Some AI Art

Herewith some rather startling art produced by a latent diffusion model implemented in a Colab notebook from @multimodalart. In each case the caption is the phrase that I gave the model to use as the seed for generating the image. I have to remind myself that these images didn’t exist until I generated them today.

I started with a few “X in the style of Y” runs:

an owl in the style of picasso
An owl in the style of Picasso
An owl in the style of Rubens
An owl in the style of Rubens
Unicorn in the style of Picasso
Unicorn in the style of Picasso

Then I tried a few more ambiguous phrases:

At night I dream of the whales
At night I dream of the whales
Childhood memories of the dream lighthouse
Childhood memories of the dream lighthouse
Passageway between dreams of childhood homes
Passageway between dreams of childhood homes

I particularly like the final one.

I’ve played around with quite a lot of ML-based stuff over the last couple of years, but the relative ease with which I was able to do this has me kind of shaking my head in disbelief. We’re a shockingly long way from MNIST now.

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