Another AI warning https://dnyuz.com/2023/05/01/the-godfather-of-a-i-leaves-google-and-warns-of-danger-ahead/
On Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 5:21 PM H L V <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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,) >>>> >>>
