.@artnet just published an article grossly misrepresenting my work (claiming that it is authored by AI) and included images of my artwork after I *explicitly* explained to them how this is incorrect and that I do not give them permission to publish my artwork for this The article is based on a paper that writes out artists + researchers of the discussion in the first line -
"machines are creating artwork with little to no human input".

The author of this paper also uses my work (and only my work) - and they never got permission either..

left: the "AI generated" portrait Christie's is auctioning off right now

right: outputs from a neural network I trained and put online *over a year ago*.

Does anyone else care about this? Am I crazy for thinking that they really just used my network and are selling the results? I've been trying to play it off and spin it positively - when news people have asked me about this event I usually just try and mention actual AI artists and say to check out their work instead, but this is *really* becoming incredibly upsetting.

The Balenciaga AI is getting better! sort of! 🤖👠

Really love the super high shoulders/collar on the left outfit- and the two-tone shoes! Also the right outfit shows it's learning colour coordination to an extent.

Wish it would learn how to make faces that weren't so freaky... Obviously this stuff isn't ready to take to a seamstress or anything, but I definitely think some of it could be used to augment the creativity of a designer- like in the first image instead of giving that person a bag, the AI just puts a big compartment on the side of her pants.

It's insane to me that there are so many forgotten game maps like this online that haven't been downloaded in ~10 years, just existing, preserved perfectly.

They feel more like physical places than "maps"- I used VR to walk around one and photographed some things there. (Thread) This is what I mean when I say "photographed" - that's my VR controller

Spent yesterday trying to make the AI generated nude portraits look more photographically realistic with cycleGAN - the results are alright so far; I really hope that it'll start hallucinating more instead of just changing the surface color/texture A good side-by-side comparison of what the network is doing

before and after

A second series of AI generated nude portraits 🥩🎥

It's painting with warmer tones and better colours (imo), but still hasn't mastered the human form.

Working on other neural networks to post process these- I have some neat stuff planned with cycleGAN that should be done soon. Some slightly more gruesome portraits from the same series... the dark red bits in between the gaps in skin look oddly like bloodied flesh - there was nothing like that in the training set, though.

Here are some AI generated nude portraits I've been working on🍑

Usually the machine just paints people as blobs of flesh with tendrils and limbs randomly growing out - I think it's really surreal. I wonder if that's how machines see us... the AI *always* paints heads and faces the same way; with this weird yellow/purple texture. Have no idea why, but I like it.