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at least DeepDream's everything-is-dogs was a new aesthetic. but now image generation has advanced past the point of creating new aesthetics, and instead makes the same ones we already have, just with less charm.Permalink Look on archive.org
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this is not quite true - it gives us a smeary ear, a necklace that melts into skin, letters that look like patches of lichen. but the computer scientists are working real hard to fix that.Permalink Look on archive.org
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anyway, the core of the problem is that it is so expensive to make a large image model, data-wise and computing-wise, that the artists who would twist this technology about and find the interesting wrinkles are stuck sending in prompts and getting stock images backPermalink Look on archive.org
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on a cheerier note, there are interesting things being done with *small* image models, not that they get the same attention. here's @aparrish: aleator.press/releases/wendit-tnce-infLook on archive.org