Re:AI and the Future of Pixel Art
by jw1224 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @05:20AM
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> "AI" is only copy-pasting elements from a database of existing images.
This is a common misunderstanding. Image AIs don’t copy/paste anything, or read from a database. Stable Diffusion is only 2GB. It’s little more than a huge array of numbers, which relate to different tokens.
Finding the “midpoint” between a set of tokens is latent space. What emerges is nothing short of miraculous, but it comes from random noise, not copy/pasting anything.
This is a common misunderstanding. Image AIs don’t copy/paste anything, or read from a database. Stable Diffusion is only 2GB. It’s little more than a huge array of numbers, which relate to different tokens.
Finding the “midpoint” between a set of tokens is latent space. What emerges is nothing short of miraculous, but it comes from random noise, not copy/pasting anything.