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Re: Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art

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Post by jcims »

alharith wrote: post #13

I get the appeal from a "it's fascinating we can make computers do this" stance. I don't get the appeal as trying to appreciate this as actual art (or music in the case of ai-generated tunes). Art for me is about the connection I can make with the person who made it. I can't make a connection with an algorithm. I view it and I am like "OK this is interesting" but that's about it. There's no desire to try and understa…

Given that this is the product of human written code trained on art generated by other humans, you are seeing something that’s an amalgam of what humans have done.

You can’t take away the human and get what you have here.

Re: Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art

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Post by neetodavid »

neetodavid wrote: post #30

I like these. It feels like the paintings version of lying in the grass trying to find images in the clouds.

This is my grim little friend in green coveralls and a green hat. Maybe he is confiscating some masks.

https://vcloud42.com/file/art42-cdn/cubism/seed_0000213622.j...

Re: Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art

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Post by valentinvieriu »

tkgally wrote: post #28
Rochus wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great idea. Looks very convincing and aesthetic to me, but I am not an art expert. But I do know a lot about music and I am not yet convinced of the current offers of AI in this regard. So it would be very interesting to know how art experts react to these paintings.

I'm not an art expert or an artist, but I spent a lot of time in art galleries and museums forty years ago looking closely at and thinking about abstract art. Some of the pieces here strike me as remarkably good and interesting to look at. If they had been implemented in oils rather than pixels, they would not seem out of place on museum walls.

That would be the next step to close the circle https://twitter.com/sougwen/status/1218672595350032385/photo...

Re: Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art

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Post by eshaysadlay »

kengor wrote: post #27

Not trying to denigrate the amazing technical skill needed to make this thing, but from the point of view of someone who makes art, this is a pastiche image maker. I have yet to see AI generate anything that's not a combination of existing images and techniques. Probably wading into murky philosophical waters here but I reckon art needs to be more than a nice 'arty' looking image to be considered any good. If you are…

When did art ever require purpose? Who decides what is and isn't art? Very tricky path to trod down.

Re: Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art

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Post by adzm »

valentinvieriu wrote: post #4

Author Here: Just wanted to share some technical details. The code can be found here https://github.com/valentinvieriu/stylegan2 The main code and modification were put together by https://github.com/pbaylies/stylegan2 . I've started with the pretrained ffhq model, and I've trained it using come hand picked 1000 images of cubist Wikiart paintings. The frontend is Vuejs and it's using the amazing https://github.com/Ak…

Hey this is an awesome project with really cool results. I think it can be grouped with "found art" conceptually. Several of the generated pieces are really quite interesting, though at some point the styles seem a bit repetitive, though I imagine that's simply due to training on cubism.

Re: Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art

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Post by valentinvieriu »

qmmmur wrote: post #16
alharith wrote: post #13

I get the appeal from a "it's fascinating we can make computers do this" stance. I don't get the appeal as trying to appreciate this as actual art (or music in the case of ai-generated tunes). Art for me is about the connection I can make with the person who made it. I can't make a connection with an algorithm. I view it and I am like "OK this is interesting" but that's about it. There's no desire to try and understa…

What about connecting with the person who wrote the algorithm? Imagine a time in which music was only heard when performed by the right group of people. Without that the appreciation was mostly for a cultural memory or written record of the music. There are more ways to connect with art and it's maker than playing back the audio or opening the image.

I think Mario Klingemann said it the best. https://vimeo.com/298000366 This becomes just a tool, like everything else

Re: Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art

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Post by jp555 »

eshaysadlay wrote: post #34
kengor wrote: post #27

Not trying to denigrate the amazing technical skill needed to make this thing, but from the point of view of someone who makes art, this is a pastiche image maker. I have yet to see AI generate anything that's not a combination of existing images and techniques. Probably wading into murky philosophical waters here but I reckon art needs to be more than a nice 'arty' looking image to be considered any good. If you are…

When did art ever require purpose? Who decides what is and isn't art? Very tricky path to trod down.

I thought one of the ideas was to build into this a way to let people pick the good stuff.

Which is to ask if Audiences are never wrong?

Re: Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art

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Post by qzxvwt »

eshaysadlay wrote: post #34
kengor wrote: post #27

Not trying to denigrate the amazing technical skill needed to make this thing, but from the point of view of someone who makes art, this is a pastiche image maker. I have yet to see AI generate anything that's not a combination of existing images and techniques. Probably wading into murky philosophical waters here but I reckon art needs to be more than a nice 'arty' looking image to be considered any good. If you are…

When did art ever require purpose? Who decides what is and isn't art? Very tricky path to trod down.

it isn’t possible to create something that doesn’t serve a purpose. what “good” artists and other art professionals have that makes them experts is 1) an understanding of this fact, then 2) knowledge of semiotics and history among other related areas that afford as deep an understanding of potential meanings as possible — this is the tricky part, because it requires real work

Re: Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art

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Post by iakh »

kengor wrote: post #27

Not trying to denigrate the amazing technical skill needed to make this thing, but from the point of view of someone who makes art, this is a pastiche image maker. I have yet to see AI generate anything that's not a combination of existing images and techniques. Probably wading into murky philosophical waters here but I reckon art needs to be more than a nice 'arty' looking image to be considered any good. If you are…

Not trying to denigrate artists, but as somebody that admittedly doesn't appreciate art, I'm still not sure how artists aren't just pastiche image maker themselves. Based on your comment, I'm not entirely clear what the difference is
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