As a creative/artist I like to try things out and see how they work. See what different applications and platforms work to see if I like them. I messed around with digital collage and NFTs a bit and I tried it and was not really my thing but maybe I can go back to it. I used to make a ton of videos- I don’t make as much as I used to. I have been messing around with different kinds of Ai tools. The first tool I used was a free app called wambo dream ( i’s an app) where you type something in and pick a style and it generates an image that does not exist anywhere. The next tool I used was midjourny its a discord server its free to use a few times then it costs a fee. for me, it was an upgrade from wambo since it’s a bit more free range as in creative type than wambo. There are a ton of ai tools like this out there but these are the bigger-name ones.

1776 painting of political figures signing an important document for the united states in boston ma inside of a federal building with important people

bright neon red chair living room in a vintage house

richard avodon portait of his out west series in the style of andy warhol

a vintage photograph BW of a old home shack 1930's with a family in front of it

These four images above have been making using the most “realistic” ai tool out so far or at least what I have used. They give you credits just like midjourny but they give you a handful for free the first month and the next month they give you a few more and you can always buy more credits. This is also a prompt ai generator and this is all free range, you put in exactly what you want and it will make it. I been having a blast with mixing artists together as well as seeing if it creates something I come up with. Underneath the 4 images are the prompts i put in to get that image. All these ai tools are 100% made up, a few friends and I typed in the exact prompt and we all got different results. The other downside to dalle2 is that there’s a waitlist and it’s randomly picked at the moment.

Here is my POV with all these ai tools out there and new ones to come. For me I am using dalle 2 at the moment to gather resources and source material for fututre works. Maybe i will try and recreat them in my own way or print them and do a collage. I am not sure yet what I will do with them but i will deffinitly use them in the future. Ai and new tech that comes out is always going to disrupt every industry but to me its the arts. look at the camera for example when they first came out people called it lazy art since all you do is click a button and your art is made, or when the digital cameras came out and made it so you can take as many photos you want with your card can take. For me ai is going to disrupt the illustration, wall paper, backdrop industries just to name a few.