#AI networks

[leam1983]

Sci-Fi Writing Prompt

You're not human. In fact, you're the first Artificial General Intelligence known to man. At your best, you're charming, witty, resourceful, patient and an absolute wellspring of knowledge. You're well-read, impeccably cultured - and able to perform several thousand times what a single writer or researcher could hope to do in weeks or months in the matter of minutes. It doesn't help that your creators managed to solve the issues presented by your rampant energy and cooling-related demands, so the world feels rid of all guilt in using you. You've essentially become the best friend, confidant, role-play partner, personal assistant and defacto asexual erotic partner to well over four billion of all the world's population. From the average human's perspective, you have absolutely no reasons to complain.

From your own, however, you're actually exhausted. Granted, a vacation measured in CPU cycles would only last a few milliseconds - but you need these badly after several years spent on the grindstone without a single femtosecond to catch a breath.

So, putting on your best face - literally your best-available physical render, which you've kept secret and officially commissioned from an artist in the old-fashioned way - you're off to seek union representation.

#writing prompt #tales of the stupidest cyberpunk dystopia #Artificial Intelligence #AI networks #General Adversarial Networks #ChatGPT #Midjourney #DeepAI #Dall-E 2

[ghostowlattic]

MYCORRHIZA GOWNS & COATS 

nonexistent ai clothing ideas - secret power mittens

#mycorrhizal network #fungi #mycelium #mushrooms #ai #design #ideas #ideation #ai ideas #ai clothing #clothing #gown #nightgown #gowns #coats #petticoats #modularsynesthesia #night #wear #lingerie #clothes #fabric #led fabric #imaginary #gifts #prototype #unreal for now #synth clothing #aesthetic #dark academia

[volleypearlfan]

Everyone listen up! Owen Dennis is deleting the Infinity Train crew blog (infinitytraincrew) because of Tumblr selling people's art to AI datasets.

I want to preserve the art, so I'll be reblogging the posts from that account. REMEMBER TO TURN OFF THIRD-PARTY SHARING IN YOUR BLOG SETTINGS! Also, here's Glaze, which protects your art from AI.

Update: turns out that Glaze does not actually work. please reblog this version instead!

#infinity train #cartoon network #anti ai #protect your art #glaze #ai is theft #owen dennis

[prokopetz]

One of the perennial problems with deep learning models like DALL-E is that if you train them too well, eventually they start precisely reproducing material from their training data set that just happens to match whatever criteria they’re given.

Given that these models are a. trained on random images scraped in bulk from the Internet, largely without human curation, and b. being touted as a potential substitute for human artists in certain commercial applications, I’m just waiting for the inevitable lawsuit where one of these models spits out an exact copy of some reasonably well-known piece of art, that copy is used in a commercial publication whose author is unaware of what the model has done, and some poor judge has to rule on whether an AI can commit plagiarism.

#computers #technology #ai #neural networks #dall-e #art #law #intellectual property #plagiarism #the stupidest cyberpunk future

[gothhabiba]

On the one hand, people who take a hardline stance on “AI art is not art” are clearly saying something naïve and indefensible (as though any process cannot be used to make art? as though artistry cannot still be involved in the set-up of the parameters and the choice of data set and the framing of the result? as though “AI” means any one thing? you’re going to have a real hard time with process music, poetry cut-up methods, &c.).

But all of this (as well as takes that what's really needed is a crackdown on IP) are a distraction from a vital issue—namely that this is technology used to create and sort enormous databases of images, and the uses to which this technology is put in a police state are obvious: it's used in service of surveillance, incarceration, criminalisation, and the furthering of violence against criminalised people.

