Another Look at AI-Generated Images

[@mimble52]

watching the AI piece together all the strange components from the starting noise and decide what it will become is really amazing, i especially liked watching the “a collection of (blank)” ones develop into their uncanny interpretations of things!

[@MermaidMakes]

I honestly wonder if that’s what it would look like if you could visualize someone’s thought process…like if you were to attach someone’s brain to a screen and tell them “think of some instruments”…would the process look similar to the short animation in the beginning?

[@Yous0147]

"Uncertainty about the future" was definitely an amazing piece to look at, art or not. It definitely made me feel and ponder things throughout. I get why you wanted to explore it further.

[@phoenixni7426]

I love it when Mr. Shrimp uploads a new video just as I am binging his older videos. Truly one of the most varied channels on this app!

[@y2keef]

Earl Shrimp 🦐

[@elijahclarke3830]

If your always binging his videos it always lines up 🤔

[@galacticboy2009]

I wouldn't call KZbin an app, but it's fascinating that someone out there would.

[@fireflieer2422]

@@galacticboy2009 maybe social media?

[@jack_grylls]

@@fireflieer2422 I'd maybe drop the "social" since most social networks are aimed towards trying to replicate an actual network of friends etc

[@radheroman3235]

On 'Uncertainty About the Future': It seems the figure with the long hair and dress is ageing as the iterations go on - them beginning as a child-like figure slowly growing and becoming more defined and even the hair becoming white by the end. What's most powerful about this whole piece for me is that the figure formed roughly at the same time as the unknowable mass in the middle, which is the focal point of the picture. To me it's a woman focusing solely on this one aspect of life she can't quite figure out, allowing the surroundings to blur and the world to pass her by (a shifting city just above, fireworks to the right) as she waits for something about it to become clearer - for it to become more definable. It's a sad story for me, as it seems she never quite figures that out, and she spends her time too worried about uncertainty and waiting for more certainty that would never come. As for if the image itself is art? Honestly, I don't think that's as important as the discussions it prompts. I think that's the true art. We as people can all look at these images and think and feel and share those thoughts and feelings with one another.

[@mookinbabysealfurmittens]

*WOW!* That's is brilliant! And sad, indeed. But thank you for that fantastic interpretation!

[@gotgunpowder]

I think the fact that we are able to look at the piece and derive this much meaning from it means it is in fact art.

[@Wyattporter]

For quite a long time, “Uncertainty About the Future” appeared, to me, to be a cloaked figure standing on a beach, with a darkened futuristic city looming on the horizon. The colored blobs were light reflections and the hairy thing looked like an eye to me, but it was figuratively incorporated into the beach. The field between the beige section and the figure was water. I could also see fireworks up there in the sky too

[@LindsaysWhimsies]

I absolutely love the ‘Imaginary Place with Fantastical Views’ ones. I wish I could have them on my wall to look at… they’re very inspiring for whatever reason. Thanks so much for another interesting video.

[@timur5241]

They seem really fitting for a fiction book (or animated film/series)

[@PlanetXtreme]

Hey Atomic Shrimp, something occurred during the playback @ 10:25 of the frames that I think you didn't expect. KZbin compression. The first round of images (which were played slower @ 9:30) had a higher quality on KZbin. I think this observation is important for art like this in the future. Good video!

[@PhoenixClank]

To be fair to KZbin, this isn't "KZbin compression", but "video compression" in general.

[@2OXX]

@@PhoenixClank There is lossless compression which KZbin does not support.

[@AtomicShrimp]

Lossless compression typically requires larger storage and higher bitrate when streaming it. It's understandable that KZbin wouldn't support it, given that the storage required for videos is already growing my many, many terabytes each day

[@2OXX]

@@AtomicShrimp yup

[@7792pnaurfr]

@@PhoenixClank correct. Calling it KZbin compression is very disingenuous.

