Infinite Images and the latent camera

As a board member at OpenAI, the organization that developed DALL-E, I engaged with DALL-E during its beta-testing phase. As much as I've enjoyed experimenting with the technology myself, what's really struck me so far is how many artists, architects, fashion designers, and other visual creatives are eagerly embracing DALL-E and incorporating it in... See more

with the emergence of AI-driven image-creation platforms like DALL-E, Imagen, and Midjourney, we're on the verge of experiencing perhaps the most revolutionary press-the-button shift since the days of the Kodak Brownie.

Sterling Crispin

@sterlingcrispin

The 'problem with AI art' stems from deep rooted cultural, psychological, and educational differences.

Some key issues:

- Most people mistakenly conflate craft with art.

- Most don't know the last hundred years of art history, or intentionally reject it outright.

- Most people fear change, and adapting your model of th... See more

Some may worry about whether powerful new neural-network models for generating text and images will replace workers and artists. But this can be true only if beauty and creativity are measurable by one-dimensional metrics, if art and human endeavors are static forms whose rules and objectives do not change, if we reject the possibility of meaning a... See more

Every time you ask the AI to make a picture, it doesn’t really remember or know anything else it’s ever made. It has no will, it has no goals, it has no intention, no storytelling ability. All the ego and will and stories — that’s us. It’s just like an engine. An engine has nowhere to go, but people have places to go. It’s kind of like a hive mind ... See more