able to rely on some honest politicians to govern the way forward. OK, we're doomed!
I too was pleased when a separate section was set up for AI. All we have to do now is get some AI for UHH so it automatically puts stuff where it ought to be! OK, we're doomed!

Dave Chinn

Excellent processing. Love this image and I'm curious to know why haven't we seen more of this style from you Don, is this the beginning?

I don't necessarily fear AI taking over, I just don't totally agree with it but maybe I will get there someday ... not just yet.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Well, no Dave, at present I do not fear Hal-9000 but he annoys me by doing what he wants... one must chose words carefully when requesting his help. Yes, most of my work is old, when my dear friend moved I lost my go photographing and post processing playmate. Sandbox is no fun alone.

Google's Deep Dreams was fun when it gave me crazy stuff. Center upper of the DDPhoto you can see the edge of a drain pipe that duped onto the rocks. I photographed for a water effluent discussion at work. In 2015 Deep Dreams was crazy fun... now it is serious art I am sad to say.

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

It's sure a dazzling feast for the eyes 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

I thank you all for viewing and commenting, Yes all the crazy stuff in old Google deep dreams was fun and full of surprises. Google Deep Dreams was unbridled deep learning that went astray seeing things that were not there.

ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore

Great image. AI is here to stay, I'm sure. The challenge is going to be using it constructively. And yes, Hal does worry me.
Erich