[@90benj]

VQGAN is an interesting case just as StyleClip was, because you essential have two optimization problems at the same time, the first being the semantic embedding, ie finding a latent representation for the sentence and the second being the decoding part, taking those embeddings and creating a imagine out of them. That's why most GAN perform really well, if A) the dataset is homogenous and B) you just use noise as your initialization vector, because then it doesn't matter where your start. This can be seen in StyleGan, the training data bases are pretty homogenous (faces, cars, flowers, horses) and your starting point doesn't mean anything. Here, both networks compound their inaccuracies so to speak, making it hard to determine which part of the network needs more optimizing. I am also not that familiar with CLIP, so I don't know which architecture is used for embedding, so it's hard to say where certain artifacts or features come from. But definitly an interesting case.

[@federico339]

I guess it's expected that the AI doesn't do composition, it doesn't have a world model. I believe the training was done by giving it a lot of labelled images (a similar training to an AI that has to label new images), so I think from the training data it's able to make some connections (so for example possibily learn that a lot of high end houses had swimming pools, and the general composition of a house), but nothing more than that. What I'm most impressed with is how it understands your inputs, particularly your uncertainty about the future, I'm not sure what that image is supposed to represent, but it may be a bunch of nothing to which we humans try to make it what we want to. I wonder how it does with even more specific examples, like giving it a name of somebody or something. Will it draw a fighter jet or a dinosaur with the input "F-22 Raptor"?

[@hanvyj2]

It's similar to how GPT2 can make locally consistent sentence using proper grammar etc, but it can't "remember" what it's talking about and is inconsistent from sentence to sentence. It's why GPT3 is so interesting, they didn't fundamentally change the algorithm, just increased its size massively and it managed to be a lot more consistent over time.

[@matthewyabsley]

That nails it on the head. Some AI projects are useful in its current state in can make connections that humans might not, it might be useful to call them inspiration tools. Allowing 1 million connections more closer to something useful than a million monkeys in 1 million years.

[@TheJamesM]

Yeah, what these things are able to do is more akin to "recognition" than "understanding". They train an image classifier - which is a neural net that will assign an image a series of numbers representing how likely the input is to be each of the respective objects it's been trained to identify - then they tell it to optimise its input image to maximise those numbers - either whatever's highest (searching for any object it can), or a specified target (as in this video). It provides some interesting insight into what is and isn't important to the classifier, and I think demonstrates that there isn't anything that could be described as "understanding" there. The features can be quite sophisticated, with even quite high-level aspects (the ground goes at the bottom, water reflects, distortions due to perspective, etc.), but the nature of the knowledge is "these colours tend to exist in this relation to these other colours" rather than any kind of understanding of purpose or even a concept of distinct objects delineated from one another (hence why it can lose track from one end of a thing to the other, or happily morph one thing into something else, or get numbers wrong - limbs, front doors, etc.). It knows features, but not "things", if that makes sense.

[@mookinbabysealfurmittens]

Surely someone remembers Google Deep Dream...? It came to my mind instantly. Any thoughts? Anyone? (Especially from computer folks, but of course I'd love anyone's input.) Cheers!

[@StephenStaver]

After your previous video, I’ve been playing around almost obsessively with NightCafe that you linked. It has been tons of fun seeing what strange, odd, and sometimes quite beautiful, things emerge from various input phrases. Thanks for doing these videos. I hope you do more in the future. If not, then you’ve certainly inspired me to consider trying some videos of my own to show off the odd beauty in the AI-generated art.

[@Stratiis]

I was about to type this

[@ithulah]

ME TOO! I'm a bit crazy about Nightcafe thanks to Mr Shrimp. There is so much possibility in AI art. I didn't even notice he'd done a second video on it, I've been getting so into finding that perfect start photo, researching artists, photography lingo etc I'm behind in my youtubing lol.

[@lobomatias422]

These last 2 videos on this subject matter have been endlessly fascinating to me! I love that you do these thought experiments on your channel. Please continue testing this and sharing what your thoughts are. THANK YOU!!!

[@hegotleggy]

The process the AI goes through actually really reminds me of oil painting. The way it pushes the shapes around, pulls them from seemingly nothing, is really reminiscent of painting, especially without a sketch.

