Posts tagged "image-generation"

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A calm mountain lake at dawn with a wooden jetty leading into the water and a red canoe moored beside it. Snow-dusted peaks and dark pine forests line the far shore under a soft pink and orange sky. No text or numbers appear anywhere in the image.

When AI Refuses to Dream

In AI
9 minute read

During our summer vacation in Italy, I had a silly idea: what happens if you feed an image generator random data instead of a prompt? It’s a bit like provoking hallucinations instead of avoiding them. What do image generators produce that is truly inside them, if the prompt doesn’t carry any meaning…

A watercolor illustration of a solitary figure in dark clothing standing on a vast, layered desert landscape. The scene features rolling sand dunes in warm tones of beige, tan, and gold, with deep burgundy and rust-colored bands flowing across the foreground. A golden sun or citrus slice appears in the upper left corner. The composition conveys a sense of isolation and contemplation in an arid, minimalist environment.

When Claude Suggested Brian Eno: Building Art You Can’t Control

In AI
11 minute read

On constrained serendipity, learning by doing, and whether the system is the art. I’m chatting with Claude, kicking around ideas on building a tool that generates AI images, but without the prompting. I like to start these chats by brain-dumping ideas into it. In this case it’s about auto-generating…