post pictures your computer has generated ( algorithmic art )

[luka]

alright so whos the winner then? we've had enough rounds to be able to determine whose the best surely?

 

[sufi]

Waiting saw this one fly past

Nature of existence in the universe

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that's the winner - it's the map off eastenders

 

[WashYourHands]

Elbow bumps to Catalog and Bill for getting it rolling. The browser option is shit with faces, but uncanny with colour, form and references. You want a top 5 and shut down like poor Corpsey‘s choon? N0OOoooOOOooo

Animated versions are more engaging, there’s something almost alive about certain facets. The fun personally is throwing some half remembered lines into Hypno‘s HQGAN seeing what it throws out via a simple browser (while working)

 

[WashYourHands]

that's the winner - it's the map off eastenders

 

[luka]

also whos the worst? maybe there should be an elimination round at least? weakest link

 

[WashYourHands]

Controversial

 

[WashYourHands]

“Create your image while walking across a rolling log in a lake”

 

[catalog]

It's quite interesting how this worked. @william_kent found the Google colab/notebook method and introduced it on another thread. I then picked that up and ran with it for a bit. I like the videos ones so found a book that gave you videos. @Clinamenic got involved too. A few other people had a go but it's a massive ball ache unless you have a big of patience and go for thd paid sub.

But it wasn't until @mixed_biscuits posted the hypnogram link (or was it @william_kent?) that @WashYourHands and @mixed_biscuits got involved and really started to churn them out. I think @148 I.Q. Magical Thinker was involved a bit there as well.

Sort of illustrates how the different access points bring on different people, plus the group situation encouraging others to have a go.

Dissensus at its best imo.

 

[luka]

so there's a sort of vanguard, a cutting edge, and its exclusive, its the beautiful people, and then at a certain point the invisible walls fall down and the acid teds flood the place and lower the tone?

 

[catalog]

or, there's a well needed injection of new ideas and techniques just as the innovation becomes a bit stuck?

 

[luka]

one of the two

 

[william_kent]

I'd like it if more people got involved and posted the results of their experiments

the development of GANS and AI art is interesting - it's at the wild west stage at the moment - the technology is in its early stages, and opposing streams are emerging - there's the "everyone can be an artist - let's share and learn - free to all!" crowd and then there's "let's mint NFTs", "set up a limited run print shop", "this time net year we'll be millionaires" crew who want to enslave the AI to do their bidding and make them rich...and then there's Stan, who will be the worlds first successful multimedia AI artist...

imagine...




72 HD Screens controlled by 18 GPUs ( 1 GPU per block of 4 HD screens + master controller server to control layout )
Stan fed by tubes, slow drip of crystal meth, wired awake reading aloud from Gravity's Rainbow until the very last page, 18 GPUs processing his words and generating images ( and sound - these sort of setups have a decent sound system and dedicated audio server )




I look at posting pictures as examples that I ( and maybe others ) can learn from - what prompts are people using? It helps to understand what material the GANs have been trained on - I've learnt "hyperreal" as a prompt this week thanks to @WashYourHands

also - not obvious at the moment, but this is on the same level of the introduction of sampling in music - at some point there will be a copyright claim from some dead artist's greedy estate over the use of "in the style of" prompts, there will probably be an AI assisted forgery on sale at an auction, and if the technology improves then there will be agencies who can destroy a life with a simple "photographs of x indulging in unspeakable vice" prompt

next steps - greater processing power will enable video, film, stories - a director could type in a prompt "car being chased by 60 foot mechanical crocodile in the style of Kubrick" or whatever and the sequence will be rendered

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and - art is still 50 years ahead of writing -

I've been interested in neural networks, AI, procedural generation, etc., for years, and I can say that the text generation AIs are really shoddy compared to what is happening with the visual side at the moment

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

so there's a sort of vanguard, a cutting edge, and its exclusive, its the beautiful people, and then at a certain point the invisible walls fall down and the acid teds flood the place and lower the tone?

Yes, that's how the hardcore explosion 1990-1994 happened. Sampling and sequencing for the masses twisted the lid off a huge fizzing vat of creativity.

 

[WashYourHands]

so there's a sort of vanguard, a cutting edge, and its exclusive, its the beautiful people, and then at a certain point the invisible walls fall down and the acid teds flood the place and lower the tone?

 

[william_kent]

This whole thread has gotten me wondering about the usage of GANs in chaos magic, a practice which I know almost nothing of.

the prompt is the evocation, focusing the will to materialise the object of desire, and just like Magick you better choose your words carefully otherwise an abomination will be summoned into existance

 

[william_kent]

@Clinamenic

I use certain numbers as the seed value

it's a conjuration

 

[Clinamenic]

Also seems like an effective means for divination.

 

[Clinamenic]

Leaving the domain of the rational. What better way than through an unsupervised algorithm, unsupervised by rationality?

 

[william_kent]

Leaving the domain of the rational. What better way than through an unsupervised algorithm, unsupervised by rationality?

DMT?

 

[Clinamenic]

VQGAN+DMT?