[@EyedMoon]

Your comments about how it works are pretty good, especially how it tries making local features closer to what it knows from the training data and about how overall coherence isn't a thing in these images. Locally, features are so good they're almost copies of the training data, on the scale of the image you could say a downsampled version could fool a classifier (human or machine). But the middle scale which tells you how object parts really relate to one another gets crazy. We still have a lot of work with GANs, the generator/discriminator architecture is kind of a pain to deal with

[@MysteriousKammm]

There's a post appocalyptic feel to a lot of those pics. A society that disapeared centuries ago and you only find relics of its existance. But nature has taken most of the place.

[@PKMartin]

There's a manga called YKK about human society in decline after some unspecified apocalypse, and at one point there is a kind of fungus which mimics the shapes of things around it - so there are these kind of blobby "buildings" surrounded by "people" and "streetlamps" and stuff with vaguely recognisable features but not actually convincing replicas. Anyway your comment reminded me of that

[@worklubs]

You’re so close to 850K subscribers and I’m so excited for whatever you’re going to make to mark the occasion! The most wholesome channel on KZbin :)

[@gcubing_4064]

I think all this blurriness is "uncertainty" and more consistent parts are "the future"

[@chriskane482]

I must say, this is off topic but I appreciate how considerate you are as a youtuber. The TW's at the start for phobias is nice for folk. I imagine before you post every video you consider how to make it inclusive and safe for everyone.

[@Sweetdude64]

Hey Atomic Shrimp! Long time fan of the channel, but doubt you remember me. You are the ideal content creator - making whatever you think has value and floats your boat. You know that you are good when you can retain the same audience on multiple different types of content! I wanted to let you know that I am coincidentally using AI right now a ton on a project I'm making. It is an AI script that I am fleshing out into a real animated episode. I already have a talented VA cast. I am also using AI art generators for some of the visuals and character designs. I'm looking into AI music now. Thanks for the inspiration!! :D I hope to have the episode out (on a different channel, so don't flag me for self advertisement, lol) on April 1st. I thought it was fitting :)

[@NHarts3]

Good luck! That sounds like an interesting project

[@Sweetdude64]

@@NHarts3 appreciate it, my man!! :D (Or woman, gender neutral, etc. I'm not one to judge)

[@higherquality]

I think it is art. But the artist is the creator of the code and the person who placed the text. So, it's a collab artpiece.

[@bonobo2181]

Agreed. The AI itself is inherently limited - it cannot create new ideas, it only executes it's algorithm Any artistic potential comes from the creativity of the programmers and users Art is a creative endeavor, so when you ask "is this art?" you have to first ask "what is the source of creativity?"

[@twobob]

Does this mean modern audio artists should attribute all their works as collabs as well? They didn't write the plugins... Indeed Bach did not invent the piano... Not entirely sure about this expression of perspective. However, your point is fundamentally good, it does "minify" what it takes to be an artist to an extreme abstract but so do audio GUI's

[@higherquality]

@@twobob Depends on who you ask. At what point does something turn from a tool to convey art into the integral part of that art piece? Example 1: Young Chop found and used the snare very prevalent in trap this day and age in a audio crack dealer kit. It weren't for the samplers creative process of that snare, Young Chop couldn't have used it So it's a collab? Example 2: Madonna used a sample from ABBA's "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme" for her hit single "Hung up". If it weren't for ABBA's creative process of those synth patterns, Madonna's producers couldn't have used it. So it's a collab?

[@andsreelare4585]

Is art - as much - the paint mixer, and the canvas manufacturer as well? The lumberjack who provided the wood for a brush?

[@twobob]

@@higherquality Hmm No. They were direct copies of other finalised outputs from tools /by other artists/. Tool

[@undefined06855]

2:28 “Dark, weirder with scary sky tree monsters.” “I like it 😀”

[@haakman123]

I loved the "Joy of painting" style music you put in there!

[@y-yyy]

These videos are endlessly fascinating and mesmerising. Please keep doing more of these if you feel like it!

[@hgrace0]

I always enjoy your thoughtfulness in your videos. It’s just how you approach a question and how you try to find your answers.

[@thisisnotdom]

This video is amazing! As a data scientist who works with machine learning all the time (although never these kinds of models) I find it incredible how advanced these image generation models are (you should check out the ones generating fake pictures of people too) . It's amazing how in some ways, it outperforms anything a human could ever hope to, yet at the same time, is still incredibly stupid.

