Say goodbye to photoshop and hello to AI program Midjourney
 

Last week a very realistic picture of the pope toke it's tour on the internet.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/27/2...ated-aesthetic

It is fake-But it's hard to see it.

Someone used this AI program to make a series of photos where you could see Trump being arrested, escape the police and ends in a McDonald restaurant.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...est-images-ban

Same here..also fake

Which means from now on one should also be very critical to picture shown on mainstream and other places on the web.

Midjourney is what I understand on Discord, where you can use it for free.

Edit
To any mods-Would you please move it the the correct place-General Topic.
(Don't know why I came to post it here, I thought I had clicked on General Topic)

Markus

Don't say good bye to PS just yet.

https://www.diyphotography.net/wp-co...-21-22-utc.jpg

She just lives on the Isle of Sheppey, an island in Kent, UK known for its abundantly fingered and webbed-toed citizens...a lot like Norfolk in that respect.

😁

^ So there's more AI program Midjourney ?

There are those who embrace it with happiness all these AI stuff
While there are those who are critical towards it.

I belong to the last group.

I'm critical in many way.

One of them would make us either dummer or smarter.

The other giving these AI control over certain important program(like controlling Nuclear powerplant a.s.o.)

Markus

AI works and decides at the pace of what is tehcbnologically possible. Technology outpaces the biological limits and the scaling of human standards.

I'm very, very, very critical of all this.

Simple example: any working interface when somebody works in the office with a software. The software commands him how to structure input, what input to give (and what input can not be given!), his workflow and possible cretaivity is channeled, dircted ands limited, the risk always is that it beocnmes more and more impossible to "think out of the box", to leave the established, software-commanded ways.

It was like this with the adaptation to havign daily timetables, and watches: on the wrist, at the wall, in church towers. The human need to have watches - was zero. It was commanded by the needs of an icreasingly industrialised production. This defined the rythm to which we all now dance. It snot necessarily good for us, or our health and well-being, but its good for the machine, for the industrial process.

Nobody questions this anymore. This is the greatest risk: the vanishing of imagination.

"They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.” - Khalil Gibran

Another free one which I like is craiyon.com

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen..._mcdonalds.png

More news on what lay ahead of us

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65102150

Markus

The days of a "Picture can not lie" are gone and have been for a while.


I suspect that one of these days photographs won't be admissible in courts because it is too easy to fake.

Yes, that's true. With the increasing sophistication of AI and digital manipulation tools, it is becoming easier and easier to create realistic-looking fake images and videos. This means that we can no longer assume that a picture or video is necessarily a true representation of reality yt apk

As such, it is important to approach any visual content with a critical eye and to verify its authenticity through fact-checking and other means. Additionally, it is important to promote media literacy and education, so that individuals are better equipped to recognize and navigate the complex and often misleading information landscape of the digital age.

Welcome aboard!