[HN Gopher] The Weird and Wonderful World of AI Art ___________________________________________________________________ The Weird and Wonderful World of AI Art Author : jxmorris12 Score : 124 points Date : 2022-04-22 14:21 UTC (8 hours ago) (HTM) web link (jxmo.notion.site) (TXT) w3m dump (jxmo.notion.site) | jxmorris12 wrote: | Hi, I'm the author of this post. I hope you all enjoy it! I | researched and wrote this back in January, and although the main | ideas are still relevant, the landscape of AI art generation has | changed quite a bit in just three months. Here are some important | new developments: | | - DALL-E 2: https://openai.com/dall-e-2/ | | - Midjourney: https://twitter.com/midjourney | | - Laion 5B dataset: https://laion.ai/laion-5b-a-new-era-of-open- | large-scale-mult... | | - Compvis latent diffusion: https://github.com/CompVis/latent- | diffusion | | Since the field is moving so quickly, this newsletter is a good | way to try to stay on top of things: https://multimodal.art/news | | Also I went on Yannic Kilcher's podcast to talk about this! | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdkenV-ZdJU&ab_channel=Yanni... | devindotcom wrote: | Glad you did this. I started working on something myself in | January as I was dabbling in it but the whole scene was | evolving so fast I was like, by the time I write it the piece | will seem like a time capsule. The survey/history style is good | and educational, maybe this will spur me to put out the effort | and do my own.. | mdp2021 wrote: | > _this newsletter is a good way_ | | Thank you! ...RSS? | | Edit: same "...RSS?" is valid for your blog, at | https://jxmo.io/ ... | | PS: the article: very precious summary! | jxmorris12 wrote: | I think this link works: https://jxmo.io/feed.xml | mdp2021 wrote: | Thank you! | | In case one day you'll want to increase its use, I suggest | to put it at least in the homepage source (where we go | check if we find there a literal 'rss', or 'feed', or maybe | 'xml'). | JJMcJ wrote: | Interesting article. | | But the web page itself: the PageDown key doesn't work for | scrolling, though the arrow keys do. | afpx wrote: | There's certainly a market for AI generated art. But, of all of | the AI art that I've looked at, it all lacked "soul". It feels | like writing I've read that was generated by GPT-3 - it has a | very pleasant way of saying a lot of nothing. | marban wrote: | "Art is what you can get away with" -- A.W. | woldenron wrote: | It's not AI. | mdp2021 wrote: | It is called in this specific sense of the term 'intelligent' | the entity which writes the implementation of a function from | some input to some intended output; the engineer which creates | a writer of functions from some input to some intended output | is said to have created an "intelligence". | | If somebody wears a thicker coat during a "cold war", the | problem is not considered terminological. | spencerflem wrote: | It's crazy how far & fast AI art has come. | | I still love the deep dream style tho :) Feels the most like the | AI is coming up with it's own art by itself for other AIs which I | find just the right amount of unsettling | | Can't wait to try out the colab links later today! Thanks so much | for the great article :) | 6gvONxR4sf7o wrote: | It's cool to see the impact colab has had here too. It seems like | a huge enabler in the art community of people who would otherwise | have tons of overhead to play around (getting and setting up the | machine and libraries). It's awesome that google just gives away | this scarce resource (gpu cycles) for free. | vullaprovarasw2 wrote: | nix23 wrote: | I really don't think it's art, cloud's in the sky are more | "creative" | krapp wrote: | It looks like art. It acts like art. It stimulates the senses | and evokes emotion like art. | | Whatever "creative" means, either the AI has it, or it isn't | really relevant. | [deleted] | mdp2021 wrote: | You missed the important point: an artistic object is a | concretion of a structure of meanings. It takes a proper | intelligence to build that - you need conceptual depth, | reflection etc.: you have by definition wait for a GAN. | | To elicit emotions (per se not quite a demanding endeavor) is | not sufficient to be qualified as "art". | nix23 wrote: | That is exceptionally well articulated, fully on your side. | marcodiego wrote: | AI is doing fine art now. Wait until it learns to write good | programs and we're doomed. | mdp2021 wrote: | > _AI is doing fine art now_ | | (Not really. "Illustration", "graphics", somehow, yes; "fine", | maybe; "art", no1.) | | > _Wait until it learns to write good programs_ | | ...and we will be empowered of a power almost unimaginable. | | -- | | 1Well, I just had to be more explicit for a post nearby, so | I'll copy that: <<[...] an artistic object is a concretion of a | structure of meanings. It takes a proper intelligence to build | that - you need conceptual depth, reflection etc.: you have by | definition wait for a GAN>> | moultano wrote: | You all might enjoy some of