Generative ai one-shot image resynthesis experiment using an old newspaper image used in an article about an old band called Film at Eleven in Portland Oregon i was a member of for awhile in the 80s. The original image is shown below. Fascinating how the resynthesis algorithm also decided to colorize the black and white photo.
I rotated and cropped the center image so it isn't tilt embedded in a newspaper article and used that as input below. Second one at the bottom has the variability turned up a little bit. Interesting how the colorization almost drops out when you turn up the variability. The gender ratio of the band members also changes in a stereotyped way with the variability turned up, probably reflecting bias in the dataset of images the model was trained on.
