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A head and shoulders portrait in pencil, ink, chalk, and charcoal: He was obviously from the mines. His long hard experience was outlined in every crevice of his parched skin. Dust so deep beneath the surface it could never be completely removed. A topo map of toil.
I was studying this marvelous face and suddenly I realized how much this feels like magic to me. I have no intellectual understanding of AI algorithms, so putting an idea for a portrait into words and hitting the generate button feels like casting a spell. And because AI accesses such a vast amount of visual data from all over the world, it feels like I have just conjured a unique person out of thin air. And this person has such a depth of expression and detail, it feels a little disconcerting to have called him up out of the data stream! (Out of an excess of caution and an overriding curiosity I have done Google image searches on some of my results, but I have never found a likeness even when using only one artist's style or none at all.)
