What Happens When You Ask Robots To Create Art?
A funny post from Astral Codex Ten: A Guide To Asking Robots To Design Stained Glass Windows
I love stained glass. Not so much your usual suburban house stained glass with a picture of lilies. The good stuff. Cathedral windows, Art Nouveau, Art Deco. Why did we stop doing that? I blame the conspiracy.
Recently I’ve been experimenting with small-scale alternatives. You can get custom-printed window film from these people. If you print out a picture of a stained glass scene and stick it on a window, it looks pretty realistic.
But what scenes to use? Most of the stained glass images you can find are saints, which isn’t really the mood I’m going for. What I’d really like is a giant twelve-part panel depicting the Virtues Of Rationality. But the artists I’ve asked to design this all balk. I need an artist who works for free and isn’t allowed to say no.
Enter DALL-E-2, the new art-generating AI.
Click through and enjoy the somewhat peculiar results when the computer is asked to design a stained glass window showing Charles Darwin studying finches.
As usual for Scott, this is a long post that becomes quite thought-provoking.
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