Turn Your iPhone Photos Into Poetry With This Artistic AI App
Ever seen a sunset so beautiful it nearly makes you want to recite poetry, but you don’t have the literary dexterity to come up with anything profound to say? In to save all of your missed potential musings about the world is artificial intelligence (once again), which is now flipping the text-to-image generator movement on its head and coming up with a new image-to-text model instead.
A New York-based technologist and artist, Damajanski, has unveiled the ‘Pamera-The Poem Camera’, which combines AI models and real-time photos to produce poetry. This seemingly hipster-inspired fusion combines an object identifier with OpenAI’s cutting-edge GPT-4 large language model, resulting in a unique four-line verse inspired by the objects in each picture.
The works of the renowned Argentinian essayist Jorge Luis Borges heavily influence the creations. Borges, celebrated for his touch on magical realism, seemed like the right muse for an AI poet, according to Damajanski.
In one example, a picture of a living room conjured up the poem: “A book unfolds, its stories alive in ink, A bottle holds secrets, whispers softly clink, A car speeds by, on highways paved with dreams, Parallel worlds converge, reality streams.”
Don't judge me for my mess at home 🥳 pic.twitter.com/yFBo9sm4n0
— Damjanski 😴 (@Damjanski) August 1, 2023
It won’t magically turn you into the next John Keats or Pablo Neruda, but it could present you with something to post on social media that aren’t lyrics by Drake or a quote from Pinterest.
As the artist continues refining the app, he is diligently working on an upgraded version allowing users to harness the power of their front-facing camera and even upload images created on other generators.
In a test, Damjanskit deepfaked his face onto a meme of a gamer in his basement, and the results were a little reminiscent of Dr Seuss rather than some profound meaning behind being stuck in a gaming session to the point where you forgo your basic needs.
leaning into my mess. Pamera: pic.twitter.com/JSI8WQ0iJZ
— Damjanski 😴 (@Damjanski) August 1, 2023
If you have an itch to craft poetry based on the pictures on your phone, you can test it out here.
[via Gizmodo and Digital Technology Guru, cover image via Pamera]
