I’ve been having some trouble figuring out how to photograph the scenes I had in mind for my Inequality project. When I learned about the Flux.1 image AI the other day, I decided to give it a whirl. I made several attempts at contrasting Jeff Bezos’ wealth, estimated at $200 billion in 2022, with that of the median Black family in America that year ($45,000). The above is the best one (I added the amount labels in Photoshop, as image-generating AIs are notoriously bad at text. Of course, this doesn’t really begin to show the actual scale of the gap. Below, a number of earlier attempts.
Next, I’ve photographed some bills on m own and will attempt to duplicate them in Photoshop more precisely to scale. We’ll see if that works…
Thanks for your permission to share your work.
Is there one of these images, in particular, that you’d like me to share?
The main one at the top. The others are just there to illustrate the evolution of the image in the AI with refinements of the prompt.
Thanks for your prompt and clear guidance.
Interesting!
So you created this using some sort of AI-related application?
Have you posted the image elsewhere?
Yes, I used Flux.1. This was just some initial experimentation – I have not posted the elsewhere as yet, but I may use them at CRUX: Landscape of Inequality, a group project I’m a member of.
Thanks for elaborating.
May I share the image on Facebook or Instagram, with appropriate credit?
I would love to learn reactions to it.
Sure. Do I get credit, or does Flux.1? 😆
Nice concept and depictions.