Alright, it’s best for us to put a disclaimer here: a computer is not spitting out actual human people. It’s simply portraits. Although the idea of an AI actually generating living creatures is terrifying, and sounds like the next big sci-fi series (or book, we’re not picky).
Midjourney is an AI image generator that is capable of creating ultra-photorealistic images. Photographer Mario Cavalli decided to play with this application, and subsequently released a set of images that certainly took us by surprise.
These photographs feel like a memento of a lost period of time, as they showcase different portraits of people in very realistic moments and poses. One would think they’re actually real.
According to Cavalli, these images were straight from the machine learning tool. No Photoshop was required to make them stand out. “Midjourney v4 came out recently, I think it is currently the best [image generator] around,” Cavalli shared to PetaPixel, praising the quality of the generated photographs.
In order to get these wonderful, hyper-realistic results the photographer built on and adapted text prompts created by Everton Lisboa and Ben Roffelson. These words are used in tools such as Midjourney to describe what image the user wants. For reference, Cavalli used the phrases “sharp focus,” “10mm lens,” and “wet collodion photography.”
Image credit: Mario Cavalli on Midjourney
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