Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #artificialnostalgia
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Mainly for the sake of my own future reference, I am collecting my longer threads on AI image generation here, starting with this one from last year (which, unlike the others, is still in German)
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This one from January speculates on different business models for #VirtualImageArchives and the further platformization of multimodal AI
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Playing around with AI-generated, non-existent movies and the idea of #ArtificialNostalgia, I started thinking about the notion of ›vibe,‹ how it might describe what I'm looking for in these images and what distinguishes it from concepts like ›style‹ or ›mood‹
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Much of the discussion around AI-generated images has involved questions of style, and for good reason. »In the style of ...« is maybe the most common phrases used in prompts, as #DallE, #Midjourney, and #StableDiffusion promise to produce images in any possible style
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This category of style transcends cultural hierarchies: Style can mean the brushstroke of a painter, the visual qualities of historical technical media, or the look of certain games & TV shows: Van Gogh, Polaroid, Unreal Engine, or Southpark – everything becomes a ›style‹
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I'm still intrigued by the recent wave of »fake AI films«: stills from movies that never existed, generated with Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, etc. This space opera, which David Cronenberg never directed, may be the most popular (and most despised), but there are many others 1/15
For me, these »films that don't exist« are more than just a nice gimmick; the intense reactions they evoke tell us something about the cultural moment we live in and our relationship to the images of the past 2/15 nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Why does it seem more attractive to use AI to conjure up movies from an alternate past than to imagine future movies? And why do people get so upset about these mash-ups that they even threaten those who produce them? 3/15 buzzfeednews.com/article/chriss…
