Thread by @djbaskin

The @OpenAI team to me: "We'd like to share our new visual media tool with a few artists to gather feedback"

They should have said: "We'd like to bestow upon you the gift of glimpsing into infinite human consciousness to invoke parallel worlds. Ready to wield this power?" #dalle

It's not just a visual media tool; that's just the surface-level description.

When you incant a new "zone" on DALL-E, it evokes an alternative timeline of human and natural creation—with illusion of having always existed, as well as a timeline that you can shape. #dalle2 #dalle

Like this timeline where there's a public art piece of statues slipping on ice. This feels like a real destination people have been visiting for 40 years.

https://twitter.com/LapineDeLaTerre/status/1514828108469190658?s=20&t=ptTZcVJO0O6mpUhoGxFIpg

I feel the same way about GANs (Ganbreeder), VQGan+CLIP, and Midjourney! Like I'm stumbling into other worlds...

With the added realism of texture, light, meaning, and reduced "disbelief" of DALL-E, the brain sensation is stronger.

(I still have a fondness for all of them.)

Playing here gives me a similar high to being in a museum. It stirs up mental imagery to iterate on and explore.

Because of this, #dalle doesn't exactly feel like an AI tool, but a collaborator and docent. I can suggest which private collections we visit and help repair things.

On repairing things: This lion bowl is the result of lots of "inpainting" where I described sections in detail over time. I fell into this zone by a different entry point that felt like a curator asking me "Want to work on our surrealist soup bowl collection?" #dalle #dalle2