Long but interesting piece. There's indeed a lot to say about our relationships to tools in general and generative AI in particular. It's disheartening how it made obvious that collaborative initiatives are diminishing. In any case, ambivalence abounds in this text... for sure we can't trust the self-appointed stewards of the latest wave of such tools. The parallel with Spirited Away at the end of the article is very well chosen in my opinion. The context in which technologies are born and applied matters so much.
Nice little article to get an idea of the culture and art behind magic tricks.
Ever realized raccoons had something to do with the history of computing? And children illustrations? Work of art if you ask me... we have to get back to the time of the computer magazines.
Sure, a filter which turns pictures into something with the Ghibli style looks cute. But make no mistake, it has utter political motives. They need a distraction from their problems and it's yet another way to breach a boundary. Unfortunately I expect people will comply and use the feature with enthusiasm...
An excellent essay about generative AI and art. Goes deep in the topic and explains very well how you can hardly make art with those tools. It's just too remote from how they work. I also particularly like the distinction between skill and intelligence. Indeed, we can make highly skilled but not intelligent systems using this technology.
Interesting critique of this new platform... it's the beginning of the hype cycle but will probably the same "enshittification" phenomenon than other platforms.
This is indeed sad to see another platform turn against its users. This was once a place to nurture young artists... it's now another ad driven platform full of AI made scams.
Interesting approach to have a ray tracer which doesn't quite follow physics for artistic purposes.
This is a big and relevant release for open and freely accessible culture.
How does it feel to just want to put something creative out there without being exploited? Very touching comic on the topic.
Excellent piece from an excellent artist. I really thought this through and I think he's going in the right direction.
So close... and still. This is clearly still in the uncanny valley department at times.
Interesting benchmark, this seems to point toward AVIF and JPEG-XL as two great codecs for pictures.
Interesting and surprising limitation. This makes a lot of sense when you think about the set of images used for training though. Also says something about our own art history.
Such generative models are getting more and more accessible. You can play with them using a few lines of python now.
This is really cool work. Very insightful and pretty to look at.
Wow, now that's a serious body of work about origamis being in the public domain! Rejoice!
There is indeed something concerning with the current trends in the arts and entertainment. This is clearly stagnating and looking back, barely creating novelty.
I'd lie if I said I'm not slightly fascinated by what you can do with Stable Diffusion...
Interesting first exploration of a tiny part of the data set. If you read closely, this shows some of the potential biases in there.