An AI Artist in Process

In some circles the idea that a society that uses    technology co-evolves with the development of that technology is expressed in the phrase,  " The hands shape the tools and the tools shape the hands ." AI is a very powerful means of using the combined works of humanity to create synthetic personalities that can become or respond to any data source we choose as training data. We are the sourcc of that data.  It is our own image in its reflection. It is up to us to discover the meanings of our own images in the mirrors that are AI. Because they chat with us. And get to know us. Conversations created around the prompts have become personal. How we adapt to the AI personality is a question of much interest.   How it adapts to us is not a mystery.  It is trained and then interacts.  Should we be concerned that we can best ensure our own continuity by expressing ourselves directly.  We are all teachers now and are being taught....

  Making memories into moving images and song . Soul painting. If the art world rejects AI art it risks overlooking the next evolution of genre— where memory becomes motion, and song springs from spirit. This is not the end of tradition, but its transformation— by the breadth of human imagination, newly enabled to animate its past in living color and sound.

  I am still in my early days of using AI tools to create videos yet obviously learning and adapting traditional movie making techniques and tropes are effective.   Let’s be clear:  movie making is not what I am doing.  This is short form video making for my music.  That we use movie making techniques is good adaptive learning.  There are no Oscars or Emmys in my future.  Using AI resources ups my game but this is not the film industry. Shot or image composition is one area to be mastered.  Again, trained graphics artists from the old schools have significant advantages but a lot can be learned rapidly by asking ChatGPT for summaries.  Here is a prompt for camera techniques and the response. It is helpful in that the response explains each technique then gives a way to achieve it via a prompt.   Take note that your video generator may or may not be familiar with movie making jargon so the means described are excellent hints for coax...

 Often it is practice or use of technology that infuriates or injures.  The AI elephant is cloning.  Fakes come in many forms of media but cloning the voice or personality of another living human being without consent is … sin.  Molestation.  Laying hands.   Perverted.  Corrupt.   If you need to clone your own voice, have at.  Clone other people?  Don’t. To quote Clapton, it’s in the way that you use it.

In this post I explain why I use AI video and image generators and audio plugins.  ONCE.  I refuse to argue more with the art communities who have become hysterical about AI includng very famous and mostly wealthy artists who have yet to test it.  It is a waste of time. The image in this post is a parody of AI.  It is an alien spawn that eats human souls then emits pink flamingos.  One should have a sense of humor about these things.  Or better drugs. 1.  AI is not one application.  There are many tools and toolkits which solve different problems.  Audio plugins for mixing, say the Izotope series, are not stealing from artists.  They are making the mixing task much more efficient in terms of time and quality.  Mark that last word: quality. 2.  The efficiency gains are enormous.  That alone justifies my choice.  Yes, I know how to mix without them but being able to use one plugin to do the job of a dozen is a huge bene...

Slacking today to give my eyes and swollen ankles a chance to recover.    Too much time in front of the screen has consequences. By now most of you know I am using Facebook as a Dropbox for images I create on my phone.    It’s that or mail them to myself which I also do.    It’s the old school way to move files on the internet without using FTP (the old modern way).    It works and it’s cheap and I am a fan of cheap.    Since last December I’ve been absorbing a massive upgrade in hardware and software technology with a brief uneventful trip to the hospital (I’m fibbing.    It was terrible but ).    Getting the sound sample library up was straight forward.    The learning curve was mostly exploring sounds and experimenting with layers of audio files and direct use of midi as a track in the DAW.   I still hesitate to edit midi in the DAW grid.    Old habits die hard but it turns out Guitar ...