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Art & culture
Generative Ai
And The Power Of
IMAGINATION
Samuel Phillips
ately, I have been playing around with DIY season, which is still running.
generative artificial intelligence software to
Lsee how it works and what possible things Now, for those who are graphic
I could learn from its usage. The images displayed designers and designers in general,
in this article were all generated by me on one of imagine that you don’t even need to
the many AI platforms using prompts. Prompts are watch tutorials to create something
descriptive instructions given to an AI software to yourself. Still, all you need is to
create something you imagined. imagine what you want, type out
the prompt or prompts required
It’s amazing that the images you are looking at are and then let a generative artificial
pretty realistic and nearly human-like. The images intelligence app do the rest. It is
of the “humans” look like someone you probably incredible, especially when we are
have met or seen somewhere, but technically, none right at the beginning of using these
exist on the planet. But they look natural. This is the technologies.
power of deep fake technology.
But I like it, even though I have my
Many professional graphic designers and creatives thoughts about AI. You can read my
lost their jobs ten to fifteen years ago because articles on AI at the links below:
“YouTube University” happened. https://www.msingiafrikamagazine.
com/2023/09/graphic-design-
YouTube became a place where anyone can learn to creativity-and-originality-in-
do anything by watching tutorials without needing to the-face-of-generative-artificial-
pay a professional to do it. This kicked off a massive intelligence/
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