Apparently midjourney is AI that can generate photos based on text/natural language "prompts". "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-to-image_model" Some of these look incredibly real. These are entirely from the program, not touched by a human using image-editing sofware.
A prompt like:
A group of female Norse, Dane, and Vikings huddled together and is taking a group selfie picture together in 793 CE. They are drinking ale at a feast in a Viking longhouse. They are all wearing traditional Viking armor and helmets. Everyone smiling directly at the camera. The image is photorealistic, has natural lighting, and is taken with a front-facing phone selfie camera by one of the Vikings. --ar 3:2 --s 1000 --no phone --v 5 --q 2
resulted in:
This blows my mind. Anybody else?
A prompt like:
A group of female Norse, Dane, and Vikings huddled together and is taking a group selfie picture together in 793 CE. They are drinking ale at a feast in a Viking longhouse. They are all wearing traditional Viking armor and helmets. Everyone smiling directly at the camera. The image is photorealistic, has natural lighting, and is taken with a front-facing phone selfie camera by one of the Vikings. --ar 3:2 --s 1000 --no phone --v 5 --q 2
resulted in:
This blows my mind. Anybody else?
