https://blue.feedland.org/?river=http://data.feedland.org/blue/feeds/Gus1.xml It's just a feed for now Thu, 01 Aug 2024 19:56:32 GMT feedland v0.6.43 https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Thu, 01 Aug 2024 19:56:32 GMT http://rpc.rsscloud.io:5337/pleaseNotify Thu, August 1, 2024 3:56 PM EDT <p>The best way to defend AI art is to teach others how it works, and why it might be one of the most exciting things since the invention of writing</p> <p>People are afraid of what they don&#39;t understand. Almost no one understands how AI image generators actually works, even though there has been significant progress on that if you know where to look. I keep hearing people compare it to Google image search, or that the computer is actually acting as an artist. This is no more true then that the camera is the photographer. I&#39;ve seen so much trash talking, and the anger is understandable.</p> <p>I&#39;m angry as well because AI art was there for me when I was the sickest with COVID. Even if I couldn&#39;t follow a movie/game or even stay awake long enough to engage with traditional media. I could still explore a world where I could make myself laugh. Let me tell you if you are having trouble just breathing if something, anything makes you laugh in that situation it&#39;s a blessing.</p> <p>If you can look into how it actually works.</p> <p>This may be from 5 years ago, but it&#39;s a very very good introduction.</p> <p><a href="https://youtu.be/rURRYI66E54?si=nr2v-s6guoakcIPD">https://youtu.be/rURRYI66E54?si=nr2v-s6guoakcIPD</a></p> <p>Essentially AI art generators take what they learn from being trained, and they turn words, symbols, phrases into a strange sort of dimension those dimensions can also be set to interact with other dimensions in specific ways. I like to think of prompting as navigating a higher dimensional space. I think of doing another generation as moving time forward and the different versions generated as sorts of directions. I am given 4 options in Wombo dream so it&#39;s natural to think of those in terms of the cardinal directions.</p> <p>I think the most mind bending thing about AI art is that by simply sharing prompts we are kind of sharing an artistic probability space. So there is a tremendous amount of information both in the prompts and the generators. I have a theory that it&#39;s way way bigger then tree (3). This is true both for prompts and obviously for a larger extent to the generators. This is why I say it&#39;s more important then the invention of writing, because you can convey more information then was possible even using the most sophisticated algorithms available before stable diffusion and with unlimited processing power it just wouldn&#39;t have been possible to send that much information in such a small package. Generators are like the Tardis from Doctor Who. They are bigger on the inside (what is possible) then the outside (the actual code/space they take up).</p> <p>I am confident that if we explain how these things actually work people won&#39;t see them as threatening as they do now. If we want a good outcome then we should be advocating for this technology to be available to as many people as possible. The situation we are in right now where people pay monthly fees isn&#39;t good enough. There should be the processing power available even on a smartphone to do everything on the device itself. That&#39;s the direction things should be going. Instead with the way things are trending I believe that only corporations/ nation-states will have access.</p> Thu, 01 Aug 2024 19:56:32 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=498785 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=498785 The best way to defend AI art is to teach others how it works, and why it might be one of the most exciting things since the invention of writing People are afraid of what they don't understand. Almost no one understands how AI image generators actually works, even though there has been significant progress on that if you know where to look. I keep hearing people compare it to Google image search, or that the computer is actually acting as an artist. This is no more true then that the camera is the photographer. I've seen so much trash talking, and the anger is understandable. I'm angry as well because AI art was there for me when I was the sickest with COVID. Even if I couldn't follow a movie/game or even stay awake long enough to engage with traditional media. I could still explore a world where I could make myself laugh. Let me tell you if you are having trouble just breathing if something, anything makes you laugh in that situation it's a blessing. If you can look into how it actually works. This may be from 5 years ago, but it's a very very good introduction. https://youtu.be/rURRYI66E54?si=nr2v-s6guoakcIPD Essentially AI art generators take what they learn from being trained, and they turn words, symbols, phrases into a strange sort of dimension those dimensions can also be set to interact with other dimensions in specific ways. I like to think of prompting as navigating a higher dimensional space. I think of doing another generation as moving time forward and the different versions generated as sorts of directions. I am given 4 options in Wombo dream so it's natural to think of those in terms of the cardinal directions. I think the most mind bending thing about AI art is that by simply sharing prompts we are kind of sharing an artistic probability space. So there is a tremendous amount of information both in the prompts and the generators. I have a theory that it's way way bigger then tree (3). This is true both for prompts and obviously for a larger extent to the generators. This is why I say it's more important then the invention of writing, because you can convey more information then was possible even using the most sophisticated algorithms available before stable diffusion and with unlimited processing power it just wouldn't have been possible to send that much information in such a small package. Generators are like the Tardis from Doctor Who. They are bigger on the inside (what is possible) then the outside (the actual code/space they take up). I am confident that if we explain how these things actually work people won't see them as threatening as they do now. If we want a good outcome then we should be advocating for this technology to be available to as many people as possible. The situation we are in right now where people pay monthly fees isn't good enough. There should be the processing power available even on a smartphone to do everything on the device itself. That's the direction things should be going. Instead with the way things are trending I believe that only corporations/ nation-states will have access. <p>The best way to defend AI art is to teach others how it works, and why it might be one of the most exciting things since the invention of writing</p> <p>People are afraid of what they don&#39;t understand. Almost no one understands how AI image generators actually works, even though there has been significant progress on that if you know where to look. I keep hearing people compare it to Google image search, or that the computer is actually acting as an artist. This is no more true then that the camera is the photographer. I&#39;ve seen so much trash talking, and the anger is understandable.