Drawing Hands and AI

In DALL·E, MidJourney and StableDiffusion. With some shocking images (I warned you).

Merzmensch
Merzazine
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6 min readDec 9, 2022

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#HumanArtists™, afraid of being replaced by a creative machine, can heave a sigh of relief. There is still that sanctuary, that unswerving fortress, that unreachable frontier for the ominous omni-creating machines. A topic the artsy calculators with french berets cannot manage with their digital brushes:

Drawing Hands.

Drawing Hands” is also the title of the famous masterpiece by MC Escher, which — at the same time — is and depicts as a meta-perspective commentary on the act of drawing hands. A hand creates another one which creates the first. A mutual creation.

“Drawing Hands” by MC Escher (Source)

For humans, drawing hands is easy and challenging at the same time, as we see in this CBS3 experimentation:

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Merzmensch
Merzazine

Futurist. AI-driven Dadaist. Living in Germany, loving Japan, AI, mysteries, books, and stuff. Writing since 2017 about creative use of AI.