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.

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By Chris Orcutt

CHRIS ORCUTT is an American novelist and fiction writer with over 30 years' writing experience and more than a dozen books in his oeuvre. Since 2015, Chris been working exclusively on his magnum opus. Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome: The Legendary Adventures of Avery “Ace” Craig is a 9-episode novel about teens in the 1980s. It’s about ’80s teens, but for adults (in other words, it’s decidedly not YA literature), and he’s applied this epic storytelling approach to the least examined, most misunderstood, most marginalized narrative space in American literature: the lives and inner worlds of teenagers.

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