UKC

Anyone playing around with these?

I've been lured into using Dream by WOMBO and find it diverting during boring jobs to run a few prompts (with or without a photo supplied as a guide).

Some great results and fun messing around creating images of imaginary worlds and things. As a scifi fan, its brilliant seeing your inputs transformed into otherworldly images. And I'm not using any artist's name etc to influence the style.

Here's a couple of examples

Impressive results but ethically controversial as the artwork used to train the neural network generally goes uncredited.

Exactly this.  Wombo’s outputs are impressive but they contain zero creativity and are no more than the pseudo-random fusion of a massive corpus of images made by uncredited, unrenuated humans whose work has been “asset laundered”.

An interesting read

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/the-stupidity-of-ai-arti...

This was illustrated quite well in some research published earlier this year in which a model was shown to be capable of reproducing a single image from it's training set.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13188