Profile of @images_ai, a Twitter account launched by a music student in June, which uses neural networks, including OpenAI's CLIP, to generate surreal art
Kyle Chayka / New Yorker : Tweets: @newyorker , @renois , @newyorker , @chaykak , @chaykak , and @chaykak Tweets: @newyorker : .@images_ai, which offers a constant feed of surreal, sometimes beautiful, pictures created with open-source machine-learning tools, is an “A.I.-driven game of aesthetic telephone in which the fun is seeing what the machine gets wrong,” @chaykak writes. https://nyer.cm/MNnL8P1 Ren / @renois : “One successful prompt was “Elon Musk experiencing pain,” which yielded a grotesque collage of grimacing faces and Tesla chargers, and drew subsequent requests for scenes of other tech entrepreneurs being” LOL https://www.newyorker.com/... @newyorker : The most compelling aspect of the Twitter account @images_ai might be its ability to enact an artistic fever dream, @chaykak writes. “You can just type something and have it manifest in front of you,” the account's creator said. https://nyer.cm/hLjjqNC Kyle Chayka / @chaykak : @NewYorker @images_ai the fun part to me isn't seeing what AI can replicate, or how good a deepfake is, but the weird aesthetics that result when the machine-learning gets stuff wrong, misinterprets things or creates associations we would never think of Kyle Chayka / @chaykak : My @NewYorker column this week is a mini-profile of @images_ai, a Twitter account that got 40k followers in two months for its enjoyably bizarre A.I.-generated art https://www.newyorker.com/... Kyle Chayka / @chaykak : @NewYorker @images_ai however, here's an amazing AI-generated @NewYorker cartoon made by @advadnoun, who I interview in the piece https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...