Michelle Monday: Artificial Edition

As a lifelong artist myself, I’ve been struggling to accept art generated from artificial intelligence (AI). It’s seemingly everywhere now, so whatever ethical qualms I might have about disrespecting artistic integrity or taking work away from real artists seem fairly moot at this point. I’m still holding onto those reservations, mind you, but I’m also a sucker for anything Michelle Pfeiffer, so, when I recently experimented with an AI art generator for the first time, naturally I plugged in prompts all about Michelle. The results were, uh, mixed, at best. One came out pretty cool though, cool enough for me to take it into the Pronto app (which is a very fun app) to add some lurid text (inspired by “Cool Rider” and Grease 2) and an old pulp publisher’s logo. Basically I made a fake pulp novel cover featuring my pfavorite subject.

Here’s sexy AI Michelle, sans the full, cheap paperback cover treatment. As you see, she’s not quite as HOT (all caps, with emphasis) as real life Michelle, but she’s still pretty darned hot, nevertheless.

Sure, a little bit of my artistic integrity—and a piece of my soul—died while making this, but when it comes to Michelle I usually lose control of myself completely. I also fear this post is proof of something I fretted over in a recent post: I am currently bereft of anything interring to say.

Oh well, let’s stop worrying about that and just stare at AI Michelle (I promise, next time, no AI Michelle! Only real Michelle!). Here are a few of those mixed results I mentioned earlier. They’re all off, in one way or another, with their major uncanny valley vibes well intact. Still, AI gets points for brazenly objectifying artificial Michelle’s artificial body. I’m kidding. Sort of.

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