I tried making your weird book cover suggestions with ai

[@zebbr0s]

Ya, we had a conversation about AI art at work with my colleagues (we're indie game devs graphics team). We all pretty much agreed that AI art was good for private use to gather inspiration and ideas, and bad to use at corporate level. I mean, I think most people think that but ye. It was an interesting discussion And yes about what you said about artists, it's terrible that you can pretty much write a prompt with a specific artist's style and just... get exactly what you want and then claim it as you own without the artist's consent. Great video as always D, Frankenbatch was my favorite

[@DragonX5536]

I agree, I love using AI to quickly create a mood board for my project. As much as I love Pinterest, it can take a bit of time to cherry-pick out what you want for the mood board. But sadly, the technology is being abused by people sadden me, especially the people "claims" AI art is art or straight up steal arts for the AI. For me, AI arts will forever be souless, but if you need a souless piece of art as an inspiration to inject your own unique soul is perfectly ok.

[@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult]

AI ART is only good for creepy stuff, at least in my experience. There's gotta be some legal precedent to be set in the future about the copyright of AI input data.

[@itsdivyag]

yeah it's the no consent involved in training these models which is the biggest ick. do you think ai art will soon be used at a corporate level? (or has it already)?

[@zebbr0s]

@@itsdivyag Not as AI art is right now, but we've heard through the grapevine that other game companies sees the great potential AI art has to replace concept artists eventually. I don't think it's gonna be anytime soon, but that companies sees the potentiall is... yikes

[@catcat63527]

Didn't courts recently ruled that you cannot copyright a AI generated piece, since it is not made by human?

[@medea__witchhh]

g stands for god please turn off the simulation lol

[@waltercostellotruth9198]

Scary part about that is most people either don't know or care... 🤔

[@sunmisola8533]

Capital G!

[@hannastar6378]

The flower in the cover may show us the love and joy of the main character and finding love in a hopeless place. But the eye in the center of the flower shows us that truly big brother will always be watching. Which also represents the betrayal the main character and how he will always be stuck as a cog in the machine. (I never read 1984 or a colleen Hoover book)

[@waltercostellotruth9198]

This is scary.

[@shirendjorgee9320]

nah that's accurate actually, even just to 1984

[@servenotea5760]

benedict cumberbatch played frankensteins monster in a national theatre production. the AI must have found pictures of it while scanning the internet :)

[@itsdivyag]

this makes sense haha didn't know this before thank you for sharing

[@kasterborouskitten]

Would definitely recommend watching if you are able! Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller took turns playing Frankenstein and the monster so there's two versions of the play!

[@desil30stm]

@@kasterborouskitten Back in highschool in Quebec, we saw the French translation of that play. It was really good, I really recommend it!

[@eggzacly]

benerdale cumbersquash****

[@annaofcleves5556]

Wasn’t he ableist in it? Or more when looking for “inspiration” for it

[@subtlefire7256]

I think the Midjourney cover of 1984, while maybe being furthest from the Coleen Hoover aesthetic, captures the novel the best. As Winston writes, thought crime doesn't just lead to death, it is death. Everything good and beautiful he has in his life is taken from him, he and his lover are turned against each other, and Winston's very soul is twisted until he is nothing but an empty shell to be filled with propaganda. The only feelings still allowed in this society are fear and hate, while love or any form of pleasure are frowned upon or downright forbidden. So the dead, decaying flower with the eye in the middle represents the destructive nature of the Party that kills everything positive and beautiful. It symbolizes not only actual death, but the complete emotional and spiritual annihilation that everyone is subjected to under the Party. And that form of death is inescapable, because the Party and the loyalty it demands are set into the center of people's lives and thoughts, just as the eye is the center of the flower, looking out of its slowly rotting remains. Here's your fake analysis, have a great day! 😉😄

[@portugeese_man_o_war]

4:25 I love the second one that just says the bob

[@libby1538]

