RT @nick_routledge: Despite its obvious appeal, I typically give AI a miss, preferring, as a rule, to potter or walk the dog in the hills. Grok arrived yesterday though. So I put it to a vanity project - a portrait of my X feed. The speed of today's technologies amazes me.
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Green man with wooden laptop.
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Group of about a dozen folk sitting in a circle in an orchard, chatting.
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Man upon a forest path squatting in front of and attentive to a mushroom patch, laptop in background.
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Grok-written text summary describing the content, themes and philosophy of my X feed.
@Hallowedart Frankly, I rarely use AI, but on occasion I'm inspired by its archetypal properties as they relate to, say, the co-evolutionary aesthetics of planetary messianism. Here, for example, 'Maitreya in the style of Fr. John Guilliani's 'Lakota Victory Christ' (2023)' and other efforts.
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2023 Bing image creator to the prompt: Maitreya in the style of Fr. John Guilliani's 'Lakota Victory Christ'.
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Copy of FB post here: Integral Christo-Buddhist-Yogic archetypes remain thin on the ground, to put it mildly. I've trained 'separately' in these traditions and, occasionally, a syncretistic image arises from the unifying landscape of my experience. Here are a couple of examples. Briefly, the first image is my revisioning of the Benedictine Fr. John Giuliani's icon, 'Hopi Virgin and Child' in the image of a statuary of Maitreya, the future Buddha, using the Artificial Intelligence application Pikazo as my primary design tool. The second, a synthesis of the the cross within the endless knot or eternal knot, one of the Eight Auspicious Symbols, an important cultural marker in places significantly influenced by Tibetan Buddhism and Indian religious traditions. Fuller descriptions of the mystery of these particular syntheses are attached to each image.
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Bing image creation prompt just now, Feb 20, 2024: 'Indigenous Pancreator as Eliatic Maitreya, with nimbus and clothing made of leaves of various colors, holding book'