AI art and creative content creation

[Orionblamblam]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1671231938219130894

View: https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/1671231938219130894

 

[BAROBA]

I have tested that New Adobe AI in the latest Photoshop Beta and it is impressive on a lot of subjects. Especially faces. I used a picture of a bottompart of a face and it could reconstruct the rest of the face using the information on the lowerhalf. ( the face was painted gold ) and that exact color was used on the generated face. A friend of mine could help out an old lady combining pictures of her grandkids and could fill in parts that were cut out of the photos ( top of a head for example) and the AI could place all 3 kids from different pictures onto a new picture with a new background, making a seamless result. Would have taken him days, now fixed in half an hour... Most of that time was for fixing small errors that the AI left in. Still knowing how to use Photoshop properly will help a lot. Crap in will still cause crap out, just a bit less crap out.

 

[BAROBA]

More toys :

GitHub - XingangPan/DragGAN: Official Code for DragGAN (SIGGRAPH 2023)

Official Code for DragGAN (SIGGRAPH 2023). Contribute to XingangPan/DragGAN development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

That grab a point on a photo and move it demo has been released.
Wait a few weeks and you can play with in Automatic1111. ( I hope )

 

[Orionblamblam]

Comments:

"5 minutes of Mr. Krabs refusing to pay child support is very much in character for him."

"Born too late to explore the world.Born too soon to explore space.Born just in time to hear AI Mr. Crabs belt it out."

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP9EY4xMlTE

 

[X-39]

We asked AI to show us the secret aircraft hidden in Area 51

Using an AI tool called DALL-E 2, we created a series of images meant to depict what secret aircraft hidden in Area 51 might look like.

www.sandboxx.us

I gave the OpenAI-based DALL-E 2 15 of my hard-earned dollars to create some unique and unusual aviation-centric images, starting with a simple prompt: “Black and white photographs of Top Secret stealth aircraft hidden in Area 51 with men in suits and military uniforms looking on from the side.”

Not what i had in mind.. I was expecting him to show us secret aircraft from the 21ST CENTURY when i saw the headline. The images are frankly a blurry mess, he should have gone with MJ instead, and avoided the B&W photograph prompt.

 

[publiusr]

On art

Heritage algorithms combine the rigors of science with the infinite possibilities of art and design

By bridging culture and computation, heritage algorithms challenge the myth of ‘primitive cultures’ and forge a new understanding of science and art.

theconversation.com

 

[robunos]

Meant to post this before . . .

The AI Conundrum: Are BattleTech’s Human Creators on the Verge of Extinction? | Sarna.net

If you've spent even a moderate amount of time on the internet these past few months, you've probably come across a picture of someone with way too many fingers, or a stilted conversation between Bill Gates and Socrates, or a pixelated sitcom where there are long stretches

www.sarna.net

cheers,
Robin.

 

[publiusr]

They still can’t make Star Trek ships..

https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/zdgn9d

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/zdgn9d/how_come_midjourney_can_produce_star_wars_ships/

 

[Arjen]

That's not a bug, but a feature

 

[Graham1973]

One thing I've seen Procedurally Generated Art (aka 'AI Art') used for is to disguise black & white 'Creature Features' as something much more modern and hip...

The attached examples all come from one YouTube channel that seems to be using out of copyright films to bulk up it's back catalog.

 

[publiusr]

Aging images

New AI model can alter apparent ages of facial images while retaining identifying features

NYU Tandon School of Engineering researchers developed a new artificial intelligence technique to change a person's apparent age in images while maintaining their unique identifying features, a significant step forward from standard AI models that can make people look younger or older but fail...

techxplore.com

Sorting things out

Advances in AI, chips boost voice recognition

Separate developments in speech recognition technology from IBM and California universities at San Francisco and Berkeley offer promising news for patients suffering from vocal paralysis and speech loss.

techxplore.com

Programming

Computer scientists develop open-source tool for dramatically speeding up the programming language Python

A team of computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by Emery Berger, recently unveiled a prize-winning Python profiler called Scalene. Programs written with Python are notoriously slow—up to 60,000 times slower than code written in other programming languages—and...

techxplore.com

Enhance

https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/168e1gg

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/168e1gg/how_to_make_vector_illustrations_with_midjourney/

 

[BAROBA]

The reddit link is now changed into a twitter post:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1697946877772394775

View: https://twitter.com/chaseleantj/status/1697946877772394775

Also works with Stable diffusion.

 

[publiusr]

Hearing a lot about "Efficient ViT" lately...