The flower on this book cover represents the natural world. In the tradition of the Romanticism movement, the natural world is the most important part of our world. It is the only place where true peace can be found and where true beauty remains. Flowers are the epitome of beauty in the natural world. Thousands of poems have been composed where flowers are used as metaphors for beauty. The flowers are moments of pure joy in the world. But a flower's beauty isn't eternal. Flowers represent fragility, of beauty gone too soon. The eye on the cover disrupts the beauty of the flower. It's impossible to miss, being at the flower's center. It gazes at the viewers unflinching, ever-watching. The eye represents humanity, and in its association, the modern world. Humanity pierces through the beauty of nature, putting up asphalt where there used to be gorgeous meadows. The modern world destroys the natural world for its own benefit, just as the eye destroys the flower. The arrangement of the petals on the cover, which were torn off due to the eyes intrusion, are not sporadic as nature is. There's an order to the petals which frame the flower, an order that serves only function, instead of beauty. It's another aspect of the human destruction of the natural world. The flower is red and white. Mix the colors together and pink would arise. Pink is the color of beauty, a final callback to what the flower should represent. However, the two colors are separated, unwilling to let the pink form. Instead, the red surrounds the wound where the eye appears in the flower, as if the flower is bleeding. This is a personification of the flower that allows the viewer not feel its pain. It's a personification easier to attain with the physical human body part in its center. The white represents an innocence of nature that is perverted by human kind. Finally the background color is blue, a color associated with sadness. The blue mourns for the flower and the beauty of the natural world. However, the blue is bright and light. It could be described as a "fun" color. The color intentionally juxtaposes the horrific scene occurring on top of it. It makes the viewer think everything is alright, even though they're viewing the scene of a murder. A closer look at the eye will reveal the truth. The eye's iris is also blue. This reveals that the eye, and by what it represents, humanity, controlled the blue of the background and its light-hearted tone. It did so purposely to cover up the injustice of the death of the flower, and by extention, the demolition of the natural world. Overall, the cover is a representation of the how humanity destroys the natural world and covers it up as a normal, and even fun, event to participate in.

[@itsdivyag]

You had all the elements of P.E.E. - point, evidence and explanation. I love how you've woven the themes through each paragraph, tying the argument neatly at the end with your conclusion. You are able to abstract reasoning well from the visual metaphors. Stellar work. A*.

[@Mia-yy1dy]

this is so good wtf

[@manmoy4104]

The eye in the flower and the G in DivyaG - two of the world's greatest mysteries

[@fidato_]

"apart for a friend who is keeping an eye out for selener" As a selener I really felt her stare.

[@itsdivyag]

it was a powerful one

[@one_smol_duck]

Personally, I think AI art is very cool, but the pieces that come out of it are best understood as a _collaborative_ effort. A collaboration between the developers who built and trained the model, the end user writing prompts, and the artists whose works were used to train the model. *However* that model means any living artists whose works were used should be compensated in some way, and should have been consulted before training the model without their consent. The way it was done is unethical but there is a way to do this right.

[@itsdivyag]

Thank you for sharing this perspective! I think you hit the nail on the head about it. The issue of image rights from prompt creation is also an interesting discussion

[@tvscreen8397]

Ainis not cool

[@maetamonxg7718]

I love how you made the AI generated images just... work. I didn't think any of them were remotely what I imagined, but if I saw your versions of the cover, they worked! Also wonder if the AI would recognise the artists who worked on those covers, like if you put in their names directly instead of "author cover'

[@itsdivyag]

Thank you! To be honest I didn't think about doing that! I tried to generate most of the images just based off of plain text and no artist references to see how that would turn out

[@Ludesto]

KZbin's just recommended your videos and I loved and subscribed

[@dife_ru]

Oh god I have my mocks coming up in January so here goes The writing in Orwell’s 1984 is complimented effectively by the cover art, especially in the 2022 DivyaPublish edition. The flower represents the beauty of society that the totalitarian government is trying to present to the people, but the eye inside illuminates how no one is ever truly free and how Big Brother is always watching, presenting an image of a failed cover-up. Despite the fact they are told they are living in a paradise, everyone can see the lack of liberty that defines a happy human existence. It also represents how difficult the protagonist’s mission is, as he is constantly being watched - even an innocuous flower could spy on him

