Throughout social media, numerous creators are producing nostalgic pictures of China with the assistance of AI. Despite the fact that these pictures get some particulars mistaken, they’re life like sufficient to trick and impress lots of their followers.
The photographs look subtle by way of definition, sharpness, saturation, and shade tone. Their realism is partly all the way down to a current main replace of image-making artificial-intelligence program Midjourney that was launched in mid-March, which is best not solely at producing human arms but additionally at simulating varied pictures types.
It’s nonetheless comparatively straightforward, even for untrained eyes, to inform that the photographs are generated by an AI. However for some creators, their experiments are extra about making an attempt to recall a selected period in time than making an attempt to trick their viewers. Learn the complete story.
—Zeyi Yang
Zeyi’s story is from China Report, his weekly publication providing you with the within monitor on tech in China. Enroll to obtain it in your inbox each Tuesday.
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