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The fans of The Lord of the rings they can resort to artificial intelligence to generate images of what Frodo Baggins might look like, the protagonist of this saga.
One of the platforms enabled to do this activity is Copilotcreated by Microsoft and OpeanAI. It is an app that designs images in real time and in a few minutes. This has advanced AI technologies, generated by the latest OpenAI language models, GPT-4 and DALL·E 3. To obtain results from this type of tools, it is necessary to introduce a precise textual description of what is intended to be generated. In this case, the prompt textual was “What Frodo from the Lord of the Rings would look like in real life.”
Although this well-known hobbit was brought to the big screen by the actor Elijah Woodthe large amount of information that software powered by artificial intelligence collected allows them to generate a generic response that allows us to imagine a different face to which the American interpreter gave the character of the Middle Earthfantastic world described for the first time in the work The Hobbit of JRR Tolkienpublished in 1937.
It should be remembered that this character corresponds to that of a orphan hobbit to whom his uncle bequeaths a powerful magic ring that has the strength to decide the outcome of a war between magical species – elves, orcs, dwarves and humans, among others – that inhabit this medieval fantasy world brought to the big screen in a saga classic directed by Peter Jackson.
The first image that appears Copilot after the request to make an alternative version of Frodo It has some of the features common to the face of Elijah Wood, the actor who personifies him in the well-known films that illustrate the literary saga. In this case, The hobbit of Middle Earth wears the well-known One Ring, central object in the search of the characters in these stories, and he looks at the center with the fixed gaze that denotes his obsession with the object.
Just as he is personified in the novels of JRR Tolkien, it is a young man, who in this case has short, wavy hair, a square jaw surrounded by a soft beard, and brown eyes. For clothing, he wears a cape with a hood, and underneath it seems to be a brown fabric that corresponds to his clothing.
In the second image generated by artificial intelligence, Frodo He moves away from the stereotype formed by his most successful performer. Here, he is shown as a young man with a somewhat more angular and slender face. He looks towards an unknown point in a forest like those that populate the Middle Earth imagined by Tolkien.
The young man, who is shown next to a squirrel, wears a green cape, a linen shirt, is equipped with a backpack for his journey and travels on foot accompanied by a cane made from a branch. His hair is wavy, as this character is usually represented, and his white skin contrasts with the brown eyes that AI assigns to Frodo.
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