[@rainygreymornings]

Ahem. The eye inside the flower represents the appropriation of beauty for sinister purposes in 1984. It encapsulates the experiences of protagonist Winston in his (pseudo) love affair with Julia and their ostensible temporary escape into a nostalgic, rose-tinted version of a domestically-centered past. This superficially happy time has sinister undertones, as the regression to a time when individuals‘ lives were less regulated by the state simultaneously also means a regression to a time of stricter patriarchal standards; Julia’s delight in wearing a dress with a flower print symbolizes her voluntary re-submission to this gendered hierarchy, foreshadowing the revelation of the fact that this seemingly happy interlude is not as positive and uncomplicated as it seems. When it turns out that the whole affair was orchestrated by Big Brother to systematically flush out and catch possible dissenters, it is revealed that the charmed beauty of domestic life was rotten to the core all along - there was a surveiling eye at the heart of this lovely flower, Big Brother appropriating and exploiting the human experience of beauty and happiness for his own purposes. Just like these fascinating but also morally sketchy-AF painting AIs.

[@itsdivyag]

why is this analysis better than anything i have ever written in my entire life

[@itsdivyag]

this isn't even fake deep this is literally just deep

[@rainygreymornings]

@@itsdivyag Feel free to hit me up if you’re ever looking for someone with an English lit phd willing to use their powers for evil

[@maattthhhh]

5:17 That third panel reminds me of an unhatched bird, shattered by the same fork consumerists used to eat their eggs with. The bird's face, longing as it's surrounded by pieces of its once protective yet fragile shell.

[@itsdivyag]

next time i see someone eat egg i'll say shattered... by the fork of a consumerist

[@secondary.dominants]

4:34 THE BOB o he soster

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

The thing that scares me the most about A.I. generated art is when they include words in the image they made... sometimes it writes what you typed, sometimes it has typos or turns into nonsense half-way throught, but it's still uncanny

[@itsdivyag]

honestly when i tried to create a book cover just outright using the AI it turned frankenstein into "franken fany" for one of the results...

[@jiya8472]

i sent the 1984 one and i agree you could 1000% make a better cover than the ai ones

[@armanaryan4663]

analysis of the dall e 2 1984 cover. I'm all the way over in computer science land so this won't be good but i DO like to make up bs. Obviously, the first and most striking image you notice is the eye. The wide, unblinking eye seems to reference the idea of an "all-seeing" eye, which we can obviously connect to the themes in the book: constant surveillance and no privacy. However, another theme that the eye seems to present is that of a clairvoyant seer. Could this eye represent the "third eye" that can look into the future? What future is being predicted? I argue that this is because, due to the party's ultimate control over the citizens, there is nothing left to chance. Everything is predetermined. Big Brother can see all that is happening, but it goes further than that. He can see everything that *will* happen, because he is that powerful. The coloration of the flower is also significant. The flower is red closer to the center, and white on the ends of the petals. The symbolism is quite clear: red is connected to blood, violence, and love. White is associated with innocence. The inner part of the flower obviously represents the *inner* party. Within the party, there is violence and blood. The members of the party even admit so. The society is founded upon hate. However, those on the outskirts of the society, the proles, are truly the most innocent of all. Without membership in the party, the are the closest thing remaining to human in this world. The image taken overall also reveals quite a lot about the story. The picture has been composed with bright, cheerful colors, so that, perhaps at first glance, it looks like a beautiful image. Upon closer inspection, however, we can see that there is nothing beautiful at all. The flower has been cut--the stem severed. It is slowly and inevitably heading towards death. The eye in the center is unsettling, because it doesn't belong. Something is wrong here, but it tries to hide within the beauty of this mutilated flower. The party tries to present itself as something perfect, beautiful, and cheerful, and yet it only takes a second to see the evil within. Thank you for coming to my ted talk

[@itsdivyag]

this was so beautiful i shed a tear

[@HalduBouyaNono2]

Fun fact : less than 2 years ago, 1984 got a new translation into French (a lot of linguists weren't satisfied by how the Newspeak was translated, even the french name of this concept was changed, once "Novlangue" now "Néoparler" but I'm goinb off-topic), and since at the moment I write, we only got one cover art of the new French translatrion. And it's an eye inside an old cathodic TV. That design was so iconic in English-Speaking countries it erased all the previous french covers who existed, while there were a lot.

