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Trust Stephen Wolfram to get the idea behind this. I agree completely. My own work in Stable Diffusion is way less about prompt engineering or approximating 'h

Trust Stephen Wolfram to get the idea behind this. I agree completely. My own work in Stable Diffusion is way less about prompt engineering or approximating 'human art' and much more in exploring its capacity for vivid and plausible hallucination, likewise the beginnings of my experiments with LLAMA. There is a kind of meaning to these spaces when you can compellingly imply something with purpose and integrity, but it's not prescriptive, or it's not a human thought. I'm looking for the evocative, but I'm willing to be a lot more collaborative about what it evokes… people's explorations into negative prompting are fascinating to me, even though I think it's something of a false path. Telling AIs to replace human artists and follow instructions while aping their styles is not useful behavior (except economically, and even then it's degenerative). Using AI to do what you'd have to inflict brain damage on an artist to do, is more interesting and ethical :)

fnordpiglet 3y ago
I think these tools are much more like a calculator for what is the mechanical part of the human arts - writing, visualization, and others (beyond that I think those use cases are not that interesting, there’s a whole non linear optimization angle I think gets lost in the LLM noise). The “art” they produce on their own with minimal ingenuity is boring. But they also democratize the mechanical skill of rendering images and language, and the intent and manipulation of the semantic space through language, inpainting, LORA, etc - that’s all human induced and human creativity. I think we will find in our future we will be awash in brilliant human arts, assisted by machines, being used to amplify the creativity of people who were before hindered by their skill at the craft of art or the mechanics of writing, much as many brilliant mathematicians and physicists are poor at arithmetic and are greatly assisted by machines in their day to day work.

fnordpiglet 3y ago

I think these tools are much more like a calculator for what is the mechanical part of the human arts - writing, visualization, and others (beyond that I think those use cases are not that interesting, there’s a whole non linear optimization angle I think gets lost in the LLM noise). The “art” they produce on their own with minimal ingenuity is boring. But they also democratize the mechanical skill of rendering images and language, and the intent and manipulation of the semantic space through language, inpainting, LORA, etc - that’s all human induced and human creativity. I think we will find in our future we will be awash in brilliant human arts, assisted by machines, being used to amplify the creativity of people who were before hindered by their skill at the craft of art or the mechanics of writing, much as many brilliant mathematicians and physicists are poor at arithmetic and are greatly assisted by machines in their day to day work.