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I created these images using the "imagine" command at MidJourney.com. To was jaw-dropping at the time - I thought AI was just plagiarizing but it really did appear to be learning. Top left: I asked for "stoneware pottery mugs with floral decoration covered by a glossy transparent glaze". For the vase: "Crazed transparent glaze over floral decoration". How does it know what crazing is? Notice the things I forgot to specify for the porcelain mugs: Handmade, one handle, decoration should only be on the outside and handles are not decorated (an indication that AI had not learned that yet). For the last one, I asked for a piece demonstrating the difference in runniness of two different glazes. How did it know what runny glazes are? How did it know a bowl would be the best shape to demonstrate the latter? These observations and the fact that it can generate very high-resolution images seem to indicate it is actually drawing the pieces, not just showing photos it found online.
Created, as explained, at MidJourney.com (to demonstrate the state of text-to-picture in 2023)
Pictures generated at MidJourney.com to demonstrate to state of text-to-picture in 2024This picture has its own page with more detail, click here to see it.
Consider these porcelain mugs I "imagined" at MidJourney.com (in early 2024). At first, they looked pretty typical, a closer look at the one in the middle reveals a something strange: A floral design on the one behind morphs into the actual 3D shape on the one in front. This seems like an indication that the AI is actually drawing these, not just plagiarizing them from its scraping activities online. The #aiart, #aiartwork, #aiartcommunity and similar hashtags generated millions of posts (albeit of questionable taste), but they were a harbinger of things to come.
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