</p> <p>I&#39;m angry as well because AI art was there for me when I was the sickest with COVID. Even if I couldn&#39;t follow a movie/game or even stay awake long enough to engage with traditional media. I could still explore a world where I could make myself laugh. Let me tell you if you are having trouble just breathing if something, anything makes you laugh in that situation it&#39;s a blessing.</p> <p>If you can look into how it actually works.</p> <p>This may be from 5 years ago, but it&#39;s a very very good introduction.</p> <p><a href="https://youtu.be/rURRYI66E54?si=nr2v-s6guoakcIPD">https://youtu.be/rURRYI66E54?si=nr2v-s6guoakcIPD</a></p> <p>Essentially AI art generators take what they learn from being trained, and they turn words, symbols, phrases into a strange sort of dimension those dimensions can also be set to interact with other dimensions in specific ways. I like to think of prompting as navigating a higher dimensional space. I think of doing another generation as moving time forward and the different versions generated as sorts of directions. I am given 4 options in Wombo dream so it&#39;s natural to think of those in terms of the cardinal directions.</p> <p>I think the most mind bending thing about AI art is that by simply sharing prompts we are kind of sharing an artistic probability space. So there is a tremendous amount of information both in the prompts and the generators. I have a theory that it&#39;s way way bigger then tree (3). This is true both for prompts and obviously for a larger extent to the generators. This is why I say it&#39;s more important then the invention of writing, because you can convey more information then was possible even using the most sophisticated algorithms available before stable diffusion and with unlimited processing power it just wouldn&#39;t have been possible to send that much information in such a small package. Generators are like the Tardis from Doctor Who. They are bigger on the inside (what is possible) then the outside (the actual code/space they take up).</p> <p>I am confident that if we explain how these things actually work people won&#39;t see them as threatening as they do now. If we want a good outcome then we should be advocating for this technology to be available to as many people as possible. The situation we are in right now where people pay monthly fees isn&#39;t good enough. There should be the processing power available even on a smartphone to do everything on the device itself. That&#39;s the direction things should be going. Instead with the way things are trending I believe that only corporations/ nation-states will have access.</p> Thu, 01 Aug 2024 19:56:26 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=498784 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=498784 The best way to defend AI art is to teach others how it works, and why it might be one of the most exciting things since the invention of writing People are afraid of what they don't understand. Almost no one understands how AI image generators actually works, even though there has been significant progress on that if you know where to look. I keep hearing people compare it to Google image search, or that the computer is actually acting as an artist. This is no more true then that the camera is the photographer. I've seen so much trash talking, and the anger is understandable. I'm angry as well because AI art was there for me when I was the sickest with COVID. Even if I couldn't follow a movie/game or even stay awake long enough to engage with traditional media. I could still explore a world where I could make myself laugh. Let me tell you if you are having trouble just breathing if something, anything makes you laugh in that situation it's a blessing. If you can look into how it actually works. This may be from 5 years ago, but it's a very very good introduction. https://youtu.be/rURRYI66E54?si=nr2v-s6guoakcIPD Essentially AI art generators take what they learn from being trained, and they turn words, symbols, phrases into a strange sort of dimension those dimensions can also be set to interact with other dimensions in specific ways. I like to think of prompting as navigating a higher dimensional space. I think of doing another generation as moving time forward and the different versions generated as sorts of directions. I am given 4 options in Wombo dream so it's natural to think of those in terms of the cardinal directions. I think the most mind bending thing about AI art is that by simply sharing prompts we are kind of sharing an artistic probability space. So there is a tremendous amount of information both in the prompts and the generators. I have a theory that it's way way bigger then tree (3). This is true both for prompts and obviously for a larger extent to the generators. This is why I say it's more important then the invention of writing, because you can convey more information then was possible even using the most sophisticated algorithms available before stable diffusion and with unlimited processing power it just wouldn't have been possible to send that much information in such a small package. Generators are like the Tardis from Doctor Who. They are bigger on the inside (what is possible) then the outside (the actual code/space they take up). I am confident that if we explain how these things actually work people won't see them as threatening as they do now. If we want a good outcome then we should be advocating for this technology to be available to as many people as possible. The situation we are in right now where people pay monthly fees isn't good enough. There should be the processing power available even on a smartphone to do everything on the device itself. That's the direction things should be going. Instead with the way things are trending I believe that only corporations/ nation-states will have access.