Adverts for AI that can "bring your old photos to life" are all over the place at the moment. And I scoffed at the obviously-not-really-animating-old-photos videos the ads showcase... but I couldn't resist trying it out on one of the sites that lets you get a free sample without openly harvesting your personal data and using it to take over the world. I stuck in the oldest photo I'd got on my laptop...
... And what came out is, I have to admit, a work of true wonder!
Yes, it doesn't look remotely like Granddad (the years really fall off him as he walks along!), and there's weird stuff going on with the hands, and what's with the woman in the trouser suit it invents in the background, and yes, AI art is a terrible thing and should be destroyed by fire - but I'm really impressed by this! Cleethorpes in 1950 brought to life, albeit a scary artificial fictional kind of life!
It's fun to play with, and I don't honestly care as much as I probably should about helping to train AI to take over the world. It'll be a visually interesting kind of world, at least.
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It's always nice to see jugs at the seaside. Send a postcard home from Cleethorpes!
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