[@jessepond2062]

I’m loving these breakdown videos about I.A generated art, keep it coming!

[@G.Aaron.Fisher]

'The End of an Interesting Day' was probably the best piece created. I'm glad that was thrown in at the end.

[@leandersmainchannel4493]

9:13 The top-left kinda looks like a playground with colorful overlapping circles on the floor and the red squiggle as sort of a slide. All in front of what looks like the inside of a colosseum or baseball field.

[@Ara_Arasaka]

That art time lapse at the beginning is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen in all my life. How it is coming up with how to do that is incredible.

[@standudinski]

You bring up a point that greatly interested me since I was a child. Ability to find a common “language” with something that isn’t a human. Science fiction writers have attempted to address the theme in things like Solaris by Stanislaw Lem and a Picnic by the Roadside by the Strugarski Brothers. It is an fascinating aspect of the CETI concept and a scary one at it that we perhaps will never be able to comprehend other intelligence, mademade or otherwise, and neither would it.

[@benjiethecat]

Adding "in the style of [artist]" has amazing results, I wonder what the sample data was for it to be able to recreate the styles well

[@mollynakamori]

WOW! I could watch this all day. Thank you for putting in so much time.

[@tchernomush]

I love this series of video. Just when I thought "oh, what would the pictures look like when based on emotions ?", you hit me with the "Happiness..." one. One idea that I think would be interesting would be to choose photos from stock image banks, input the full description of an image, and see how it turns out, maybe compare with the original picture (what's comparable anyways from the description's content). Another one would be to find lengthy descriptions of characters/settings extracted from public domain books, and feed them to the algorithm to see how it fares.

[@gruexylo]

The image at 8:30 ish would be a perfect image for some sort of sci-fi or digital themed game or music album in my opinion. As for my interpretation for the finished image as of 10:45, I see based on the top left a futuristic car console with an instrument visible, then at the bottom left the footwell of that seat. Across the top of the image I see bubbles, one with an image of a city (pretty clearly), one with what may be a plant or tree with light shining through. The colourful circular one on the right is very reminiscent to me of the representation of a tornado or hurricane in TV weather broadcasts, and the one on the left kind of reminds me of those colourful medical scans when they are looking for something in a person's body. The bottom looks like paperwork, with documents laid on top of each other, with the clearest top one looking like a diagram with notation describing features, and the bottom right looks like someone wearing a purple dress and headwear like would be worn at a wedding. The white and red thing bottom and middle left, most reminds me of some kind of white flower, like a rose or something. As for the central bit, it seems like a blue eye with darker hair around it, but I'm not sure what the hoof/finger kind of deal is across the middle of it. What does it mean? Who knows.

[@clarelwc2849]

Absolutely fascinating. You always manage to educate, entertain and inspire!!!

[@OhSoUnicornly]

"Uncertainty about the future" totally has a section of an anime face/eye in the middle. I love it. The whole thing would fit in an anime, in fact. In the bottom right is a blond-haired woman in a sweeping purple dress holding a bouquet of roses. To the right of her is a scene of fireworks over a landscape. Then there are some church stained glass windows dotted around, and a cityscape above the anime eye.

[@DragoNate]

These are cool I like, definitely gonna try some cool stuff with this! BTW if you want to put a skip time in there, you can use YT's chapter system. In the description, you just put in this format 0:00 intro 6:15 explaining 7:53 gallery showcase you have to start with 0:00 for it to understand tho.

[@marcberm]

The music is also very calming, in a "Bob Ross theme music" sort of way.

[@ittixen]

I've been fascinated with this subject, and I'm so happy to see it explored by Atomic Shrimp! Your perspective is really insightful, even without the technical details.

[@darktemp_de]

Regarding the apple at 13:03, I think it is taking the description too literally and creates an apple (shape) with leaves as material. I wonder what happens if the phrase was e.g. "apple and leaves" or "leaves attached to apple" ?

