Caveats: I lack the art history, machine learning, philosophy, and legal expertise necessary to do this topic justice. My background is a mishmash of

The Future of Art with Machine Learning

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2021-07-23 03:30:05

Caveats: I lack the art history, machine learning, philosophy, and legal expertise necessary to do this topic justice. My background is a mishmash of design & technology. I recently stumbled on a powerful tool that I believe has exciting implications for art creation. I wanted to share my thoughts and experience in hopes of finding more work on this topic and sparking further conversations with the above-mentioned experts.

For months, I’d been looking for a way to break into Machine Learning (ML) for practical purposes. I wasn’t keen to learn enough to build my own tools, I just wanted to use them to generate imagery for my own photo and video art projects. I tried (and failed) to work with a bunch of projects I found on GitHub. But months later, by some stroke of luck or Twitter-time-wasting, I stumbled on this tweet of a Lisa Frank/Dali hybrid image:

It was the kind of image I wanted to create and it just so happened to come with the detailed instructions necessary to DIY this thing (Thanks, @images_ai). I opened the Google Colab, changed some text, and ran it. In minutes I was seeing … something! It was so surreal and frankly a little bit magical.