[2205.14756] EfficientViT: Multi-Scale Linear Attention for High-Resolution Dense Prediction

AI model speeds up high-resolution computer vision

A machine-learning model for high-resolution computer vision could enable computationally intensive vision applications, such as autonomous driving or medical image segmentation, on edge devices.

news.mit.edu

Nice field effect cartoon

Wind Rider: A High Performance Magsail (Jupiter in a month)

Wind Rider: A High Performance Magsail (Jupiter in a month)

forum.nasaspaceflight.com

 

[publiusr]

Now there is Spellburst

Spellburst: A large-language-model-powered interactive canvas for generative artists

Generative artists work in code. Using programming languages like Processing or AI text-to-image tools, they translate expressive semantics into lines of code that form swirling, colorful patterns or surrealistic landscapes.

techxplore.com

 

[Foo Fighter]

Interesting, how does one get hold of Spellburst?

 

[publiusr]

Stanford will release it as open source later…maybe contact the university?

On Phys.org today:

"AI generated speech brings a personal voice to books."

AI-generated speech brings a personal voice to books

There's a bold new chapter in audiobooks.

techxplore.com

DeepZen LTD. digitized/sampled the voice of actor Edward Hermann and now have a more emotional sounding inflection (Large-scale Automatic Audiobook Creation)--courtesy of the Gutenberg Project.

Watermarks

Study unveils vulnerabilities of watermarking AI generated content

With the advent of LensaAI, ChatGPT and other highly performing generative machine learning models, the internet is now growing increasingly saturated with texts, images logos and videos created by artificial intelligence (AI). This content, broadly referred to as AI generated content (AIGC)...

techxplore.com

Image scrapers

Sabotage tool takes on AI image scrapers

Artists who have stood by helplessly as their online works remained ripe for the picking without authorization by AI web scraping operations can finally fight back.

techxplore.com

Researchers create protocol to test AI debiasing methods

A research team led by Brock University has developed a way to help programmers evaluate the robustness of debiasing methods on language models such as ChatGPT, which help to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate speech as artificial intelligence (AI) generates text.

techxplore.com

Watch that game

Online games use dark designs to collect player data, researchers reveal

Gaming is a $193 billion industry—nearly double the size of the film and music industries combined—and there are around three billion gamers worldwide. While online gaming can improve well-being and foster social relations, privacy and awareness issues could potentially offset these benefits and...

techxplore.com

Researchers co-design video game controller to provide social connection for kids with disabilities

When Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton shared a beautiful story of his brother Nicolas experiencing a professional F1 simulator, he said "The smile you see here never left his face."

techxplore.com

 

[publiusr]

A way to screen for unsafe images
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-filter-tackle-unsafe-ai-generated-images.html

More news

A peek into the future of visual data interpretation: A framework for assessing generative AI's efficacy

In the last year, large language models (LLMs) have come into prominence for boasting a suite of ever-expanding capabilities including text generation, image production, and, more recently, highly descriptive image analysis. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into image analysis...

techxplore.com

AI faces look more real than actual human face: Study

White faces generated by artificial intelligence (AI) now appear more real than human faces, according to new research led by experts at The Australian National University (ANU).

medicalxpress.com

Meta Amu Video Competes as an AI Generated Animation Video Tool | NextBigFuture.com

Meta Emu Video is a simple factorized method for high-quality video generation. Emu Video leverages Meta's Emu model. It is a simple method for text-to-video

www.nextbigfuture.com

good for turning sci-fi model covers into 3D prints?

AI model instantly generates 3D image from 2D sample

In the rapidly emerging world of large-scale computing, it was just a matter of time before a game-changing achievement was poised to shake up the field of 3D visualizations.

techxplore.com

 

[Foo Fighter]

(AI) can be useful no doubt, I ran an automotive render I did some time ago and got this.

 

[martinbayer]

AI is a powerful capability that can be used as a beneficial tool or a malicious weapon, but for the foreseeable future it will only serve any purposes at the behest of humans that control it. And as long as there is no artificial consciousness, it will remain that way. Simple as that.

 

[Orionblamblam]

From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us​

From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us

AI image synthesis is getting more capable at executing ideas, and it's not slowing down.

arstechnica.com

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

A recent boardgame (Terraforming Mars) used AI to generate artwork for their game rather than paying artists to do it.

The result is apparently a decent game, but it looks like incoherent dogshit visually (some pics are fine, but no consistent artistic vision). I'm not going to buy it. Beautiful artwork is part of the expensive boardgame experience.