[@kkiikkiii]

The flower represents of what everyone craves such as looks and smarts while the eye at the center represents judgement and hatred for no other reason than jealousy

[@M0psyd]

The red centre of the flower framed by the harsh white tone fosters a sense of purity stained by corruption - owing to white having connotations of morality and the juxtaposing red, a sinister atmosphere. Moreover, the eye placed at the centre of the flower poses as a motif for something foreboding at the heart of that which is pleasant, an ideology that mirrors that of the novel. Finally, the eyeball is positioned away from the viewpoint of the onlooker, which builds an ominous ambience for readers as it has links to being hidden and searched for. I haven't read 1984 but can you tell im an English lit sweat

[@2DarkHorizon]

They already have technology to keep track how people are feeling, for example nervous or excited. If they feed this data into AI whilst people view video and images AI would learning to learn to make art that is more emotive.

[@alexandra.t2237]

The flower represents a sense of innocence and youthfulness whereas the eye inside the flower embeds the notion that no matter what we are always under surveillance and scrutiny. These never a time in life, where we are not being watched by society and judged into social norms. It could also represent a descent into madness but still have perform by putting on like you’re okay. The flower is the front, prevent onlookers to your deepest, inner thoughts and feelings while they eye suggests that slow, decay into insanity as you know what your feeling and it almost feels like your brain is studying you and watching you and therefore there is simply no escape from yourself. 1984’s main theme is about being under government surveillance. As every move is watched so carefully by the government. The flower and the eye is ultimately symbolism of how civilians feel as if they’re prisoner to a system they can’t control and feel like they’re descending into madness because they don’t have ownership to a basic human right.

[@gabbyreads]

This is such a fascinating and creative video, I love it!!

[@SabinesBookNook]

You did such a good job making these omg

[@MsGloomyLamp]

They came out much better than I expected, but your versions are still a million times better

[@paulamusik2509]

The thing in this video that made me giggle the most is, that Benedict Cumberbatch actually played Frankenstein. In a play at the National Theater in London.

[@dazaimaru5799]

Please do more of these! There are so many more book cover styles to do 😁

[@arimill3144]

The G stands for Gee, am I scared of technology that could replace us.

[@waterhyacnith]

Here is my best cover analysis of the 1984 flower cover, specifically the 1st one: The colors of the flower are like that of a candy corn, almost sickeningly bright and polarizing to distract your eyes from the fact that the flower has been cut, just like how Winston's attempt at rebellion, from the very beginning, was doomed to fail.

[@lllSusan1224lll]

the question at 7:00 is a really interesting one! Personlly I think the two are 100% different. The computer meshes thousands and thousands of themes and images and refefences into one work - and we view that as an original outcome - but all it is is a mash up that could never exist without the originals and behind which there is 0 new thoughts or originality. As humans, even when heavily inspired by something or trying to copy somebody's style we automatically put our own twist - influenced by backgrounds, outlooks, skillsets, thought processes so specific and unique to one another. Sure - you can make a cover that's sole purpose is to 'impersonate' another artists style, but your subjective mind - shaped in conditions that are specific only to you - is making a lot of decicions and interpreting what that style is, even without you thinking about it. The computer is doing an objective, emotionless mashup of other people's work. And honestly never thought about the artists whose works are used for this before. About what they must be feeling. It's disturbing when you look at it from their perspective.

