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Computer History by Balenciaga
- abybaddi009 3y agoHere's a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xj_IOl-GcY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xj_IOl-GcY
- samwillis 3y agoIn the debate of "can generative AI make Art", this is Art, but the artist is the person steering the AI tools to create this. Love it.
- khochesh_kushat 3y agoI wonder if you could make an AI that could generate likely meme ideas and then remove people from the equation completely. Seems pretty doable, if not already possible.
- mckirk 3y agoThe problem is that memes, at least the ones that really take off, work because they are creative and funny, and so far that is probably the area AIs like GPT4 struggle the most with. It makes sense when you think about it, a technology that is built around the idea of predicting likely continuations will struggle with learning what is 'likely' in a context that asks for an element of surprise. I.e., you'd probably need a pretty deep model if you want it to be able to understand that 'okay usually I combine likely concepts, but _now_ I need to combine unlikely concepts that still make sense together on a lower level'.
- khochesh_kushat 3y agoGPT4 can definitely write jokes, even today
- jackstraw14 3y agosame as it ever was!
- jqacn 3y ago[flagged]
- jackstraw14 3y ago> This is worse than any movie or even any commercial. I guess a rotting shark probably is too. What is art anyway? https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/apr/09/new-allegations-of-plagiarism-against-roy-lichtenstein https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/apr/09/new-all...
- samwillis 3y agoExactly, all the conversations about AI art are very reminiscent of the debate about the YBA movement of the late 80s and 90s. (And many a debate before that) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_British_Artists https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_British_Artists
- kevviiinn 3y agoPeople seem to love trying to define what art is when it's entirely subjective. Even people who study art and film do it, I think that trying to define what makes art art and trying to exclude things that someone else thinks is artful is nonsense. It's just more ingroup outgroup junk
- MaxikCZ 3y ago> zero emotions > painful to watch Choose one
- rozab 3y agoThis has all the artistic value of an advice animal template
- eurekin 3y agoFor those interested about the tools used: https://youtu.be/TGD8zKvRxc4 https://youtu.be/TGD8zKvRxc4 - how to make a "balenciaga" style video.
- KMnO4 3y agoHonestly this should be the main link. That process is really interesting. We’re now living in a time where you can generate entire videos without leaving the browser.
- jareklupinski 3y agoWithout even leaving the phone: > "I'm more comfortable doing this on my phone" https://youtu.be/TGD8zKvRxc4?t=331 https://youtu.be/TGD8zKvRxc4?t=331 was kind of blown away by that thought, having had the pleasure of using Premiere-type suites on a desktop computer just to edit a simple timelapse
- threatofrain 3y agoThe two videos that started the meme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE39q-IKOzA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE39q-IKOzA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipuqLy87-3A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipuqLy87-3A > Master has presented Dobby with Balenciaga. Dobby is... free.
- azlen 3y agoThese videos I feel were the first to really give a glimpse into the weird and surreal future we're heading into. The whole Balenciaga shtick felt like a metaphor for the rising tide of machine-generated content— and I tried to weave this narrative through the quotes of this computer history version, "the balenciaga revolution is far more important..." yada yada, while ostensibly about the history of computing, it is moreso intended to let us ponder its future.
- simplotek 3y ago> The whole Balenciaga shtick felt like a metaphor for the rising tide of machine-generated content (..) To me it just looks like plain old guerilla marketing devised to force a specific brand under the pretext of "AI".
- azlen 3y agoI mean, fair. My first impression of the harry potter one was that it was some high-budget ad, but it's just some guy making weird mashups and exploring what's possible with AI. The balenciaga one just stuck because it was a perfect collision of familiar (harry potter) and uncanny (luxury fashion).
- simplotek 3y agoIt might be the cynic in me talking, but I doubt this wave of Balenciaga ads is just the outcome of a random guy overusing a set of parameters. It would be trivial to find any other theme to exploit, but this is too focused on a single brand and relentlessly pushing it's name. It's guerilla marketing no matter of where you look at it.
- pcdoodle 3y agoTim Dillon's (Comedian) take on Balenciaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-VGv0rRrqU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-VGv0rRrqU
- ziaulrahman 3y ago[flagged]