AI artist
- 03 Sep 2022

Happy to share I am now officially an AI artist.
Giving life to abstract concept or emotions, that’s what an artist does and that’s also what the latest generative AI model can enable you to do.
As other “text to image” model, StableDiffusion enables you to convert some text, or « prompt » into an image. Engineering this prompt to « guide » the model towards an expected outcome is the only thing you have to do. Prompt used for this post will be in the comment.
This model is not the first : Dall-e by OpenAI is 1.5 year old. Its successor Dall-e 2 is incredible. Nor is it the most powerful : midjourney released a couple of weeks ago, generates image that can literally win artistic awards. But StableDiffusion, released with the help of Hugging Face and EleutherAi is the first 100% open and free one.
Definitely the tech is impressive. It probably opens wide new doors for creativity and we can be sure incredible art will happen.
But some says this is a Pandora Box. First, because of ethical / legal considerations. What about the rights of human creators behind the billions of images used to train these models ? And the elephant in the room is about the inevitable transformation of artist / illustration / photography industry (think Getty Images). Now that anybody can produce images, a disruption bigger than the move from painting to photography will happen.
Then, image case is done, but video is the next frontier. Imagine a world where you can simply brief a machine about a movie … or even a VR universe. Turns out the metaverse might be easy to create in the end.
Bonus : Guess why a combination of a unicorn and a dinosaur might be a prompt dear to my heart !
Text drafted through a chat with an AI model. Visual: Stable Diffusion or DALL-E 3.
Transformation and final editing by Jean-Paul Paoli.