Create a 7-string Guitar with Midjourney AI

[JimF]

I too thought "hang on, album art!" when I saw a the improving quality of these AI produced artworks, but I can see them turning into the equivalent of mid 2000s photoshop layering that was everywhere. I.e., it'll lose its appeal fast, and it'll be viewed just like those over edited images of a crumbly background, with a human face, but one eye is a clock face, and there's a superimposed heart with a keyhole in it.
Aside from the overtly Victorian styled stuff, this AI art does seem to have a certain look & feel about it.

 

[gabito]

This feels a lot like the same arguments stated when digital art first started popping up. Artists were freaking out about it, calling it cheating and were fearing the end of their careers, Pro Tools had pretty much the same effect and still does, there are still people that believe you can open Pro Tools, press one button and a whole song is done for you and will die on that hill claiming it to be true, despite never opening Pro Tools once in their lives.

If you're clever you'll use AI to help you create whatever you want to create faster and better.

If you aren't, well... good luck to you.

 

[gabito]

I too thought "hang on, album art!" when I saw a the improving quality of these AI produced artworks, but I can see them turning into the equivalent of mid 2000s photoshop layering that was everywhere. I.e., it'll lose its appeal fast, and it'll be viewed just like those over edited images of a crumbly background, with a human face, but one eye is a clock face, and there's a superimposed heart with a keyhole in it.
Aside from the overtly Victorian styled stuff, this AI art does seem to have a certain look & feel about it.

2:12

 

[TedEH]

I somehow missed this thread when it was fresh. My for the all-of-nobody who cares: I just can't bring myself to shout "AI ART IS EVIL" like some have been doing. It's a tool, like any other tool, and I don't think it's wrong to be interested in it, either as a proper tool, or as a novelty, or what have you.

People talk about it like there's no middle ground - like the "problem" is not the way the tool is used and trained, rather than the fact it exists in the first place. Taking training material without permission? Sure, I grant that it's a grey area, but the tool itself would still work without that grey area. And sure, I can't bemoan people being afraid of their value in the marketplace - that's a legitimate fear - but just because something took business away from you doesn't make it immoral. It might make it unfortunate, maybe unfair from certain framings, but to say the tool as a whole and any use of it is immoral is a stretch.

I'm also not entirely convinced that we, as people, as a whole, are any good at predicting what will or won't have a real impact on people's careers. "Oh no, the AIs are going to make driving obsolete!" except that no, driving still is a lucrative career and the big problem with driving as a job is gig-economy systems like Uber / Lyft / etc., which have nothing to do with AI. Or software: "Oh no! The AI is going to make programmers obsolete!" Putting aside that AI doesn't exist until someone programs it - no, programming jobs are not at risk. Anyone who has worked on a sizeable software project knows that you can't use the kinds of general solutions an AI would come up with. You need bespoke solutions for specific problems. That's why they put "engineering" in the title "software engineer" - you need to solve problems and edge cases that you can't "train" on. There is no model for the specific problems you're trying to solve.

IMO we're in the "panic phase" of a new thing being novel. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It will shake some things up as it progresses.

 

[BlackMastodon]

I too thought "hang on, album art!" when I saw a the improving quality of these AI produced artworks, but I can see them turning into the equivalent of mid 2000s photoshop layering that was everywhere. I.e., it'll lose its appeal fast, and it'll be viewed just like those over edited images of a crumbly background, with a human face, but one eye is a clock face, and there's a superimposed heart with a keyhole in it.
Aside from the overtly Victorian styled stuff, this AI art does seem to have a certain look & feel about it.

My favourite time capsules.

 

[gabito]

Anyway...

"Nothing, Forever’ Is An Endless ‘Seinfeld’ Episode Generated by AI"

Four pixelated cartoon characters talk to each other about coffee, Amazon deliveries, and veganism as they stand apart in a decorated NYC apartment. There is one woman and three men who seem to be the animated versions of Seinfeld’s main characters, Elaine, Jerry, George, and Kramer. But unlike Seinfeld, these characters are set in a modern-era NYC, and their voices and bodies look and sound robotic. That’s because “Nothing, Forever” is a live-streaming show that’s almost entirely generated by algorithms. It’s been streaming non-stop on Twitch since December 14.

 

[wheresthefbomb]

I just can't bring myself to shout "AI ART IS EVIL" like some have been doing.

I hated everything the robots were doing before it was cool 😎

Not because I think it's stealing IP, mind you. I hate it because it disturbs me on a deep, primordial level. Maybe I'm a chimp convinced the microwave is going to kill him. I guess most of us will live long enough to find out.

 

[LordCashew]

I hated everything the robots were doing before it was cool 😎

Not because I think it's stealing IP, mind you. I hate it because it disturbs me on a deep, primordial level. Maybe I'm a chimp convinced the microwave is going to kill him. I guess most of us will live long enough to find out.

Same. When I say the AI images are evil, I don't mean on an ethical level. I'm not at all invested in that.

I mean they innately look like cursed things that, were they real, could cause me to die an unimaginably painful and twisted horrifying death. That kind of evil.

 

[Alsvartr]

 

[Emperoff]

2:12

2:24 + 3:20 = Modern metal summarized like no one has ever done

 

[Alsvartr]

Also just imagine AI music. Like a Kidz Bop version of Ride the Lightning or With Strength I Burn if it was 90s gangster rap. Like all those stupid mashups you see on YouTube but without having to sit through a bunch of stupid YouTuber bullshit.

 

[ElRay]

Also just imagine AI music. …

Oh, to have access to all of the "Music Genome Project" (the open-source project that was closed-off and then became Pandora) and use the songs and "musical DNA" to train a ML Network.

 

[gabito]

Also just imagine AI music.

https://dadabots.com/

 

[Alsvartr]