just kidding. the whale above is completely ai-generated. i’m actually quite surprised by the detail and water effects the ai used.

what i did was, on my bike ride by the beach, i snapped a pic of the intercoastal and used adobe firefly ai to add the whale. it was super easy.

here’s a video of the area and how it really looked:

kind of boring, right? nothing worth sharing. however, when i posted the whale version on my instagram story, people believed it! it wasn’t until i posted the video that they realized it was fake.

it makes me wonder: how will the future look? will we constantly alter our images to make our lives appear more interesting or “perfect”? influencers already do this, but the barrier for needing advanced photoshop expertise has dropped dramatically.

if you can use microsoft paint, you can use adobe firefly ai—it’s that accessible. try it yourself: https://firefly.adobe.com/upload/inpaint.

for one final ai edit, i decided to take the whale photo and upload it to runway.ml to generate an actual video. here’s what i got: