It seems our days in this business are numbered, and it’s all the fault of artificial intelligence. Not only can clever bots now write articles, but the machines have also learned to create the visuals to go with them. AI project Midjourney is currently making waves and filling social-media timelines with all sorts of weird and wonderful imagery.
Naturally, we couldn’t resist and asked it to create some car-based art for us. Prepare to dive down the ultimate Internet rabbit hole as we took the claimed future of automotive (and all other) imaging for a spin. All images shown below were created by feeding the Midjourney AI bot simple text prompts, and it usually came up with the results in mere seconds.
We started easy by asking it to create some old-school, Manila-based street racing action. The result didn’t disappoint.
Next, meet the AI’s interpretation of the love child between a Ferrari F40 and a Lamborghini Diablo.
Next, we asked it to create a Philippine-made hypercar. The result looks quite tidy.
As there was talk about a Formula 1 race in Metro Manila in the past, we asked it to create an F1 circuit for the country’s capital.
Naturally, the next question was to ask what an F1 night race in Manila might look like.
When we asked it to imagine what a futuristic jeepney might look like, it didn’t fare quite so well.
Flying buses carrying commuters along EDSA, on the other hand, look pretty rad.
When we asked it to create images of Manila without cars but with cyclists and pedestrians, it didn’t quite work out but the results are still somehow pretty.
How about an AI interpretation of the Tour de Cebu?
Not only are our new machine overlords good at creating images, but they can even create images of the thing they are seemingly intent on replacing—human designers. It’s like adding insult to injury.
All that made us a little bit sad, so we asked it to create images of sad automotive writers driving convertibles in the rain.
In the end, all that will be left for us to do is to walk through the digital wasteland, and find a new job beyond the horizon.
That is, if there is a world left once the machines have taken over.
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