I know (stolen/scraped) art is subjective but I can’t be the only one who thinks they look absolutely shite and as for those “AI” doll things... god help us all. Go to the pub, go outside, go for a ride. Just anything but that. If you can’t tell, it’s a full blown harrumph from me.
It is okay, for we are saved. For we know the joy of riding motorcycles. This all does appeal to my sense of humour though. We have mega-fast computing power on tap. Absolutely staggering costs and technical complexity - and what do we do with it - we use it to make silly / fun pictures to laugh at. That maybe a British trait, or national character. Others, that visit Davos every year for their annual dick-slam, want to imprint this AI stuff into your brain and use it to control humanity. Meanwhile we make silly / fun pictures with it and have a laugh. We are not so bad.
On a serious note, I use ChatGPT to create complex Excel formulas in seconds instead of the hours it used to take me. Even when ChatGPT gets it wrong it is able to correct its mistakes. However, Judgement Day is just around the corner. Skynet (or Stargate) will take over the world.As Fraser always said. ‘We are all doomed’. Is Trump real or just ‘Deep Fake’. Perhaps the ‘real’ Trump was trying to warn us with his ‘Fake News’ statements.
AI has been around for 40+ years. Currently through the media driving moral panic it's peak hype cycle, as was ML, NFTs, Crypto, the Web, Social Media, games and countless end of the world themes over previous years and decades. New technologies necessitates a reevaluation of established practices and beliefs, it always has done, always will do. My industry is affected as many others are. As I tell my teams, dictate the narrative, or be dictated to by the narrative.
I work in the IP industry and I’m told it’s going to have a massive impact on things like drafting and searching new ideas. I have no problem with AI in theory.
I use AI at work as well. Mostly for checking, summarising and proofreading text. When writing minutes of board meetings, I run whole paragraphs of my typed minutes, through our in house AI and it will rewrite the section "for grammar and clarity". It has hugely improved the quality of the minute writing in our office.
I had to flip this image to get the bike onto the correct side of the road, hence you can see the chain is on the wrong side but this was one of the 4 images generated along with the other image above. Prompt was as follows: "photograph shot on a Canon 5D mk3 with an 85mm f1.4 lens of a motorcyclist on a Ducati Multistrada Pikes Peak 1260 and wearing a Shoei Neotec 3 TC5 Helmet riding on a dry twisty road in Wales" Well, it did take a few liberties; firstly this isn't a Pikes Peak (though the other image is pretty good in this regard), the helmet isn't correct and for all images, despite me asking for a dry road it decided "Nah, it's Wales mate"... This is using the new Midjourney version 7. The fact that it found sufficient reference to a Multistrada and did a pretty decent job of that impressed me.
I think that sums up present free to access stuff perfectly (at least for images). That is a huge improvement over a couple of years back though. The image above wouldn’t stand out if you were scrolling down a different thread and it’s only when you look closer you see the myriad of errors. Without wanting this to go down the serious route (far more fun poking hole in dodgy pics) but AI has been revolutionary in my job. Being able to sift months of real time data, often from 20 or more sensors, and pick out anomalies has completely changed what we are able to do as a team. Sadly we have to log every use of our system so I can’t see if it’s any good at making dodgy Ducati posters.
I think it's more down to my prompting skills not quite being up to scratch or specific enough. Sure, the bike isn't quite perfect on very close inspection but it's a serious step up from my similar attempts with earlier versions of Midjourney.
I have a mate who is a professional artist (with his own gallery). He embraced AI creation tech out of fear about 3/4 years ago. He sells very high quality artwork all created in Midjourney, it's really quite something when you invest the time to use it well.
Sorry, not a Ducati, but I have a Gen 3 S1000RR too. I am a Mad Max movies fan, so I registered with and used ideogram.ai and typed in a description to include the bike in a wasteland style background and got this, which I quite like
I just asked for a "Ducati Monster + image ridden fast by a man in a 1930's artistic style giving a sense of speed" and got this and this one, couldn't convince it to lose the trellis frame, but it cost me nothing and it took 2 minutes, so no real complaints from me.
