Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios
Obviously, from the AI point of view, this is just amazing and frankly terrifying.<p>OK, I&#x27;ll be the guy who brings the snark. It seems that when Silicon Valley tech people create AI, it makes exactly the art you&#x27;d expect Silicon Valley tech people to like. I.e. this is very much the style you see in NFTs, or, as someone else said, in Dixit. It&#x27;s quirky and stoner-ish, very &quot;transcendental&quot;... for an AI, it&#x27;s amazing...<p>For a human, it would be dross.<p>Yeah, yeah, I know, art is subjective, well <i>I like it</i>, how can you impose your tastes on the rest of the world, et cetera et cetera. Sorry, but it&#x27;s dross! It&#x27;s the kind of work the guy in the art shop up the road churns out, and sells to the ignorant locals in my town. It&#x27;s the art equivalent of Visual Basic. (I&#x27;m trying to get through to you that in this world, too, things can not just be done, but be done well or badly.)<p>If there&#x27;s a lesson on the AI side here (and maybe there isn&#x27;t) it is just that these machines are still copying. They were trained on a bunch of art - and you can clearly see the kind of art that was used. Presumably, if it were just trained on Old Masters and Picasso, Dall-E would be mass-producing the stuff I, an intellectual, like.<p>Note the difference, though, with a real artist. A real artist takes as input the real world - Rouen cathedral, the horrors of war in Spain, a Campbell&#x27;s soup can - and produces art as output. This takes as input art and produces more art.