I asked Meta.ai to imagine Austin in the 1920s, in watercolor. It has a lot of mistakes that a human artist would never make, but I wish Austin still looked like this. Bring back the trolleys!

S Koren

That’s the thing with imagination. It’s subject to interpretation. What you wanted was ‘your’ image of Austin in 1920. If I were an AI, I would have produced an image of Steve Austin ($6M Man) in his 20s. ;) Does that mean the AI has an imagination? No. But it does interpret based on its learning biases.

Manton Reece

@Archimage Ha! It is really fascinating to think about.

S Koren

If I make someone think, I have succeeded. ;)

S Koren

What happens if you ask an AI to generate a picture of Steve Austin? Whether it uses the character, or the wrestler tells you about the biases of the AI’s developers.

Brian Jones

A history project I worked on a few years ago has a lot of photos of Austin in the 1930’s… local-memory.org/athens-on…

Rene van Belzen

This AI generated image supposedly took as much energy as charging the depleted battery of your phone. We really need analog computing to make genAI greener.

Manton Reece @manton
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