“Promptography” is what Berlin-based artist Boris Eldagsen calls his artistic course of. He inputs extremely particular and deliberate textual content prompts into generative AI packages like DALL-E or Midjourney and tweaks their outputs repeatedly to create thought-provoking pictures — or a minimum of, what look like pictures. His work is so convincing that he fooled Sony into giving him a images award, solely to say no the distinction and reveal that his work was made utilizing AI.
On this episode of Standing Replace, senior video producer Becca Farsace takes a flight to Berlin, Germany. There, she attends Eldagsen’s gallery opening and learns what it takes to be a promptographer.
Watch to search out out if Becca may reply The Verge’s favourite query of the yr: what is a photograph? Bonus factors in the event you can guess which pancakes made it into the episode.
