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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 #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 are pre-generated, by chance I got the same image within 10 clicks

URL to images is https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/XXXX....

Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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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 are pre-generated, by chance I got the same image within 10 clicks URL to images is https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/XXXX....

Seems like the author is a fan.

https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/1.png https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2.png https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/3.png https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/4.png

Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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post #40
post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

The fine-print at the bottom explains it: "On a Tesla T4, it takes on average 0.173 seconds per novel generation." I don't think you can expect someone to pay for T4 instance 24/7 for some hobby project.

>I don't think you can expect someone to pay for T4 instance 24/7 for some hobby project.

That's a needlessly uncharitable interpretation of what is happening here. The site is giving the misleading impression that these images are generated on the spot, and then walking it back in the fine print.

It's a valid criticism, and lecturing people about the economics is not a charitable engagement with that criticism.

Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

#65
post #38

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

https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/1878.... looks really like cave painting

I got a clown: https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/5498....

Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

#66

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

Technically it is possible to generate that randomly, no? Obliviously this site is fake, but that’s besides the point.

Almost surely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

#68
Cool!

Please use this technology to make a 4K video of an infinite zoom through the art.

i.e. generate an image frame, zoom in 1% near the center of the image, re-anneal the art to fill in missing resolution, repeat.

It would be analogous to the infinite exploration of the Mandelbrot fractal set.

It might help us intuit the black box of the algorithm as well if it reaches some periodic local minima and keeps reproducing the same art sequence.

Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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I think AI is currently able to generate images I find pleasant to look at, but they have no impact on me beyond that momentary enjoyment. It is still decoration and not yet art, according to my personal definitions.

When I can tell an AI to make an image about the Spanish Civil War and it produces Guernica, then I will be impressed in the way human artists impress me. And then we will have a powerful new tool to communicate. I would like my own personal Guernica each day to help me learn about something happening in the world.

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