Just about a month or two ago, I’ve started noticing more and more AI generated photos on Facebook. I could tell they were fake, for example, extraterrestrial aliens being pictured with a group of villagers in some Asian country. I was curious and decided to look into this. I figured there would be something free online. There were several apps or programs that I found and one that caught my attention was the Microsoft Bing Image Creator, which used what was called Dall-E 3. It was free and I just had to register with Bing. You operate it from your browser. So I signed up.
The way it works is that you type in a text description, called a prompt, that tells the AI how to create the image. You can be specific with the style, if it’s a photo, a cartoon, graphical, realistic. It will create usually a set of 4 images. Sometimes I would get only 2 or 3 but it was usually 4 images that would be generated.
My first effort was a little lame, now that I look back at it. It was Bigfoot on a surfboard with Diamond Head in the background. Diamond Head didn’t look like Diamond Head as we know it.
I made a bunch of fake photos of a pterodactyl shot by a cowboy, Bigfoot posing with a bunch of hunters, and aliens posing with some people from the 1930’s. Sometimes there are flaws in the images so it’s really not perfect yet.
It’s been about a week now since I started using the Bing Image Creator. I’m still experimenting and trying different things. Lately, I’ve done some fantasy art images. Here are a few samples.
Just to make it clear, these are all AI generated. The only thing I did was describe how I wanted it and the AI did the rest. I don’t know how much one can take credit for these images. I read somewhere that AI art can’t be copyrighted. Also, there are people who are selling AI generated arts and photos. There’s at least a couple of websites where you can sell AI generated art or photos.
Anyway, I thought I’d put this out there. There’s so much implications to this technology.