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The art of asking nicely (via) CLIP+VQGAN Is a GAN that generates images based on some text input—you can run it on Google Collab notebooks, there are instructions linked at the bottom of this post. Janelle Shane of AI Weirdness explores tricks for getting the best results out of it for “a herd of sheep grazing on a lush green hillside”—various modifiers like “amazing awesome and epic” produce better images, but the one with the biggest impact, quite upsettingly, is “ultra high definition free desktop wallpaper”. # 2nd July 2021, 3:02 pm

DALL·E: Creating Images from Text (via) “DALL·E is a 12-billion parameter version of GPT-3 trained to generate images from text descriptions, using a dataset of text–image pairs.”. The examples in this paper are astonishing—“an illustration of a baby daikon radish in a tutu walking a dog” generates exactly that. # 5th January 2021, 8:31 pm

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