37C3 - What I Learned from Loab: AI as a creative adversary

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Discover the creative adversarial strategies used to manipulate AI-generated art, exploring the benefits and drawbacks of AI-generated creativity, and the need for new methods to harness its potential.

Key takeaways
  • The concept of adversarial creative strategies involves doing the opposite of what is expected from a tool or algorithm to create unintended and often surprising outcomes.
  • The speaker’s experience with AI-generated art, particularly Loeb, showed how quickly a model can become popular and how easily it can be influenced or even hijacked by unexpected interactions.
  • The speaker argues that the use of AI-generated art can lead to a loss of control and agency in the creative process, as well as a potential lack of empathy and understanding of the human condition.
  • The focus on automation and efficiency in AI-generated art can lead to a homogenization of creative output, making it difficult to distinguish between human and artificial creativity.
  • The speaker suggests that it is necessary to develop new methods and techniques for working with AI-generated art, taking into account the limitations and biases of the models and the importance of human creativity and judgment.
  • The use of negative prompt weights can be used to create unusual and unexpected outcomes by assigning negative values to certain words or phrases, effectively “hacking” the algorithm.
  • The speaker’s experience with AI-generated art showed how easily a model can become stuck in a particular style or aesthetic, and how difficult it can be to transition to new or more complex ideas.
  • The importance of understanding the digital native experiences of AI-generated art, and the potential for new forms of artistic expression and creativity to emerge from these interactions.
  • The speaker’s thoughts on the ethics of AI-generated art, including issues of copyright and ownership, and the potential for AI-generated art to be used for malicious or harmful purposes.
  • The concept of “adversarial creativity” and the idea that AI-generated art can be used to challenge and disrupt traditional notions of creativity and artistic expression.
  • The speaker’s thoughts on the potential future of AI-generated art, including the possibility of AI-generated art being used in more commercial and mainstream contexts.