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HUMAN vs AI
So AI seems to have rapidly become the new latest and greatest thing (not convinced about that yet!). New innovations seem to be coming thick and fast and cutting edge innovations are continually being rolled out. With that in mind, I decided to test AI against one of my ‘hand crafted’ digital surreal images called ‘The Perception of Hope‘. You can see the results side-by-side in the comparison above. I deliberately chose a more difficult composition with a number of elements.
It is also worth noting, as will all the AI generated images on this site, I present the AI image as it was output with no post processing or further editing to change things or remove anomalies. I have chosen to keep true to the AI original output from a prompt.
Of course, I have to caveat this all by saying that my photomontage and digital editing skills are probably far superior to my prompting skills, so the comparison will be bias towards the experience I have with non AI digital art. My original digital image (see above on the left) was made using ‘traditional’ methods of photomontage techniques, layers, blending and editing and took a number of hours to manipulate.
The AI version (on the right) took much less time to create, but still many prompt rewrites and edits as well as discarded generations before I settled on the final one you can see above. In the end I found AI was unable to completely place all the elements in the image realistically to make sense in the overall composition. Sometimes it omits whole objects, and as you can see in the AI image generates anomalies and random shapes. This may well have been caused, at least partly, by my level of prompting expertese and the AI generative model I was using. A more experienced prompt engineer with a different or more defined AI learning model might well be able to achieve some better results.
It will perhaps be interesting to revisit this again in the future to find out how much progress has been made.
I have included larger versions of both images below so you can see the details a bit better and compare what went well and what didn’t go so well.
The Perception of Hope – human creation
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