A video essay response to Ted Chiang's New Yorker essay "Why AI Isn't Going to Make Art".
DISCLAIMER: The following is an experiment in truly unbound, gorgeous language models, and do not reflect the views of NovelAI, Twitch, EleutherAI, BATbot, Spotify, the artists providing the LO-FI, John DeLancie's approximate voice, or viewers like you, or world leaders like those hos over there.
And if you think there are errors in how I depict language models, I'm all for feedback, provided:
-- you tell me where your paycheck comes from, or make a verbal conflict of interests statement to dis/prove that your livelihood depends on your curated expertise
-- you can generate the image of a book resting atop a beverage
-- it doesn't involve human excellence narratives, nor machinic devaluation narratives. in other words, you gotta make some new material that don't abide the binary.
Don't abide the binary, folks!
Text Generation via . . . . ME! Rare, with special hologram front cover.
Voices from the TTS v2 of the NovelAI text generation service, a product from a company now called Anlatan.
@BoneAmputee of EleutherAI for making VQGAN+CLIP and Diffusion (AND MANY MORE) models available for use via BATbot.ai, which is what makes some background images.
Katherine Crowson (@RiversHaveWings on Twitter) for the KLMC2 animation notebook.
David Marx (@DigThatData on Twitter) for souping above KLMC2 notebook to make use of initial images, which takes KLMC2 abilities to next level. Multi-prompt scheduling still baffles me, but I'll tackle them someday.
Music Compiled By Deef on Spotify, most permissions on https://twitchmusic.carrd.co
Any voices from the text-to-speech model that might resemble persons living or dead are coincidental, and if I use them it's because of my respect for their work, and I think they'd get a hoot that their voice was being used to show how large language models would speak 24/7 epic poems about anything if we let them. In the meantime, because I use them, I will not be monetizing any of this. This is evidence of capabilities for the public good. And my resume/CV!