What does Ai Know?

Posted byandytree101Posted inAi, Comment

I always hear doom and gloom in the same breath that Ai is mentioned. People loosing jobs, a feature film just withdrawn because it was the first entirely written by Ai, and so on. I’ve written before, in my word I work with a photocopier that can’t even work out if a PDF is landscape or portrait format by itself yet, so I can’t say I feel threatened! For a little light relief on the subject, I’ve been playing with “Bing Image Creator” recently for fun. My understanding is that it has the entire web to access for information. So with that in mind I asked it to create “Person working in a photographic darkroom” –

Some observations:

3 out of the 4 have windows!

Not one shows an enlarger (I tried adding this but it was apparently “inappropriate!”)

3 out of 4 have Beret’s! (Obviously must get one)

All people featured are young.

None of them are actually doing anything!

3 out of 4 show bellows cameras

All have a red theme

None show any chemicals

… so if Ai (Bing Image creator) has the entire web to access, what are we publishing as photo enthusiasts/darkroom users that causes this to be so?

Did you know that the first traces of the Beret are from the Bronze Age in Italy and Denmark? Beret facts here! 🙂

7 thoughts on “What does Ai Know?”

  1. One of the band leaders I play for hates Englebert Humpadink. Personally I think he deserves at least some credit for still making recordings in his 80s and sounding ok (and looking better than I do..) I needed to send her a song to listen to, so just to wind her up I sent her a ‘Humperdink’ version. The I Internet has now decided I am a Humperdink fan and I am constantly ‘recommended’ EH songs all the time, everywhere I visit. My YouTube feed is saturated with Englebert 😡

    I digress. A while back I made the big mistake of searching for an ‘enlarger’. Alas, I didn’t specify ‘photographic’ enlarger. The Internet has bee trying to persuade me to enhance certain parts of my anatomy ever since 🤬🤬🤬🤬

    Might explain why your enlarger request was ‘inappropriate’ 🙄

    I posted on a food channel the other day that was discussing haggis and other food made from offal. I replied saying I loved faggots and gravy, especially with mushy peas and mash. My comment was automatically deleted and I received a warning saying if I continued using offensive language my account would be terminated!
    That was YouTube…

    That is the trouble with AI – it isn’t always very intelligent 😵‍💫

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    1. Lol – It’s a mad world! So intent on selling us “stuff” that the mere mention of interest in something opens a floodgate of unwanted adverts. So intent on being politically correct for fear of being sued, that it restricts the use of words without considering context. Mind you banning “the food product known as faggots” is fine with me, and as for Haggis, I’ve heard they are related to Guinea Pigs 🙂

      Why as soon as I type “Guinea Pigs” does EH singing Release Me pop into my brain? 🙂

      Cheers and best wishes Andy

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  2. It(s not there yet, but it’s slowly getting there. When I use one of the programmes then You can tell how it has been been programmed; I’m thinking a certain political bias of Gemini. If it does use the web to find it’s information then the Internet is less useful than we have been led to believe. At best its critical thinking skills are questionable. And when you read at the bottom of each prompt that you have to go and check the facts yourself, I can hear alarm bells ringing. It’s not a perfect tool, and it doesn’t have all the answers. But it’s trying hard to please…
    Maybe it’s not its answers but the way we formulate our questions that is at fault. It needs clear instructions, and context. It answers the way a programmer would ask a question, and not us mere mortals…

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    1. Hello Ian! Sorry for the long delay in response! Your comments made me think of several things: your comment on how useful the internet is, well I’ve thought for a long time about 50% less than most people think, IMHO! Despite it allows us to do this, there is now so much advertising, adverts pretending to be news, and downright rubbish that I’ve given up visiting some sites – I just can’t be bothered with it! Having to check facts ourselves, it always amazes me that (especially younger colleagues) who take something they read on Twitter, or X I suppose I should now call it, (no I don’t tweet, I’m not a bird!) as unquestioned truth, even though it could be written by any nutter out there! My usual response is “Where is that info coming from..?” With regard to asking the right questions, you are of course quite right, but then again I remember one of my early bosses favourite quotes “There are no stupid questions – just bad answers!” and it also reminds that instruction books are written by people who know how to use the item in question – they need a luddite like me to help them 🙂 Cheers Andy

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      1. I’ve seen hiw it has evolved over the 25 odd years that I’ve been passionate about it. I think it is a perfect reflection on humanity, with the worst of humanity. You mention adverts, the drivel that is out there, and the manipulation of stupid people. However, I’m fully convinced that it also shows the best of humanity. I’m thinking citizen journalism, the campaigns for the good of humanity, and the only caveat that I would issue is that you need the ability to think critically. If it’s too good to be true, then it probably is too good to be true. And manipulation of the masses us nothing new. You just have to look at the Sun that got Maggie reelected in the 1980s. It’s just another media that needs good amd intelligent people to spread that message. It’s not all bad, and can be very wonderful.

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      2. Hi Ian! All of which of course is quite true. I’ve learned much from the net, with regard to photography, I can also spot, slightly poor advice, and also down right wrong information from “experts” who either should know better and/or should gain much more experience before they try to “educate” others. That said there is also some truly great stuff out there. One in particular springs to mind, who’s book I have recently obtained (more to come on that in future posts), and certainly the net gives an audience for the good stuff too. Not long ago I watched over an hour long You Tube presentation by Fred Picker, what a knowledgeable guy! One has to be one’s own filter!! It also gives me an outlet for a bit of writing and more importantly an audience for my photography. I learn everyday!! Cheers Andy

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