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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2022-06-09 12:50 pm

GILA WHAMM

A Guide To Asking Robots To Design Stained Glass Windows

The blogger at Astral Codex Ten plays around with DALL-E-2, the latest art-generating AI. (I can't play with it yet; there's a waitlist for access for people who have actual reasons other than "I WANNA", plus I am not sufficiently code-savvy to set it up myself, thus I have to wait until it's public and someone stuffs it into a Google Colabs notebook.)

Anyway, he's trying to get it to generate stained glass windows of the Virtues of Rationality and running into the (hilarious) shortfalls of AI.
WAIT NO I JUST GOT IT! The reason William of Ockham [Ockham's Razor] has the giant beard is because most of the corpus of images with people holding razors is SHAVING ADVERTISEMENTS!
selenite0: (anvil)

[personal profile] selenite0 2022-06-09 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Does seem like a fun toy.

I'm wondering if the ulterior motive for the post is to find an artist who can work in stained glass style and is willing to tackle the project.
viridian5: (Maze by James Jean)

[personal profile] viridian5 2022-06-10 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I need an artist who works for free and isn’t allowed to say no isn't terribly appealing to... anyone.
viridian5: (Aya (scream))

[personal profile] viridian5 2022-06-10 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Suuuuuure. But if this article was his subtle, passive-aggressive attempt to get an artist to do this for him, that phrase does not help him.
chemicalcain: a dog with a knife. there is a red glare in its eyes (Default)

[personal profile] chemicalcain 2022-06-11 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
thank you for sharing this! i had a really good time reading it.