AI Already Makes Art, If I Let It. And I Let It Make Art All The Time.

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. Hey I like that phrase. Don't abide the binary, folks! -- CREDITS 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!