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This is an amazing writeup, thank you. looking forward to going through it in more detail.

very nice!! I've had trouble working through AlphaFold in the past so this is going to be very helpful...

Hi all, we created a virtual world to explore and generated images together in the latent space.

We’re nostalgic for hangouts on runescape, and wanted a world where you can find your aesthetic niche and make art with the people there.

Happy to answer any questions!

Tuner is based on techniques from the GAN days of discovering latent space directions but applies them to diffusion models! This allows the ability to control lots of independent attributes (age, hair, etc) without prompting.

Yes! using the init_image

Hi! Joel, one of the creators of ProsePainter, here. It's all open source https://github.com/Morphogens/prosepainter and you can see the original announcement with some examples of users works here https://twitter.com/StudioMorphogen/status/14965783377910456...

Happy to answer any questions!

Author here, happy to answer any questions.

Very cool! Artbreeder does have an animation tool, just go to create -> category -> animate

best, joel

I still have the model! I started working on the image -> vector conversion (which is more complicated than I expected) and then got distracted. I should finish that up, thanks for the reminder :)

Thanks! Glad you liked it. JWildfire is super cool, I would love to add a fractal flame category to Artbreeder.

it's not cheap but there are ways to make it manageable, i.e a aws spot g4 instance can be as low as 15 cents an hour

Thanks! No plans at the moment but it’s possible!

Hey! So I feel a lot of creativity is 'combinatorial', i.e knows what two things might go well together. Artbreeder kind of gamifies that by making it very easy. So many images may look similar but some people can really develop their own style with time.

Also, often my favorite part of artbreeder is when artists take what they save as the inspiration or building blocks for full works. It's really an inspiration tool, but saying inspiration-breeder is a mouthful.

More generally, I think computation can meaningfully augment human creativity by providing surprise and break us out of our loops.

Best, Joel

Nothing fancy, just running on AWS :) Specifically, https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/g4/ - The uploading is actually the expensive part since it can take ~2 minutes per image.

Hi there! Good question, it's one I get a lot and don't mind.

First off, I am not a lawyer but have consulted them. A lot of this is a gray area and not well defined. As you mention, there is the code, the given models, models fine-tuned on those models, models trained from scratch, using styelgan reimplementations, etc. Even with the license being included there does not mean that the output of a model trained from scratch counts as derivative work. And technically I just sell things like upscaling, keeping images private, google sync etc and provide unlimited image creating for free (not sure if that would hold up in court but I think it's relevant). So, no I do not think I am violating the license. But some lawyers may feel differently.

Also, I try hard to cite everything involved. Google was thrilled by my use of the biggan model and how it showed off the model. With the amount of money I have spent on Nvidia cards, I hope they are happy too :)

and then image ownership is a whole other question. Everything in arbreeder is CC0 to keep things simple https://artbreeder.com/terms.pdf

Best, Joel

Marking them interesting doesn't update the model. If you click on any mage you can 'breed' it with others, or go to the create age to compose or upload something!

Hey, thanks! I dont know about anything collaborative and for writing. https://aidungeon.io/ Maybe collaborative to play. And then there are a lot of writers exploring fine-tuning text models like GPT2 for personal use. https://twitter.com/MagicRealismBot is one of many examples. https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-fine-tune-gpt-2-so-you...

Maybe you should make it!

Hey! this is Joel, the maker of Artbreeder (originally called ganbreeder). The project was inspired by interactive evolutionary algorithms and novelty search (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXQPL9GooyI&t=1s)

The goal was to make a tool that reflected the collaborative and explorative aspects of creativity. Also to make GAN's (and high-dimensional spaces more generally) accessible to everyone in a fun way.

Let me know if you have any questions :)

Surprised to see no one has mentioned query builders (like http://knexjs.org - no affiliation). All the niceties of not writing raw queries but no abstraction leaks... Although I have found for anything more interesting (recursive queries, etc) there is no escaping raw queries and every developer needs to bite the bullet and learn SQL.

Most likely generated from https://ganbreeder.app.

No! :'( what browser / os?

Source: https://github.com/joel-simon/morphogen_website

Source: https://github.com/joel-simon/morphogen_website

It's half random images and half random ones that are starred. So it does bias to stuff that people starred.

If you found this interesting I recommend looking at Picbreeder (http://www.picbreeder.org/). Collaborative interactive evolution of pattern producing networks produced very interesting results.

Great news, looking forward to full 3.5 support.

"She has also been talking with Jason Blum, ... about a potential documentary that would chronicle her life and career"

This is her priority right now?? For a while it has been clear she is more interested in self aggrandizement than ensuring her technology actually works.

Another Feynman quote that comes to mind:

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

thanks!!