AI Art Community Newsletter

Hello!! Welcome to newsletter # 31 🤘 Each week, we deliver news in AI & art + abominations, memes, daily theme champs from Whirl and more.

Here we go…

Discord Forums

Our Discord is chock full of thematic forums for maximal exploration. Here are a few selects that got a lot of love this week.

By @danteprompts4u (DALL-E 3)

By @prime_generations (DALL-E 3)

By josephxpictures (Discord) - (DALL-E 3)

By @whitehatgfx for “monochromatic” community theme

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

🗞️ AI News

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

New Releases

• Pika Labs releases 1.0, which caused a furor on Twitter. New and powerful video generation tool (+ their website here)

• Introducing SDXL Turbo: Real-Time Text-To-Image Generation (see gif above)

• Meta introduces Emu Video and Emu Edit, new AI-powered video creation milestones 

• Microsoft Paint adds “Cocreator” - built on DALL-E 3

Broader art context

• Critical Reflection on AI from a designer’s perspective

• Traditional Art Critic and (arguably) most famous AI Artist with permanent exhibition in the MoMA, Refik Anadol, publicly skirmish over his work’s merit 

• (video) AI-powered workflow to create a 3D animated clip

• COLE generates editable designs on demand (still in framework-phase, not yet a product, but looks cool!)

• Viral: “Make it more” feature of ChatGPT to make images increasingly [insert your desires more-ness here]

• Amazon’s Titan AI image generator will also include a watermark to identify it as “AI-generated” 

Not art, still noteworthy

• Look at this video of a guy giving ChatGPT control of his computer

• Amazon announces “Amazon Q” - ChatGPT but for businesses

• Investors of Stability AI are calling for Emad Mostaque (CEO) to resign

• New technique can accelerate language models by 300x

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

Whirl 🌀

(Upcoming) Release: 1.15

New release coming soon, which will include an improved navigation system + simplified design of the daily theme & Explore, more fun leveling, badges, community guidelines, etc)… so close! Expect it this weekend.

👑 Daily Champs

Daily champs from Whirl this week!

“Under the Sea” - @sir_printsalot

“Romance“ - @weirddream.ai

“Romance” - @just.ai.img

“Alien Visitor” - @rendeto_ai

“Animal“ - @rendeto_ai

“Butterfly“ - @evelynsaiart

“Folklore“ - @p.ai.nterly

Weekly Abomination

tough start to the day..

From @figs_ai_art via #abominations channel in Discord

Fin

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See you next week 🙂

❤️ - Jackson (connect on LinkedIn, if you’d likei