Artists are increasingly using AI-powered tools for their creative projects. Alper Yesiltas, an Istanbul-based artist, has posted numerous images of celebrities that have been aged convincingly using AI.

One of his collections is called ‘Young Age(d)’ and uses AI to age well-known (and very much still alive) figures such as Greta Thunberg:

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And the more divisive individual, Justin Bieber:

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However, Yesiltas’ arguably more interesting collection is ‘As If Nothing Happened’ which imagines what deceased celebrities would look like.

The collection includes Freddie Mercury:

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Steve Jobs:

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And the beloved Princess Diana:

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In 2012, a performance at Coachella made headlines after a “hologram” of deceased rapper Tupac Shakur joined Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg onstage. The hologram was created by the special effects production house Digital Domain and portrayed Shakur in his prime.

Thanks to Yesiltas, we can see what Shakur would likely look like today:

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With permission from the artist while they’re alive, combining AI for convincing ageing with holographic technologies could be a way for performers that died early to preserve their legacies and continue delighting old – and even new – fans long after they’re gone.

Yesiltas’ work can be viewed in-person as part of the ‘Digital Serendipity’ exhibition at Akbank Sanat until 11 February 2023.

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Canvas enables artists to turn simple brushstrokes into realistic landscapes filled with materials including water, grass, snow, mountains, and more. The idea is that concepts can be turned into final versions far quicker than ever before.

The free software, which is still in beta, is the perfect example of how AI complements and enhances human abilities rather than replaces.

Canvas’ latest update achieves close to photorealism with greater definition and fewer artifacts:

The software delivers images in up to 1K pixel resolution and the results can be exported to apps like Adobe Photoshop to integrate with an artist’s existing workflow.

GauGAN2 powers the new experience and was introduced in November 2021 with a demo of how it can generate a photorealistic image using just a simple written phrase:

GauGAN2 combines segmentation mapping, inpainting, and text-to-image generation in a single model. It was trained on 10 million high-quality landscape images using the NVIDIA Selene supercomputer—one of the world’s top 10 most powerful.

Five new materials have also been added as part of the latest update: flowers, straw, mud, dirt, and bushes.

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