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

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Post by valentinvieriu »

mattsahr wrote: post #100

The further down the page I scrolled, the more I got a kind of despair. To realize that the space was infinite, and I would never reach its end. Each individual image is pretty cool. As a collection, they're sad. What's funny is that I then tabbed back to HN, where I was deep down the comments tree, and momentarily I forgot that real humans make these comments. I thought "I shall never reach the end of the HN comment…

Interesting, so would you say that the infinite aspect helped out the experience or damaged it? I've had doubts first when I've introduced it ( more from caching perspectives and data transfer costs ). But then I've wanted to showcase this amazing feature of those networks of generating an infinite amount of unique items, and also offer an unique experience to every user, the possibility of seeing unique art and bookmarking / printing it if considered

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

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Post by jtms »

valentinvieriu wrote: post #162
joshspankit wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tbh, with direct printing to (large) canvas being reasonably priced now, this could be an easy sell Especially if they can be generated at 300dpi+

Well the resolution is good enough.I've gave it a try and looks quite good on a 50cmx50cm canvas. You need to upscale it once or twice with a Super-Resolution AI algorithm

So meta

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

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Post by valentinvieriu »

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.

In this case, you decide. You click that Favorite button and it's a decision you make. The AI artist has a set of rules that learned from the previous trained art pieces, but the final shape, and the final decision is yours. You like it or not, and it's quite personal too.

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

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Post by valentinvieriu »

dillonmckay wrote: post #138
starchild_3001 wrote: post #47

To my untrained eye, many of these images are as good as anything else I've seen from humans. What qualities make me say that? Your images create a visceral response. They evoke a lot of interesting thoughts and feelings. If anything they remind me of 20th century modern art. Very impressive stuff. It'd be amazing to make these bigger, ensure texture is there, print them large like an oil painting.

The lack of texture is the issue for me.

I need more $$ to feed the GPU monster, and then you will get more texture :) This is more of technical issue that can be solved quite easy, but you are right, most of them lack details and texture.

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

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Post by mental1896 »

jsaldes wrote: post #119
willvarfar wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is your problem that you know its bot-generated, or that you think there's some flaw in the pictures? What if you didn't know that the painting was the work of a bot? What if it was just some abstract painting that someone took enough fancy to to pay to have put on a canvas? Personally, I couldn't really tell them from the human-generated wikiart pictures that seeded the algorithm. Those human-generated pieces didn't…

I'd say it depends. For me art is as much about the artist behind a specific piece as it is about the actual piece. I agree with the person you responded to. I want human feelings in my art, no matter how abstract, for it to truly speak to me!

One might argue that there is plenty of human feeling in this bot-art. After all, it's trained on art with human feelings. Seems like it might be a very effective way to propagate it. It's a sort-of dispassionate third party who finds the thread common to all of the cubist pieces in the training sets.

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

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Post by pozdnyshev »

jacobwilliamroy wrote: post #106
rfeague wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you have an opportunity here --- I found myself wondering how much it would cost to get a nice-quality print on canvas or metal. Something I could hang in my office. They look that good. Are they (or could they be) generated in sufficiently high resolution for a large format print?

Working in an office decorated by a bot is the most demoralizing experience I could imagine. I would probably go into an existential rage and start breaking things until someone more physically powerful came and subdued me.

This sounds like a plotline of a Ligottian short story.

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

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Post by Yaa101 »

ritwik310 wrote: post #141

Doesn't AI generated art violate the whole definition of art?

This is a good question, I dunno really.

On one hand is art really art without the bullshit story of the maker that defines the art? Sometimes we really want the creator to shut up making bullshit stories and just enjoy what has been made.

On the other hand, is a AI algo really a form of being creative? Nature is an algo that creates things.

Do things have to be art to appreciate their beauty? Is art about beauty? Is art about statements?

etc. etc.

Probably all answers are personal really.

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

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Post by valentinvieriu »

ricg wrote: post #149
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…

What is the input to produce one of these images (aside from the pre-trained model)? Is it a random number or another image or something else? Let's say you wanted to re-render the exact same image given the same state of your pre-trained model, what information would you use here?

Yes there is an initial seed that it's needed, and it's baked in the name of the file. So if in the future I'll find a way to improve the quality, you can get the same result by passing in the seed

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

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Post by valentinvieriu »

iandanforth wrote: post #103
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…

Do neural painter next! https://github.com/reiinakano/neural-painters-pytorch

Interesting idea. I will give it a try to see what is the output. I was looking for something in this direction to make the brush feel more appealing. Thank you
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