Hi @castleberry,
Your post is a great synthesis of the state of the art so far. What a work and artwork !
It clearly demonstrates the added value an artist can bring when you just give him new tools, bringing back the original definitions of latin artifex, where the artisan who has acquired a technique, a mastery of execution and a know-how, allows him to skilfully produce a model or even to invent new ones; here in this case, we forge digital matter as raw material and our hammers are notebooks and programs.
Interesting to see that you touch the sensitive bias of NSFW detection algorithms. They are too sensitive to my opinion, but this might be my own cultural perceptions. But at least it shows how much work there is still to do in that field to cope with our human judgement and way to perceive reality, and also how dangerous massive filtering can become massive censorship.
For example, so far an Ai is still not able to perceive the Carmen music association to your "Red Spawn" clip, bringing to my perspective a much more lustful call to joyful pleasures than the Red Dawn clip. Altough the two pieces are sharing organic similarities, "Red Dawn" is a total different emotion because of the dramatic tense sustained by the musical layer.
We are far from a real AI takeover. The human added value is to my opinion still necessary to produce emotions and expressivity, otherwise we will loose nuance and freedom which is antinomic with artistic expression.
And also thanks for sharing the contests info, this is still a world for me to explore.
PS: I'm more than honored to be mentioned here but you are without doubts a community driver connecting people togheter and providing them support and motivations in a way that everyone is eager to continue exploring with you these new fields of expression.
That is an epic quote there! I have run some experiments using a photo as the initial input and my art as the target image... and vice versa. I will do some more playing around before i share some of those... but it proves your point from the quote!
I forgot to put the NSFW tag in this post but i don't think that will be an issue! Glad you picked up on that irony though of A.I. censoring A.I. hahaha That may be a greater example of the digital Right Brain vs. the digital Left Brain! The massive censoring and the lack of oversight is definitely one of the great challenges and problems of our time. I fear that if we don't get ahead of that it could get out of control very easily.
From a few techy people i know... the fear of A.I. is unwarranted at this time. However, the future implications are definitely worth being concerned over. Once again, it's something we should get ahead of before it becomes an issue like a Pandora's Box situation.
It was an honor to honor you in the post and honestly, if it weren't for you i may have not gotten on board this art train at this time. Your posts inspired me to delve in. So, thank you. I also appreciate your comments and thoughts on the videos with music overlayed. I wasn't sure if i liked the music added or not completely. I was pretty selective in my choices and felt like the music went with the art somewhat and distracted from the art a little.
I think there are 10 more days to enter the contest as an artist or a collector! The discord links are in the Weekly Community Curation post if you need any help. There is always somebody in the NFT Showroom discord to help you navigate getting set up as an artist and/or collector!
Cheers
I also appreciate your feedback on how the art moved you from one form to another. So, i do appreciate your thoughtful commentary!