Impressionist photography - what you need to know.

There's a GIMP plugin called G'MIC which has many, many filters that can turn your masterpiece into a work of art.

One such filter is called 'Stylize':

gmic.eu/gmic300/

It comes with many preset images to stylize your own images with - I chose Mondrian's 'Red Tree' to stylize a couple oaks just down the street:

My oaks:

Mondrian's Red Tree:

The Result:

Left at default - there are a kajillion adjusters to affect the degree of stylization.

Well this is depressing...

Very.

So, the Victim was greatly preferred to it's stylized version?

And yet, the said Victim was not the original, voila:

To AI or not to AI? ... that is the question 😉

Sorry for not being specific - that wasn't was I find depressing! The bolded part gets closer to it though... I can't begin to describe how much that pains me.

I understand that view. I'm sure a good few people might post "stylized" images as their own work; and one can even stylize one of one's own works in the style of another of one's own works with the G'MIC plug-in. However that pales in comparison to a recent generative AI called "UnDress"!

And then there is ChatGPT (the non-image version). Suppose I asked it "what is the best background and sky for two oak trees" and suppose I acted on it's advice in the above image. Would that result in my "own work"?

I'm not as much against AI as y'all seem to be ... but I am seriously against any misuse thereof.