S8E1 - The AI Artist “DALL-E”: Now Everything is Unique
[DALLE 2 IMAGE] “robot painting a canvas with a laptop computer and mountains, digital art” — Created by Device & Virtue
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Vincent van Gogh spent decades perfecting his impressionist style. You can master it in one minute with the new AI art generator called DALL-E. Do we even need artists any more?
DALL-E 2 is an artificial intelligence image generator released to the public on Sept 28, 2022. Considered by experts to be a noticeable jump in technology, the website or app allows users to type in any imaginary prompt “a monkey eating grapes in Mexico in the style of Picasso” and in a few seconds generates a new unique image that tries to match the prompt.
The Questions
Adam & Chris imagine the implications and effects of AI generated art including questions like:
How does this work?
Could AI generated art replace the human artist?
Who are the people behind DALL-E art and what are their goals?
What does the future look like with AI generated art?
Is their a Christian viewpoint on AI generated art?
What happens in a world where everything can be unique?
Links & Resources
OpenAI is the non-profit that created DALL-E 2. Their 2015 announcement outlined their goals.
OpenAI has a content policy for safety and blocks certain keywords from working that could create pornography or fakes of politicians. It also has worked to promote accurate diversity in results.
However other groups have announced plans to release similar AI tools without any filters
Chris mentions concepts from Roland Barthes’ “The Death of the Author”
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The Images
For being a podcast for your ears, this was a pretty eye-opening episode! (groan)
Check out all the visual images that Adam & Chris talk about here, including unique images that they created with DALL-E:
The Bedroom, by Vincent Van Gogh (Art Institute of Chicago)
[DALL-E 2 IMAGE] “an orange cat wearing a tuxedo and a top hat sitting next to a penguin on the lawn of the White House eating an ice cream cone with sprinkles”
[DALL-E IMAGE] “two males hosting a podcast, arguing the wrongs and rights of technology and faith in everyday life”
“The World’s Smartest Artificial Intelligence Just Made Its First Magazine Cover” from Cosmo Magazine