SETC 2023 - Will Lowry
A.I. Generated Imagery
An AI Explores the Plays of The Bedford Introduction to Drama
Follow the above link to see how Midjourney (v4) interprets the "canon" as presented by the above anthology.
AI Image Generators discussed in the presentation:
Some places to start:
"Practical Artificial Intelligence for Stage Design," David Forsee, HowlRound Theatre Commons
StableAttribution, Jeff Huber and Anton Troynikov, Chroma
"A Very Unofficial Midjourney Manual," shambibble (GoogleDocs)
"How to Run Stable Diffusion to Make Awesome AI Generated Art," Jon Martindale, Digital Trends
"The Dall-E 2 Prompt Book," Guy Parsons
StableDiffusionBiasExplorer, Sasha Luccioni, Hugging Face
StableAttribution, Jeff Huber and Anton Troynikov, Chroma
"A Very Unofficial Midjourney Manual," shambibble (GoogleDocs)
"How to Run Stable Diffusion to Make Awesome AI Generated Art," Jon Martindale, Digital Trends
"The Dall-E 2 Prompt Book," Guy Parsons
StableDiffusionBiasExplorer, Sasha Luccioni, Hugging Face
For further reading:
AI and Equity
"AI Image Generators Routinely Display Gender and Cultural Bias," Kyle Barr, Gizmodo
"Art-Generating AI as an Accessibility Tool for Disabled Artists," Dale J. Rappaneau, The Techtualist
"Artificial Intelligence is Creating a New Colonial World Order," Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review
"Generative AI is Biased, but Researchers Are Trying to Fix It," Bhuvana Kamath, Analytics India Magazine
"How to Bring Diversity to Your AI Art," Paul Mansfield, Medium
"A New Vision of Artificial Intelligence for the People," Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review
"Why It's So Damn Hard to Make AI Fair and Unbiased," Sigal Samuel, Vox
"Art-Generating AI as an Accessibility Tool for Disabled Artists," Dale J. Rappaneau, The Techtualist
"Artificial Intelligence is Creating a New Colonial World Order," Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review
"Generative AI is Biased, but Researchers Are Trying to Fix It," Bhuvana Kamath, Analytics India Magazine
"How to Bring Diversity to Your AI Art," Paul Mansfield, Medium
"A New Vision of Artificial Intelligence for the People," Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review
"Why It's So Damn Hard to Make AI Fair and Unbiased," Sigal Samuel, Vox
AI and Art
"AI is Blurring the Definition of Artist," Ahmed Elgammal, American Scientist
"The Aura of AI-Generated Art," Nettrice Gaskins, Medium
"'It's the Opposite of Art': Why Illustrators Are Furious About AI," Sarah Shaffi, The Guardian
"The Aura of AI-Generated Art," Nettrice Gaskins, Medium
"'It's the Opposite of Art': Why Illustrators Are Furious About AI," Sarah Shaffi, The Guardian
AI Changing (Taking Over?) Our Future
"AI Art is Eating the World, and We Need to Discuss Its Wonders and Dangers," Nirit Weiss-Blatt, Techdirt
"AI Will Become the New Normal: How the Art World's Technological Boom is Changing the Industry," Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper
"ChatGPT May Be the Fastest-Growing Consumer App in Internet History," Sawdah Bhaimiya, Business Insider
"AI Experts Are Increasingly Afraid of What They're Creating," Kelsey Piper, Vox
"Navigating the AI Revolution: How Designers Can Stay Competitive," Irina Nik, Medium
"What AI Art Means for Society, According to Yale Experts," Kayla Yup, Yale Daily News
"Who's Afraid of ChatGPT?" Jeremy Littau, The Unraveling
"Your Creativity Won't Save Your Job from AI," Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
"AI Will Become the New Normal: How the Art World's Technological Boom is Changing the Industry," Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper
"ChatGPT May Be the Fastest-Growing Consumer App in Internet History," Sawdah Bhaimiya, Business Insider
"AI Experts Are Increasingly Afraid of What They're Creating," Kelsey Piper, Vox
"Navigating the AI Revolution: How Designers Can Stay Competitive," Irina Nik, Medium
"What AI Art Means for Society, According to Yale Experts," Kayla Yup, Yale Daily News
"Who's Afraid of ChatGPT?" Jeremy Littau, The Unraveling
"Your Creativity Won't Save Your Job from AI," Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
Continued Developments in AI
"ControlNet: Another Step-Change in AI Image Generation," Simon Wyndham, RedShark News
"InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions," Tim Brooks, et al.