[@colepdx187]

I spent a couple of days fiddling with these generators after your last video. I became fascinated with how the AI dealt with 'concepts' like truth, deceit, freedom, confinement and on and on and on. There were many results that I would consider 'art' and could imagine them framed and hanging on a wall somewhere. But there were many many results that I would call 'advanced pattern generation' and were clearly not very art-like at all. I can see now that I'm going to be spending another weekend exploring this gripping bit of AI. Thanks again.

[@concorde3980]

Hey, Manuel. I'm a fellow ladbaiter and I got started after watching your original vladbaiting vids. As the notifications came in, I began to enjoy all of your other videos, and now you're my internet dad. Many thanks and kindest regards.

[@2OXX]

At 8:10, you can see hands pointing outwards together (something you would see in a vacation or celebration photo), balloons (a common celebratory item), and smiles on the balloons. I think all of that along with the sunny sky does a good depiction of your prompt.

[@davidmurphy563]

I can make a couple of observations maybe someone will find helpful. This doesn't start with random noise - that's just looks like snow on an old tv - this is more likely a seed of Perlin noise or FBM or similar. Think hills and valleys rather than straight random values - this is likely to be n dimensional. This works by adding general low frequency (resolution) noise and then iterating more and more high frequency detail to it with less amplitude. Next step is almost certainly a convolutional neutral network. Think of this like moving a box over the image. By doing some simple maths you can do things like blur / find edges. You can do this until the image has an amount of blur and edges that fits the sample images. The next step is the tensor deep network. Fancy words for a series of arrays (in the computer sense) which contain normalised values (between 0 and 1), a bias and a weight. So you feed in the pixel values, and use the random weights and biases in each layer to achieve ever greater abstraction. Like you noticed, this is not entirely successful, small elements of the image can match the training data but the whole composition not so much. To do this you use back propagation. That's where you take the neural network output and compare it to the sample data. You then adjust the weights and biases to get a closer match. Another method they likely employed is adversarial NN, so they have one AI who makes images and another who tries to discern which image is made by an AI. This leads to an arms race of sorts. Although, all this is kinda beside the point. What you are actually doing is geometric transformation of plotted data. The same kind of linear algebra that your gpu uses to project a 3d object on a 2d screen. Imagine you have a 2d graph with a series of dots where some are red and some are blue. The goal is to transform the dots (vectors) so that all the reds are at one end and all the blues are at the other. So, you can do a linear transformation - you can stretch and twist in a way that preserves straight lines - and then you can do non-linear transformations, you can bend and twist. But what if a red dot is completely surrounded by blue dots? Then you can add another dimension and stretch it into that and then stretch it back down a dimension. Just as you can do this in 2d and 3d, you can do it with data in Nd. This way if you get a new vector you haven't seen before, you can apply this transformation and see if it ends up in the blue group or the red group. In this way, you have modelled the space so that it fits the old data and you can use this to generate new data. So what you are actually seeing here is pure geometry. Stretch, bend, stretch, bend - not of the image as such but of the data - so that the output data better fits the sample data.

[@Nagsea]

Your video diversity is just amazing, keep up the good work!

[@edkerridge71]

This is really great to watch please keep doing it!

[@JB_inks]

Dreams by Wombo is probably the most impressive AI art generator I've ever seen. Can't get enough of it.

[@dozzy-ze3du]

"Attack Ships on Fire off the Shoulder of Orion" Just as I had always imagined. Amazing!

[@WilburJaywright]

8:08 I see a field, hands as if associated with a recreational activity, balloons (some with smiley faces), possibly a foot in a sandal with another field (a relaxed walk, maybe) and a puff-cloudy blue skyline over some telephone/power lines, and some sort of bundle of maybe fruit or a load hanging from a crane on a boat.

[@daniel.holbrook]

8:10 almost looks like it was turning the image into a magazine, with the seam near the middle and the 'shine' on the left 'page' I wonder why

[@Soken50]

In uncertainty about the future (10:40), I think you're right about the red line as most of the "sky" around the cityscape looks like different graphs on many monitors you would expect to see on a financial article about market uncertainty, as such the hairy monster might just be the AI's rendition of a trader and I have to say it's pretty accurate in that regard, the sheets with symbols is probably in the same vein, or the beige blob above is the hand of a writer who's writing on the below sheets of paper about the future's uncertainty

[@pageboy25]

I love your content, Mr. Shrimp. You truly are one of the most underrated KZbinrs out there.

