An AI-generated image of a medieval village called Spiral Town goes viral this month.
The image was created using Stable Diffusion, an open source image generator that can dream up nearly any fantasy or aesthetic rendering.
ControlNet, another deep learning tool used on the image, is like icing on the cake: It adds textural and tonal gravity by allowing users to fuss even more with the boundaries of an image.
There appears no end to what can be imposed upon an image through generative AI tools.
This transition, as we are now experiencing it in the early days of the AI overhaul, will test our relationship to reality, with each of us harboring varying degrees of comfort and discomfort.
Following its evolution requires understanding all that it is breaking open and being put together again.
What the debate around Spiral Town suggests is not just a blurring of human and machine worlds, but the matter of just how real we want our future to be.
Originally uploaded to Reddit, Spiral
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