(Originally posted a couple months ago on Depths of the Net, but mirroring here as a standalone page.)
I dislike most AI stuff and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth to look at, but in the hands of creative visionaries,
the kind of wonders and terrors neural networks will allow us to culture up from the digital dataset stew like a specimen
in a petri dish where the agar is the collective unconscious is absolutely mind melting. Basically I'm a random stupid dork
alive in the single most incredible decade-long span of known human civilization ever and I'm just slackjawed at what some
of my favorite creative geniuses / artistic terrorists are doing with the new tools at their disposal.
These are just a few of the most interesting artistic uses of this technology I've found yet.
In order from least to most fucked.
@madcatlady
It's rare to find someone this dedicated to misusing digital technologies to actualize their internal fantasy world,
from their old surreal CGI videos (some of which reached semi-meme status; death's dynamic shroud.wmv owes madcatlady
for their name, fun fact) to their recent AI experiments. Nobody asks for them to do any of this, most of their
videos rest in almost complete obscurity and I've never seen them discussed outside of Sad Toy Cats and DDS.wmv, but they
seem to constantly tinker, toy and experiment with how to create and advance their personal dreamscape filled with
cats, forests, and medieval fantasy. It's like being able to tune into someone's idle daydreams, almost daily, and they're
seriously one of my biggest influences in showing how to exist as a creative eccentric online completely outside of any real circle.
Holly Waxwing - Away From Keyboard - PC Music livestream curated by Ö & A. G. Cook (@ 33:00)
A quiet gaze into the slowly churning depths of human and machine subconsciousness alike.
Like stare into lapping waves on the beach as thoughts flow shapelessly and day slowly turns into night.
Digital assisted poetry.
greenhouse - levällään
From my definitely flawed understanding, the vocals on this album were created by blending the speaking and singing
voice of the artist, with donated samples of their friend's voices into an ambigious whole that was then fed wordless phonemes.
For reference, the lyrics are:
The capacity to use borderline organic technology to abstract ourselves into quasireal digital dream sillhouettes in our general
shape hits an uncomfortable and deep chord in my heart. We've spent thousands of years seeing distortions of humanity and nature
in the shadows and just outside the borders of our vision, and when science turned the lights on and dispelled all the wonders
and monsters, we sat down and made our own that can't be banished so easily. It's the closest thing we have to the recording and
playback of dream logic and half-awake hallucinations and it feels like just as much as we play with and try to justify or understand
our own creation, some dim pair of eyes is staring back just outside of the light of the screen.
Here's some other AI-assisted works by the same artist. Neural network spawned textures, patterns, engravements, and growths.
User 771815816 - fake audio generated by a computer FAKE AUDIO REAL AUDIO Listening to the original and this version is actually surreal, it's like when you hear something at such low volume you can't make out any details.
I swear this stuff feels organic. No way this is coming out of silicon chips and not neural tissue cultured in a lab somewhere.
Kingcon2k11's ability to record hallucinogenic visions and nauseating childhood fever dreams directly to MP4 files is frightening,
to say the least. I can count the number of pieces of media to make my physically nauseus on one hand and this qualifies.
I consider this to be the crowning achievement of neural network assisted art so far and a pretty good argument for Butlerian Jihad IRL.
I hope this has at least been of interest.
Remember, land-based robot hounds are vulnerable to piles of wire (too complex to deal with in real time) and
electrical tape on your face renders it invisible to most facial recognition. Stay safe, subvert developing techonologies,
and piss on social media's grave at every available opportunity. God be with you.