[@Friska_Rexie]

I really love "End of and Interesting Day", very calming and a bit nostalgic.

[@jljljl1820]

'Derelict ship on a desert coast' was absolutely gorgeous

[@hemansteve]

The level of intelligence and capability to analyse swathes of data involved in this video is impressive. What’s phenomenal is that the same person can then communicate that analysis back with rational explanations. Truely a God amongst men.

[@WasabiDreams]

The purple objects "ashens, if atomic shrimp was in charge" lol !!!! Great video man.

[@fernbear3950]

Hey! If you want an expert on neural art, Crung and Nshepperd on Twitter are both womxn who have some significant neutral art experience and make some of the best compositions in existence today. There are definitely other lovelies out there, but they can help you take it to the next level. Nshepperd definitely has and creates the best running CLIP notebooks, those are usually transferred informally between people it's a lovely community to be honest. Finally, thanks for the trigger warnings. Best of luck on everything. I almost never ask this, but for utility if you found this comment helpful please do upvote so he can see this! Also your CLIP scale is super low if you're getting split multi scenes within a singular scene. If you're using an Nshepperd notebook then drop your cut pow too. ;P there's much more juice to squeeze out of this lemon!

[@hesalovelybuoy5944]

Brilliant! Both videos in this series are really interesting

[@AdelardRen]

I appreciate that you provide such clear instructions in your description. It's certainly interesting to see what the AI generated. The happiness picture looks like smiley face balloons, or rubber balls; power lines; and potentially flying through the sky like Superman. I wonder if a similar mash would form if the same prompt was run again. By frame 500 of Uncertainty, it looks like that thing in the middle is an extremely mutated face. It has on huge open eye, and it looks like an eye until the end. A vestigial ear to the right, and space alien lips to the left.

[@NA-ge3ll]

8:11 I'd guess a lot of the training data for "happiness" would have been pictures of people doing something fun outside, which the AI might have interpreted as "vaguely limb-like forms outside on a sunny day." It is weird that it focused so much on the balloon aspect of joy, but balloons are consistent enough and easy enough to extrapolate from random blobs of color that it could have seemed like the best option for the AI. Very cool!

[@Soken50]

Yeah it seems there were a lot of "couples holding hands pulling eachother along with perfect weather and gorgeous views" photos in the training data.

[@TheSecretMcSquirrel]

I've been obsessed with this since your last video on them had some really intresting pictures from them lol

[@radepicsmasheraj]

"A Collection of Assorted Objects on Brown Corduroy" - Makes me glad that you know Ashens content too :)

[@radicalcartoons2766]

Fascinating! As an artist, it seems to me that it has some type of childlike idea of our world. And it's definitely figurative - everything has something to do with humans in it.

[@welltell.]

OK at 7:30 the reference of "attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion" totally knocked me for a laughing fit. That is a most famous line from the movie "Blade Runner"

[@NHarts3]

I think there are 2 ways of looking at this as art: 1. The artist is the programmer that coded the algorithm to produce these images. All images are produced by this artist and can be regarded as aesthetic objects by the observer, making it art. 2. If you consider there to be no real "artist" involved in the creation, they can still be regarded as aesthetic objects in a similar way that objects in the natural world are. Flowers, plants, natural landscapes etc. are not crafted by human hands but can still be appreciated by human eyes. Tbe question of AI generated art is older than you might think. And quite interesting. I studied digital art at university and we had to explore questions like this often.

[@juliaroberts4624]

this is the coolest and trippiest thing I have come across.

[@JHJHJHJHJH]

Before I watch the video I just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU for introducing me to Night Cafe! I love it.

[@JHJHJHJHJH]

I gave it the prompts "AI chooses what to paint and in which style" to see what it would create. Let me know if you're interested to see it. The results were quite amazing given the lack of actual prompts.