the things I've made with it. | | Tour of the Sacred Library -- A short story illustrated with | VQGAN+CLIP https://moultano.wordpress.com/2021/07/20/tour-of-the- | sacred... | | Doorways -- A series of images exploring "semantic symmetry" | using CLIP's embeddings to do visual analogy completion. | https://moultano.wordpress.com/2021/08/23/doorways/ | | Depth of Field -- Exploring the scale of the Hubble Ultra Deep | Field image using CLIP guided diffusion to create visual | analogies. https://moultano.wordpress.com/2022/03/24/depth-of- | field/ | enriquto wrote: | Why don't you share the exact code for these experiments so | that anybody can reproduce them? (and tweak them!) | corysama wrote: | Pretty sure Moultano's Tour was made with a hosted version of | the original VQGAN+CLIP method https://colab.research.google. | com/drive/15UwYDsnNeldJFHJ9Ndg... Though that method and | implementation is quite old. | | If you want an up-to-date list of open implementations, it's | here https://pharmapsychotic.com/tools.html Whatever is the | newest Disco Diffusion has been the best around for the past | few iterations. | moultano wrote: | For the first and third, I can't, it isn't my code. | | For the second, I have to get approval from my employer to | release it, but I stalled out half way through the paperwork | and haven't had the energy to keep pushing it forward. | krapp wrote: | Twitter users should consider following | https://twitter.com/rpgmakerai and https://twitter.com/ai_curio | for examples of AI art in their feeds | scottmf wrote: | I have access to midjourney and have posted some creations | | https://twitter.com/scottinallcaps | | e.g., | https://twitter.com/scottinallcaps/status/151597724462738227... | yboris wrote: | I'm not creating it, but I can't stop retweeting all the cool | stuff I find: https://twitter.com/whyboris | chrisa wrote: | I'll add another - https://twitter.com/PasanenJenni does some | fantastic work by combining AI generation with more traditional | digital art; great stuff. | jxmorris12 wrote: | I have some links in the post! Here are some more good | accounts: https://twitter.com/advadnoun | https://twitter.com/RiversHaveWings | https://twitter.com/danielrussruss | forsythe_ wrote: | A couple years ago I decided to fork StyleGAN, optimistic to kick | the tires and just see if it would run on my desktop. I got bored | after an hour or two and scrapped the setup, having felt it was | too complex for someone with a casual interest. | | Fast-forward to finding the link to NightCafe a half hour ago, | where I just had to type a ridiculous phrase for it to spit out | something that attempted to match my description after just a few | minutes: | https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/sPsmFbpijhePoRDwqF... | | Still, I don't see using this for anything more than gags with | friends right now. But it's a solid leap forward. | seanwilson wrote: | > ...the main development is the rise of *multimodal learning*. | | > Multimodal learning, in this case, is learning to match up text | and images. Our new models are really good at learning to write | captions for images, and (more importantly for artistic purposes) | to generate images that correspond to a given caption. | | Can anyone explain this more? I think I recall Facebook was | automatically generating captions for images automatically a good | while ago, but this is something different? | scottmf wrote: | https://openai.com/blog/clip/ | spython wrote: | I've recently had fun using VQGAN + CLIP, combined with slowly | zooming in, for an art project on ecology: | https://rybakov.com/project/metamorphosis/ | holoduke wrote: | A year ago or so there was a video posted about an AI generated | video. It was extremely scary. Almost like a emotionless | psychopat with absolutely zero feelings towards humans. Anyone | remembers where to find it? | big_blind wrote: | I've been playing around with the Dall-E 2 website all day. It's | simply amazing: https://openai.com/dall-e-2/ | KaoruAoiShiho wrote: | Who do I beg to get earlier access? | julieturner99 wrote: | The linked post suggests that AI art started in 2015 (what it | labels as "early forms of AI art"). AI art goes back decades--it | didn't start with Google. Perhaps the author might want to look a | bit further back than seven years. | gwern wrote: | Why should he bother with such 'Schmidhubering'? Contemporary | AI art owes little to before 2014. | elevaet wrote: | I wish there were analogous tools for sound design | corysama wrote: | AudioCLIP has not received as much attention | https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13043 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SLQVh9ABDM | JoeAltmaier wrote: | The CLIP stuff has its downside. Much of what I see looks like a | collage of real images. Not so much art as graphic design. | supramouse wrote: | searching the same phrases on google images returns more | interesting "pre-generated" results ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-22 23:01 UTC)