this image is not a photo, but the rendering by #midjourney text-to-image #AI. it is in many respects amazing. for example the light, shadows and reflections, the furniture, the face of the boy, the hair — all perfect. the concert guitar has a few flaws which are not obvious when looking at the image from a distance. the main problem with text-to-image AI are the hands. in this case, the right hand shows AI going one step further: the right hand is playing the guitar with proper finger picking, and we even see the thumb! normally, AI displays hands with three or five or six straight fingers. the boy‘s left hand has the usual problems. buttom line: the AI hands get better, they are much better than a year ago.

typical AI hands: