Eeee so excited for this!! I loved The Fallen and can't wait to geek out about its universe and its AI gods with @xasymptote!

Suitably ominous background image for the event banner. Nothing to worry about, I'm sure
Here's CLIP+VQGAN prompted with the first sentence of the book description of @xasymptote's The Fallen:

"The laws of physics acting on the planet of Jai have been forever upended; its surface completely altered, and its inhabitants permanently changed, causing chaos." A painting of a mesa-filled...
@xasymptote Alternate interpretation, this time with a few modifiers (notably, "dramatic", "matte painting", "vines", and "tentacles") A multilayered green landsc...

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2 Jul
What fascinates me about generating images with VQGAN+CLIP is that it CAN generate depth and drama, but only if you know how to ask for them.

"A herd of sheep grazing on a lush green hillside" alone

vs with "amazing awesome and epic" added
ai-weirdness.ghost.io/the-art-of-ask… A flatly illuminated green clifftop with low shrubs and palmDeeply eroded green cliffs rise above some grass-topped mesa
Because CLIP is trained on internet images and text, it associates the "good" images with certain phrases.

"A herd of sheep grazing on a lush green hillside" before vs after adding "in the style of disney trending on artstation | unreal engine"
A flatly illuminated green clifftop with low shrubs and palmSteep cliffs encircle some grassy mesas, with clumps of gras
I experimented with different ways of asking CLIP+VQGAN for an attractive version of "a herd of sheep grazing on a lush green hillside"

"Award winning national geographic photography" produced impressive scenery but the sheep look like people crawling under green blankets. Near photorealistic red cliffs and jungle textures in the ba
Read 15 tweets
5 Jan
So I was all set to dig into the DALL-E article and really think about how they got it to generate coherent pictures from descriptions

And then I saw they included giraffe

Currently obsessively flipping through all their giraffe remixes Text prompt is "A prof...
"giraffe octopus" is giving it more trouble but some of these are still pretty good. most of the generated image...
Giraffe-invertebrate hybrids are giving it more trouble.

Writing the word "giraffe" real small next to a drawing of a mantis does not make it a giraffe-mantis hybrid but I like the thought. text prompt: "A profes...
Read 13 tweets
21 Dec 20
Got GPT-3 to generate new Christmas carols.

Here is "Mild is Rudolph". Are you not cheered and comforted?
aiweirdness.com/post/638130829… Mild is Rudolph  Mild is Rudolph’s image in the snow He ha
Impressed at the humanlike structure of GPT-3's generated carols

yet disconcerted at what it thinks is a "joyful noise" O Come Rudolph, Come  O Come Rudolph, Come Ye Faithful Oh co
GPT-3 knows that what one does is praise Rudolph. It's interesting to see what powers it thinks Rudolph has. Oh look! There’s Santa and Parson Brown Defying the laws o
Read 8 tweets
11 Feb 20
people sometimes wonder why i am like this candy heart shaped cookies with messages: Bog Love, All Hover, Yak O Way, and Love 2000 Hogs Yea
nothing says love like candy hearts written by a confused neural net
aiweirdness.com/post/170685749… Team Bear Time Hug Fang Bog Love all hover sweat poo u hack stank love hole love 2000 hogs yea heart me time bear wink bear bear bear be my bear yak o way you are bare mage love oy in a fan cool cud you rear my hag or my bun book
This particular neural net didn't have any prior training - all it knows about english is what was in the existing candy heart messages I gave it.

It has sort of figured out which letter combos might be possible, but uses them weirdly. aiweirdness.com/post/170820844… am good love bun dear me heart me me love have nice heat team ooo time bat oh love cat bee love love bot my my tank love o saol bite me my my 13 you are by by by by <3
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