I recently posted in the AI generated art thread. It concerned what Dune would look like if Fritz Lang directed it.
Irony abounds. I looked at this article and Ralph the doggy is sufficiently cute, in the first picture, that my first thought was a CGI . But no, he is real. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-64630551
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It got me thinking. I’m a fan of Lang’s movies but Metropolis is quite unique visually if you compare it to his other movies so I did a bit of research. The visually impressive vistas seen in Metropolis were designed by Erich Kettelhut, Otto Hunte and Karl Vollbrecht. Whoever decided to use the AI to reproduce Lang’s style simply assumed that it
was Lang’s style. I have no doubt that Lang had a major say in the final look but without the work of the three designers, the vision could never have evolved in the way that it did.
It leads me to these conclusions: flawed input leads to a misleading result.
Even an AI who writes like Shakespeare, for example, can only approximate and never be an equal to the original. We human beings are nuanced creatures and no matter how much we think we know somebody, we can never know what really goes on in the darker recesses of a human mind or how much influence that may have on a work.
AI is limited, not by its own technology, but by its user who can only make assumptions when setting the parameters of AI and can never truly know the true nature of any artist it seeks to masquerade as.