Our Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Its quite easy to slate ai-generated or inspired content for lacking the same motivation physical paintings have. To be fair, if you can click a few buttons and arrive at the same artwork another artist took weeks to create, you can become complacent and lose purpose.

That is one thing we’ve never done when it comes to image generation. Every step taken has been in the forward direction but towards what? What is the ultimate goal? Is there one?

In the is article, we take a look at why we research ai-art and content generation in the ways we do. In addition, Exploring our ‘why’ and what potential finish lines look like if they exist for Asycd.

A Natural Interest in Art

“Where there is a desire, there is a way.” – Kapil Gupta

It just so happens that our desire is to find out the full capabilities of ai-generated art.

“the less i know the better”

Whether it’s shapes, colours, or pattern, we want to see it all, in all its forms but mainly digitally.

Our tools such as the TEV1 are being purpose built using the latest AI technologies to match this interest.

Experimentation with prompts, crafting algorithms for generating new descriptions, descriptive analysis of existing prompts are ways we have gone about trying to create the next best artwork.

A Hint of Ludicrous and a Smidge of Absurd

AI-art has no bounds on what you create and that is something I noticed when I got first got into it. A year later it’s as if we are only getting started even though the catalogue of works is already huge!

There is something about particularly special about generating a new image that is completely fresh and unique. It stimulates you to see what else can be created if only you adjust the prompt or other parameters involved in the image generation process. It is the most fulfilling when you see something you did not expect to see.

You could potentially see anything! I say ‘potentially’ because while you can create prompts to guide the generation, the output is a function of input and the function itself is a function of the way the model was trained, the weights and biases and more. You can only have so much influence if you while using pre-trained models.

And there is no point where we would be satisfied with an output artwork. If interesting pieces are curated through using one of our tools or general prompting, we are looking to segment the prompt, alter and transform to see what else can be created.

It’s an endless search for not much really as most would consider it quite pointless. Digital has no intrinsic value. They are just pixels on a screen.

“At this point in the article, our motivations are definitely not dark nor are they fantasies but there is one slightly more intriguing thing about Asycd – The impact of our work on psyche.”

The Impact of Our Work on Psyche

It’s through this search to see all that ai-art and design has to offer we expose ourselves to the unknown.

“THE EXPANSE”

The brain is a sensitive organ and the mind a sensitive construct and being able to see everything is a wild concept. If you could see everything you wanted to see would you? Is that even desirable?

The most important question is the question of mental clarity and uniqueness. Speaking from experience, we have generated tens of thousands of images already and I can say it’s been interesting to say the least to see how flexible your eyes and mind get to seeing different things.

It’s kind of like if you were an avid user of TikTok and compared your daily experience to someone who’s never used TikTok or wasn’t really a user of social media. A few seconds of swiping would completely weird out the non-user whereas the regular user probably seen the clips in some fashion already is actually bored by them even though they are quite out of pocket clips. We discuss the impact of short-form content on the brain here.

Through this endless search perhaps we lose the joy of traditional artworks in favour of artificial satisfaction. The awe you used to get fades away as we continue on the journey of exploration but maybe it’s a worthwhile cost?

I think that’s the case for most things that start out as an acute interest initiated by pure curiosity. Physicists probably started out with stars in their eyes but the problems and questions got deeper and deeper. Now they’re old thinking about same things but without that same tenacity and childlike curiosity about them. It becomes a sense of unavoidable duty which is something we would like to ultimately avoid.

Passion vs Duty

“We don't need to do this and nor do I”

In fact, I am pretty sure if we didn’t do it the world would still spin and you would still blink. Unless you don’t need to blink or are unfortunate to not be able to blink.

Back to the point. If we don’t do it who will? Who is as dedicated with a natural interest in art and ai image generation. It’s a duty that must be fulfilled as should all areas of research and while this is quite niche it’s important work!

In essence, our journey isn’t really about dark fantasies; it’s about the illumination that comes from pushing the boundaries of creativity and technology. Despite the challenges and potential drawbacks, the pursuit remains incredibly fulfilling and important.

Thanks for reading this article or story if you would prefer call it that.

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