191! AI Art and Hamsterstanistan

Published: Sept. 26, 2022, 10 a.m.

b'Is AI Art art, and should we be scared of it?\\xa0This week, Joey, Jess, and Alex talk about AI art generators, DALL\\xb7E 2, Midjourney, creativity and craft, the proliferation of beautiful things, and homogeneity. They don\\u2019t talk about Allen Iverson ... or\\xa0practice (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGDBR2L5kzI).\\xa0(Not a\\xa0game! Practice!).\\xa0references\\xa0* DALL\\xb7E 2 (https://openai.com/dall-e-2/)\\xa0* Progress Report:\\xa0Jess on the difference "hand taste" makes (https://progressbysylvain.co/blogs/news/the-newsletter-edition-078)\\xa0* How to Create Synthetic AI Art With Midjourney (https://www.howtogeek.com/823337/how-to-create-synthetic-ai-art-with-midjourney/)\\xa0* Revisiting\\xa0Episode 134! The Story of Us and Fringe Theory (https://www.thisisnonsense.com/episodes/2021/8/2/134-the-story-of-us-and-fringe-theory)\\xa0* Twitter:\\xa0@talyarkoni on AI art\'s evolution beyond "promising novelty" (https://twitter.com/talyarkoni/status/1565894421094322176?s=46&t=Th23mTyGRm7-V2XC65ODnQ)\\xa0* Twitter:\\xa0@SocDoneLeft on AI art winning an art competition (https://twitter.com/socdoneleft/status/1564841161377939458?s=46&t=Th23mTyGRm7-V2XC65ODnQ)\\xa0* BBC:\\xa0Go master quits because AI \'cannot be defeated\' (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50573071)\\xa0* Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_versus_Garry_Kasparov)\\xa0* Twitter: (WARNING: creepy photos!)\\xa0@supercomposite on Loab and horror AI art (https://twitter.com/supercomposite/status/1567162288087470081?s=46&t=Th23mTyGRm7-V2XC65ODnQ)\\xa0* Twitter:\\xa0@fabianstelzer on AI applied to film (https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1565085199322456069?s=46&t=Th23mTyGRm7-V2XC65ODnQ)\\xa0* Twitter:\\xa0@Anodesu on AI "artists" (https://twitter.com/anodesu/status/1566031785674293248?s=46&t=Th23mTyGRm7-V2XC65ODnQ)\\xa0* American Scientist:\\xa0Enter the Axion (https://www.americanscientist.org/article/enter-the-axion)'