Forwarded from Jay's art bayou
Rant moment but genuinely what the f*ck is the actual purpose of consuming AI content?
I see a lot of artists lose confidence bc the AI makes equally or better art then them and mostly talk about the quality or accuracy or and kindy hyperfocus on the visual end result aspect.
And i understand because it's a skill you spent years to perfect and now a computer can do it "better" in just a few minutes or seconds.
But that is not the only skill you have as an artist, and i would argue it's not even the most important one. Because before you even knew how to draw the cool stuff you imagined in your head, you had the cool stuff u imagined in ur head. Like that's what drives people to create, that capacity to see and experience things in your own unique way and the will to then use that and turn it into your own creation to share the experience.
What kind of experiences does AI communicate to us? Nothing. It hasn't lived through anything, it didn't see some beautiful detail in a landscape and thought "wow, i wanna capture this" it didn't come up with characters that reflect our views and experiences, none of the visual choices it makes is based on conscious decisions. AI can never truly make a finished piece of art, it's at best a tool for development/pre-production and optimizing the research and moodboard process in a pipeline, or iterating variations of a certain design.
And whoever is willing to use AI for actual, final production purposes is not someone artists want to work for in the first place. I really think most people will still want the human aspect and want the media and entertainment they consume to actually mean something and be able to connect with it knowing a bunch of super cool and talented people were what made it possible.
Rant over, I usually try to keep this channel just as a place to share and keep track of my work but yea this is an issue i find more and more frustrating so i felt i had to kinda speak out abt it
I see a lot of artists lose confidence bc the AI makes equally or better art then them and mostly talk about the quality or accuracy or and kindy hyperfocus on the visual end result aspect.
And i understand because it's a skill you spent years to perfect and now a computer can do it "better" in just a few minutes or seconds.
But that is not the only skill you have as an artist, and i would argue it's not even the most important one. Because before you even knew how to draw the cool stuff you imagined in your head, you had the cool stuff u imagined in ur head. Like that's what drives people to create, that capacity to see and experience things in your own unique way and the will to then use that and turn it into your own creation to share the experience.
What kind of experiences does AI communicate to us? Nothing. It hasn't lived through anything, it didn't see some beautiful detail in a landscape and thought "wow, i wanna capture this" it didn't come up with characters that reflect our views and experiences, none of the visual choices it makes is based on conscious decisions. AI can never truly make a finished piece of art, it's at best a tool for development/pre-production and optimizing the research and moodboard process in a pipeline, or iterating variations of a certain design.
And whoever is willing to use AI for actual, final production purposes is not someone artists want to work for in the first place. I really think most people will still want the human aspect and want the media and entertainment they consume to actually mean something and be able to connect with it knowing a bunch of super cool and talented people were what made it possible.
Rant over, I usually try to keep this channel just as a place to share and keep track of my work but yea this is an issue i find more and more frustrating so i felt i had to kinda speak out abt it
Very interesting article on the socio-ecological impact of large language training models like GPT-3
"Strubell et al. recently benchmarked model training and development costs in terms of dollars and estimated Co2 emissions. While the average human is responsible for an estimated 5t Co2 per year, the authors trained a Transformer (big) model with neural architecture search and estimated that the training procedure emitted 284t of Co2. Training a single BERT base model (without hyperparameter tuning) on GPUs was estimated to require as much energy as a trans-American flight"
"Strubell et al. recently benchmarked model training and development costs in terms of dollars and estimated Co2 emissions. While the average human is responsible for an estimated 5t Co2 per year, the authors trained a Transformer (big) model with neural architecture search and estimated that the training procedure emitted 284t of Co2. Training a single BERT base model (without hyperparameter tuning) on GPUs was estimated to require as much energy as a trans-American flight"
Hhhh master enrolment season is upon us
not me taking a year off for internships and time to think, and proceeding to be as lost as before
not me taking a year off for internships and time to think, and proceeding to be as lost as before
Gob's corner 🌱
Very interesting article on the socio-ecological impact of large language training models like GPT-3 "Strubell et al. recently benchmarked model training and development costs in terms of dollars and estimated Co2 emissions. While the average human is responsible…
If you want a shorter summary by Dan Mcquillan
danmcquillan.org
We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it.
In the mean time, here are some of the gifts i made for my bro recently ✨
I made this bleached bandana back in summer i think - out of scrap cotton poplin
(modeled by my dear @aMakersDen)
#craft #sewing
(modeled by my dear @aMakersDen)
#craft #sewing
And for this Yuletime, i upcycled an old fanny pack - dyed it this cool emerald shade and embroidered a small fern 🌿
I love when it all goes according to plan :D
#craft #upcycling #embroidery
I love when it all goes according to plan :D
#craft #upcycling #embroidery
Romand.es, le collectif Ag!ssons a grandement besoin de dons et de signatures pour leurs projets d'initiatives - donc si vous avez de quoi (même genre le prix d'un café) - c'est crucial 🔥
[petite pétition hop hop hop]
[petite pétition hop hop hop]
AG!SSONS
Le peuple vaudois doit avoir le dernier mot !
Face à la décision incompréhensible et hypocrite du Conseil d'État vaudois d'invalider l'initiative populaire d'AG!SSONS « Pour des Chambres Citoyennes législatives et représentatives, les Vaudoises et Vaudois…
Face à la décision incompréhensible et hypocrite du Conseil d'État vaudois d'invalider l'initiative populaire d'AG!SSONS « Pour des Chambres Citoyennes législatives et représentatives, les Vaudoises et Vaudois…
Forwarded from Colin Zuend
Heyooo ! je sais pas si vous avez des groupes ou des channels pour partager ça, c'est vraiment des initiatives importantes 🙈 et le crowdfunding piétine