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If the computer was a bicycle for the mind then Stable Diffusion is LSD for the computer. Who cares how theoretically soulless it is under the matrix transform

If the computer was a bicycle for the mind then Stable Diffusion is LSD for the computer. Who cares how theoretically soulless it is under the matrix transforms, the fact is that this spits out the weird, and us humans chew it up and spit it right back. I think this is the first new era in Art since postmodernism.

bhaney 4y ago
So using Stable Diffusion is like giving LSD to your bicycle?
- dpflan 4y ago
  Seems like a good prompt to try...
  - donkeyd 4y ago
    I tried, the results were pretty much what you'd expect: https://imgur.com/a/5F4AS2D https://imgur.com/a/5F4AS2D
- Yahivin 4y ago
  Yes.
- alex_young 4y ago
  So, bicycle day? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lysergic_acid_diethylamide#%22Bicycle_Day%22 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lysergic_acid_die...
basch 4y ago
How long until what is currently photography is either full length video or 3d navigable worlds? These Star Wars galleries are just phenomenal. I can't imagine it is long until you can apply these as filters to movies, for example taking Rogue One and applying a Fritz Lang or Stanley Kubrick filter. https://www.facebook.com/groups/395755276049376/?multi_permalinks=457335126558057 https://www.facebook.com/groups/395755276049376/?multi_perma... https://www.facebook.com/groups/395755276049376/?multi_permalinks=456534189971484 https://www.facebook.com/groups/395755276049376/?multi_perma... If I took that galleries above and used it as the input photos, and then used a tool like this, which takes about 5 seconds a frame .. https://gizmodo.com/disney-ai-art-vfx-visual-effects-de-age-younger-older-1849835548 https://gizmodo.com/disney-ai-art-vfx-visual-effects-de-age-... Or akin to Cars being a remake of Doc Hollywood with anthropomorphized Cars, being able to say something like "I want to see a remake of the 2013 movie Rush, in the world of Zootopia, with 15% styling from Speed Racker, set in the 70's, with flying animals, and the main two rival protagonists being flying squirrels, one of which has a birth defect and a prosthetic wing."
- jeremyjh 4y ago
  Kubrick's version was better than the studio release.
- WrtCdEvrydy 4y ago
  > for example taking Rogue One and applying a Fritz Lang or Stanley Kubrick filter. I mean, what's to stop someone from doing that using a basic ass LUT?
  - basch 4y ago
    Do you mean just color, or redrawing the costumes and sets and special effects to match aesthetics? In 3D space, and consistently from scene to scene?
    - WrtCdEvrydy 4y ago
      Aesthetics would be a whole different ball game.
      - basch 4y ago
        If you can get into the facebook links I posted, you can see its a lot more than color grading im talking about.
GuB-42 4y ago
The think that I find the most LSD-like, both in the visuals it generate and in principle is Google DeepDream. It works by using an image classifier in reverse. So for example, you have a neural network that identifies bicycles, feed it an image, get the results, and feed them back to the image, boosting the bicycle-like characteristics of the image, repeat the process a number of times. In the end, you get something that looks like the original image, but made of bicycle parts. It is commonly done with faces, it can also be done on intermediate layers, amplifying more abstract details like geometric shapes. Originally intended as a way to reveal the inner workings of a neural network (for research, debugging, etc...), it has also been used by artists for really trippy visuals.

bhaney 4y ago

So using Stable Diffusion is like giving LSD to your bicycle?

dpflan 4y ago
Seems like a good prompt to try...
- donkeyd 4y ago
  I tried, the results were pretty much what you'd expect: https://imgur.com/a/5F4AS2D https://imgur.com/a/5F4AS2D
Yahivin 4y ago
Yes.
alex_young 4y ago
So, bicycle day? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lysergic_acid_diethylamide#%22Bicycle_Day%22 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lysergic_acid_die...

basch 4y ago

How long until what is currently photography is either full length video or 3d navigable worlds? These Star Wars galleries are just phenomenal. I can't imagine it is long until you can apply these as filters to movies, for example taking Rogue One and applying a Fritz Lang or Stanley Kubrick filter. https://www.facebook.com/groups/395755276049376/?multi_permalinks=457335126558057 https://www.facebook.com/groups/395755276049376/?multi_perma... https://www.facebook.com/groups/395755276049376/?multi_permalinks=456534189971484 https://www.facebook.com/groups/395755276049376/?multi_perma... If I took that galleries above and used it as the input photos, and then used a tool like this, which takes about 5 seconds a frame .. https://gizmodo.com/disney-ai-art-vfx-visual-effects-de-age-younger-older-1849835548 https://gizmodo.com/disney-ai-art-vfx-visual-effects-de-age-... Or akin to Cars being a remake of Doc Hollywood with anthropomorphized Cars, being able to say something like "I want to see a remake of the 2013 movie Rush, in the world of Zootopia, with 15% styling from Speed Racker, set in the 70's, with flying animals, and the main two rival protagonists being flying squirrels, one of which has a birth defect and a prosthetic wing."

jeremyjh 4y ago
Kubrick's version was better than the studio release.
WrtCdEvrydy 4y ago
> for example taking Rogue One and applying a Fritz Lang or Stanley Kubrick filter. I mean, what's to stop someone from doing that using a basic ass LUT?
- basch 4y ago
  Do you mean just color, or redrawing the costumes and sets and special effects to match aesthetics? In 3D space, and consistently from scene to scene?
  - WrtCdEvrydy 4y ago
    Aesthetics would be a whole different ball game.
    - basch 4y ago
      If you can get into the facebook links I posted, you can see its a lot more than color grading im talking about.

GuB-42 4y ago

The think that I find the most LSD-like, both in the visuals it generate and in principle is Google DeepDream. It works by using an image classifier in reverse. So for example, you have a neural network that identifies bicycles, feed it an image, get the results, and feed them back to the image, boosting the bicycle-like characteristics of the image, repeat the process a number of times. In the end, you get something that looks like the original image, but made of bicycle parts. It is commonly done with faces, it can also be done on intermediate layers, amplifying more abstract details like geometric shapes. Originally intended as a way to reveal the inner workings of a neural network (for research, debugging, etc...), it has also been used by artists for really trippy visuals.