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Hey, readers!
It was in the evening, nothing to do. I was sitting around generating images for my upcoming DnD campaign with the help of AI. At one point, in order to save another picture, I went to the web page and accidentally got to the " Explore " page, where I saw this picture -

Below the image, you can see the so-called "Promt", the text you specify in your request to generate the finished image. And I was wondering if I could generate images (in my case, portraits of a girl) that would be indistinguishable at first, maybe even second glance from a real photo. Spoiler - I did it

Above you see two photos - on the left, the original, represented by the neural network, the second is a "photo" that I processed a bit in my usual portrait style. Well, let's just say that it's hard to tell with the naked eye whether it's a photograph or an image that exists only in words.
The quality of the picture causes respect, especially since the latest version allows you to upscale the image to absolutely fantastic values, and literally speaking English, and hehe, 10 euros a month, you can not leaving the room to create a photo report for Instagram, about an unforgettable vacation, which you spent in unknown lands

Let's face it - I had a pretty good evening playing around with different settings, generating probably a dozen different images, in different situations, with different scenes, lights and other entourage. Yes, let's be honest - if we don't take into account the growth portraits, which clearly show flaws in the drawing of hands, body parts, and fingers (yes, she is especially good at fingers). Sometimes, it seems to me that she studied in public either with three or 7-8 fingers. Just kidding of course, I think it won't take her a couple of years or even months to learn how to draw fingers, and even the right number of fingers

Maybe soon portrait photographers will disappear as a profession, because already now such generative AIs allow you to use your references as a base for the generated image. A bonus is the ability to reproduce a face very accurately and replace it with yours based on the uploaded photo. Yeah, nowadays all these neutron networks don't allow you to make "exact" copies, for ethical reasons. But to put it bluntly - because they can do all sorts of things, and then try to figure out where is truth and where is fiction, and this here is a photograph, and this here is just a set of phrases processed by a computer

On the other hand, as my friend rightly pointed out -

Pffff, What's the point? For all sorts of advertising and other things - yes, fire. Some photographers in this field will lose their jobs. But for me the main thrill of the result of the process, so Midjourney I am not interested. But in terms of images - fire, of course. I love it.

And I more than agree with him. I've always said that for me portrait photography is a way to meet and get to know new people. But, you have to realize that like any other tool, this one can be useful, like being able to illustrate articles. The ability to prepare references for upcoming shoots, a lot of possibilities, frankly. On the other hand, I'm a bit afraid that sooner or later, or rather it would be more accurate to say - already, these technologies will start to be used to their detriment, for example, to present information in a different way than it really was.
And it will be very difficult to check it. It is not without reason that major camera manufacturers have announced that they will add a special tag to the firmware of new models, which will directly say -

"Yes, this is a real photo, taken by a real camera in the real world".

Time will tell, technology is developing rapidly, and if yesterday we could only dream that coming home we could instantly drop photos on the computer, and then put them on the Internet, now we can take a picture, press two buttons on the phone, and here it is already available to hundreds of people around the world. And you don't have to wait to pick up the last film from the lab