The ‘AI obsessed’ photographer who tricked Instagram
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Jos Avery was given a camera almost four decades ago, sparking a lifelong fascination with photography.But last September he found a new creative outlet, one that led him to deceive thousands of people: the artificial intelligence program Midjourney, which generates wild and wonderful images from brief text instructions. "Soon after starting with Midjourney, I became obsessed with the creative possibilities," Avery told AFP. Midjourney and rivals like DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion generate unique pictures by mashing up a vast back catalogue of images they have been "trained" on.For Avery, a 48-year-old software engineer and lawyer by training from Virginia in the United States, Midjourney was liberating.He said it allowed him to create beautiful art without needing to tackle his ...