Photography

Reading Time: 11 minutesCreate art from your likeness with Dreambooth and Stable Diffusion on Google Colab. What happens when you train the AI image generator on hundreds of snapshots?

Reading Time: 8 minutesCreate art from your likeness with Dreambooth and Stable Diffusion on Google Colab. You can do this yourself. It is free and easy on an ordinary computer.

Reading Time: 8 minutesAI generated faces look amazingly real but are entirely synthetic. More figurative images seem to possess the same sensibility and style as those of well-known artists. Others present the format and perspective and scale of common art forms like character design and movie concept art. The cliché is, “I don’t know what art is, but I know it when I see it.” With AI generated images, people are seeing it a whole lot of images they like. But is it really art? I tried creating a self-portrait to answer the question.