AI generated art is a novelty. But I prefer human creativity. I imagine it could be used for good creative things. Unfortunately, humans always find a way to use technology for evil and or selfish gain.
Champing at the bit over here, waiting to get access to DALL-E!
Regarding the unintentional bias you mentioned: I remember the same thing happening with WOMBO back in November of '21; I saw a twitter thread where someone entered "terrorist" as the text prompt and Wombo spat out images with a definite "middle eastern" vibe. It's a good reminder that whatever these AI art generators produce is just a reflection of what's in our own minds. The koala doing a dunk only looks realistic to us because that's what we expect a koala doing a dunk to look like. But what if they gave DALL-E something impossible to visualize, something like "men's fashion 500 years from now?" What would happen then?
Some of the great surrealist artists, people like Max Ernst, Joan Miro, and even our friend Salvador Dali, were able to create images utterly unlike anything ever seen before, yet which still had emotional weight and substance. I haven't yet seen an AI art generator which is able to convey emotions through images, like the surrealist or symbolist painters. It's a fascinating subject, one I'm trying to keep close tabs on. Thanks for writing!
Interesting. I’ve played around with the WOMBO app recently but never thought to try those types of searched. I found the same biases on Google Images too. I searched for things like “nurse” and “ceo” and got the same overrepresentation in the results, so the problem seems to be shared across different AI-powered systems.
I didn’t think about the things that would he hard to visualize like the men’s fashion example. I wonder what DALL-E would return. I think it would be hard to replicate the surrealism of Dali and others, beyond basic remixing. (I hope you enjoyed my rendition of The Persistence of Memory in today’s cartoon 😂).
I’m on the waitlist for DALL-E too and I hope I can get access to it soon and try it out myself.
AI generated art is a novelty. But I prefer human creativity. I imagine it could be used for good creative things. Unfortunately, humans always find a way to use technology for evil and or selfish gain.
Champing at the bit over here, waiting to get access to DALL-E!
Regarding the unintentional bias you mentioned: I remember the same thing happening with WOMBO back in November of '21; I saw a twitter thread where someone entered "terrorist" as the text prompt and Wombo spat out images with a definite "middle eastern" vibe. It's a good reminder that whatever these AI art generators produce is just a reflection of what's in our own minds. The koala doing a dunk only looks realistic to us because that's what we expect a koala doing a dunk to look like. But what if they gave DALL-E something impossible to visualize, something like "men's fashion 500 years from now?" What would happen then?
Some of the great surrealist artists, people like Max Ernst, Joan Miro, and even our friend Salvador Dali, were able to create images utterly unlike anything ever seen before, yet which still had emotional weight and substance. I haven't yet seen an AI art generator which is able to convey emotions through images, like the surrealist or symbolist painters. It's a fascinating subject, one I'm trying to keep close tabs on. Thanks for writing!
Interesting. I’ve played around with the WOMBO app recently but never thought to try those types of searched. I found the same biases on Google Images too. I searched for things like “nurse” and “ceo” and got the same overrepresentation in the results, so the problem seems to be shared across different AI-powered systems.
I didn’t think about the things that would he hard to visualize like the men’s fashion example. I wonder what DALL-E would return. I think it would be hard to replicate the surrealism of Dali and others, beyond basic remixing. (I hope you enjoyed my rendition of The Persistence of Memory in today’s cartoon 😂).
I’m on the waitlist for DALL-E too and I hope I can get access to it soon and try it out myself.