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27 People That Have Never Existed, Captured With AI By Dimitar Karanikolov In His Photography Series Imaginary Shamans
Interview With Artist
With AI on the rise, we see more and more artwork made with the help of description-based software. It is amazing what our words can create, and it is interesting to think that good writing someday might overcome photography. Obviously, you wouldn't be able to capture true moments that happened, but you can very well create images of events and people that have never existed.
Dimitar Karanikolov, an architect, who has gained a lot of attention through his photographs, has also released a series of photographic portraits of shamans and healers from different parts of the world called Imaginary Shamans. In this series, you will see realistic-looking images of people that are not real. As Dimitar described, this is "AI travel photography".
To understand more about what goes into a description to make such detailed imagery, Bored Panda got in touch with the author. See the interview below and let us know in the comments how these pictures make you feel, Pandas.
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Virgil Blue 3 years ago
"I'm an artist" and "I created this via AI" will never sit well with me. AI art kind of disgusts me at the moment since the programmers essentially stole the images the things was trained on without bothering to ask permission. It's really scummy. Sites like Deviantart and software like Clip Studio paint are under fire because they decided to just opt in all of their users in the AI they were generating. Clip Studio has apologised and removed the AI altogether and DA now auto opts out new art.
A B C the Third 3 years ago
This, so much this. Plus, the "artist" doesn't do any art at all, they throw some buzzwords at the AI and publish the results. Much art, very work, so wow.
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Holly Stevens 3 years ago
Sooooooooo, you just generated fake people using photos of real people that now will not get their names or faces recognized, seems like the last thing indigenous people need right now
Well-Dressed Wolf 3 years ago
That is the FIRST thing I thought! How incredibly disrespectful to indigenous peoples of the world to throw out “fake” and “made-up” versions of them that do NOT reflect the depth of their culture or traditions! Slap some face paint marking and feathers on a brown face - it’s a Native American!! Slap some scarification and paint on a black face - it’s a native African!! How shameful to do this and act like you did something amazing.
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Cassi Lyris 3 years ago
These are all incredible people, sure wish I knew the ACTUAL HUMAN BEINGS AND CULTURES THEY'RE ACTUALLY BASED ON.
Virgil Blue 3 years ago
"I'm an artist" and "I created this via AI" will never sit well with me. AI art kind of disgusts me at the moment since the programmers essentially stole the images the things was trained on without bothering to ask permission. It's really scummy. Sites like Deviantart and software like Clip Studio paint are under fire because they decided to just opt in all of their users in the AI they were generating. Clip Studio has apologised and removed the AI altogether and DA now auto opts out new art.
A B C the Third 3 years ago
This, so much this. Plus, the "artist" doesn't do any art at all, they throw some buzzwords at the AI and publish the results. Much art, very work, so wow.
Load More Replies... Holly Stevens 3 years ago
Sooooooooo, you just generated fake people using photos of real people that now will not get their names or faces recognized, seems like the last thing indigenous people need right now
Well-Dressed Wolf 3 years ago
That is the FIRST thing I thought! How incredibly disrespectful to indigenous peoples of the world to throw out “fake” and “made-up” versions of them that do NOT reflect the depth of their culture or traditions! Slap some face paint marking and feathers on a brown face - it’s a Native American!! Slap some scarification and paint on a black face - it’s a native African!! How shameful to do this and act like you did something amazing.
Load More Replies... Cassi Lyris 3 years ago
These are all incredible people, sure wish I knew the ACTUAL HUMAN BEINGS AND CULTURES THEY'RE ACTUALLY BASED ON.
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