Pronouns
AI-Generated
(2022)
Pronouns is an experiment made on artificial intelligence Midjourney. It’s a new tool (person? helper? database?) for me, so let’s get to know each other. Starting with defining basics. To learn a language, usually one of the first things you get to learn are pronouns. What does AI imagine when I place them as a command? Let’s find out!
“Me“ - is this how AI looks like?
My feelings
During this experiment, I found myself several times as if I perceived artificial intelligence as a real person. Interesting that I considered her a woman. probably because in my native language (Slovak) it has a feminine gender - she.
I also sometimes found myself romanticizing the whole experiment and creating fictitious scenarios in my head about how I would meet these people, often in a surreal way.
Overall, during this experiment, I often felt anxiety and fear seeing these faces and beings on the big monitor in front of me. As if every second they should move, squint, and breathe.
Probably also because I was rather concerned and found it a bit disturbing about it, I decided that this would probably be my first work experiment, during which I would give a warning about whether you really wanted to continue. Maybe I'm too sensitive, but maybe someone else is too.
Experiment Rules
To not get stuck in hundreds of renders, I set up a few rules for this experiment:
The seed word - pronoun - will be requested 3 times to see a few differences while using the same input.
From each group will be only 1 picture selected and upscaled.
Post-processed will be minimal, ideally none.
Each section is marked with a headline - imagined pronoun + if there is something that catches my attention I made there a note.
*Midjourny shouldn't render the same images no matter how many times you input the same words inside.
*This was made with Midjourney V3
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Under this text will be visuals of non-existing figures, they can look scary to somebody.
Please coincide continuing.
Thank you.
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I
Strange, this is how I imagined you after seeing how you think.
You
Interesting, I didn't expected such a romantic outcome. Am I romantic?
He
A bit nightmarish.
She
She's also dark. Later, during the experiment I noticed, that from all of the three generated images I picked up a kinda same person every time.
It
As expected. I'm a bit disappointed. So I picked up a few untypical clowns to maybe found something new in it.
We
That’s us when we will meet?
They
Scary …as expected.
Me
Interesting. Again without being it a point, I picked up two renders and they look as the same person.
Him
If the AI is a man, I imagine him as the first person with the flower. It’s kind of romantic.
Her
Didn’t she looks like a nun?
Us
A very different Harley Queen wasn’t what I had expected the AI will made.
Them
Who are they…?
My
Looking like memories.
Your
Your room? I like it.
His
Again the same face...
Its
City.
Our
What is really ours?
Their
I like the calmness of these.
Mine
Red flowers are popular in AI.
Yours
Pure beauty.
Hers
Ours
Ours is cute : ). Panda?
Theirs
Land. Universe.
Myself
This is how you looks?
Yourself
All those faces started to looks so similar to each other.
Himself
Interesting how Midjourney came a lot to the same faces.
Herself
So young.
Itself
Almost mystical.
Ourselves
Together.
Yourselves
Themselves
Same colors again…
Notes
I was surprised by how many words appeared written in the images. I thought there will be “people“ only.
Also few faces were repeated what I thought was impossible.
There was a lot of same color usage. A lot of red. Not much green.
So… hello, nice to meet you! : )