"Solving a Machine-Learning Mystery," Adam Zewe, MIT News
"InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions," Tim Brooks, et al.
"Solving a Machine-Learning Mystery," Adam Zewe, MIT News
AI and Audio/Video
"Generating Music from Text," MusicLM
"Microsoft's New AI Can Simulate Anyone's Voice with 3 Seconds of Audio," Benj Edwards, Ars Technica
"QuickVid Uses AI to Generate Short-Form Videos, Complete with Voiceovers," Kyle Wiggers, TechCrunch
"Microsoft's New AI Can Simulate Anyone's Voice with 3 Seconds of Audio," Benj Edwards, Ars Technica
"QuickVid Uses AI to Generate Short-Form Videos, Complete with Voiceovers," Kyle Wiggers, TechCrunch
AI and Ethics/Legality/Copyright
"Advances in Artificial Intelligence Raise New Ethics Concerns," Stephanie Sy and Layla Quran, PBS
"Artists and Illustrators Are Suing Three A.I. Art Generators for Scraping and 'Collaging' Their Work Without Consent," Min Chen, Artnet News
"Artists File Class-Action Lawsuit against AI Image Generator Companies," Benj Edwards, Ars Technica
"Copyright Law is Going to Get Real Interesting, Y'all," Haje Jan Kamps, TechCrunch
"Is Adobe's AI Art Feature as Creepy as it Sounds?," Ian Dean, Creative Bloq
"Getty Images Statement" [on filing of lawsuit against StabilityAI], Getty Images
"Midjourney AI Art for Book Cover Design (How is This Legal?)," Derek Murphy, Creativindie
"The Scary Truth about AI Copyright is Nobody Knows What Will Happen Next," James Vincent, The Verge
"Researchers Prove AI Art Generators Can Simply Copy Existing Images," Kyle Barr, Gizmodo
"Artists and Illustrators Are Suing Three A.I. Art Generators for Scraping and 'Collaging' Their Work Without Consent," Min Chen, Artnet News
"Artists File Class-Action Lawsuit against AI Image Generator Companies," Benj Edwards, Ars Technica
"Copyright Law is Going to Get Real Interesting, Y'all," Haje Jan Kamps, TechCrunch
"Is Adobe's AI Art Feature as Creepy as it Sounds?," Ian Dean, Creative Bloq
"Getty Images Statement" [on filing of lawsuit against StabilityAI], Getty Images
"Midjourney AI Art for Book Cover Design (How is This Legal?)," Derek Murphy, Creativindie
"The Scary Truth about AI Copyright is Nobody Knows What Will Happen Next," James Vincent, The Verge
"Researchers Prove AI Art Generators Can Simply Copy Existing Images," Kyle Barr, Gizmodo
ChatGPT
"ChatGPT General FAQ," OpenAI Help Center
"Awesome ChatGPT Prompts," Faith Kadir Akin
"Academics Work to Detect ChatGPT and Other AI Writing," Susan D'Agostino, InsideHigherEd
"How ChatGPT Could Embed a 'Watermark' in the Text it Generates," Keith Collins, The New York Times
"A Princeton Student Built an App Which Can Detect if ChatGPT Wrote an Essay to Combat AI-Based Plagiarism," Pete Syme, Business Insider
"Awesome ChatGPT Prompts," Faith Kadir Akin
"Academics Work to Detect ChatGPT and Other AI Writing," Susan D'Agostino, InsideHigherEd
"How ChatGPT Could Embed a 'Watermark' in the Text it Generates," Keith Collins, The New York Times
"A Princeton Student Built an App Which Can Detect if ChatGPT Wrote an Essay to Combat AI-Based Plagiarism," Pete Syme, Business Insider
Email me: wlowry@lehigh.edu