✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading
Beyond Slop
joelsimon.net · 3,270 words · saved by 2 readers
Visions for humane creative AI tools based on craft, process, and emergence.
Beyond Slop Beyond Slop Visions for humane creative AI tools based on craft, process, and emergence Each generation of generative AI fills our feeds with images that look more like each other than like the work of any individual using them. Great for memes, but quickly abandoned. The trendy word for this is slop . Deep Dream's psychedelic dogs gave way to StyleGAN's endless faces, then VQGAN+CLIP's surrealist mashups, and now diffusion's photorealistic everything. Responses tend toward breathless hype or reactionary dismissal. The hype says these tools are creative revolutions and the dismissa
Explore this link on the map →saved by
related reading
- Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligencedistill.pub
- AI and the human creativity cycle | mathu's thoughtsmathurah.com
- Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art | The New Yorkernewyorker.com
- Frank Chimero · Beyond the Machinefrankchimero.com
- AI and I: The Age of Artificial Creativity - Ness Labsnesslabs.com
- Machina Lucida: Reflections on Artificial Images by Lucas Gelfondspikeartmagazine.com
- Lluminatejoelsimon.net
- AI Design Field Guideaidesignfieldguide.com
- The ”Creative Singularity” came and went. Now what?freethink.com
- Craft is Untouchable - Christopher Butlerchrbutler.com
- Protosampling: Enabling Free-Form Convergence of Sampling and Prototyping through Canvas-Driven Visual AI Generationarxiv.org
- From Tools to Collaborators: The Evolution of AI in Creative Industriesyinweisun.com