At the Dawn of a New Age in Art

My friend Jason Scott and I have been friends since 5th grade–that’s over 40 years–and during that time Jason has continually introduced me to, and shared with me, the latest in computer technology.

The other day, Jason shared with me some art that he’d created using an artificial intelligence (AI) art engine called Stable.Diffusion and a plugin called Dreambooth. He showed me about a dozen portraits the program had generated of him.

Intrigued, I mentioned offhand that I wouldn’t mind seeing a few of myself. So, using 30 images of my face (taken from previous photos), he input them into the AI engine. The next day he sent me a link to 60 images, and the next day he sent me a link to another 100. Each piece of art, he said, takes the engine about 10 seconds to render. The following are just some of the results. I have to tell you, I am blown away by the results.