1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click
1secondpainting.com
1secondpainting.com
:)
Even simpler. Blank canvas.
https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2.png
Obliviously this site is fake, but that’s besides the point.
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The author confirmed that was indeed the case, so I’m thinking they might have corrected (replaced) those images.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untitled_(Black_on_Grey) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._10_(Rothko)
Please use this technology to make a 4K video of an infinite zoom through the art.
i.e. generate an image frame, zoom in 1% near the center of the image, re-anneal the art to fill in missing resolution, repeat.
It would be analogous to the infinite exploration of the Mandelbrot fractal set.
It might help us intuit the black box of the algorithm as well if it reaches some periodic local minima and keeps reproducing the same art sequence.
When I can tell an AI to make an image about the Spanish Civil War and it produces Guernica, then I will be impressed in the way human artists impress me. And then we will have a powerful new tool to communicate. I would like my own personal Guernica each day to help me learn about something happening in the world.
I'm not at all an art expert, but I definitely looked at several of them and could easily picture a critic describing the significance of the relationship between the shapes and colours.
https://cdv.dei.uc.pt/ever-changing-flags/
Maybe not as technically exciting, as a super generic NN, but I think projects scoped like this are useful to think about.
This isn't a personal definition. There literally is a distinction in fine arts study.
Still some really cool looking art in there, though. I'd be perfectly happy hanging some of these up in my apartment.
> Click the button below for an AI-generated abstract painting. Built for artists, developers, and hobbyists.
Really though there is a gallery of around 10,000 pngs on a Wordpress site.
Fake it 'til you make it!
However,the sentence in the huge font right before the one you quoted could be reasonably interpreted to suggest it's generated on the spot. And as you mention it just looks like a gallery of images that was already generated.
It's still cool, but I'm a bit irked at the misleading framing. Gwern's website showed us amazing text generation from GPT-3, that had all been generated beforehand. We didn't have to be tricked into thinking it was generated on the spot to appreciate it, so I don't see why that's needed here.
But I would not be surprised if the actual generation of a new painting takes less than a second as generative networks can be run quite fast to generate new image. I assume the author had the challenge of creating this new "generated" content on-the-fly in browser from the trained model and hence just loads from already generated thousands of images for convenience of the user-interaction. But yes it is a little misguided approach for Karma.
That's a needlessly uncharitable interpretation of what is happening here. The site is giving the misleading impression that these images are generated on the spot, and then walking it back in the fine print.
It's a valid criticism, and lecturing people about the economics is not a charitable engagement with that criticism.
He or she's not lecturing anyone about economics. In fact, if we want to talk about charity, I think that accusation is about the least charitable thing I've seen so far on this thread!
That matters for two reasons, first because words and semantics are important, clear and correct communication is important. Second, the technology required to generate new paintings (cheaply and quickly) on demand is different from the technology required to generate a very large (infinite) number of paintings up front. They’re both interesting but for different reasons, and one shouldn’t be misrepresented as the other.
But since we're here: the gnashing of teeth on this thread about having been "mislead" does seem to me to be a bit out of proportion. This person really does seem to have developed a cool toy that uses AI to generate convincing abstract art, but many here aren't saying about it because they object to some of the wording on the landing page!
It's their own fault, of course, for writing the page the way that they did. But still...
But the hallmark of many internet comment threads is to try and get additional mileage out the conversation by subjecting said reasonable observations to the ritual exercise of switcheroos, contrarianism, idiosyncratic distinctions and unusual interpretations. Which leads to the original wisdom being repeated, which makes it seem like it's being blown out of proportion.
But I think the simpler explanation is just that it's a correct observation and that it's not that complicated.
And the commenter most definitely was criticizing a very strawmanny 'expectation' that they pay 24/7 to serve an image generation app, which is projection of a view that wasn't expressed by anybody and is certainly not the most charitable reading of what people mean when they say the message creates a misleading impression.
For one example, a more reasonable 'expectation' would be that the language be changed to say it's a gallery of images already generated. Which is different from the uncharitable and unreasonable assertion that everyone is expecting them to pay to maintain a server.
It's misleading. I don't care if they clarify somewhere else on the site. The intention is clearly to mislead from the get go.
URL to images is https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/XXXX....
https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/8866....
(is there such thing as bad abstract art :-))
The generated texts are then cached, and if not visited for a while - expire. But thanks to the ability to regenerate the same text from seed are still accessible from URL.
On the otherhand look at Netflix (or Tiktok though I am less familiar with it) where there is more sophisticated feedback loop deciding what content get produced. They are generating Art, so much Art that personally speaking, I can barely remember who the creator was or what the creators story is. And I have no problem paying.
Yet obviously there are a whole bunch of people very very different from me, part of huge fan clubs and movements built around connection with the creators and their narratives, much like sports fans, political junkies and religions people.
So who knows, we might get a cult or two or seven hundred following different Algos soon.
The number of those cults (and markets) possible is dependent on the personalities and needs distribution of the population. Zuckerberg probably can generate the data. But it changes like the weather everyday. With love, with war, with age, with depression etc etc etc. Where Art is concerned its definitely more than 2 though.
https://holinaty.com/generative/sketches/?name=029_AutoPaint...
Here is art samples https://www.instagram.com/likeplus.plus/
Full HD samples https://imgur.com/a/XMnMi
Generated in real time low res or seconds for HD on iPad
Art is cultural phenomenon and modern art is even more so. You have to study painting and modern art to be able to judge it in context.
In the quality of modern painting is almost completely path dependent and not absolute in any way. Some of those cheap decorative paintings you see on hotel wall would have been masterpiece for artist who sees the style first time in 1920's. Today art critic would not look twice at them because they are just lazily copying style.
Modern art scene is just like any scene. Just because it's usually done by adults and rich people are attracted to it does not mean it's any more or less valuable, or more or less sophisticated than some other scene.
You have to be told this is good by an accepted thought leader who was accepted by previously thought leaders. Meanwhile everyone stands around and pretends to say something but are really trying to copy others.
I'll be glad to see that happen when those paints are ready to be sold on Sotheby's or Christies. :D
The emotion and intentional abstraction of imagery no longer exists.
However, a deep net can absolutely generate more literal artworks, such as portraits, scenery, etc..
Any way we can could actually get a print version?