Getting By With a Little Help From AI
posted by ModeratorFiled under: Co-option (If You Can't Beat 'Em...), Illusion and Magic, Prank News
Who gets the credit?
Viral “Photographer” Reveals His Images Were AI-Generated, Rhea Nayyar, Hyperallergic.com, Feb 27, 2023
Jos Avery had told his followers he used a Nikon D810 to take his distinctive black-and-white portraits.
Jos Avery was surprised when his portraiture account amassed nearly 30,000 followers in just five months. The self-described photographer primarily posted heavily retouched black-and-white portraits accompanied by fictional stories about the subjects to @averyseasonart. But Avery recently came clean and told the world that his “photos” were actually generated by Midjourney, a text prompt-based artificial intelligence image-generation program. Read the rest of the article here.
