As part of ARRL’s “year of the clubs”, we were contacted to be a candidate club for feature an upcoming QST.
One of their requests was to provide a photo of our club members. I didn’t have one and was not likely to get one in time of their deadline, especially during the busy holiday season.
My daughter works in advertising and is experimenting with AI graphics. She offered to use AI to produce a group photo if I could get her individual photos of our members. So, I gave her photo (e.g. headshots) of members who kindly sent me theirs from a last minute email request, and I also cropped members’ photos I culled from old web blogs.
Using a very powerful AI photo generator, Freepiks, my daughter ordered the engine to produce a group photo from my samples. We found the results were unacceptable but pretty hilarious. According to my daughter, the resolutions, and crops were too inconsistent for the AI to produce a viable solution.
But anyway, for your viewing enjoyment, it’s fun to try to guess which specific persons are rendered in the produced AI photos. By the way, I ended sending the QST Editor a variety of other types of past photos (club members working with students, field day, monthly meeting, booths, etc). They felt this would work instead.
Here are the reference images of club members photos we hoped would be stitched together in an AI group photo.
And here are the results….! Enjoy, 73 Dave W5OC
