KARYN EASTON
Mar 03
by Karyn in Ai, Opportunities, Threats, Unit 3 Blogs 0 comments tags: ai, opportunities, threats, Unit 3 Blogs

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Ameca Voice Cloning – There doesn’t seem to be a day going by that doesn’t involve a new announcement about advances in AI.  I wholeheartedly believe that all artists should make themselves fully aware of both the opportunities and threats presented by this. Ameca is a highly advanced robot that I mentioned in my research paper.  Even since writing that paper things have substantially moved on.  Below is a short clip of Ameca speaking using the voices of famous people.  In my opinion to say that we are rapidly approaching a ‘post truth society’ is an understatement.  I think it’s already here.  
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Nov 05
by Karyn in Ai, Ai Chat, Books, Evaluations, Ideas, My Learning, My Work, Polls and Surveys, Problem Solving, Research, Research Paper Journey, Supervisor Meetings, Threats, Unit 2 Blogs 0 comments tags: Ai Chat, Books, Evaluations, Ideas, My Learning, my work, Polls and Surveys, Problem Solving, Research, Research Paper Journey, Supervisor Meetings, threats, Unit 2 Blogs

Research Paper Thoughts and Background

Research Paper 3 – Thoughts, Background and Final Version That’s it – no more!  Yesterday and today became the ‘final straw’ with my research paper!  Why? Because yesterday my ‘dying’ on its ‘last legs’ MacBook Pro decided that it was going to literally lose all of my research papers and drafts.  I know it’s somewhat unbelievable but this actually happened! Months of hard work seemed to have disappeared in front of my eyes.  The files were no longer there!  I tried opening programs that I had used to construct the last version of my paper, but it was always the same message ‘File cannot be found’. I even convinced my self that there was some evil hacker trying to sabotage my work, that’s how upset I was.  At one point I even thought I must be having a nightmare and that I would wake up soon. As I had been editing the document in Adobe’s PDF editing program I thought to myself, ‘Ha’ there will be a copy stored in Adobe’s creative cloud.  So, feeling somewhat smug, I looked at my recent documents there, only to discover that on opening my research paper it gave an error message saying ‘bad […]
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Sep 20
by Karyn in Ai, My Work, Opportunities, Patterns, Threats, Unit 2 Blogs 0 comments tags: ai, my work, opportunities, threats, Unit 2 Blogs

The Robots Are Here

Doom and Gloom or Hybrid Art Opportunity? – Love it or hate it – the robots are here!  Below is a selection of robots generated as a visual experiment.  No two robots are the same.  Each one has its own unique character.  They are all bringing balloons as a gift.  There are seventy of them in total, although more were generated.  They are all a by product of my research paper.  They were fun to generate and I’ll just leave them here.    
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Oct 24
by Karyn in Ai, Experimentation, My Work, Risk Taking, Threats, Videos 0 comments tags: ai, Experimentation, my work, Risk Taking, threats, Videos

Ai on the March

Saving Assets for Later – In the process of experimenting with Ai text to image, I generated a number of stills documented in my post Human Coding and Ai Generated Imagery for Animation.  Currently I am waiting for some ‘Chladni’ equipment arriving from Ireland.  Therefore, instead of wasting time, I decided to experiment with some of the small animations I made in that post.   Video 1. A combination of Clips The video below was a composite of all of the short clips I generated from my software tutorial. I like the fluid motion of the clips and the way they spread. I feel this could be a visual metaphor for the relentless spread of Ai into our lives.   Video 2. Ai from an Early Age The video below is an experiment moving on from video 1.  I added an iPad and a cake and candle.  This represents the march of Ai from an increasingly early age.   Video 3. Ai on the March This was my preferred video from the series of experiments.  It is a simple video short exploring the tentacle like spread of images across a screen.  The calming music to each video is there to […]
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Oct 21
by Karyn in Ai, Experimentation, My Work, Risk Taking, Timelapse, Videos 0 comments tags: ai, Experimentation, my work, Risk Taking, threats, Timelapse, Videos

