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Many are writing and talking about AI in a broader sense now with the pop of intrigue over an editing app called LensaAI. And as well we should; iron out the details of what we want and don’t want + being intentional about acting and reacting, accordingly when it comes to tech of this nature; seeing as it’s been ‘unleashed’ in a very real sense without reigns. Here come the copy-write issues for starters. Much more down the pipe to be sure. But one “top-of-the-lister”, in my mind, is how it learns about you & who owns it. We’re headed into full transparency territory and that means a whole lot for our future as sovereign Peops.

 

And, my particular questions on this subject are about, mind-body ownership, psychological and communal effects, might this play into spirituality, & How will we manage our expectations, and reality gaps that arise & then bridge them? Can the computer now own your personality & likeness and replicate it?

Human and machine.

Machine, with an ability to diagnose who you are behaviorally by studying your face, the environment it’s in, and the data attached from the photo out of your electronic device with all its identifiers, It WILL KNOW YOU; better than you do. I see responsibility on the horizon and a good evaluation of what we really want from this tool.


If it knows you at that level and better than you, it can manipulate you for a particular gain or set of gains. How much time and ENRG would we like to give this hungry animal?

We are already at the point where your phone has got a serious read on you and so do the owners of that info, all due to the deployment of AI on massive platforms and phones. A giant pond with many phish to catch.

 

I find it helpful in moments like this, to evaluate how I want to be in this new world. Where I hold onto the old and where I’m pushed forward into a compromise of the old and the new. Maybe certain progress is necessary sure, but going over a cliff with an idea without consideration could just get you dead, broke or threatened.

I like to dip a toe if I’ve convinced myself something might a net positive in my life. AI having been so prevalent behind the scenes, now being applied more into the user sphere, is one of these times.

 

So, I ‘dipped the toe’ and tried the LensaAI app. Looking at the artistic renderings from a spiritual perspective first, as I often do, I could visually experience perspectives of who I could be in these varied veils represented. As I momentarily ‘tried them on’ while flipping through, I started to see archetypes of my actual personality shown through color, mood, inclination of the pose, shadows and highlights, certain images looked like they enmeshed a celebrity face onto my own. It caught a great many aspects too, from the nice to the grunge sides of my image. It was interesting as I started to notice this pattern emerge, I had to wonder, just how much information did that app get from me? It curiously asks for a good bit of pictures, 10-20. Could be just so the program has a good set of images to pool from to create a unique render; it’s not flawless lol. Or, both/and; Lots of my personal data and it’s reading of facial structures & personality traits. I’d be interested to look into more about the “deep learning” program and what’s coming.

 

Personally, I really would like to explore using AI help with certain digital, artistic endeavors; as a tool for processing. I don’t love the idea of these things stealing real artists work to create a replicate rendering. Copying style is an interesting debate I think. At any rate, it’s here and we’ve got inept people in charge so it’s up to us to limit this tool as best we can and teach it WELL. We get better at that when we get better at knowing ourselves; choosing ourselves. We know what we want and don’t want, values get reassessed, and our feet are firmly planted, gaze set on the horizon of a brand new way to be in the world. A foundation of Nature as sturdy and changing as ever, and old Earth technologies made new for the lives we live to be in alignment with the beating of Her heart and His devotion & their creation, Us, as a trinity, leveling up. With AI as a tool. Or one could try to forgo using it. I’m rooting for Humanity to be the balance.

 

My images from the Lensa app seem quite a bit personal and so I thought I'd reserve them for my own ponderance. They did inspire me to use my crude human skills to play around with some of my images on trusty, Adobe Photoshop, as the header image shows, and the full images on the Instagram post. @iam.yoga.dothan


Live Long, Live well.

-E

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