Hands #1 #2 and Alleys #1
Added 2023-10-07 17:50:45 +0000 UTCHands #1 -- In attempting to generate a closeup of a single hand, I shockingly (for 1.5) get an excellent depiction of a hand itself with the correct number of fingers. And yet, other hands, like spectral forces reaching up from the depths of the A.I. engine, reach out after it. What if the cursed hands we experience in AI art aren't because the model is failing to generate them, but rather because there are ghosts in the machine, reaching in, trying to subsume or overtake our idea of the natural?
Hands #2 -- We've all seen endless generations with "too many fingers" by now. Yet what strikes me about this one is the way the figure seems to be slamming the hand down onto a bed or pillow, as though the figure is aware they are deformed--this isn't a failed generation of too many fingers, this is an accurate depiction of a person WITH too many fingers...
Alleys #1 -- A menacing figure looms over an alleyway. We could look at this and say that it looks like cover art for an anime or a manga, evoking the feeling of the world and depicting a main character... but we don't have to imagine it as such. We could alternatively see this as a literal depiction of a massive giant, like a figure from Attack on Titan, looming over the alleyways of this city.
