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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!
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.