Kanada's papers

Yasusi Kanada, Nicograph International 2024, 2024-6.

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Abstract: Text-to-image generation models such as Stable Diffusion (SD) and DALL-E can produce a wide variety of images from text prompts. While so-called AI artists often use long prompts to generate desired images, this poster proposes a method for generating diverse painterly images emergently by SD with short prompts of 1-2 words. The reason for such attempts is that the author believes that AI, drawing from learned image data, extracts representations of color, shape, and other aspects, as well as the underlying intentions and motivations of the original images’ authors, and reflects them in the generated images, and that he also believes that the process of the AI user encountering and selecting the generated images is a creative one.

Introduction to this research theme: Bring out the artistic talent of AI and have it create AI artworks

Yasusi Kanada, Nicograph International 2024, 2024-6.

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[ Poster paper PDF file (in Japanese) ]
[ Poster PDF file (in Japanese) ]
[ Slide PDF file (in Japanese) ]

[ Full paper PDF ファイル (rejected, in Japanese) ]

Abstract: Image generation AI can produce images even when given invented or unrelated words that it hasn’t been specifically trained on. Using personal names or coined pen names functioning as artist names, I provided short prompts of about 2-3 words to Stable Diffusion XL to create painting-like images. The choice of pen name helps define the generated image’s character, giving personality to the artist name. Since Stable Diffusion allows for negative prompts, even greater image variety can be achieved. By adjusting random seeds to generate a wide range of images, I could select those where the AI’s “artistic talent” was particularly evident. The exhibition will focus on about ten especially interesting pieces, with others included for reference.

Introduction to this research theme: Bring out the artistic talent of AI and have it create AI artworks