Hmm, I think I've been sleeping on this machine-learning-generating-images thing for too long. This DALL·E mini thing came up with some interesting little cover images for some of my recent writing
These little cover images are so much better than anything I could have done myself yet so small stakes that I wouldn't have wanted to bother someone to create for me.
Now, cue me starting to look the gift horse in the ethical mouth:
How was this thing trained? It's a ripoff of other artists' work, isn't it?
Each of these images comes from me trying several different arrangements of words and me selecting one of several results - is that creative work on my part?
re: AI ethics
@frostwolf That is interesting too... I'd feel squicky trying to say that these little thumbnails I downloaded from DALL·E mini are "my" work. I gave it some words and picked one of nine, but it did everything else.
There's also no specific attribution as to what inputs it selected from where or whom those came
Oof, alright, the squick set in and I reverted the DALL·E mini cover images I pushed to my blog. I really liked this one for "nerd feeds peanuts to crows" though
Like, I'm excited by the prospect of partnering up with some magical AI code to gin up funky cover images for my stories, but the source of training data makes me feel not so excited
re: AI ethics
@frostwolf yeah, like I don’t want to see Skinny Puppy or the Beastie Boys have to supply footnotes for every sample in every song they’ve ever released, copyright lawyers notwithstanding
@george It sounds like a mix of creative commons licensed stuff and "shit google found on the web"
@faho IMO, Obsidian on mobile is tiptoeing that pretty well. It's markdown but has a customizable button ribbon above the keyboard. They also introduced a kind of mixed rendered / source editing mode where only like the current line you're editing shows as markdown
Typing this into the ethically-grey AI image generator: A "magic eye" image, but when you relax your eyes to see it, it says "fuck you" and has a picture of a dong
@randomgeek knock brush is the mind killer