[@EmyN]

4:45 “Love Island” 😂

[@sarahhhslibrary]

“lady this unfortunately ended up foul” killed me😭😭

[@LadyJenevia]

Were these websites free or do you have to pay to unlock certain features? I'm trying to figure out what their business model is to put all that work into coding and adding information about all of these different artists without a plan to get a return on their investment. 😗

[@itsdivyag]

So stable diffusion is the only free one otu of the ones here, the rest you have like a quota you can use before you either have to wait or pay up to unlock more features and have more images you can generate type of stuff :)

[@grebblethegravel-fc7vm]

the color of the flower represents passion or danger and the eye in the middle being wide shows shock or fear. the petals being spread out mean disassociation or being apart from something

[@unfocusedcuriosity]

So excited to see what you created. Haven't been early for a video in a long while

[@danielvaega]

A flower with an eye in the middle is a joke which requires oh but the slightest bit of prodding to realize it's magnitude. Also Dall•E wins. Try the new one.

[@liliamuseum196]

I love this concept so much lol

[@lisamarker7529]

Fake deep analysis here: The eye being in the middle of the object represents the eye of a hurricane. While hurricanes are turbulent and can cause destruction the eye symbolizes a moment of calm and peace. The flower has an association with springtime, which yields change and new life. The eye and the flower together depict that change, while it may seem scary at first, (like in the case of the hurricane), can bring peace (like the eye) and beauty (like the flower).

[@itsdivyag]

wait the ending was so poetic

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

NOT HENRY HOOVER 😂

[@itsdivyag]

me and henry need to have a fight

[@bencesarvari2235]

The flower with the eye is giving flowers of evil vibes but thats a different book. Poetry by the french symbolist Charles Boudelaire.

[@violetmeliora]

I love Chloe Gong!

[@TorutheRedFox]

ah yes, benadryl cumbersquash

[@ghostwriter991]

Ai is like frooty loops a musical producer tool i dont think ai will do a lot of damage to the game only those that suck and those that realise on connections to get ahead because they aren't meritocratic. You still gotta push your creation whether ai music ai videos etc so nothing fundamentally changes other than the liberation of labour but now a new form of work must be delivered and developed that has an emphasis on practical results and actual outcomes meritocratic outcome reflect your effort

[@Acecidic]

I really like your style of videos!

[@daniellemhall1358]

That shark/Teletubbies one was an abomination

[@Emma_The_H0ppin_H00ligan]

Ah yes my favorite book, FRANSK

[@anitanielsen1061]

I have so little self-esteem that I WANT to find out AI stole parts of my writing

[@ga75]

love ur hairstyle here

[@ga75]

also i love the book cover vids

[@xstar4698]

Ah yes George Orwell, the bestselling author of IT ENDS WITH US

[@MM-dw5ir]

When we consider the parallels often drawn between the image of the flower and the female anatomy, it becomes clear that the eye, wide open and gazing at the world without judgment, but also without joy, represents the passive gaze Mother Nature casts upon the human dominated world. As she looks, her own destruction surrounds her. Once the flower petals have all withered away, will man be left with nothing but the cold gaze of a disappointed and ravaged mother?🧐

[@maryam8538]

I saw the thumbnail, I had to click lol

[@JessieWinterspring]

I'm looking at ai as ethical questionable. And those who use it are not artist, they're clever with prompts.

[@ngtskynebula]

When it comes to A.I., I turn into a 90yo, strictly religious, ex-mother superion nun who rejects all kinds of modernity

[@akanksha8311]

or??????

[@isthatachicken]

And WIN?! AI has been out of hand for some time now😅

[@WhoaThereMama]

This is fascinating and depressing

[@jaclynrachellec]

Notice how she still had to take the AI images and manipulate them herself in Photoshop in order to make them work lol.

[@jaredpinkney94]

Would you be willing to do a review of my poetry book? You won’t be disappointed.

[@thecolourfulpill]

It's cliché and *CRINGE* to comment that, but I've honestly never been first on a video 😂

[@tamara10]

AI generated art is only good for memes

[@itsdivyag]

the memes were the reason i even knew about it

[@lordfreerealestate8302]

If you want to see some great covers, check out Folio Society! They are a publisher that makes gorgrous hardcovers.