Stunning AI Generated Portraits

Prompt: photographic portrait of an old viking man with a gray beard, very detailed, rim-light, dramatic lighting, 8k, made using Stable Diffusion

AI Visual generators have been all the craze lately, with the incredible open-source release of Stable Diffusion, along with the popular DALL-E 2 model, as well as all the hype around Midjourney.

In this post, I just wanted to focus in on AI portraits, because there is something eerie and mystifying about a digitally native photographic rendition of a person that never existed in physical form.

prompt: photo portrait of an old American Indian woman, very detailed, symmetric, dramatic lighting, 8k made using Stable Diffusion

Cross-Cultural And Ethnic Diversified AI Humans

What if we asked AI to show us ethnic combinations of human renditions never before seen. Like what would a native African Samurai look like? or a blond Swedish Eskimo? An Asian Viking woman? or how about a Tibetan Samoan? Here are some results…

African Samurai, made on Stable Diffusion

Blonde Swedish Eskimo, made on DALL-E 2