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As generative AI advances, it is easy to see it as yet another area where machines are taking over \u2013 but humans remain at the centre of AI art, just in ways we might not expect\nWhen faced with a bit of downtime, many of my friends will turn to the same party game. It\u2019s based on the surrealist game Exquisite Corpse, and involves translating brief written descriptions into rapidly made drawings and back again. One group calls it Telephone Pictionary; another refers to it as Writey-Drawey. The internet tells me it is also called Eat Poop You Cat, a sequence of words surely inspired by one of\u00a0the game\u2019s results.
\nAs recently as three years ago, it was rare to encounter text-to-image or image-to-text mistranslations in daily life, which made the outrageous outcomes of the game feel especially novel. But we have since entered a new era of image-making. With the aid of AI image generators like Dall-E 3, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and the generative features integrated into Adobe\u2019s Creative Cloud programs, you can now transform a sentence or phrase into a highly detailed image in mere seconds. Images, likewise, can be nearly instantly translated into descriptive text. Today, you can play Eat Poop You Cat alone in your room, cavorting with the algorithms. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As generative AI advances, it is easy to see it as yet another area where machines are taking over \u2013 but humans remain at the centre of AI art, just in ways we might not expect When faced with a bit of downtime, many of my friends will turn to the same party game. It\u2019s …<\/p>\n