These notes revolve around more critical considerations, methodologies and approaches for established, aspiring and enthusiast artists to apply to their engagement with Generative AI technologies. While these should be relevant for anyone working with pictorial images - whether digital or analogue, or really in any of the plastic arts - they will often focus more on contemporary vocational concerns, even when I’m being inspired by ideas and insights from other fields. I’ve tried my best to define the artworker I’ll be thinking about most frequently when writing these, but that will shift from time to time. Basically: if you’re working as an artist, in any capacity, or you hope to one day, these notes are for you.
December 16, 2024
Before I begin this series properly, I'd like to make some clear definitions of who I'm writing the majority of these notes for, and who I believe will benefit the most from them....
December 4, 2024
This tweet, written by a specialist in the machine learning field, has been doing the rounds lately. Shared and co-signed by a lot of the enthusiastic early adopters of AI image making tools, it's finding a new lease of life outside of Twitter...
December 3, 2024
This feels like a good place to begin. I remember when I realised everything was about to change - it was the end of 2017, and I had just seen some examples of machine learning powered photo editing capabilities coming out of Nvidia Research...