AI Doesn't Know Me, So Guesses
Or Does It?
There’s a famous Clay Shannon (winemaker), and then there’s me. So that’s why I added “of Monterey” in my prompt to AI (specifically, Microsoft’s Bing Image Creator) like so: “Clay Shannon of Monterey California playing bass guitar with Rory Gallagher playing guitar”).
By the way, Rory Gallagher (1948-1995) is my favorite guitarist of all time.
The images BIC created shows it (probably) couldn’t find any images of me (the Clay Shannon of Monterey) online, as the pictures don’t look much like me. That is to say, it probably couldn’t find me, and they don’t look like me in the sense that the hair is longer than I’ve ever worn my locks, and the third image actually looks more like a ZZ Top duo rather than Rory Gallagher and … a quasi-fictional person.
See for yourself. These are the three images BIC generated:
No similarity to me at all, especially the hair length. Looks more like Stevie Ray Vaughan wearing specs and playing the bass.
Now this makes me wonder if maybe it did find a picture of me when I was young (in my 20s), but again, the hair length is a non-starter. Even the semi-famous Rory Gallagher doesn’t look much like himself, though. But it’s accurate in the sense that Rory doesn’t have a mustache (he never did) and “I” do (I usually did/do).
The thick eyebrows, the mustache, and the nose could be me, but again with the flowing follicles … and the guitarist looks nothing like Rory Gallagher; besides, I don’t think Rory ever played a Gibson Les Paul guitar. Probably 99% of the time, he played his trusty old, battle-scarred Fender Stratocaster (a big reason, along with Eric Clapton, for why I bought a Stratocaster back in the 1970s).
