Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

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fyi you can get an ilx postable link when you upload from the dots in the top right -> get share links -> bbcode (forums)

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xpost instructions are for imgur, i should have said.

"Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness" + dark fantasy = Endless array of great death metal covers. They tend to look like old Incantation albums.

hokusai's follow up to 'the great wave' - 'miserable pissy rain' (this was with the ukiyo-e filter)

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Ha, I was whiling away some time inputting ilx thread titles on this the other day!

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https://app.wombo.art/card/64efda3d-bb02-450a-94c7-8747b768637d

That "pencil drawing of Paul Weller" one is majestic.

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^SPIT IN MY MOUTH --Cardi B, zoomers

'On a White Couch'
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Here are some classic Jim'll Paint It suggestions rendered in Wombo pic.twitter.com/ClwYp7UJc8

— Jim (@Jimllpaintit) December 7, 2021

http://app.wombo.art/card/f7cd3bc4-c52b-4d39-b1ab-895831c76d84

I'd say this Wombo thingie merits its own thread, similarly to Transformer, where we can all display our best/worst results. Then, years from today, we'll be able to take a sentimental journey to rediscover our deathless creations.

https://app.wombo.art/card/b50ab818-1549-41e6-8c98-c1289e0bad07

I was hoping that would post as a picture, but apparently I don't know how to do that.

That cthulhu thing is amazing.

Then, years from today, we'll be able to take a sentimental journey to rediscover our deathless creations dead links.

https://www.instructables.com/The-AI-Label-Maker/

(in short, a pi-powered box that examines and object and prints out a label for it. a plate of biscuits gets labelled 'cell phone', a polka dot mug gets 'the window is open'...)

Image generation leveled up again, already.

GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models
abs: https://t.co/G74t97S1jH

Samples from a 3.5B parameter text-conditional diffusion model using classifier free guidance are favored by human evaluators to those from DALL-E pic.twitter.com/gjSYl4cnAd

— AK (@ak92501) December 21, 2021

That looks hard-to-believe good

jesus christ

still has some way to go i'd say

A quick thread on in the importance of being careful what data you share - even if you're the Queen. Today, Her Maj tweeted this lovely picture, gor bless er, etc. You might think that the contents of the red box would be official business. And you'd be right. 1/6 pic.twitter.com/y1RspNRUzy

— Adam Kay (@amateuradam) February 6, 2022

makes you think

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/27/1088140809/fake-linkedin-profiles

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/out-there

i think i might be a blot

AI Andy to thread!

so dan i. mentioned dall-e already in this thread, but anyway, it's back...with a vengeance and called dall-e 2

https://openai.com/dall-e-2/

the short of it is it's basically going to take over as a photoshop plugin and graphic/web design source. it's very good at generating "art", however you define it

dall-e 2 illustrations of my friends' twitter bios

— Nick (@nickcammarata) April 7, 2022

looks just good enough to resemble the great bulk of commercial art, while having no spark of personality. iow, a perfect photoshop plug-in.

it does make a lot of sense for commercial art, for two reasons: 1) if you can either fool the average person/consumer most of the time, or if they don't really care about the art in the first place, then 2) the company will decide to generate free commercial art rather than deal with art burnouts and paying them

but i don't know, i watched Her about 3 too many times

xp Aimless!

one can imagine a really positive use case for people, making a living and stuff, where they can easily use it to generate a starting point and then modify it from there, using it as source material, as punster said. but at some point, the manager is going to ask if maybe the graphic artist could first generate 20 different generated sources, so the manager can pick from one of those 20 as a starting point for the artist. and then, in the medium-hell world, the artist still gets to take the manager's selection and modify it from there, making it into a true human/AI commercial art collaboration. however, shortly after that, the company must cut costs in order to have a strong Q4. maybe the manager can just cut the artist out of the process, generate 200 AI "starting points" to select from, pick one that looks decent enough, and then add the human touch by uploading it as an attachment to the template. meanwhile, the commercial artist is in the poison bog

maybe the manager can just cut the artist out of the process, generate 200 AI "starting points" to select from, pick one that looks decent enough, and then add the human touch by uploading it as an attachment to the template. meanwhile, the commercial artist is in the poison bog

This is an important part that people overlook: generating these images (or AI-generated text) will be as fast as loading up various instagram filters: that *INSTANTANEOUS* ability to generate 200 "starting-points" makes it a really powerful, destabilizing tool

generate 200 slogan-image combinations using keywords "dependable, tough, powerful, Ford"

*2 seconds later*

bleep

haha, i was just goofing but that's actually the very worst example i could have used. i'm sure plenty of huge companies will keep using the human touch for along time, because it will always help.

huge companies that routinely spend millions on polishing their image won't want to embrace imagery that is basically commercial art porridge. it's the tens of thousands of small businesses that require 'some artwork' for an ad, a report, a menu, etc. which will embrace this with enthusiasm.

small businesses, big box stores and (big) chains. basically, one more weapon for companies benefitting from american-style consumer culture

i'm just spitballing, but from a purely art in a business setting perspective, it does seem like creative people will need to be more specialized and shift from making actual art to playing psychologist. so they will basically become UX/UI designers, though i guess graphic designers were already filling this need a long time ago?

generating a bunch of art and graphics would need to be filtered through someone who is involved in the so-called "psychology" of how users respond to form, colour and design, all of which, i guess, would be overkill for a starbucks barista/artist and so the starbucks manager would just fire up dall-e 2

Fwiw there are already companies that generate ad copy automatically using gpt-3. Tbf it’s mostly for generating multiple permutations of ads for social media, which would be miserable work for a human (of course the social utility of the ads is nil). There is also software to generate permutations of the design/art based on existing elements

the so-called "psychology" of how users respond to form, colour and design

the more this is codified, the more it will be incorporated into the software until everything it produces will look like an orange-and-teal movie poster, at which point we all go stark mad

huge companies that routinely spend millions on polishing their image won't want to embrace imagery that is basically commercial art porridge. it's the tens of thousands of small businesses that require 'some artwork' for an ad, a report, a menu, etc. which will embrace this with enthusiasm.

what is hard to wrap one's mind around is that: this will happen inside the next five years

i don't agree that the dall e-2 pieces have no spark of originality or look particularly like commercial art porridge. much of it would pass as like, the art accompanying a new yorker article. it passes the "turing test" for me

if anything it’s too twee. not sure it could summon the decisive bold stroke or compositional semiotics that a human illustrator could

but certainly this is amazing and there is some stylistic range to it

up your game, humans

Maybe one day, like with chess, we’ll say “OK, computers are better than us at art but it’s still fun to do”

another view on this subject:

In addition to the potential for AI-generated false stories, there’s a simultaneously scary and exciting future where AI-generated false stories are the norm. The rise of the software engineer has given us the power to create new kinds of spaces: virtual reality and augmented reality are now possible, and the “Internet of things” is increasingly entering our homes. This past year, we’ve seen a new type of art: that which is created by algorithms and not humans. In this future, AI-generated content will continue to become more sophisticated, and it will be increasingly difficult to differentiate it from the content that is created by humans. One of the implications of the rise in AI-generated content is that the public will have to contend with the reality that it will be increasingly difficult to differentiate between generated content and human-generated content.

(all of that was written by GPT-3)