 

[Orionblamblam]

The result is apparently a decent game, but it looks like incoherent dogshit visually (some pics are fine, but no consistent artistic vision).

A problem with early AI art generators. A problem that seems to have either been fixed, or is being fixed. In any event it *will* be fixed. Early adopters of *any* technology get to experience the bugs.

Think it's a wholly AI problem? Then reconcile the "artistic vision" of Star Trek Discovery with the rest of Star Trek. Humans *massively* screwed the pooch on that.

 

[Orionblamblam]

A recent boardgame (Terraforming Mars) used AI to generate artwork for their game rather than paying artists to do it.

This is a line of description I've seen a lot "rather than paying human artists." Well... when I was an engineer, I did my own math using spreadsheets and such. Rather than paying human computers to do it, as was done in the Before Times. I did my own typing, rather than paying a human secretary. Today nobody thinks twice about automating such things. Art will likely be no different.

Right now, I would not for a second contemplate using an AI to illustrate one of my aerospace publications; telling an AI "I was a piece depicting the B-70A carrying a Dyna Soar payload with blah blah blah" just seems like way too damned much trouble to get accurate. I *might* use AI to mock up some art, such as getting the composition the way I like it, but the actual product... I'd want a human to do it. But my crappy science fiction, like my "War With the Deep Ones" scribblings... if I were to self publish, I suspect AI cover art might work out just fine. Especially since there's virtually no chance in hell my self published works would sell enough to actually pay an artist. Selling a dozen copies on Amazon does not cover the electric bill involved in just emailing back and forth with the artist.

 

[Nik]

Your earlier comment about libraries struck a sad chord: Our city library was renowned, but decided that much of its sprawling reference collection could be discarded, as "Everything is Now On-Line"...

Uh, pay-walls ?
Changes in 'Fashion', such that older books could prove 'uncomfortable' reading ? Hey, The Past was a different country...

Worse, unless you have 'local storage', your cloud-based repositories are vulnerable to mischief, mishap and mayhem...
Natural disaster, war rolling through etc etc,
Jihadists who preach that if library agrees with their Book, don't need it, else heresy to be erased...
What if future TooBig.Gov decides, per '1984', to re-write 'inconvenient' history ?? Just need a few pass-words...
Perhaps future analogy to Medieval documents accidentally preserved by becoming palimpsests, scraped clean, re-written or used to cover / bind other works...
Like 'interesting' scraps found between WORD's 'End of Document' and 'End of File-block'...
{ Shudder... }

 

[shin_getter]

Introducing Stable Video Diffusion — Stability AI

Stable Video Diffusion is a proud addition to our diverse range of open-source models. Spanning across modalities including image, language, audio, 3D, and code, our portfolio is a testament to Stability AI’s dedication to amplifying human intelligence.

stability.ai

 

[publiusr]

Can this do better Star Trek ships?

 

[Orionblamblam]

What if future TooBig.Gov decides, per '1984', to re-write 'inconvenient' history ?? Just need a few pass-words...

A few years back HBO remade "Fahrenheit 451." They changed it considerably, basically mashing it with "Brave New World." While I seem to recall that it was kinda dull, the mashup worked. Books were banned, but the internet was ever-present... but under central control. History and literature were re-written on the fly. And when the internet is the sole source of information, "history" becomes whatever you want it to be.

Not too dissimilar from reality, as it turns out. Fortunately they haven't gotten around to doing an effective job of burning all the books.

 

[Hood]

Your earlier comment about libraries struck a sad chord: Our city library was renowned, but decided that much of its sprawling reference collection could be discarded, as "Everything is Now On-Line"...

Yes this excuse is rolled out far too often by libraries.
They should know better that most books and journal articles pre-2000 are not online and probably never will be (and even if they were there would be a paywall that only a university could afford).
It grinds my gears 150% - though whenever I go in the library most students seem to be head down into a laptop without a book in sight of their desk. They just don't read anymore, it's as if the printed page is an alien concept like reading hieroglyphics.

 

[Michel Van]

Someone is very very very very angry about AI Art...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Impy4aQg9ps


oh by the way,
Mickey Mouse get copyright free in January 2024...

 

[shin_getter]

A recent boardgame (Terraforming Mars) used AI to generate artwork for their game rather than paying artists to do it.

The result is apparently a decent game, but it looks like incoherent dogshit visually (some pics are fine, but no consistent artistic vision). I'm not going to buy it. Beautiful artwork is part of the expensive boardgame experience.

AI tools can does have artistic concepts within its networks, but existing interface is quite poor at making the model do what you want. As such to generate what you want you need trial and error and experience in voodoo techniques and model retraining and all kinds of stuff.