[@MysteriumArcanum]

I love your videos, the content is so various I scarcely know what to expect

[@thenameless3271]

Two Shrimp videos in one day! We've been spoiled! Thanks Shrimp!

[@gmapsakakatieakamarykate3916]

I’m an artist hat has worked with digital art and also I paint, and have a very techy side - I find this fascinating also!. I find it more interesting when it makes complex errors - the images are more surreal - at a base level though there are the algorithms - but it also contains the element of chance that has been used in traditional artwork - to get your head around how it actually functions as art - you have to add the element of the viewer- as their ‘conscious’ mind will interpret and respond to it aesthetically. An alien mind is not a far reach- contemporary art theory toys around the ideas of Panpsychism, a natural progression when AI becomes a part of the evolution society. What really intrigues me is following this line of thinking when added to quantum physics is really a very primitive way of thinking in a way - coming full circle

[@durjam3734]

Wow those are some really cool pieces of art 🔥🔥🔥

[@ARandomSpace]

My favorite was the final one. This thing managed to create a whole sunset.

[@durjam3734]

@@ARandomSpace yeah that was one of the most Interesting ones! My favorite has the be the ship in the desert

[@MissCookieMonster102]

I've been obsessed with night cafe ever since you told us about it. It's an endless source of inspiration

[@BroudbrunMusicMerge]

Thank you for the warning at the start. I'll watch another two of your videos instead, to make up for it

[@freesheff]

starting around 225 the eye in the middle comes back as an anime style more realistic eye and stays the rest of the time, 8:57 he even has an ear and hair by the last frame. also I think its reflecting back the rest of the image ?

[@rossprior]

There is a music video on KZbin using VQGAN and CLIP called "Exotic Contents" that's really good! Reminded me of this video obviously.

[@willmelville7687]

Something interesting about the focus in uncertainty about the future... the background appeared out of focus and far away at points conpared to the stuff in the "foreground" which feels pretty on point

[@omegarift]

This was an awesome video, would love to see more like this man!

[@twobob]

Yeah this was a great series. I chucked you a few I did on Twitter. Excellent choices for engines out there. Thanks man. Good fun. As an a lifelong musical artist and the parent of a visual artist I can say without any doubt that "YES, IT IS ART", that is not really the question. The real question is do you care about it? if you do then it is art "that matters to you" and that is all that matters.

[@luked4043]

Wow this is fascinating. I experimented with letting AI finish short stories I was writing. It came out terribly. This AI seems to actually paint what you’re looking for

[@markfergerson2145]

What little "formal" art training I had, in High School many many moons ago, included the idea of filling a sheet of paper with sketches of a subject from different angles or in different poses or lighting, then choosing one to develop more fully on a separate sheet, discarding the rest. That's at least part of what the program seems to be doing much of he time except it doesn't discard any of the sketches, instead it tries to develop them all with little to no concept of overall context and composition. In a sense, a human brain generating an image at a random spot on a sketch sheet is a pretty much what the program does. I wonder how much formal art training from artists or art teachers went into designing the program.

[@Bisqwit]

Interesting analysis. You seem to have forgotten to populate the end screen in the video.

[@AtomicShrimp]

Thanks! I keep forgetting that

[@thatoneravenclaw7001]

on uncertainty about the future: im thinking the red zigzag is like the lines u see in the stonks meme (financial growth and crash on those line graph things); the beige figure looks like a weird anime person with a big blue eye, bottom bit in white with 'text' looks like those spedup stop motion animation type things from tv shows where they show someone typing on a keyboard from the 90s/2000s; and the brightly coloured blobs are like those thermal heat maps - maybe the ai's representation of global warming?

[@maxwellrobertson4831]

It's fun how it "uncertainty about the future", the cityscape and other background scenes almost seem to cycle through day/night, as if you're watching the passage of time from some weird observation sphere

[@Firroth]

'Uncertainty About the Future' looks like a swirling, overlapping vision of post-apocalyptic sand dunes and a futuristic city-scape.

