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Just had chat with Graham and I have been misunderstanding a significant point.
Grahams Kingfisher images were NOT created with Photoshop's AI "Firefly". They were created in Microsoft Bing...the software used by the lady, whose work Graham presented a little earlier in this thread.
So he is now a Bing officianado......let's hope he doesn't start to sing White Christmas.
What is clear is that Microsoft Bing is waaaaaay ahead of Photoshop, and it's FREE!
It also answers to some extent the question about whether these images are derived from photos. In the case of Adobes offering, Firefly, they actually state they have a massive library of images it uses. Some may be illustrations but a lot are actual stock free photos. These find significant use in replacing photo backgrounds with different photo backgrounds but when it comes to more creative compilations I don't think it's in the same league as BING. I don't know if Bing uses stock photos in the same way or at all?
Generally speaking, I still believe AI has got to learn about natural imperfections.
All the images seem to be too perfect and it's that very fact that makes them unrealistic (to my eye at least) and as such NOT direct competition for photographs.
It's a fascinating area of artistic development. Whether photographers will decide this is the direction they want to go, remains to be seen.
Personally I am happy to continue 'seeing things I want to capture' as opposed to 'imagining things I want to create'.
....but I could have done with Bing et al in my graphic design years! It would have saved me hours and hours of Illustrator work.
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