What does God look like (Fun with AI art)

If you haven't seen it in the news, there are now these AI text-to image programs that are making art. You input a word or phrase, and it creates an unique image. It's not just a sample of images from a browser but actually generates what it "thinks" you want to see...

It's making quite a stir, one reason is because because these "engines" sample other artists work from the internet, and another controversy is about what it means to be an artist? Two weeks ago, an artist used one of these AI programs to create a digital artwork that won a prize at a county fair!

Since I rarely have time to sit down and paint, I think these programs are amazing!

I have tried two programs that are free online, where you yourself can enter a prompt and make an artwork! (But there are many other programs, some of which require a subscription.)

Stable Diffusion: https://huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-diffusion

Dall-E mini: https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini

I have spent the last two weeks playing around with this stuff, and it's very amusing.

Since I work at a church, today I thought of "What does God look like?"

So I plugged it in to Stable Diffusion:

(I don't know who these other 10 fellows are on the side, but they all look pretty mean!)

This next one looks like a tract, or some kind of medieval bible comic book:

These are all 100% legitimately what it (Stable Diffusion) came up with!

This was simply using the prompt of "what does the face of God look like."

Here is what a similar online version came up with,  Dall-E mini (now called Craiyon?)

You can also sharpen your choices by adding more modifiers, 

like "the face of Jesus in the Style of Van Gogh." 

Kind of looks more like an actor from the present day to me. Maybe Clint Eastwood?

The online "free" versions of these applications don't give you a high resolution result, of course.

The AI has been "fed" a lot of art terms and programming language, so in the proper hands it could really make quite an elaborate and specific scene...

I think it is really inspiring...