Wonderful piece! Fascinating and poignant textile history.
I have been thinking about the period in the fall on 2022 when my coworkers were entertaining each other by generating effed up images with Dall-e mini (since renamed craiyon, I think for copyright reasons?). The delight came from their obvious distortion and all the surprising and hilarious ways in which they deviated from the prompt. Today's AI images feel soulless, sinister, and profoundly un-fun
Is the enshitification of AI images a result of over fitting? The algorithm produces so many images that influence new images that are based on that AI generated image and the images grow continuously more obviously AI generated?
Look into model collapse. Too much AI-generated content training data eventually ruins the output. The context for that was the text-generators, but who knows, it could apply to others.
Great piece. Another example that comes to mind aside from chintzy is Delftware. The Dutch East India Company had an active trade route with China in the 17th century, but Chinese porcelain was very expensive. The famous blue-and-white pottery style was highly coveted. Potters soon saw an opportunity to imitate the style using alternative tools that looked just like porcelain. Factories opened up dedicated to the cheaply-made style as the imitation took Europe by storm.
You can find blue-and-white delftware pottery all over nowadays. In my grandma house's in Croatia, she has some delftware, even though she has not the slightest idea the style originated from China.
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The chintz in that video might be simple, but it still blew me away!
Another great piece.
Wonderful piece! Fascinating and poignant textile history.
I have been thinking about the period in the fall on 2022 when my coworkers were entertaining each other by generating effed up images with Dall-e mini (since renamed craiyon, I think for copyright reasons?). The delight came from their obvious distortion and all the surprising and hilarious ways in which they deviated from the prompt. Today's AI images feel soulless, sinister, and profoundly un-fun
Is the enshitification of AI images a result of over fitting? The algorithm produces so many images that influence new images that are based on that AI generated image and the images grow continuously more obviously AI generated?
Look into model collapse. Too much AI-generated content training data eventually ruins the output. The context for that was the text-generators, but who knows, it could apply to others.
Interesting!
I have a correction: there is no "Royal Toronto Museum," only the Royal Ontario Museum.
Great article. Thank you.
The pebbles on the beech do require a framer...
Great piece. Another example that comes to mind aside from chintzy is Delftware. The Dutch East India Company had an active trade route with China in the 17th century, but Chinese porcelain was very expensive. The famous blue-and-white pottery style was highly coveted. Potters soon saw an opportunity to imitate the style using alternative tools that looked just like porcelain. Factories opened up dedicated to the cheaply-made style as the imitation took Europe by storm.
You can find blue-and-white delftware pottery all over nowadays. In my grandma house's in Croatia, she has some delftware, even though she has not the slightest idea the style originated from China.
Thanks for sharing this!
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