I am most excited about how AI can transform my creative processes to enable art that wasn't possible for me before. This week I explore AI in self portrait techniques. I spend free time exploring how to use new emerging tools to examine new possibilities. I turned to Astria.ai with a model trained on 14 images of me to create these images. 

I was sitting on the couch with my husband and my little Cavapoo was cuddled up to me. I was holding a cup of coffee when Eric turned to me and said, "You look like that American Gothic painting." So the journey started. I ran with it straight to Astria.ai where I had already fine-tuned a model on my image. Out of several options, this image struck me because I saw my Grandma Fisher in it. She lived to be over 100 years old. I remember her as a devout, solitary Catholic with long, shining hair. This image captures that for me and gave me a bit of magical ancestral connection. 

Personally, I rely on OpenAI's ChatGPT. I trust it because I built my company Vox Verba with OpenAI in 2020. This gives me a deep understanding and layered experience with ChatGPT. I apply this experience to my interactions with all AI tools. In this case, ChatGPT was not the most important or even necessary tool. For a comparison, here is what ChatGPT's DallE created with the same prompt. The key difference here is Dalle is not trained on my exact likeness, like the tool available through Astria.ai. 

While I'm on the point, I want to thank Jenna Soard's AI learning community for teaching me about Astria and how to use it.