A short animated documentary by Eryk Salvaggio on how AI image generation works, and the entanglement of composite photography, statistical correlations, and racist ideologies.
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Same Energy
“We believe that image search should be visual, using only a minimum of words. And we believe it should integrate a rich visual understanding, capturing the artistic style and overall mood of an image, not just the objects in it.”
Same Energy is a visual search engine developed by Jackob Jackobson.
Spawning
“Spawning is building tools for artists ownership of their training data, allowing them to opt into or opt out of the training of large AI models, set permissions on how their style and likeness is used, and offer their own models to the public”.
Comparing AI images generators
In this video Philip Dyer compares three AI image generators: Dall.E Mini, Midjourney and Dall.E 2.
The future of image-making
A Rain of Missiles
On February 24th, a report on the Italian television channel Rai2 showed “a rain of missiles” coming down on Ukraine. The video was actually a clip from the video game ‘War Thunder’.
“Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined” – Chris Marker
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