AI Art Community Newsletter

Hellooo folks! Happy Sunday and a hearty welcome to our twenty-sixth newsletter. Each week, we share news in AI, abominations, prompting tips, daily champs from our new app - Whirl (join!) - and more.

We’ll be back to the regular schedule this Thursday 🙂 Until then, Happy Sunday and… →

X Tips : “Pointillist divisionist” “Shadowpunk neon icon” “Bullet time photography”

Look at all those juicy prompts! Here are a few recent favs, pulled from the infinite creative well at X… give em a try:

New Mini-Themes in Discord!

Each week, we rotate in a new set of for-fun mini-themes in Discord. All are suggested by you and managed by Theme Queen, Elli (@p.ai.nterly on IG)! Selects below from @prime_generations.

“Labyrinth”

By @artsbybrian_

“Tardigrades”

(microscopic organisms that look like little many-legged bears)

“Road Rage Tardi” by @danteprompts4u

“Tardigrade” x “Labyrinth”

By @misskosmic.ai

Not part of the Discord?? Come on down → to discord.

🗞️ AI News

Thank you as always to our trusty crew of Newsies. This week’s links powered by: @focused.instability twilight_dreams123 @tmp.ai @barbara.chira.ai.art @prime_generations 

• Midjourney introduces 2x and 4x upscalers & they’ve officially entered Phase 1 of Midjourney web (check it out here)

• MoMA acquires its first generative AI piece (by Refik Anadol)

• Google adds Image Generator inside Bard (DALL-E 3 competition)

• Contrary to popular opinion - study shows that there is emotional resonance and depth to AI-generated art

• “No Fakes Act” - require consent before digital likeness

• On AI art and blindness / accessibility

• Text-to-3D research in Australia

• This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

• The AI-generated child abuse nightmare is here

• AI has a hotness problem

  • Hilarious quote that kinda sums it all up: “In the world of generated imagery, you’re either drop-dead gorgeous or a wrinkled, bug-eyed freak.” 😆

Not art, still noteworthy

• Boston Dynamics is back with charming talking robots

• Microsoft will pay you up to $15k if you get Bing to go off the rails

• ChatGPT can guess your personal details based on how you write

• Limited NVIDIA GPUs allowed to go to Chinese companies

• Meet Amazon’s new robot warehouse worker, Digit

• Google Pixel’s new generative-fill-esque tool for adding smiles and other things to your selfies (creepy? great? you be the judge)

• AI plays Pokemon Red for 50,000 hours, barely beats one gym

• Interesting in-depth article about Neuralink’s processes & goal of merging AI + humanity

Got a link? Just reply or join us in #AI News in Discord.

Weekly Champs (new section, woop woop!)

The daily theme has officially moved to Whirl! Over the last month, we’ve seen a whopping 260k records created, including nearly 10,000 posts. Epic. Here are this week’s champs:

Alice in Goblinland by @simplepunk.ai (51 votes!)

Brought to you by the letter Z! by @worldofdepth (56 votes!)

Pixelated Past: A Dive into Retro Gaming by @thelefthandtree (68 votes!)

Cybernetic by @worldofdepth (59 votes!)

Pearlescent by @iridescent_ai (73 votes!)

Scarecrow by @artisticaiuk (67 votes!)

Chilling on beach, mosaic by @matrixneoart (56 votes!)

Weekly Abomination

When cat is the hat…

From @p.ai.nterly via #abominations channel in Discord

Fin

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