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Whatβs interesting to me here is that both the big name pop stars, Lizzo and Harry Styles, are actually less detailed illustration styles and less accurate representations than the images of serial killer Harold Shipman and internet viral video sensation Ronnie Pickering.   @matt this doesn't surprise me one bit - if the AI is using a corpus of photos from news websites in the UK there are going to be far more of criminals (Pickering has been arrested and put before Court at least once in recent years) than of pop stars, as this is the greater balance of content in our news (fuelled by the algorithms carefully monitoring what gets "engagement"). @vfrmedia Umm, but the internet has a million more pictures of Harry Styles than Harold Shipman. But I guess thatβs also the point; too much selection confuses it slightly? Maybe. @matt but is the AI using the "whole internet", or a limited/curated source of photos including UK news sources? (presumably it has to comply with some copyright agreements?) There's also a whole load of "true crime" blogs that repeat all the major cases from UK with photos, we don't have as strict privacy laws as other Northern European nations and crime reporting is very popular here (if asked, I could probably name and recognise more criminals than modern pop stars..) @vfrmedia I wonder if thereβs even restrictions legally on what the AI can learn fromβ¦ Copyright wouldnβt cover it, surely? I mean itβs not like the bot recreates an image - just might use it as a reference before it spits out any pixels. Thereβs so much I donβt know about this stuff. π₯² 
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@n Birmingham?! I thought he operated in the North West. Never thought he was doing his thing in Brum. @matt I looked it up and have no idea how I got this in my head, apparently he'd a real dude too |
Ronnie Pickering β generated by #midjourney