Playing with AI

[OKW Lover]

I got caught up with the rush to everything AI. Decided to play a bit with some of my pictures just to see what it could do.
Using ChatGPT I gave it this image:



and this instruction:
Make this image look like it was taken at night. Add a spotlight effect
Which gave me this result:



Anybody else trying significant edits using AI? What product do you use?

 

[klmall]

I enjoy seeing some of what is created for fun using AI as done above but I am such a realist that I can find it confusing and disappointing especially when not initially stated as such. I have occasionally used AI in Photoshop and Topaz products but try not to rely on them. It's an exciting time and I wonder what lies next!

 

[hardcorestitch]

AI better not replace real photography *sighs*

 

[OKW Lover]

Anther experiment. I started with this picture
And told ChatGPT "Make this image look like it was taken at night. There should be lights in the windows and a crescent moon in the sky"

The result

 

[OKW Lover]

Also seeing what AI can do with this picture:

I asked ChatGPT "Use this picture as the basis for a highly detailed hdr image": and got this result:

 

[OKW Lover]

Changed this picture to an HDR version:

 

[jec6613]

I use effectively zero AI, at least in the common parlance used nowadays with LLMs and generative AI - things like turning something into, "HDR," involves inventing detail that wasn't there based on a prediction algorithm, and isn't actually high dynamic range. In both of the examples above you can see detail in the generative AI that isn't there in the original image.

I do use machine learning fairly extensively to de-noise some very high ISO, Kodak's ICE technology, and obviously ML algorithms make autofocus basically magic nowadays, but we've had earlier versions of all of that since the 1980s.

Below is an example of a single image I took a couple of weeks ago with more dynamic range than even the two examples above had in either their original or generative versions, and the camera still has several times more dynamic range with real detail in the raw file I generated this from. Nothing AI, just look at it at 100% and you can see the grit in the concrete.


PS: serious bonus points if you can name where this is from. And, no, it's not Disney related, just a picture I had to hand.