Wednesday, July 28, 2021

NEW GUIDE: Generating AI “Art” with VQGAN+CLIP

NEW GUIDE in the Adafruit Learning System: Generating AI “Art” with VQGAN+CLIP

Reading social media and science articles as of late, you’ve probably had the misfortune of encountering surreal, sometimes nightmarish images with the description “VQGAN+CLIP” attached. Familiar glimpses of reality, but broken somehow.

A lot of coverage has been on the unsettling and dystopian applications of GANs — deepfake videos, nonexistent but believable faces, poorly trained datasets that inadvertently encode racism — but they also have benign uses: upscaling low-resolution imagery, stylizing photographs, and repairing damaged artworks (even speculating on entire lost sections in masterpieces).

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