As such the best user of such tools are those with a combination of artistic and technical skill, which enables much greater productivity.

I'd think after a while the baseline acceptable artwork quality for everything will go up and up and there'd still be some people employed to operate the computer for optimal results until better interface model matures.

 

[southwestforests]

Apparently spammers are already making good use of AI, having trouble on a health support site, and on the forum for Trainz Railroad Simulator; for example, with brand new members such as this at Trainz posting comments such as ... (inline text link for importer license has been removed by me in following quote)

sanjana515 said:
I appreciate your feedback and suggestions. I'll be sure to pass them along to the developers. I understand your concerns about the stability of HD Terrain. The developers are aware of the issue and are working on a fix. As for the interface changes, I know it can be difficult to adjust to new things. However, the developers believe that the new interface is more intuitive and user-friendly. They are also working on adding more customization options to the interface. I agree with you that the new water system is not ideal. The developers are also aware of this issue and are working on a fix. I'm glad you like the Scrapbook feature. It's a great way to keep track of your work. I understand your frustration with the Marquee selection tool. The developers will look into this issue and see if there is a way to improve it. I'm not sure where the bulk asset replacement tool went. I'll look into this and get back to you. I agree with you that mass add/delete baseboards is a great feature. Overall, I think you've made some valid points and I'll be sure to pass them along to the developers. Thank you for your feedback. An importer license is a government-issued document that allows a company or individual to import goods into a country. The specific requirements for obtaining an importer license vary depending on the country, but they typically include providing proof of identity, business registration, and financial solvency.

And the apparently AI generated spam even quotes comments made on posts, such as here from Neuroclastic,
(url edited by me to be incomplete and not functional)

nosih65060 just commented on The Autistic Time Traveller.
"
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"
As I embarked on the journey to authorship, I sought out a ghostwriting team that could bring my narrative to life. The service available here htt ... writingservice ...-services/ offered just that, with a dedicated team of UK-based writers who understood the intricacies of my genre. Their collaborative approach and commitment to capturing my story’s essence resulted in a manuscript that exceeded my expectations.

Leave it to humans to pretty much instantly figure out how to distort and corrupt a new good thing.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

In my experience the general public have no artistic taste. Hence, terrible AI art.

A friend of mind used to make beautiful, tastefully-designed wedding stationery, he set up a website where people could design their own wedding invitations etc. People designed the most horrible invitations, but loved them because they did it. User satisfaction went up inversely to the tastefulness of the design.

 

[Arjen]

Hence concrete lions as garden gatekeepers. Bleurgh.

 

[Orionblamblam]

Bleurgh, as someone said. Nonetheless, it's better than I could do:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1728089499429642432

View: https://twitter.com/AnnaIndianaAI/status/1728089499429642432

 

[Orionblamblam]

Hence concrete lions as garden gatekeepers.

We all know what gardens *really* need as gatekeepers:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1728060302707597806

View: https://twitter.com/UnwantedBlog/status/1728060302707597806

 

[Arjen]

A lump of concrete to the head can be very persuasive.

 

[Orionblamblam]

People designed the most horrible invitations, but loved them because they did it.

"I did that" is one of the statements that can bring the most pride, even when "that" is objectively crap. Because not only most people can't do "that," they'll never even try.


Bonus round:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfAHbm7G2R0

 

[Orionblamblam]

A lump of concrete to the head can be very persuasive.

Indeed:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1726080001903370540

View: https://twitter.com/SteveInmanUIC/status/1726080001903370540


No artificial intelligence there, just some natural stupidity.

 

[lostcosmonauts]

In my experience the general public have no artistic taste. Hence, terrible AI art.

A friend of mind used to make beautiful, tastefully-designed wedding stationery, he set up a website where people could design their own wedding invitations etc. People designed the most horrible invitations, but loved them because they did it. User satisfaction went up inversely to the tastefulness of the design.

The Ikea Effect

IKEA effect - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Orionblamblam]

The Ikea Effect

From that:

"The IKEA effect has also been observed in animals, such as rats and starlings, which prefer to obtain food from sources that required effort on their part (Kacelnik & Marsh, 2002; Lawrence & Festinger, 1962)."

I suggest an alternative explanation as to why critters - humans are critters too - prefer stuff they had to put some effort into: rather than "sunk cost" or narcissism, it may well be that we all know deep down that the Good Times won't last forever. May come a time when we'll *have* to do for ourselves, and thus putting in some effort now means that when it's do-or-die, we might not die.