Been making a bit of a habit of staying up way too late, playing with MidJourney when I should be sleeping. At this point the novelty has mostly worn off, left me trying to figure out what in the hell am I trying to accomplish with it.
The ease with which AI art is made seems to subtract something from the significance we ascribe to 'art'. If anyone can readily make it, then what significance does any single piece of it have?
That was a bit discouraging, at least until until I realized I was approaching it all wrong. Who cares about significance, the payoff is in the message it conveys, the reactions it provokes.
With that little epiphany I set out to make stuff solely to elicit a response. Aimed for somewhere between vague unease and WTF, just something that couldn't be readily unseen.
Was easier said that done, almost felt like working backwards. The later it got the easier it was though, so maybe there's something to be said for late night coffee and insomnia.
These were made completely by AI? Wow, incredible..and a little sad - why bother to draw anything these days... interesting where the development of AI Apps and possibilities will go and where they will end - in our brains probably ;).
Love the graphics anyway ;).
Yes, just gave it a prompt in discord, most times just a few words and then just played with 'rerolling' and variations until I got something close to what I was looking for. Why not draw? If you have something specific in mind, AI is not the way to go. I can't draw worth a damn so it's nice to be able to create stuff I'd never be able to execute otherwise. I feel like AI will be the next industrial revolution, eventually will end up revamping much of what we do and how.
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You have succeeded in prompting images that are extremely unsettling, that evoke fear of psychopathy, evil, and horrific torment. I note that I have yet to see the opposite from AI created art. I wonder if it is similarly capable of producing images that evoke peace, love, and sacred joy.
After all, AI is, in fact, inhuman, and therefore innately inhumane and psychopathic. It is not surprising it produces art that evokes fear, even terror, of evil and horror. I suspect the opposite is impossible to it, because those are features of good people, proper socialization, love for one's neighbors, and even nominally human psychopaths incapable of them.
How much less so inhuman psychopathic machines.
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Hey, that's what I was going for, I'm going to call that a success. Are you familiar with détournement? I feel like AI is well suited to that, although I'm still not quite sure how to use it for that. These came out of my attempts to figure that out. As for the opposite from AI art, it's out there, it's just not as common. Not quite sure exactly what you mean by sacred joy but this is what MidJourney made for that prompt.
My couch is inhuman, does that make it inhumane and psychopathic as well? Humans created the AIs, created the process by which it learns, created the data sets it learns from. If AIs are inhumane and psychopathic, it's only because they're mirroring humanity's capacity for those things.
MidJourney is the only AI with which I am at all familiar but it's more of a hyped up search engine turned artist than anything. It's can be so damn literal and seems to go with the most common imagery associated with a word, regardless of whether it fits with the context of the prompt. Think of a little kid mimicking the adults, with zero comprehension of what's going on or what it's pretending to do.
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That seems an remarkably apt description.
The pic above may be the first AI image I've seen intending to show joy, and particularly sacred joy. I may sense only my own aversion to relinquishing that human artistic capacity to actual people, but I do sense some unsettling thing from that image. In careful examination of it I can't specify any lack or shortcoming, which leads me to suspect it is only my personal a priori conviction AI isn't capable of portraying what it surely does: sacred joy.
Well rebutted, and thanks for revealing to me what I did not understand before.
It's amazing how far art has come. Now you could just input commands and an insane work of art is generated as opposed to when it takes hours to achieve similar results by someone.
I mean, art is meant to be evocative so it depends on how the audience perceives it
It really is amazing, both in how far its come and all the different directions it can go from here.
Yes and no. If you get the prompt just right the first time then yes but usually it doesn't work out that way (at least for me) and can get a little more grind-y and time consuming. I think it took me something like six hours to come up with all these, lots of 'almost' and 'not quite' and playing with word choices.
The results are amazing though. You can see why this tech is so controversial amongst the creative artistic community. Interesting times lay ahead for sure
It never ceases to amaze me with what it can (and can't) do. Oh yeah, it seems like one of those things that comes along every generation or two and just completely shakes things up, the old guard hates it, the young kids love it, and most people aren't quite sure what to make of it.
Interesting times indeed, I'm looking forward to it. Thanks for dropping by!
A pint of beer clearly has sleeping problems!
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Clearly!