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I think Dall-E would benefit from a "sketch-based" prompt in addition the text based. This was mindblowing - https://andys.page/posts/how-to-draw/
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These examples aren't very convincing. It seems like Stable Diffusion's inpainting has a bit of catching up to do.
If you checked out the Photoshop extension inpainting that also used Stable Diffusion. I figured this Krita extension was just using a lower quality setting or something, since the Stable Diffusion Photoshop results looked much better. Maybe it could come down to the amount of VRAM in the machine the demos were recorded on, or something.
Meanwhile someone has already built a photoshop plugin for Stable Diffusion that you can use today to do basically the _exact_ same thing: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wyduk1/sho...
re: Stable Diffusion: is there a site similar to https://www.craiyon.com/ where I can experiment with Stable Diffusion?
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(see the amazing CGI that YouTubers do these days) Any favorite examples?
Here's one (that also goes into the details of how it was done): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cz8CjLq0fQ
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I've heard this a lot, luckily it's not that hard to test if you can really tell the difference. We need someone to create the 'AI Pepsi challenge' for artists to settle this.
That was fast, looks like artists can't tell, AI wins first prize in an art competition! https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmvqm/an-ai-generated-artwo...
Go from Hello to any topic, and see how it responds. Trained on everything ever written.
Seems like it would/could generate realistic discourse. Is that possible, to work with words instead of images?
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>basic/mechanical tasks to a tool and give more focus to higher-minded problems. >rendition quality... [is] so incidental. There's this thing in painting called 'mark making' and it can be the difference between an all-time-great painting and a throwaway portrait. Mark making speaks to every momentary choice of physical process a painter employs and reveals their thought process. For some of the greatest painters, it…
It's a fair point, and thanks for teaching me a new term! There's a lovely documentary called "Tim's Vermeer" about Tim Jenison's - one of the founders of NewTek, the people behind Video Toaster and LightWave, incidentally both tools that made hard visual art tasks accessible to wider audiences - hobby side project to prove that Vermeer used sophisticated optical tools to capture and copy his scenes from physical set…
Hockney, one of the featured 'expert painters' is a hack who doesn't actually know how to paint* and therefore claims that certain gradations are certainly impossible without some sort of additional lens device. Meanwhile there are 19 year olds at the Grand Central Atelier pulling off just that.
I own a camera lucida. It got in the way more than it helped. At best, it's a novelty, now collecting lots of dust. Vermeer probably had one but it's altogether way more likely that he just had a well-trained observational/representational faculty. There are some killer painters using cameras now (Will St. John for one) but they typically have a decade or more of very rigorous direct observation to lean on.
I suggest following Ramon Alex Hurtado. IMO he's one of the more exciting young scholars on historical representational painting techniques. I don't think he has written anything himself yet, but he does do workshops and has a big informational update for his website coming.
*the definition of painting is now so broad it is meaningless. Here, I mean "attempting some degree of visual accuracy" which can be achieved in endless creative ways. Compare (easily on instagram):
- Colleen Barry - Peder Mørk Mønsted - Cecelia Beaux - Jas Knight - Felicia Forte - Eric Johnson - Ksenya Istomena - Sergei Danchev - Glenn Dean - Blair Atherholt - Jose Lopez Vegara - Hongnian Zhang - Hans Baluschek
These artists all have their own voice and stylistic choices. They also all represent things they see with some sincere accuracy. Look up Hockney's ipad paintings he got lauded for. People treat them like they're some misunderstood genius, but really, they're just bad paintings.
I'm sure he's a sweet old man and I'd drink tea with him. But if it weren't for his ilk I might have found proper instruction 10 years earlier in life. Modernists and postmodernists robbed generations of proper art instruction. Imagine if all the music teachers burned all the sheet music and refused (or forgot how) to teach the diatonic scale. "Hit the keys in a new way! Don't let yourself be bound by conformist ideals!"
P.S. I'm not fun at parties
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Doesn't make sense to me why OpenAI has kept DALL-E closed source for so long. I can only guess either safety from misuse or leveraging it for money. At this rate though, Stable Diffusion is going to dwarf it
My headcanon is they realized this stuff might be the essence of consciousness itself and wanted to shelter it in a persistent storage medium where it could grow and learn safely instead of releasing it to the wild to be booted up and destroyed by every yokel with a gpu
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While I think the fear might be overexaggerated, being able to make realistic fake content with such ease means it's harder to know what's true and what's not. Plus this has been the claim of OpenAI from the beginning. It's possible the true objective is to keep it private to leverage for money and this is just their excuse.
> means it's harder to know what's true and what's not The danger for society is in not already knowing that is the case, since it's relatively trivial, without AI, to make fake content.
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Couldn't happen to a more deserving group of people. Good riddance. Squatting the name "open" and trying to reap the benefits therein while being anything but.
I've been complaining for years about WikiLeaks not being a wiki -- no one wants to listen....