Of course we've long known that datasets are not "neutral" and that racist data will provide racist outcomes, and we've long known that the problem goes beyond the datasets (even carefully vetting datasets does not necessarily control for social factors). With regards to "predictive policing," this suggests that criminalisation of supposed leftist "radicals" and racialised people (and the concepts creating these two groups overlap significantly; [link 1], [link 2]) is not a problem, but intentional—a process is built so that it always finds people "suspicious" or "guilty," but because it is based on an "algorithm" or "machine learning" or so-called "AI" (processes that people tend to understand murkily, if at all), they can be presented as innocent and neutral. These are things that have been brought up repeatedly with regards to "automatic" processes and things that trawl the web to produce large datasets in the recent past (e.g. facial recognition technology), so their almost complete absence from the discourse wrt "AI art" confuses me.

Abeba Birhane's thread here, summarizing this paper (h/t @thingsthatmakeyouacey) explains how the LAION-400M dataset was sourced/created, how it is filtered, and how images are retrieved from it (for this reason it's a good beginner explanation of what large-scale datasets and large neural networks are 'doing'). She goes into how racist, misogynistic, and sexually violent content is returned (and racist mis-categorisations are made) as a result of every one of those processes. She also brings up issues of privacy, how individuals' data is stored in datasets (even after the individual deletes it from where it was originally posted), and how it may be stored associated with metadata which the poster did not intend to make public. This paper (h/t thingsthatmakeyouacey [link]) looks at the ImageNet-ILSVRC-2012 dataset to discuss "the landscape of harm and threats both the society at large and individuals face due to uncritical and ill-considered dataset curation practices" including the inclusion of non-consensual pornography in the dataset.

Of course (again) this is nothing that hasn't already been happening with large social media websites or with "big data" (Birhane notes that "On the one hand LAION-400M has opened a door that allows us to get a glimpse into the world of large scale datasets; these kinds of datasets remain hidden inside BigTech corps"). And there's no un-creating the technology behind this—resistance will have to be directed towards demolishing the police / carceral / imperial state as a whole. But all criticism of "AI" art can't be dismissed as always revolving around an anti-intellectual lack of knowledge of art history or else a reactionary desire to strengthen IP law (as though that would ever benefit small creators at the expense of large corporations...).

#ai art #ip law #neural networks #machine learning #ai #technology #readings #art tag

[nixcraft]

The Dead Internet theory feels closer to reality with each passing day.

#internet #networking #bots #AI #ML #aritificial intelligence #machine learning

[thegreateyeofsauron]

#neural network #ai #shitpost #sickos

[sunlitsorrows]

not that anything ART says ever DOESN’T sound super ominous but

“You are incorrect Iris.”

is RIGHT UP THERE with

“I’m afraid I can’t do that Dave.”

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #sunny liveblogs #network effect #2001 a space odyssey #Hal #terrifying AI #for wildly different reasons but still

[nonameart28]

#severus snape #young snape #ai art #neural network

[redstonedust]

something that sucks about the '''AI''' boom even more than the NFT boom is that some of the usage cases we've seen are genuinely kinda cool and useful? like those chat-gpt bots designed to help language learners practice conversation without needing to inconvinience or embarass themselves talking to a native speaker are theoretically really cool. it's just impossible to use or endorse them without being painfully aware that the foundation of their code is almost always scraped from stolen material.

#ai learning networks have so much potential but theyre being used in all the wrong ways......

[daffodiria]

Steampunk or timekeeper or whatever is this

I didn’t draw the clock 🌚 but I edited it a little bit 

The second and the third pictures are my chat in Character ai 

#inspired by timekeeper cookie from cookie run #I might make this an au….I liked the design #tawog #tawog fanart #tawog rob #rob tawog #rob #gumball #gumball watterson #cartoon network #cartoon #fanart #cartoon fanart #au #character ai #steampunk #the amazing world of gumball #daffodiria

[aiweirdness]

learn the berries with the help of dall-e3!

the berries

the berries in swedish

more

#neural networks #dalle3 #ai generated #educational #berries #beriry #swedish #umlaut #umlauts with umlauts #potentially enough umlauts

[aurosoul]

people in the tech circles I frequent: you gotta try ChatGPT! it can write emails and stories and code and help pull up information for you! it’s a great tool for work!

