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,) >> >
