I fed excerpts from my novel into an A.I. image generator
The sun is setting on the unintentionally Dadaist / avant-garde phase that has been a hallmark of creative A.I. for several years. We are graduating into an unsettling era of machine learning, where software is eminently capable of generating meaningful art and literature that doesn't trip over it's own digital feet. Still, at the lower end there are publicly available options such as Craiyon / DALL.E that will draw often surreal images from written prompts. These composites are based on an analysis of millions of images on the Internet along with their associated captions. Evidently the key to defeating Skynet is for everyone to start adding the tag 'Uzi 9mm' to online photographs of kittens. Recently, I have been using Craiyon to generate artwork for my blog, and I will also be making use of it in my next London, building by building video. I like the imperfect and otherworldly images that it generates. Another point of interest is how easily it is able to render some...