Happy Thanksgiving to every one who celebrates the harvest on the last Thursday in November.
I wish the rest of the world a pleasant day.
I decided to write a Thanksgiving post last night. I have a large number of pictures from Thanksgiving Dinners in the past. However, my best pictures contain images of people.
There are both moral and legal implications involved in posting images that show people or that are taken on other people's premises.
I realized that AI provides a path around these problems. One can take a picture during Thanksgiving Dinner then modify it with to obfuscate the origin of the picture.
I might try that tonight. But my post won't be available until tomorrow.
Anyway, I was thinking about images of turkeys last night. While I have pictures of cooked birds. I realized that, in our modern world, people rarely interact with the food we consume.
Most turkeys in the United States are raised in factory farms located on private property. The factory farms control access to the farms meaning that the pictures we capture are contrived and controlled.
I am more likely to see wild birds (which are off the table) than the domesticated birds that grace our Thanksgiving Dinner.
There are stock photos of birds. This is a great way to go.
I decided to generate a cartoon image of a farmer with a cleaver chasing a frantic turkey on Night Cafe. Here is the high res version of the bird. The snood is incorrect. Are the placement and patterns on the bird correct? Are that talons correct?
The AI cartoon is better than the millions of turkey cartoons drawn by kids in kindergarten.
The disconnect between people and the food they consume in the modern world is not caused by AI. It is a result of the industrial farm system which hides the process of cultivating food.
Here is a second AI image of a turkey served on a table:
