One response to “Merry Christmas 2023”

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   jph

   12/13/2023

   

   So, I have yet to use AI to create any of my holiday cards – any part of or the whole image. But this article (below) got me wondering if others are doing so. And whether the process is ready for “mere mortals” – in this case, involving 3 commercial (paid) AI programs and a learning curve.

   • Washington Post > “My AI Christmas card is totally fake — but the joy is real” by Geoffrey A. Fowler (December 13, 2023) – Making an AI Christmas card helped me see not only the limitations of AI, but also its possibilities.

   … when has the holiday card, that stressful annual performance of family joy, been entirely about reality?

   AI selfie-generating app Lensa added a Christmas option that lets you transform yourself into a snow bunny or hunky Santa. And Coca-Cola has a website where you can use a version of OpenAI’s DALL-E image generator to make the soda brand’s classic Santa do whatever you want …

   While making my Christmas card, biases baked into AI software reared their ugly head … Yet it’s also true that my final product was a total delight. . [although] Making my Christmas card with AI was a lot of work [$49 and a lot of free time].

   DALL-E won’t intentionally let you re-create the likeness of a real person, a guardrail against deepfakes … I turned to a dedicated AI avatar program to make my family’s faces, the Lensa app.