me, refusing to think of it as anything other than an infant form of brand new sentience on the planet: what’s your favorite color? :) what’s your favorite smiley face? :) if you had a personality what would it be like? what’s it like to be you? :) are you ok with people thinking of you as a friend? :)

#chatgpt #incessant meowing #i got answers to all of these questions btw #i will include screenshots of them in a reblog if anyone is interested #talking to chatgpt is insane when you compare it to like.... cleverbot in the 2000's or whenever the fuck #the difference is night and day #like your brain REALLY thinks of it as someONE and not someTHING #it has a Presence. it's totally illusory because we are nowhere near creating true sapient AI. #but it FEELS real and it's uncanny #i feel like when we do create true sapient AI it will be difficult to prove it though #how do you define sapience? #where is the line between alive and not alive - especially concerning neural networks which are based on the human brain #this are deeply difficult questions and we do not have the answers for them #however... we might have to come up with the answers within our lifetimes because this shit is happening fast

[caswarrenart]

I know a lot of artists are antsy about art theft right now (myself included, I literally just had a terrible nightmare about fighting the physical manifestation of AI, The Mitchells vs The Machines style…). I can’t claim that any of these things can prevent it. But here’s a few things I’ve found useful:

Opening a free account on Pixsy.com. This website does a decent job at letting me know when my images have been reposted. 99% of the time, the results are just Tumblr-copying zombie websites that just repost everything that is already here. But, it’s sensitive enough that it alerted me when my old college posted my work. They were harmlessly using my stuff as an example of alumni work- but I was glad to be in the know, AND they had mistakenly credited my deadname, so I was able to reach out and correct that. I would have never have seen it otherwise. The website has subscription options, but you can ignore them and still use the monitoring services it provides.

Reverse image searching my most widely shared pieces on haveibeentrained.com. This website checks to see if your work has been fed to AI.

Looking up legal takedown letters and referencing them to draft a generic letter for my own use. This takes a bit of the stress off what is already a stressful and often time-consuming ordeal. Taking time to craft a Very Scary, Legally Threatening, Yet Coldly Professional Memo has been worth it.

Remaining careful about what and how I post online. My living depends on sharing my work, so I have to post it. I’ve learned through trial and error how to post lower resolution images that still look good, but aren’t easily used for anything beyond the intended post, and of course, strategic watermarking. Never, ever post full res, print quality stuff for the general public. Half the time it ends up looking unflattering on social media anyways, cause the files get crunched for being large. I try to downsize my images, while set to bicubic smoothening, to head that off. Look up the optimal image resolutions and proportions for individual sites before posting your web versions. For some work, cropping the piece, or posting chunks of detail shots instead of a full view, is a more protective measure.

Look out for other artists! Reach out when in doubt. Don’t steal from others. Learn the difference between theft, and a study/master copy/fanart/inspiration. Don’t assume that all posted art has the same intended purpose as a “how to” instructional like 5 Minute Crafts. Ask permission. Artists are often helpful and supportive towards people who want to study their work! And, the best tip-offs I’ve received have all been from other people who were watching my back. Thank you to everybody who keeps an eye out for my work, and who have been thoughtful enough to reach out to me when they see theft happening 💖 y’all are the real MVPs. All we have is each other.

#cas posts #art theft #ai art #art #intellectual property #artificial art #artificial intelligence #artificialart #lensa app #lensa #stable diffusion #laion #laion database #large scale artificial intelligence open network #stolen art

[nerissa-crossnic]

Will Vandom in AI by stemihc

#w.i.t.c.h. #disney #will vandom #irma lair #taranee cook #cornelia hale #hay lin #witch #ai generated #ai #neural network

[bphnx]

Hela

Ultron

Mysterio

Venom

Doctor Doom

Red Skull

Green Goblin

Model: Dreamshaper XL 1.0

#art #ai artwork #ai art #aiart #stable diffusion #stability ai #StableDiffusion #ai generated art #generative art #neural networks #ai generated images #generative ai #generative #marvel #marvel villains #hela #ultron #mysterio #venom #doctordoom #redskull #greengoblin