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1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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Post by searchableguy »

codegladiator wrote: post #13
captn3m0 wrote: post #12

I got this one, which doesn't look abstract: https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/8.png

Compare with this https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/5999.... :)

Both of your paintings are modern abstract art. ;)

Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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Post by itronitron »

I'm curious to know from the people commenting on this thread that they would buy one of these generated paintings whether they would still be interested if the paintings were artworks made by people. I'm guessing that there are two distinct markets here.

Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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Post by glenstein »

synnick wrote: post #20
raziel2p wrote: post #7

Judging by the URL of the images themselves these seem to be pre-generated, which makes me think there might have been some human selection process to filter out the badly generated ones. Still some really cool looking art in there, though. I'd be perfectly happy hanging some of these up in my apartment.

The language on the landing page suggests that every time you click Try Now a new image is generated. > Click the button below for an AI-generated abstract painting. Built for artists, developers, and hobbyists. Really though there is a gallery of around 10,000 pngs on a Wordpress site. Fake it 'til you make it!

I would say that the part you quoted suggests it's not generated on the spot.

However,the sentence in the huge font right before the one you quoted could be reasonably interpreted to suggest it's generated on the spot. And as you mention it just looks like a gallery of images that was already generated.

It's still cool, but I'm a bit irked at the misleading framing. Gwern's website showed us amazing text generation from GPT-3, that had all been generated beforehand. We didn't have to be tricked into thinking it was generated on the spot to appreciate it, so I don't see why that's needed here.

Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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Post by seesawtron »

synnick wrote: post #20
raziel2p wrote: post #7

Judging by the URL of the images themselves these seem to be pre-generated, which makes me think there might have been some human selection process to filter out the badly generated ones. Still some really cool looking art in there, though. I'd be perfectly happy hanging some of these up in my apartment.

The language on the landing page suggests that every time you click Try Now a new image is generated. > Click the button below for an AI-generated abstract painting. Built for artists, developers, and hobbyists. Really though there is a gallery of around 10,000 pngs on a Wordpress site. Fake it 'til you make it!

That is a good insight which is not so obvious. The author should have written a white-paper for more credibility.

But I would not be surprised if the actual generation of a new painting takes less than a second as generative networks can be run quite fast to generate new image. I assume the author had the challenge of creating this new "generated" content on-the-fly in browser from the trained model and hence just loads from already generated thousands of images for convenience of the user-interaction. But yes it is a little misguided approach for Karma.

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