A new short film called ‘The Dog & The Boy’ uses AI-generated art for its backgrounds.
Netflix created an anime that uses AI-generated artwork to paint its backgrounds—and people on social media are pissed.
In a tweet, Netflix Japan claimed that the project, a short called The Dog & The Boy uses AI generated art in response to labor shortages in the anime industry.
“As an experimental effort to help the anime industry, which has a labor shortage, we used image generation technology for the background images of all three-minute video cuts!” the streaming platform wrote in a tweet. Read More
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Machine Learning AI Has Beat Chess, but Now It’s Close to Beating Physics-Based Sports Games as Well
A machine learning-based AI called Nexto is so supremely good at Rocket League even top tier players are having trouble in online matches.
Artificial intelligence has already beaten chess. Hell, the most sophisticated AI systems have a very good chance against top players in the incredibly complicated game of Go.
But, in the uber-complicated car-based soccer game of Rocket League, can an AI do a boosted 360 aerial bicycle kick power shot from the midline? Can it pinch a ball off the side ramp so precisely it sails into the goal at 90 MPH? No, at least not yet, but AI can apparently dribble like a madman. It can fake out legitimately skilled players and score goals by flicking the ball off the hood and into the net. Read More
ABBA’s successful avatar show in London offers a glimpse at a daring new direction for live music
- ABBA Voyage, which sees digital avatars of the four-piece Swedish band ‘perform’ a 90-minute concert created from motion capture, has proven a hit with critics and fans since launching in May.
- Its producers want to take the show around the world and believe it will be replicated in big venues in places like Las Vegas, something industry professionals told CNBC they agreed with.
- Questions remain over whether its success could be recreated with another band, and the ethical implications of using it for performances with deceased artists.
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A Tech Worker Is Selling A Children’s Book He Made Using AI. Professional Illustrators Are Pissed.
Ammaar Reshi told BuzzFeed News that he has received death threats and messages encouraging self-harm on social media.
Ammaar Reshi, 28, has been fascinated by technology since he was a child. “I was always curious, and my dad let me play with his computer when I was 5 years old,” he said. He grew up in Pakistan before his family moved to the UK, where Reshi studied computer science in London. A job at Palantir Technologies led Reshi to Palo Alto, California, and since 2020 he’s worked at fintech company Brex, where he’s now a design manager.
When a raft of generative AI tools started to hit the market over the last few months, Reshi began tinkering with them. Earlier this month, he had the idea to make a book for his best friends’ kid, who was born this year, using AI. “I said I was going to take a weekend to try to put this out there,” he recalled. Read More
AI Film Festival
Introducing the first annual AI Film Festival – powered by Runway. A celebration of the art and artists making the impossible at the forefront of AI filmmaking.
All films will be reviewed by our panel of globally renowned filmmakers, creators and AI innovators. Finalists will be showcased with a screening at one of New York’s most beloved emerging film spaces and will be eligible for $10,000+ in prizes. Read More
AI Art Panic
If you’ve been on the internet at all lately, you’ve seen AI generated art and discussion of the impact of the tools. You’ve also probably seen a lot of hate for AI generated art. There’s a lot of drama going on, as art focused communities across the internet decide how to handle this. Does AI generated/assisted art need tagged as such? Should it be allowed at all? There’s the whole Deviant Art situation (ArsTechnica). It’s all sorta messy right now, so let’s talk about it. Read More
How Generative AI Is Changing Creative Work
Generative AI models for businesses threaten to upend the world of content creation, with substantial impacts on marketing, software, design, entertainment, and interpersonal communications. These models are able to produce text and images: blog posts, program code, poetry, and artwork. The software uses complex machine learning models to predict the next word based on previous word sequences, or the next image based on words describing previous images. Companies need to understand how these tools work, and how they can add value. Read More
When AI can make art – what does it mean for creativity?
Image-generators such as Dall-E 2 can produce pictures on any theme you wish for in seconds. Some creatives are alarmed but others are sceptical of the hype
When the concept artist and illustrator RJ Palmer first witnessed the fine-tuned photorealism of compositions produced by the AI image generator Dall-E 2, his feeling was one of unease. The tool, released by the AI research company OpenAI, showed a marked improvement on 2021’s Dall-E, and was quickly followed by rivals such as Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. Type in any surreal prompt, from Kermit the frog in the style of Edvard Munch, to Gollum from The Lord of the Rings feasting on a slice of watermelon, and these tools will return a startlingly accurate depiction moments later.
The internet revelled in the meme-making opportunities, with a Twitter account documenting “weird Dall-E generations” racking up more than a million followers. Cosmopolitan trumpeted the world’s first AI-generated magazine cover, and technology investors fell over themselves to wave in the new era of “generative AI”. The image-generation capabilities have already spread to video, with the release of Google’s Imagen Video and Meta’s Make-A-Video.
But AI’s new artistic prowess wasn’t received so ecstatically by some creatives. “The main concern for me is what this does to the future of not just my industry, but creative human industries in general,” says Palmer. Read More
DeviantArt Has a Plan to Keep Its Users’ Art Somewhat Safe From AI Image Generators
The art hosting site is releasing its own AI art system called DreamUp, and users can decide if they want to let their work be picked up by the system.
The year of our lord 2022 could be accurately described as the rise of AI. Instead of Skynet raining fire on our heads, we have AI image generators creating a different kind of apocalypse, especially for artists who promote their work online. So far, few have tried to answer how creators can actually respond to systems that scrape their work from the internet, using art to create new works without offering them any credit.
On Friday, DeviantArt released its new DreamUp AI art generator. Based on the existing Stable Diffusion AI model, this new system will actively tag their images as AI and will even credit which creators it used to create the image when they’re published on the DeviantArt site. Read More
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