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Does anyone know of any AI generated visual art that's about the output (form and composition) that isn't complete garbage? It's so far away from competing with

Does anyone know of any AI generated visual art that's about the output (form and composition) that isn't complete garbage? It's so far away from competing with the generations of aesthetic development we see in the status quo of contemporary fine art... stuff that's advanced enough that we need college degrees to begin to intellectualize their effectiveness. Artworks that better deal with power and agency and the process and implementation of AI are another story, IMO, but those usually manifest as films, performances, or other forms of documentation not an AI generated thing itself.

corysama 5y ago
Are you asking for stuff that's not complete garbage? Status quo? Or, advanced enough that we need college degrees to begin to intellectualize their effectiveness? Within the tiny community I've been hanging out with, I like to think some of these are not complete garbage. https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/oairlt/cancer/ https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/oairlt/cancer/ https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/o8og8g/schizophrenia_vqgan_clip_3d_inpainting/ https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/o8og8g/schizophr... https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/obvwnh/trained_the_model_based_on_dark_art_sketches_got/ https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/obvwnh/trained_t... https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/nvt77u/the_fall_of_the_gods_under_a_solar_eclipse/ https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/nvt77u/the_fall_... https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/o57eyx/a_painting_of_a_girl/ https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/o57eyx/a_paintin... https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/comments/o5i3av/bio_clockwork_heart/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/comments/o5i3av/bio_clockw... https://preview.redd.it/q8kwssia9j771.jpg?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5974bf25459067f3125008e1d3f27f921ba59f00 https://preview.redd.it/q8kwssia9j771.jpg?width=864&format=p...
aronowb14 5y ago
Art is quite subjective. So hard to say what is "garbage" and what isn't. I assume this comment will get downvoted due to that. That being said I do agree with you :). After staring an GAN art for a year I find it is extremely "empty" and essentially all looks the same, with very similar visual artifacts that make them look bad. I view style transfer and GAN art generally as "trippy artistic filters". I don't think it's more than that at the current state of the art. Even in images linked above me: they are cool, but do just seem to be trippy distortions of existing things. If you like that that's fine, but I don't think it's more than that. Looking at ML as a type of artistic filter though is interesting: and does open up some interesting use cases. I created a project in college using style transfer filters to make a short film. I think it achieved an effect that would have been unachievable without the ML. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfZ9-9tH_uE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfZ9-9tH_uE
- stemlord 5y ago
  I appreciate you adding a more technical description to aid my inital sentiment, and thanks for sharing your vid, was funny and you actually managed to harness style transfer filters to achieve a particular feeling, which I haven't seen so much
- corysama 5y ago
  What are paintings if they are not trippy distortions of existing things? ;) I've been having a lot of fun using GANs as what I think is a better form of style transfer. The default approach uses noise as the initializer. But, by specifying an initial image, you can get a result that is very similar to style transfer, but more scene-coherent. https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/comments/o83bd0/portraits_of_me_by_various_artists/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/comments/o83bd0/portraits_... https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/comments/o7eosf/this_is_fine/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/comments/o7eosf/this_is_fi...

corysama 5y ago

Are you asking for stuff that's not complete garbage? Status quo? Or, advanced enough that we need college degrees to begin to intellectualize their effectiveness? Within the tiny community I've been hanging out with, I like to think some of these are not complete garbage. https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/oairlt/cancer/ https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/oairlt/cancer/ https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/o8og8g/schizophrenia_vqgan_clip_3d_inpainting/ https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/o8og8g/schizophr... https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/obvwnh/trained_the_model_based_on_dark_art_sketches_got/ https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/obvwnh/trained_t... https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/nvt77u/the_fall_of_the_gods_under_a_solar_eclipse/ https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/nvt77u/the_fall_... https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/o57eyx/a_painting_of_a_girl/ https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/o57eyx/a_paintin... https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/comments/o5i3av/bio_clockwork_heart/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/comments/o5i3av/bio_clockw... https://preview.redd.it/q8kwssia9j771.jpg?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5974bf25459067f3125008e1d3f27f921ba59f00 https://preview.redd.it/q8kwssia9j771.jpg?width=864&format=p...

aronowb14 5y ago

Art is quite subjective. So hard to say what is "garbage" and what isn't. I assume this comment will get downvoted due to that. That being said I do agree with you :). After staring an GAN art for a year I find it is extremely "empty" and essentially all looks the same, with very similar visual artifacts that make them look bad. I view style transfer and GAN art generally as "trippy artistic filters". I don't think it's more than that at the current state of the art. Even in images linked above me: they are cool, but do just seem to be trippy distortions of existing things. If you like that that's fine, but I don't think it's more than that. Looking at ML as a type of artistic filter though is interesting: and does open up some interesting use cases. I created a project in college using style transfer filters to make a short film. I think it achieved an effect that would have been unachievable without the ML. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfZ9-9tH_uE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfZ9-9tH_uE

stemlord 5y ago
I appreciate you adding a more technical description to aid my inital sentiment, and thanks for sharing your vid, was funny and you actually managed to harness style transfer filters to achieve a particular feeling, which I haven't seen so much
corysama 5y ago
What are paintings if they are not trippy distortions of existing things? ;) I've been having a lot of fun using GANs as what I think is a better form of style transfer. The default approach uses noise as the initializer. But, by specifying an initial image, you can get a result that is very similar to style transfer, but more scene-coherent. https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/comments/o83bd0/portraits_of_me_by_various_artists/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/comments/o83bd0/portraits_... https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/comments/o7eosf/this_is_fine/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/comments/o7eosf/this_is_fi...