Fire is beautiful and powerful but it is also dangerous. Fire seems to be alive. AI is like a new fire. I worry about naive people or pyros setting cognitive fires. We will need trained artists who understand how this new fire works on the mind.
Harry On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 4:21 PM Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Consider these are nascent programs. > > On Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 4:13 PM H L V <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Amazing ...but also read this exchange between the commenter Sprawl and >> the artists KromAI which was posted below the video. >> Harry >> >> The Sprawl >> 10 days >> Honestly, watching this video felt like a truly seismic moment for me. It >> made me realise something profound that I hadn't really realised before. >> For some reason with this video - because I've seen AI produced art before >> on YT but it didn't hit me like this did - I suddenly grasped what AI will >> do for the future of art. The power of AI really became apparent. And the >> implications terrify and entrance me. Can you tell me a little of how you >> curated these images? I want to know how much of your human eye was used to >> sift through bad images and pick the good ones, because that is directly >> related to how good at its job the AI is, and if you have to sift through a >> lot of rubbish to arrive at images like this then it's less impressive - so >> part of me is almost hoping you tell me that you did a lot of curation and >> cherrypicking, because then the implications for human artists and human >> art aren't quite so terrifying. Also, I'd love to know what parameters you >> need to set in order for the AI to spit out images like this. Do you just >> feed it a big dataset of Giger and Dune artwork and then press a button? Or >> do you have to set certain parameters, certain framing decisions, where >> certain objects are in the shot etc.? Amazing video, whatever your answers >> are. I'm genuinely shaken. >> >> KhromAI >> 10 days ago >> Hello The Sprawl, Thank you for your thoughtful comment. We're thrilled >> that our video had such a profound impact on you, giving you a glimpse into >> the future of AI and art. In creating these images, we used Midjourney, an >> AI image generation tool. We experimented with various complex prompts to >> generate the initial outputs, based on a dataset of Giger and Dune artwork. >> It took several attempts to achieve the desired images that aligned with >> our vision and some postprocessing in photoshop. Our human touch came into >> play when curating the final set of images for the video. We carefully >> selected the most suitable images from the AI-generated outputs. This >> process highlights the synergy between AI and human creativity, where AI >> serves as a tool to assist and inspire artists, rather than replacing them. >> We're glad you found our video amazing, and we appreciate your curiosity >> about the process. Feel free to reach out if you have any more questions or >> concerns. Thank you for your support! >> >> The Sprawl >> 9 days ago (edited) >> @KhromAI I really did find it amazing. For some reason - maybe because >> Giger's work sank into my subconscious at an early age with Alien(and I >> thought Villeneuve's Dune was visually extraordinary too) - this video was >> qualitatively different in its impact from any of the other, similar AI >> videos I've seen. Thanks for the explanation - that was what I suspected. >> It confirmed my beliefs about what artistic creation and good art really >> is, and to me it has to be some form of communication between conscious >> beings, with intents. If there's no intent behind something, if it's just a >> pattern that the wind blew in the sand, then it just doesn't qualify. It >> could be an extraordinarily beautiful pattern but it wouldn't count. And >> that's what a purely AI-generated piece of art would be: a pattern in the >> sand. Without at least some form of human curation it fails. It has no >> intention or meaning. So there's a part of me that's quite confident that >> art isn't in trouble. But this video still made me very uneasy. Something >> in my worldview wobbled a bit. >> >> >> On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 3:45 PM Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> In the style of H.R. Giger >>> >>> https://youtu.be/mcCZftSbges >>> >>> (5 min,) >>> >>
