What does AI-generated art mean for our future?

AI-generated art is an area that is growing incredibly quickly. In most cases, these tools allow you to type in a short description of what you want and the system will create the image automatically.

A recent episode of the Cortex podcast got into it quite a bit, and it opened my eyes to some great tools out there. Marques Brownlee has a great video that walks through the DALL-E 2 technology, arguably the best software out right now:

While most of us aren’t able to access DALL-E 2 at this point, there are a variety of other tools available. The most accessible is one called Stable Diffusion, which you can install on a Windows computer right now with some effort, or with this simple installation on a Mac. It can be a bit messy to set up, but it works — mostly.

I’ve run a bunch of examples through it. Some came out very poorly, like “three men standing at a whiteboard”:

Or maybe “homer simpson as a disney princess”: