Computer-generated real estate agents.
This image appeared on a website, clearly generated by AI (Artificial Intelligence), the scary computer trend where software thinks, creates, and sometimes acts for itself. These are not copies of photos but inventions of the AI programming that scans through billions of photographs and artwork, making images based on this “knowledge”. This is how humans appear to an algorithm. At least for the moment.
Even when they get better at faking us, the software sees us as a list of attributes built on a set of numbers. Beauty, nature, aesthetics, enjoyment — these are all aspects of human nature that a machine can’t comprehend.
When you see these images you realize this is how your computer perceives you. It also suggests how images will be faked and we can be manipulated.
Available as a print.
This is all very worrying and makes me want to stay away from technology. Who and what can we trust?
Meanwhile here’s a nice still life to cheer you up. Lmc