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Understanding AI art.

Three eiffel towers in desert with river; photorealism

Prompt: Three eiffel towers in desert with river; photorealism

How does AI generate art?

pink fir tree
Tree with pink flowers
Prompt: (left) pink fir tree; (right) tree blooming with tropical flowers

Generative AI in the art world.

beautiful gallery oil painting, red, jade, orange and grey, sharp lines and blended tones

Prompt: a beautiful gallery oil painting, red, jade, orange and grey, sharp lines and blended tones

Get to know the technology behind AI-generated art.

Just like there are many tools in an artist’s physical toolbox — paints, pencils, inks — mulitple kinds of technology contribute to making AI artwork. We’ve already discussed large language models and diffusion models. Here are a few more technologies used in AI art generation.

Generative AI models

Generative adversarial networks (GANs): GANs are a set of two neural networks, trained on the same data, that work together. One generates a photorealistic image and the other tries to figure out if that image is real or created. For instance, the first may generate an image of a horse and the second would try to determine if the image was a photograph or digitally created. This helps the system make more realistic images.

Variational autoencoders (VAEs): A variational autoencoder is made up of two neural networks working in tandem, each with a different job. One is an encoder, which takes in information, and the other is a decoder, which is able to reinterpret that information into all new content. Like GANs, they produce photorealistic images.

Generative AI techniques

Image synthesis: Image synthesis describes the act of creating new images from large datasets of other images.

Creative coding: Artists who create the programs that generate their artwork are described as creative coders. The intent of creative coding is not to produce a functional result, but an expressive one.

Firefly generated infinite intricacy fractal pattern, hyper-realistic, science_fiction, 4k

Prompt: infinite intricacy fractal pattern, hyper-realistic, science_fiction, 4k

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