Night Cafe founder Angus Russell said: "Five years ago, People were saying AI would take over the borings jobs, but things that require creativity will be safe for a long time.
“But it’s turned out the exact opposite. Creative jobs and knowledge-based work could be the earliest things to be replaced.”
Dr David Gyimah is an associate professor of innovation at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism and is impressed by the hyper-realism of these images.
“Everything that you would expect of a good photograph is there,” he said.
“There’s nothing in these in these images that could lead you to believe that they were generated in any other way [such as AI].”
I think you can tell, but maybe I’m kidding myself?
Human beings are very finely tuned to perceptions of human faces and if it is slightly off, even maybe being too perfect, we get the “Uncanny Valley” effect which makes us uneasy or revolted, even though we don’t know why
Part of me does find those pictures a bit repulsive?
Even when you use AI to enhance photos of real people it can be creepy, I think
My friend won’t mind me showing you this one, it’s been all over Facebook and his only concern is that he might have broken my camera! Such a lovely lad
The first is as it took, the second AI enhanced and I still think it’s a bit eerie
I think the public should be consulted on whether we want such developments. It’s unethical, threatens national security and should only be allowed if the public agree. There’s a cost/benefit in AI and other technological developments. If the cost to humanity outweighs benefits then what is the point?
It’s that your brain, programmed very accurately to pick up on human faces, registers them not being real, or “normal” and not quite right
And then evolutionary instincts kicks in to protect you from “other” and something about these AI pictures created completely artificially repulses you, even if you don’t know they’re AI
I do find them a bit horrible, even though I couldn’t say why
That fake pic of a baby peacock reminds me of those hideous Disney-like caricatures of young creatures - the ratio of eye-size to body size is grossly exaggerated in those Disney cartoon-type images (not to mention the highly improbable colours of the plumage when common sense tells you that the survival of vulnerable young creatures usually depends on camouflage and blending in with their surroundings!)
Oddly enough, I find that young children are often very attracted to those impossible Disney-type cartoon-like images of baby creatures - the enlarged size ratio of eyes & head to body tends to bring out the parenting instinct for most creatures but these Disney-type caricatures exaggerate to the point of grotesque, in my opinion.
However, kids seem to love them! - we sell loads of small soft toys which have that impossible huge-eyed, brightly coloured look. Whatever type of creature they are - birds, animals, sea creatures, reptiles, dinosaurs - they all have those grotesquely exaggerated eyes and colours.
