AI Spotlight #1

Author

Akhil P
January 09, 2023

AI Spotlight 1/9/23 - A weekly newsletter focused on highlighting creative works generated by AI tools.

(If you are getting this email - thank you for supporting Track the Myth over 2022. We have officially shut down the platform and this is what I'm pivoting to I guess!)

Welcome to the first post of what will be a weekly series highlighting stunning works produced with AI tools on a daily basis.  You may have seen, heard and even tried out DALL-E, MidJourney and ChatGPT as they started to seep into the mainstream through 2022. With AI tools getting exponentially better at such a rapid rate, I wanted to start this newsletter as a passion project because I think gen art is actually incredible.

What can you expect initially?

  • A major focus on AI generated art. Gen art is being created at an astounding rate. Consolidating and showcasing my favorites will always be a big part of this newsletter.

  • AI tools for creativity. Tools that are being used to create things outside just AI art. For example, Riffusion is used to create sounds and AI generated music.

  • Twitter threads & useful information. Twitter is really where everyone goes to post their thoughts on anything tech.

Here are some interesting works that appealed to my taste this week.

Tyddy Ner#4104 on Discord - MidJourney

Aiska#5641 on Discord - Stable Diffusion

Julz #8275 on Discord - MidJourney

Penta#0227 on Discord - MidJourney

Dreamlike Photoreal v2.0 is one of the models that's trained on top of stable diffusion - specifically so you can get those realistic results.

Dreamlike Photoreal 2.0 | Stable Diffusion Checkpoint | Civitai

Dreamlike Photoreal 2.0 is SD 1.5 fine tuned on high quality photos, made by dreamlike.artWarning: This model is horny! Add "nude, naked" to the negative prompt if want to avoid NSFW.You can add photo to your prompt to make your gens more photorealistic.Non-square aspect ratios work better for some prompts. If you want a portrait photo, try using a vertical aspect ratio. If you want a landscape photo, try using a horizontal aspect ratio.This model was trained on 768x768px images, so use 768x768px, 640x896px, 896x640px, etc. It also works pretty good with higher resolutions such as 768x1024px or 1024x768px.You can use this model online for free on dreamlike.art!LicenseThis model is licesed under a modified CreativeML OpenRAIL-M license.You are not allowed to host, finetune, or do inference with the model or its derivatives on websites/apps/etc. If you want to, please email us at [email protected] are free to host the model card and files (Without any actual inference or finetuning) on both commercial and non-commercial websites/apps/etc. Please state the full model name (Dreamlike Photoreal 2.0) and include the license as well as a link to the model card (https://huggingface.co/dreamlike-art/dreamlike-photoreal-2.0)You are free to use the outputs (images) of the model for commercial purposes in teams of 10 or lessYou can't use the model to deliberately produce nor share illegal or harmful outputs or contentThe authors claims no rights on the outputs you generate, you are free to use them and are accountable for their use which must not go against the provisions set in the licenseYou may re-distribute the weights. If you do, please be aware you have to include the same use restrictions as the ones in the license and share a copy of the modified CreativeML OpenRAIL-M to all your users (please read the license entirely and carefully) Please read the full license here: https://huggingface.co/dreamlike-art/dreamlike-photoreal-2.0/blob/main/LICENSE.md

https://civitai.com/models/3811/dreamlike-photoreal-20

DoNotPay - The world's first robot lawyer. Their CEO tweeted out they would give anybody going in front of the supreme court 1mil to let their AI robot lawyer argue the case. Personally... I would be looking for way more than 1m ! If a case is otw to the supreme court... its already divisive. Would you trust it to fight the case for you when you already reached that point?

This top predictions and trends read by Matt White - generative AI researcher.

Top Predictions and Trends for Generative AI in 2023

2023 will be a banner year for the field of generative AI. In the latter half of 2022 the world took notice of the power and potential as…

https://matthewdwhite.medium.com/top-predictions-and-trends-for-generative-ai-in-2023-f59288ba4fcf

Great chart breaking down AI tools shared by @aaronsiim on twitter recently.

Clip from a recent Joe Rogan podcast episode with Bret Weinstein on ChatGPT.

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