A little while ago I did a video where I asked an image generation AI to show me hell, and
the pictures it made, and especially the animation, were pretty interesting, and since then a
lot of people have asked me to do the same for Heaven, so here you go.
Heaven might be a little more difficult because we tend to think of it as this beautiful,
perfect place, and AI images are often unnervingly uncanny.
Just look at the text it's putting in the pictures, it looks like a brochure for a fever
dream.
But then again, angels are almost always depicted in paintings as beautiful, but in the Bible
their appearance is often frightening - like their body is made of wheels and they have
four faces and stuff like that.
So I'll try to get a wide array of imagery.
The prompt I'm giving the AI for each image will be on screen.
A little later I'll just give it descriptions straight from the Bible and see what it thinks,
and at the end I'll use the AI to make an animated video like I did with hell.
It'd take a separate video to explain how this all works under the hood but once again
the AI model I'm using is called Stable Diffusion, if you want to read further.
The AI has been trained on billions of images from the internet until it gets to a point
where it can create its own on request - and that's what I'm doing.
I put in the on-screen prompt and the AI creates a visual representation of that prompt.
It takes about a minute to generate each picture.
Alright, let's take a look at some Bible verses; "Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white
horse.
And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and
makes war.
His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns.
He had a name written that no one knew except Himself.
He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white
horses" I think asking the AI to make a picture out
of this is probably asking a bit too much but let's see.
Yeah, I think that description is a little too flowery and meandering for the AI.
It didn't quite get everything.
Let's try another verse.
“The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones:
the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth
emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl,
the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst”
“The twelve gates were twelve pearls: each individual gate was of one pearl.
And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass”
Some interesting results here, let's have a look at how the Bible describes angels.
"I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, with a belt of fine
gold from Uphaz around his waist.
His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming
torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his
words like the sound of a multitude"
Ezekiel describes Cheribum as such; "As I looked at the living creatures, I saw
a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.
This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all
four looked alike.
Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel."
Those are some otherworldly angels, alright.
Ok, one last Bible verse, just because this one makes me laugh;
"From there Elisha went up to Bethel.
As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him.
“Get out of here, baldy!”
they said.
“Get out of here, baldy!”
He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord.
Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.
And he went on to Mount Carmel and from there returned to Samaria."
This is a very ominous picture, assumedly it takes place just before the mauling, as
Elisha and the boys are watching this bear-like creature in the distance.
There's also some creepy nonsensical writing on the image but who knows what that's supposed
to mean.
We have to assume at this point Elisha is unaware the bear's presence is related to
his cursing of the boys and that the bear poses no threat to him, only the children.
In this image Elisha continues his journey after watching the mauling of forty-two kids.
He is now cool with the bears.
He's like "thank you for killing those children for me, horrible ursine monstrosities, that'll
learn 'em".
Alright, now let's get to the really trippy bit, the AI-made video of heaven.
These videos take considerably longer to make than the images, as you can imagine, but it's
still only hours.
That's much faster than a human could make such a video, and trust me on that, I'm sort
of an expert on the topic of making videos, I've made a lot of them now.
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Thanks and stay safe.