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Drowning in AI Generated Garbage : the silent war we are fighting
All over the web, we are witnessing very spectacular results from statistic algorithms that have been in the work for the last forty years. We gave those algorithms an incredibly catchy name: "Artificial Intelligence". [...] All of this has been made possible because billions of humans were uploading and sharing texts and pictures on the commons we call "the Internet" [...] What we are witnessing is thus not "artificial creativity" but a simple "statistical mean of everything uploaded by humans on the internet which fits certain criteria". It looks nice. It looks fantastic. While they are exciting because they are new, those creations are basically random statistical noise tailored to be liked. [...] But one thing is happening really fast. Those "artificial" creations are also uploaded on the Internet. Those artificial artefacts are now part of the statistical data. [...] The algorithms are already feeding themselves on their own data. And, as any graduate student will tell you, training on your own results is usually a bad idea. You end sooner or later with pure overfitted inbred garbage. Eating your own shit is never healthy in the long run.
And consider the following comment from Niti:
Also consider the following comment from Zach:
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Art generated with Stable Diffusion - by proxima centauri b
“Rocky Frames” - generated by @HODLFrance
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Pre-train, Prompt, and Predict: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Methods in Natural Language Processing - describing definitions for key terms and design considerations for natural language prompts.
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What is Dreambooth & how to use it?
#Comment: Those "generative selfies" startups being built on-top of this now distract from the obvious killer biz-case. Generative Porn: Upload 5 pics of any person, get back HQ nudes. Easy to build, Big $, 0 Ethics. Live in 1 month? It will be interesting to see how organized crime quickly becomes a giant player in generative A.I media & how naive A.I tech bros react to it. Black-hat generative botnets can be useful for the Mafia (+ intel agencies) in so many ways, it's bound to explode.
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The implicit promise of generative media and the elephant in the room
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The Art Singularity is near...
A dirty secret of "AI Art" is that for every generated image a significant amount of energy was used, as modern GPU's (like Nvidia's A100, etc.) are electricity hungry. If we imagine a relationship between "Electrical energy used (on average) to create an art piece" and the "Value (cultural, entertainment, etc.) of an art piece", the trend over the past 100 years is wild...
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Virtual Insanity
The wonderful irony of people using electricity intense GPU's to generate 'fake' images of autumn trees on their screens - instead of just going for a walk in the forest and enjoying the real trees.
The result of pointing this out to this "artist"?
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Generative Storytelling Media
Predication: If you put a ML "story+image generator" into a tight feedback loop with humans that co-steer it in real-time (by speaking & sketching) - you get a new entertainment genre, distantly related to RPG's. This new form of storytelling will be very popular in a few years.
ML Generated short story and images, by @GanWeaving:
'The man and the dog are sitting in the front room watching the washing machine spin round and round. Every now and then, the dog barks at the machine as if it's doing something wrong. The man just laughs and shakes his head.'
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Notes from a children's playlab with DALL-E
"Turns out we were absolutely wrong about them getting excited by AI-generated images, unsurprisingly. Children in our group were not really impressed by the generative power of AI."
