#dall-e 2

Bonus: here's what happens when you add 'dramatic lighting' to your text prompt.

And a BABY, look at him go!

Because, given how AI art works, expanding copyright would be a disaster for any sort of sharing or inspiration-taking with regards to art from smaller artists.

But megacorps would find a way to buy out or steal from artists to shove their art into AI art anyway. Hell, they own a lot of the works of other artists, they could just use the copyrighted art from their employees to put other artists out of a job even if we expand copyright.

Because, despite what they say, companies don’t want auteurship, they want “good enough” and they’ll become an ouroboros of their past works if it lets them save a dime.

But, given how there’s legal precedent that AI-generated art is automatically public domain, that would give them pause. Because that would mean anyone could do what they wanted with the designs they probably want a monopoly on.

Because, if megacorps do this mass theft from the commons via datasets, they should be forced to give back. And that will give us leverage.

So, that’s a good goal to start with, now I wonder, how do we get there...

Blue Mushroom Games

Using AI to make pretty gay art 

What Allen had only hinted at, however, was that the artwork had been created in large part by an artificial-intelligence tool, Midjourney, that can generate realistic images at a user’s command. The portrait of three figures, dressed in flowing robes, staring out to a bright beyond, was so finely detailed the judges couldn’t tell.

Allen’s piece offers a clear example of how rapidly AI-generated art has advanced. Trained on billions of internet images, the systems have decisively pushed the boundaries of what computers can create.

Text-to-image tools like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney have quickly increased in sophistication and become one of the hottest topics in AI. They can generate not just fake people, objects and locations but mimic entire visual styles; a user can demand the art piece look like a cartoon storybook or a historical diagram or an Associated Press photograph, and the system will do its best to oblige.

But AI-generated art has been criticized as automated plagiarism, because it relies on millions of ingested art pieces that are then parroted en masse. It has also fueled deeper fears: of decimating people’s creative work, blurring the boundaries of reality or smothering human art.

Allen said his art piece shows people need to “get past their denial and fear” of a technology that could empower new inventions and reshape our world. The AI, he said, “is a tool, just like the paintbrush is a tool. Without the person, there is no creative force.”

What do you think about the use of AI in creating art?

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Prepare yourself for the magic, the glamour, the action, the music of...

DAVID BOWIE AND THE DRAGON LORDS (1981)

Featuring the vocal talents of David Bowie, Rene Auberjonois, Vincent Price, Farrah Fawcett, Bea Author and featuring Alice Cooper as the DragonLord Morrath.  

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I don’t have Dall-E 2 yet, but but Dall-E Bot on twitter was kind enough to run this prompt. While I will aim to get more stills from the actual film in future sets (when I get Dall-E 2 access, most likely) these serve as a good start for the concept.

The logo was based on one generated in Dall-E mini, I used a font-matcher program to find the closest font match (ad Hoc Bis)