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AI is very complex, advanced technology. It’s amazing what it can do and how it can help people in so many ways, but it also has the potential to be very diabolical if it falls into the wrong hands.

And speaking of hands — what’s going on with AI? Why can’t AI imagery get human hands right?

Instead of normal-looking hands, we see these misshapen, monstrous-looking hand-like atrocities everywhere these days. Imagine you have AI conjure up a photo and the fake people look perfect with their flowing hair, and life-like faces. It all  looks so realistic — until you notice everyone has 12 twisted fingers.

Womp, womp.

That’s what happened when Miles Zimmerman, a programmer from San Francisco asked AI-powered “Midjourney” for a series of photos.

Miles asked for the following:

candid photo of some happy 20-something year-olds in 2018 dressed up for a night out, enjoying themselves mid-dance at a house party in some apartment in the city, photographed by Nan Goldin, taken with a Fujifilm Instax Mini 9, flash, candid, natural, spontaneous, youthful, lively, carefree, — ar 3:2.

Midjourney obliged and conjured up images specific to Miles request. And while the faces aren’t exactly life-like, they’re fun and exude youthful energy. But it’s the totally messed up ghoulish hands that ruin the entire vibe.

Here’s a closer look at the hands:

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Wow, that’s a lot of fingers for one gal.

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Even just two fingers are a problem for AI:

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One guy has fingers growing out of his arm.

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If your finger bends that way, you need an ER.

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Oh boy…

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So, what’s going on here? How can we have such advanced technology, yet be unable to get something like a hand right?

Well, if AI plans to take over the world, they need to do better.

But according to experts there’s a very logical reason why AI can’t figure out how to “draw” a human hand.

It’s just too damn flexible.

BuzzFeed:

But why do these programs mess up hands (not to mention bare feet) so badly? It’s a question that many people have asked.

To find out, I emailed Midjourney; Stability AI, which makes Stable Diffusion; and OpenAI, which created DALL-E 2. Only Stability AI responded to my questions.

“It’s generally understood that within AI datasets, human images display hands less visibly than they do faces,” a Stability AI spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. “Hands also tend to be much smaller in the source images, as they are relatively rarely visible in large form.”

To understand more, I got in touch with Amelia Winger-Bearskin, an artist and an associate professor of AI and the arts at the University of Florida, who has been analyzing the aesthetics of AI art on her blog. “I am obsessed with this question!” Winger-Bearskin exclaimed on our video call.

Generative artificial intelligence that’s trained on billions of images scraped from the internet, Winger-Bearskin explained, does not really understand what a “hand” is, at least not in the way it connects anatomically to a human body.

“It’s just looking at how hands are represented” in the images that it has been trained on, she said. “Hands, in images, are quite nuanced,” she adds. “They’re usually holding on to something. Or sometimes, they’re holding on to another person.”

In the photographs, paintings, and screenshots that AI learns from, hands may be holding onto drapery or clutching a microphone. They may be waving or facing the camera in a way where just a few fingers are visible. Or they may be balled up into fists where no fingers are visible.

“In images, hands are rarely like this,” Winger-Bearskin said, holding up her hands with fingers spread apart. “If they were like this in all images, the AI would be able to reproduce them perfectly.” AI, she said, needs to understand what it is to have a human body, how exactly hands are connected to it, and what their constraints are.

The human hand has always been a thorn in artists’ sides. So much so, that Renaissance legend Leonardo DiVinci actually made a point to study the human hand in order to perfect recreating it.

Michelangelo and Leonardo are rumored to have dissected cadavers in order to better understand the human body.

Let’s hope AI doesn’t have to go quite that far, and can figure out how to draw a proper human hand with some updated coding.

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