A photographer has created portraits of people who do not exist but were instead made with the artificial intelligence (AI) program Dall-E 2. Mathieu Stern, a French photographer, used the nascent software that is not yet easily available to the public to create photorealistic portraits of fictitious people that he documented in a YouTube video. Stern, who recently made a series of wild camera designs on the program, started by instructing Dall-E to create an image of "a young beautiful woman wearing a yellow kimono, in a tropical greenhouse." "At first the lack of information about the camera, the lens, and the general look of the image, led to rather unimpressive results," Stern explains on YouTube. "So to help Dall-E, some details must be added to the general description, like the lens, the camera, the film, and adding some words like bokeh." Stern says the best results came after adding the word "Graflex."

These cameras do not exist. As real as they might appear, they were created using an artificial intelligence system called DALL-E 2, which can make realistic images based only on text descriptions. These strange and insane-looking cameras were created using DALL-E 2, an artificial intelligence program created by OpenAI. The system was announced earlier this year and can create photo-realistic images based only on a brief description and allows a person to easily edit the image with simple tools. Not only can it create photos and images entirely from scratch, but it can also modify existing images.

Photographer and Youtuber Mathieu Stern recently purchased two glass plate negatives from 1910 and decided to scan, restore, colorize, and animate the photos with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). Stern said that after he purchased the two negatives, he spent some time online studying Victorian glass plate archives so that he could try and learn more about the woman in the photo. What he found was that in the early days of photography, getting a portrait taken was expensive, stressful, and time-consuming. He says this is likely why photos of people from that time period look cold and emotionless. In the video, Stern provides several examples of photos from the archive that illustrate this.