• Andrew Perfors – The work of creation in the age of AI

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    Meaning, authenticity, and the creative process – and why they matter

     

    https://perfors.net/blog/creation-ai/

     

    AI changes the landscape of creation, focusing on the alienation of the creator from their creation and the challenges in maintaining meaning. The author presents two significant problems:

     

    • Loss of Connection with Creation:
      • AI-assisted creation diminishes the creator’s role in the decision-making process.
      • The resulting creation lacks the personal, intentional choices that contribute to meaningful expression.
      • AI is considered a tool that, when misused, turns creation into automated button-pushing, stripping away the purpose of human expression.
    • Difficulty in Assessing Authenticity:
      • It becomes challenging to distinguish between human and AI contributions within a creation.
      • AI-generated content lacks transparency regarding the intent behind specific choices or expressions.
      • The author asserts that AI-generated content often falls short in providing the depth and authenticity required for meaningful communication.
  • How does Stable Diffusion work?

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    https://stable-diffusion-art.com/how-stable-diffusion-work/

    Stable Diffusion is a latent diffusion model that generates AI images from text. Instead of operating in the high-dimensional image space, it first compresses the image into the latent space.

    Stable Diffusion belongs to a class of deep learning models called diffusion models. They are generative models, meaning they are designed to generate new data similar to what they have seen in training. In the case of Stable Diffusion, the data are images.

    Why is it called the diffusion model? Because its math looks very much like diffusion in physics. Let’s go through the idea.

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