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Evolution has a clearly defined fitness function (number of offspring that are produced). What is the fitness function for generated art?
by hermitcrab 3y ago
Evolution has a clearly defined fitness function (number of offspring that are produced). What is the fitness function for generated art?
- jsheard 3y agoExactly, the fitness function is "make a picture which looks like these other pictures", which is used as a proxy for "make a picture that a human would find appealing by making it like all these pictures made by humans". The former definiton will always hold true, but the latter actually desired definition breaks down once your training set is contaminated with imitations of imitations of imitations.
- phailhaus 3y agoNumber of works that are released to the internet! At the end of the day, there is a human who has an idea in mind and is using an LLM to realize it. They are tweaking their prompt until they achieve their vision, then publishing only those successes. The resulting art can then be used with the prompt as training data.
- jsheard 3y agoIt would be nice if every human at the wheel of an LLM or image generator were putting that much care into their craft, but that's just not what's happening. You just need to look at places like DeviantArt which are now overrun with users who joined 6 months ago and already have submissions in the thousands, it's simply not possible that they are putting any care into what they're spraying out. Much of the time they're posting numerous functionality identical images, probably generated from the same prompt with a different seed. Likewise SEO incentivizes mass production of low quality LLM text, because they "quality" they are optimizing for is impressions, not actual quality.
- hermitcrab 3y agoThat is assuming there is a human in the loop. What if an SEO company is using a bot to generate vast amounts of images with no human in the loop?