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Emperor's Chinese Cameras; Will Artificial Intelligence Eventually Fool Us All?

Emperor’s Chinese Cameras; Will Artificial Intelligence Eventually Fool Us All?

Fake Story And Images With Artificial Intelligence Is The Implemented Idea Of ​​The French Photographer Who Was Able To Deceive A Large Number Of Users.

As we witness the advancement of artificial intelligence, the days will soon come when we can no longer believe anything we see on the internet.

You stare at a picture of a disenfranchised Victorian woman and wonder what happened to this woman looking so sadly into the camera. As you’re scrolling and lamenting that sad look, you realize that it’s an image made by an artist working with artificial intelligence. You were thinking about someone’s world that never existed.

This time you calm yourself down and promise to look more carefully at the pictures next time and not be fooled by these fake photos.

People who never existed; Portraits produced with artificial intelligence

People who never existed; Portraits produced with artificial intelligence

An artist used the latest version of Midjourney’s AI imager to create hyperreal images of people in the 19th century.

The following week you are browsing the news and the latest when suddenly you see the most beautiful cameras you have ever seen. As you read the story of the cameras, you think how nice it would be to afford one. Then, reviewing the current situation, you convince yourself that these cameras are not very good.

Midjourney AI-powered cameras

You scroll with these imaginations and a longing heart. If you are lucky enough to read the text to the end between seeing the images (we don’t mean the texts between the shutters!), you will realize that you have been tricked by artificial intelligence again. This time you will be both happy and sad; glad that you don’t need to think about having one of these cameras anymore and sorry that you fell into this trap again. This is where you start thinking about the more significant issue: Will artificial intelligence take reality away from us?

Midjourney AI-powered cameras

Matthew Stern is a photographer who created these fancy cameras using Mid journey and then applied the necessary changes in Photoshop.

Users of AI image generators write text messages to describe the image they want to see. Matthew also says that this generation of Mid journeys is high-speed, but creating a good command takes time. The trial and error part can take hours.

Matthew used another AI program called ChatGPT, an AI chatbot, to help write a compelling story for the cameras.

Midjourney AI-powered cameras

The French photographer says that the general idea of ​​the story was his own, but ChatGPT’s language learning model helped make it more like a complete story with a better structure.

The joint story of the robot and the photographer says that these historic cameras belonged to the Chinese emperor Qianlong, the absolute ruler of the Qing Dynasty, who became fascinated by the art of photography.

He was particularly fascinated by the intricacies of cameras and the beautiful images they produced.

The emperor was so fond of being photographed that he ordered his best artisans to make a porcelain camera.

Artisans worked tirelessly to create a masterpiece that would please the emperor. Using the finest kaolin clay and the most delicate designs, they carefully handcraft every single part of the camera. When the camera was finished, it was terrific. The blue and white porcelain glistened in the light, and the designs and intricate details oozed wit.

The emperor, who was very happy to see the camera, immediately ordered his court photographer to take pictures of him and his court. The resulting images were stunning, and the emperor was so pleased with the camera that he ordered several more for his court photographers. This is how Chinese cameras symbolized the Chinese emperor’s love for photography.

Midjourney AI-powered cameras

The story, along with the camera shots, seemed more convincing in such a way that many audiences were enchanted. One person wrote under Doreen’s post: “So cool. Is there any chance we can see the pictures of the emperor with this camera?”

A more astute audience pointed out that the Qianlong Emperor died in 1799, almost 40 years before the invention of the first camera.

Midjourney AI-powered cameras

Stern also created a series of beautiful Art Nouveau cameras that he pretended to be designed by the Art Deco architect Hector Guimard and the painter Gustav Klimt.

Similarly, Stern used ChatGPT to create a compelling story.

Art Nouveau cameras Midjourney AI

We hope you enjoyed this shutter. To see more works of this artist, you can follow Matthew Stern’s Instagram page. What do you think about this shutter? Where are the story of the emperor’s Chinese cameras and the images of these cameras convincing to you? Would you believe it if you didn’t know this story was fake? Do you think artificial intelligence is going to steal reality from us?