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River is a visual connection engine

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Re: River is a visual connection engine

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This is an incredible piece of software. I haven’t immediately felt joy like this with an app in a long time, I’ll be coming back to this quite a bit, seems like a great brainstorming tool, and a fun toy.

Re: River is a visual connection engine

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post #4

This is an incredible piece of software. I haven’t immediately felt joy like this with an app in a long time, I’ll be coming back to this quite a bit, seems like a great brainstorming tool, and a fun toy.

https://lexica.art/ can definitely provide such an interface to users to discover new prompts and explore the latent space of already generated public AI images on its platform.

Re: River is a visual connection engine

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Quite fun. I got to a zen-like place and just wanted to stay there :) https://river.maxbittker.com/?id=6524851 Are these images real or genAI?

At least some of them are “real” in the sense that I recognize the gifs from around the internet / their source videos :)

Re: River is a visual connection engine

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post #5

Quite fun. I got to a zen-like place and just wanted to stay there :) https://river.maxbittker.com/?id=6524851 Are these images real or genAI?

I like this region as well, I've found it surprisingly hard to escape!

The images are all uploaded by humans to are.na, but some people do use are.na to organize their AI art. I would say less <5% ai content