Enlarge / Jos Avery uses Midjourney, an AI image synthesis model, to create images that he then retouches and posts on Instagram as “photos.” reader comments 53 with Share this story With over 26,000 followers and growing, Jos Avery’s Instagram account has a trick up its sleeve. While it may appear to showcase stunning photo… Read More »
Enlarge / AI image synthesis advances in 2022 have made images like this one possible, which was created using Stable Diffusion, enhanced with GFPGAN, expanded with DALL-E, and then manually composited together. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 41 with 0 posters participating Share this story More than once this year, AI experts have… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a fictional time traveler named Stelfie during the construction of the pyramids. reader comments 51 with 0 posters participating Share this story Throughout December, a social media user known as Stelfie the Time Traveller has been crafting a time-hopping travelogue using generative AI. Thanks to Stable Diffusion and fine-tuning,… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a person leaving a building, thus opting out of the vertical blinds convention. Ars Technica reader comments 83 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Wednesday, Stability AI announced it would allow artists to remove their work from the training dataset for an upcoming Stable Diffusion 3.0 release.… Read More »
Enlarge / A screenshot of the “Trending” page on ArtStation from December 14, 2022. It shows anti-AI protest images added by artists across the site. ArtStation reader comments 255 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Tuesday, members of the online community ArtStation began widely protesting AI-generated artwork by placing “No AI Art” images… Read More »
Enlarge / DreamUp AI image generator artwork proved by DeviantArt. reader comments 74 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Friday, the online art community DeviantArt announced DreamUp, an AI-powered text-to-image generator service powered by Stable Diffusion. Simultaneously, DeviantArt launched an initiative that ostensibly lets artists opt out of AI image training but also… Read More »
Enlarge / A selection of AI-generated artwork that can be licensed through Shutterstock. Shutterstock.com reader comments 49 with 39 posters participating Share this story Seeking ways to “monetize” AI-generated art, some artists have already begun submitting their AI-generated pieces to stock photography websites like Shutterstock. Searches for “AI generated” or “Midjourney” (a popular image synthesis… Read More »
Enlarge / An image of the “Have I Been Trained?” website featuring a search for one of its creators, Holly Herndon. reader comments 31 with 26 posters participating Share this story In response to controversy over image synthesis models learning from artists’ images scraped from the Internet without consent—and potentially replicating their artistic styles—a group… Read More »
Enlarge / An assortment of robot portraits generated by Stable Diffusion as found on the Lexica search engine. reader comments 192 with 79 posters participating Share this story Confronted with an overwhelming amount of artificial-intelligence-generated artwork flooding in, some online art communities have taken dramatic steps to ban or curb its presence on their sites,… Read More »
Enlarge / The winning entry, Théåtre D’opéra Spatial. Jason Allen reader comments 233 with 142 posters participating Share this story A synthetic media artist named Jason Allen entered AI-generated artwork into the Colorado State Fair fine arts competition and announced last week that he won first place in the Digital Arts/Digitally Manipulated Photography category, Vice… Read More »