IS A PHOTO worth a thousand words if they are all lies?
The photo by Boris Eldagsen that won the Sony World Photography Award is a beautiful, haunting photo but it’s a fake done by AI (artificial intelligence).
Although it appears that AI can produce beauty, can it produce original works?
By its own nature it is artificial and so are its thoughts as it, like ChatGPT, scans all of the electronically recorded information and builds using existing blocks, or in less polite terms, it steals.
It might be possible to fake a van Gogh so long as you have all of the known examples and a big tin of yellow paint but not the soul that made it.
It would be fun to create my own fake life with constructed photos of myself on the wall with numerous famous people, although dead as they couldn’t then inform on me.
Maybe it’s time for people to get a life and a real one even if it is a bit boring.
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Cap this
While reading one of numerous reviews of the show “Succession”, a show I love, I found one that commented on the clothes they were wearing.
The character Kendall Roy was wearing a brand of waterproof baby cashmere basketball cap, the brand was one I am unfamiliar with, but it did look nice.
The part that didn’t look nice was the price for the cap of £535 or US$660 which seems a lot even for a billionaire.
For me, it seems that spending more than a week’s wages on anything but a suit is wasteful. There are so many people wearing recycled or hand-me-down clothes that a better approach is needed.
There seem to be few realistic ways to feed and clothe the world but maybe a few less billionaires, apparently there are about 3000 of them, and a lot more people getting enough food to eat would be a start.
We all want the naked truth but a few more clothes might help to shield a lot of people. (dfitzger@melbpc.org.au)/PN
