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Ai helped to get what I never could imagine

Published on by ☆ Emma Santorini ☆Leave a comment

On my last post I wrote how much I hate AI but also like AI when it comes and does good things. I also wrote that I would try to get a picture with my dad and me, and AI made that happen, so I decided to take it one step further. Make a family picture of me with Mom and Dad. They turned out so good except my mom doesn’t quite look like her 100%, but it doesn’t matter to me. Yes, I will try to fix a “real” picture of us later on.

My dad passed away 10 years ago on March 12. Oh god, that’s crazy how insanely time flies. Even though I didn’t have the best father/daughter relationship with him, I still miss him.

The downside with this picture is that AI gave him my jeans vest and not his rockabilly jacket or whatever you call it—my dad was a member in an old American driving club.

I’m teaching my son about that culture due to me having grown up in that culture—old American cars such as Cadillacs, Impalas, etc. I’m very strict that my son has to learn about that culture at the same time as he is learning the culture of his father.

This is a “family” picture of us. A picture I always dreamed of having but never got. This part is always why I’m thankful for AI. The picture of my mom, my dad, and this picture.

Also having a picture where both of them are holding me and hugging me makes me tear up. Such a beautiful picture of us—yes, I even compliment myself on it even though it doesn’t 100% look like me.

I’m also looking only on to make a phone case with this picture but in those army/not breaking in fall case due to me being so clumsy.

I will forever be thankful for these pictures.

I hate it but on same time I like it

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AI.. A curse but also a blessing. When people use AI to fake people, celebs and all that stuff, its scary. That makes me hating it a lot. But then there is moments when AI is good.

For me an example.. The other day I wanted to try to make an AI picture after Michaela (my friend) made pictures of me hugging my crush from Tokio Hotel. I wanted one with my mother. I asked Michaela if she could do one and she gladly did it! I LOVE THE PICTURE except it didn’t look like mom. I still have it saved and look at it a lot.

So that made me think, can I do one?  So I tried. After what felt like hours I managed to get the AI to make a picture that looks exactly like my mother. I cried. The happiness. The heartbreak. All feelings came at once.

My mom passed away 2019 and I never got a picture together with her because I hate my body, my size etc. But I really wanted one with her. So I tried super hard. Got frustrated. Got Irritated and mad that I didn’t know how to explain for AI how to make one with my mom but few sites later and boom, I got one.

Even though the picture doesn’t look like me, I love it.

That’s the only blessing part with AI, in my eyes. To make memories, make things like mouring easier. To be able to have a picture of yourself hugging someone you love. Someone you miss and everything. That is the only part with AI I like.

I will also try make one with my dad.

But when scammers,  creeps and disgusting etc people use AI to do disturbing pictures or videos..  That’s the part I HATE with AI.

What are your thoughts of AI?