Weird Britain: The Guardian’s list of ten great British oddities you should visit I don’t know what this is. A gallery of 100,000 seemingly random images, sourced from ??? and organised by ??? in order to ???. “Let’s hear it for small dicks and short sex!” Something about the url “playboy.substack.com” fills me with an unnameable emotion. A recreation of the star map from Project Hail Mary The Swingjugend Trevor Paglen and Holly Herndon on actually coaxing art out of the machine. As someone who’s had an interest in what one might call “AI art” since before ChatGPT was a twinkle in Sam Altman’s eye, there are so many moments in this where i hit my fists on the desk and went “Yes!!!” To quote— A lot of those programs have preprompting under the hood that you’re not seeing. Midjourney has all kinds of tags that make it look a specific way, a kind of beautiful way. Suno has tags you can’t see that make the output always sound “good.” You can’t interact directly with the weights of the…
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