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by aenvoker 1mo ago
I find the test of “show me AI art that isn’t a rehash” to be a bit pernicious because I have a hard time coming up with any recent examples of non-AI art that I could lie about and claim was AI generated and you’d respond “OK, that AI art
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by aenvoker 2mo ago
I was a content moderator for Midjourney for many years. I’ve seen more AI-generated debauchery than I could ever hope to convey. I also saw 100,000x more joy, creativity, beauty and expression in that same community. Unfortunately, million
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by aenvoker 2mo ago
Web devs gonna focus on web dev things. But, I’m more interested in the works of artists like https://www.rooperainisto.com/ and https://andreaciulu.com/ who embraced the glitchy aesthetic of early AI image
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by aenvoker 2mo ago
As a clanker-apologist I gotta say this is the strawman of AI slop brought to life. Letting the machine do literally everything without even supervision and see how it turns out? No surprise at all the results are so bad. My fav AI video is
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by aenvoker 3mo ago
Midjourney is not actually an AI imagery company. It's a research lab that happened to do AI images first. I talked more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588293
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by aenvoker 3mo ago
I know the founder through a lot of light discussion. If lots of for-profit alternatives become serious competition, he'd rather move on to something else than take on VC money. His POV is that he already has more money than he ever wa
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by aenvoker 3mo ago
Midjourney is not actually an AI imagery company. It's a research lab that happened to do AI images first. I talked more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588293
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by aenvoker 3mo ago
Midjourney is not actually an AI imagery company. It's a research lab that happened to do AI images first. The founder is a hardware guy who made enough money to retire young off of the sale of his company, Leap Motion. But, he decided
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Ecma Technical Committee 57: Standardization of the High-Level Shading Language(devblogs.microsoft.com)
7 points by aenvoker 7mo ago|1 comments
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by aenvoker 7mo ago
Not on the VC path. Not even on the max-profit path. Just on the "Have fun doing cool research" path. I was a mod on MJ for its first few years and got to know MJ's founder through discussions there. He already had "enou
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by aenvoker 11mo ago
I rather enjoyed some of these https://reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1lq299r/postscarci... https://reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/1o6ickx/dreaming_on... https:
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by aenvoker 1y ago
Having spent a lot of time talking to engineers working on AI tools, I find the idea that AI is intended to replace creativity comes entirely from internet comment sections and not from the engineers working on AI.
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by aenvoker 1y ago
Having used lots of different image generators, so far the only one with a sense of humor has been Dall-e3. https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/s/khb5XuNFdl There’s probably some sort of connection to ChatGPT in
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by aenvoker 1y ago
SD has a very primitive conceptual model. Basically “bag of words nudging pixels around for a while”. Words near each other influence each other. But, there’s nearly no understanding of grammar. Midjourney is similar with text prompts. But,
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by aenvoker 1y ago
https://itsartlaw.org/2023/12/11/case-summary-and-review-tha... attempted to assign copyright to AI. I think it was mostly for the purpose of getting to officially work through the legal arguments around the
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by aenvoker 1y ago
> If you pay someone to paint a picture, who owns the copyright? Initially, the someone owns the copyright. Then they agree to give it to you. > If you pay for an AI to paint a picture according to your specifications? No one. It&#x27
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by aenvoker 2y ago
This silly music video was put together by one person in about 10 hours. https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1hbnyi2/comment/m1... Another more serious music video also made entirely by one pe
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by aenvoker 2y ago
Check out https://x.com/ClaireSilver12 https://www.clairesilver.com/collections from the POV of fashion illustration. Her "corpo|real" collection took something like 9 months to create and was pub
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by aenvoker 2y ago
Best reply I can give ya I already typed up for someone else here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743680
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by aenvoker 2y ago
Right now there is a ton of stigma around AI art. That stigma fuels a ton of poorly-informed rhetoric against it. There is also tons and tons of casual use of AI art being shitposted for funsies everywhere that reinforces that rhetoric that
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by aenvoker 2y ago
The examples given aren't trying to be artistic. They're demonstrating technical capabilities as simply as possible.
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by aenvoker 2y ago
Try it sometime. Don't just type one prompt and declare the job done. Try to make something that invokes a reaction in yourself. AI makes it easy to generate ten thousand random images. Making something of interest still requires a lot
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by aenvoker 2y ago
Well, yeah. If you explicitly try to come up with a cute, gimmicky idea, it's not going to be serious. Taste still matters regardless of paint, cameras or computers.
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by aenvoker 2y ago
There's already conversation in AI art about how "Y'all will miss all these weird AI glitches when they're gone!" It will become the new tape hiss. Something people will nostalgically simulate in later media that do
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by aenvoker 2y ago
> Did people complain when digital paintings became a thing? Yes. A lot. All the same complaints. "It's low-effort cheating. The machine does all the work. It's soulless. Art requires a physical process. It looks like cra
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by aenvoker 2y ago
https://www.midjourney.com/showcase is funded by customers, not investors. Anything in there that's creepy, but not obviously intentionally creepy, is more a reflection on the viewer than the image :P
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by aenvoker 3y ago
You don't need to train on pictures of canine golfers to make highly convincing pictures of dogs driving golf carts on Mars. https://imgur.com/a/EIWUJYp The AIs are extremely good at mixing concepts.
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by aenvoker 3y ago
I saw a fun tweet recently claiming the main reason we don’t have an AI revolution today is inertia. Corporate structures exist primarily to protect existing jobs. Everyone wants someone to make everything better, but Don’t Change Anything!
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by aenvoker 3y ago
I have a USB-C cable that only charges when oriented one way.
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by aenvoker 3y ago
The rich text presentation is merely cute. But, the underlying feature is very nice. Being able to focus details on a specific aspect of an image without worrying about it leaking into other aspects would be greatly appreciated. How about a

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