Human Coding and Ai Generated Imagery for Animation

A Steep Learning Curve – Since learning all about text to image Ai technology, I decided to explore it further.  Ai seems to be everywhere – if it were a living creature, I would liken it to one with tentacles – perhaps an octopus or a squid?  It might also be likened to a tree with branches sprawling everywhere and with increasing speed crawls further into our lives.  I suspect it will become ever more pervasive and how it is used, either for good or ill, will be down to us all.  Running with the idea that Ai has tentacles and or branches, I decided to try a text prompt to see what Ai made of the request.  I used ‘Tentacles, Branches, Network  and Fractals’ as my main prompt.  All of the images below were created from this text. I was pleased with the images above because I was looking for a good example image for a new visual programming tutorial I wanted to try.  The tutorial was about generating a growing image.  The tentacle-like images above seemed perfect for this, especially in relation to my thoughts about the tentacle nature of Ai. Below is the image that I chose […]
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Oct 18
by Karyn in Ai, My Work, Videos 0 comments tags: ai, my work, opportunities, threats, Videos

Risk Taking

Where Ai Isn’t? – At the moment it feels as if the tentacles of Ai text to image are reaching further and further into our artistic lives. As artists this poses both opportunities and threats.  Opportunities come from the ease of image to text generation.  Threats arise from the ‘cheapening’ of images, as anyone can produce beautiful imagery at the touch of a button. The whole Ai text to image debate has certainly changed my approach to working.  I am now very mindful that anything I produce can be easily replicated with little or no creative input.  In order to combat this I began to think about scenarios where Ai text to image in the art world is not yet fully residing.  Some of these areas included:   Where human interaction is required to initiate a response. Where photography is used as a historical tool for accurately representing the past The documentation of time as in time lapse photography In art and craft based physical structures In the unseen or the hidden (if Ai can’t see it, how can it replicate it?).   The first area on the list was where human interaction was required to initiate a response.  I […]
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Oct 16
by Karyn in Ai, Introduction, My Work 0 comments tags: ai, Introduction, opportunities, threats

Art Without Meaning is Decoration!

Decoration – a Form of Meaningless Art? – In my last post titled ‘If I want Blue Bananas, I’ll have them’ I explored the ease of image generation using the new text to image tools from Midjourney, Dalle and Dalle 2.  Indeed it would be very easy for me as an artist to take my existing body of work and create myself a whole new portfolio based on it.  Below are some random examples of work generated using Dalle 2.  I took some existing images, uploaded them to the Ai software and it ‘spat out’ the following pieces of work.  However, the question in my mind is are the new images devalued by the use of Ai? Initially my work was an exploration of oil on water with light.  The concept was about whether or not beauty could be found by mixing substances that typically repelled each other.  I was fascinated by the way the oil lit up once light was added to it.  This, for me, was like a metaphor for society.  Anyone who is a fan of social media knows how savage it can sometimes be.  I’ve heard Twitter likened to one big long shouting match. Having tried […]
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Oct 14
by Karyn in Abstract Art, Ai, Introduction, My Work 0 comments tags: Abstract Art, ai, Introduction, my work, opportunities, threats

Art and Ai

Has Ai Killed Art? – Ai or Artificial Inteligence/Machine Learning has been around for a while now, but never has it’s presence been more keenly felt than in and around the Creative Arts. Producing imagery was once the domain of illustrators and graphic designs.  Now it appears that everyone with a computer/tablet/smartphone and a connection to Dalle and Midjourney can produce the most amazing images. At first as a photographer I didn’t feel particularly threatened by ai.  I suspected that what I was producing was safe for a while and that everyone would always need good photographers?  As a simple test I ran a text prompt through Midjourney  – a text to image ai generator. The results to me seemed less than impressive.  Below is an example of what I do and what ai thinks I do.  To generate the image below I used the text prompt “Oil on Water”.     I decided to give the ai a second attempt.  Although the result was better, it was still significantly different from the kind of imagery that I was producing.  Below is the second time I ran the prompt ‘oil on water’.     Fortunately or unfortunately depending upon a […]
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