No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
AI image generation is essentially a truncated exercise in taste; a product of knowing which inputs and keywords to feed the image-mashup machine, and the eye to identify which outputs contain any semblance of artistry. All that is to say: AI itself can’t generate good taste for you.
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
“An engine for the imagination”: an interview with David Holz, CEO of AI image generator Midjourney
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Models All The Way Down
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Generative AI combines the encoding of vast corpuses of text and images—which act as training data—and a series of machine learning algorithms to turn text prompts into incredibly creative, intelligent, and useful visual and text responses.
Jason Shen • 131: How to Be Human in the Age of Generative AI
AI will generate exactly what you tell it to create. A blessing for those with vision, a curse for those without. You can feed it every reference, provide every specification, but the output is only as good as your ability to recognize what is good and what is bad.
The world's most sophisticated algorithms can't save you from your own blind spots.
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