John: This is a new tool for you Photoshop users, photo editing types, and AI nuts, which will contribute to people doing art for the show. It’s pretty new. I recommend Googling for this because I’ll give you some URLs, but it seems to be all over the map insofar as what you want to look for. I think Google has the best link. It’s called Flux Kontext. It comes from a company called Replicate.com, but if you go to Replicate.com, you’ll never find it. You have to go to Flux1.ai and you won’t find it there necessarily. And you won’t find it at Flux.ai. That’s some other operation alltogether. But if you wanted to find it right on the money besides using Google, you have to go to https://flux1.ai/flux-kontext and you’ll get right to it. Now, it is a stunning editor that allows you to do very specific edits. Like you can have a picture of somebody’s face and you say, change their hair to blonde, and it’ll do that specifically without having to go through the rigamarole you have to go through with Photoshop. Or if you want to take somebody’s head and put it on somebody else’s body. You do that with one, you just tell it to do it. If you want to turn somebody into a cartoon, it does the best job of turning somebody into a cartoon I’ve ever seen.
Adam: Is it only pictures or also video?
John: No video. You can also create pictures and drawings and cartoons from scratch with prompts. It just has a lot of potential. And some of them you have to pay a nickel, so you might have to pay money for some of these images, but it’s supposed to have a free element. It’s just a dynamite thing to check out. If anyone out there, Darren will give me, eventually send me some feedback on this and why it’s no good.
Adam: Yes, he will.
John: Or he’ll tell me it’s fabulous. I don’t know, but this is definitely one of those tools that you’ll like. It’s just something you just want to play with for a while.
Adam: Now, are you sure this is really AI? It’s not like that $1.5 billion company that Microsoft was buying? Builder.ai?
John: I can’t tell anything is AI. All I know is it does some remarkable imagery manipulation that I’ve not seen anyone be able to do otherwise. It might also be a lot of good demos. This is a problem with, for example, the hottest thing now is VEO3. VEO3 from Google which creates all these crazy videos. The ones that you see demoed are just dynamite, but you go try to do it yourself, and there goes a dollar. You have to spend money to get it to work.
Adam: Do you know what my favorite is? Next time Jay’s around, grab her phone, get on the TikToks. It’s the Trump babies. Have you seen these? I think those are pretty funny.
John: Yeah, I have, actually. Humor is, I think, the best target for all this AI stuff.
Adam: The only target.
John: I think the album art is going to come out of this Flux-Kontext thing.
Adam: Yeah, that’s humorous. Album art is usually humorous. I can’t wait to look and see how many what’s-that-in-your-mouth arts we have. It’ll be interesting.