"In more than one way, #generativeAI, with its promise to save and even abolish labor while consuming enormous resources, including often precarious and badly paid #humanlabor, might represent the ultimate form of #capitalistgimmick. By turning this gimmick into a tangible gadget [Paragraphica], Karmann has created a #philosophicaltoy in the truest sense: a physical model that allows us to grasp some of the underlying mechanisms of AI’s impact on our current #digitalvisualculture."
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From: @bildoperationen
https://tldr.nettime.org/@bildoperationen/114080731727863199
Roland Meyer (@[email protected])

Finally online: My essay on #PlatformRealism for #Transbordeur. There couldn't be a more appropriate week to publish it, even though when I wrote it last year I couldn't have imagined the extent to which AI slop would become the aesthetic of a new fascism. This essay is a kind of summary of the ideas about #PlatformRealism that I've been mainly developing on various online platforms over the past few years. Reading it now feels a little weird: I think most of the ideas are still valid, but only now are their political implications becoming clear. 1/ https://journals.openedition.org/transbordeur/2299?lang=en

tldr.nettime

A clever art project? Yes. A great way to illustrate new ways of thinking about and using #AI? Also, yes!

#Paragraphica is a "camera" that geneates a text description of what the "photographer" is capturing, and renders a representation of what it actually looks like

https://bjoernkarmann.dk/project/paragraphica

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Scoprite come la fotocamera #Paragraphica utilizza l'intelligenza artificiale e la tecnologia Stable Diffusion per reinventare il modo in cui scattiamo e percepiamo le fotografie.

https://www.melamorsicata.it/2023/06/11/paragraphica-macchina-fotografica/

Paragraphica, la macchina fotografica senza lenti ma con AI

Scopri Paragraphica, la fotocamera senza lenti che utilizza AI e Stable Diffusion per cambiare il futuro della fotografia.

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Raspberry Pi Camera Takes Photos Using AI Instead of Lens #piday #raspberrypi #Paragraphica

What if in the future your camera didn’t need to … well be a camera? Pushing the eerie “big brother” thoughts aside, this project is an ingenious use of AI. The ‘camer…

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Awesome project: a #camera without any optics generating images from AI: https://bjoernkarmann.dk/project/paragraphica

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»Thats a legitimately jaw-dropping use of a technology that I'm already feeling pretty jaded and unimpressed by.
Whats the use-case? Who cares, you're photographing alternate dimensions!«

The #Paragraphica: The ultimate “what is a photo?” gadget

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/31/23743722/the-ultimate-what-is-a-photo-gadget

The ultimate “what is a photo?” gadget. - The Verge

The Paragraphica camera makes photos, but not in the way you’re used to. Designer Bjørn Karmann rigged the experimental device so that when you hit the shutter, it collects information about where you are, the current conditions, and what you’re looking at — and then feeds that to an AI image generator, which creates a picture for you. He also made a generator for building your own images. Is it a photo? Is it something else? Who knows! I want one.

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Check out this interesting AI photo project by Bjørn Karman: Paragraphica

An AI-powered camera that creates location-specific photos without a physical lens.

Project page =>
https://bjoernkarmann.dk/project/paragraphica

Or take a look at the birdsite (His own site might be very slow at the moment)

Twitter =>
https://twitter.com/bjoernkarmann/status/1663496103998750721

#AI #Photo #paragraphica #BjørnKarmann #Art #digitalart #dalle #midjourney #stablediffusion

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