[@rinoz47]

"Uncertainty" is a stunning piece. well, the paused part at the eye is

[@WmAHughes]

In regards to uncertainty, I would assume it has taken that word in the context of the stock market. Probably the most common image when searching for uncertainty

[@atomnetton]

This is fascinating. Thanks for putting some instructions in the description, that made it much easier to get started. I'm hoping to create some nightmare fuel. Or because of Rothko's Basilisk, I should say I'm hoping to create wonderful art, thank you AI overlord.

[@newhistorian6319]

This could be such a good tool for inspiration, or maybe quick and easy background art for something

[@godzil42]

I think VQGAN+Clip is a good way for an artist to get a starting point if you run dry of ideas, some compositions like the last you made on the video are so interesting but at the same time looks so un-finished that you may want to take it over and complete it! And yes your description is pretty accurate, a GAN as in VQGAN is a type of neural network that generate something at random, then get feedback from another neural network, and then change some parameter to get the best results from the test network. This Person Does Not Exists is the best example of "simple" GAN, the first network generate something, then it get tested to see if it is a face or not, giving a "score" of faciness, then first network do slight modifications and continue until the second network give a faciness level high enough. This is a "simple" because there is basically only one goal: make a human face. VQGAN+Clip is using the same principle, but is a bit more complicated because as you said, the second network give a number of text description on the output of the first network. Then I'm not exactly sure how they are compared, but it will compare the output of the second network with your own prompt and the first network will try "hard" to get the best possible score for all the prompte you gave (in the case of VQGAN+Clip a single prompt is the sentence you wrote, if you want to have more than one, you have to use the ';' character to separate them. And yes as you said VQGAN+Clip is somewhat baised, and that's normal for all Neural Networks, they all are based because of the dataset that was used to train them. Your alphabet test, I think it was trying to produce alaphabet cubes, because it is most likely to be the only way it got the word Alphabet in the image set.

[@lewis838]

I love these videos on AI image generation, I have been using nightcafe studio ever since it's brilliant

[@Swaggersquirrel]

This programme is like an art creator, just type in a title and you get a masterpiece

[@bletheringfool]

In uncertainty about the future, the creature in the middle, to me was like some kind of Jim Henson creation or the dragon from neverending story. A head and long neck, big eye and if you look the snout has a nose a bit dog-like. But it is slightly scaly so who knows

[@AmLeckenby]

Hey shrimpy - did you see that the Dalle AI text to image generator has been made available to the public. It's been rebranded as Craiyon but still Dalle mini under the hood!

[@AtomicShrimp]

Yeah, I've had a little play with it. Interesting, but sort of limited. I applied to be able to use the full Dall.E algorithm, but I haven't heard back on that

[@thomevs1389]

love these videos, i wonder what would happen if u asked it to draw countries, or things described superlatively like 'the best joke'

[@AtomicShrimp]

The answer (I just tried it) - a brick wall background and a microphone - so presumably a comedy club stage, with a terrifying distorted aged clown grinning in front of it, half the face of a blonde female, surrounded by the words Jobo Joco Jool Jol Jolob arrT. (don't say these words out loud in front a mirror)

[@thomevs1389]

@@AtomicShrimp brings up the question if AI can do comedy, from this it seems they can only mimic lovecraftian cephalopods

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

It's also fun to "break" or attempt to by telling the AI how it should draw the thing, which style it should use and so on.

[@kornsuwin]

"Uncertainty about the Future" felt emotionally changing to me.

[@thehoneybadger1223]

I've used Wombo Art and I've found that it's very interesting to use my tics as prompts. The results have been...interesting

[@WilburJaywright]

I think it would be great if there were more generative tools like this, but that were set up so as to take a creative input from a human. For example, Nvidia canvas take simple, Microsoft paint-esque drawings of a landscape imagined by the user, and turn it into photo realistic images that thankfully look quite good. Computers can’t really make up anything on their own, but they can help apply data.

[@vigminitaur5359]

Very interesting. I think it sort of is art but guided by the user with the view of the “artist” as you called it. More interesting to watch the animations than to kick around the validity as art or not. Thanks.:)

[@kevinbell9255]

I love the subtitle to a collection of purple objects! Are there some hidden designs to take over Ashens' sofa perhaps?

[@Count_Smackula]

Thanks for the " < > "tip! Didn't know I could scan frame by frame.