>>63802677I was following AI art back when it was still abstract and psychedelic in the discodiffusion and vqgan+clip eras. I could feel the field picking up steam but it still throws me for a loop how fast things have gone. How we've gotten to the point of a corpo chatbot already becoming the hottest tech trend of the year and how governments and unions are already raging about it.
Faces going from blobby blurs in 2014 to nearly photoreal profiles in 2018. Going from janky clipart coming out of OG Dalle and the abstract messes of DalleMini to the fuckin kaleidoscope of modern stable diffusion. I didn't think AI vtubers would be a thing for another decade at least and already one is already breaking records.
Lmao I just realized those 'old' programs i brought up were from fucking 2021 and 2022. Even deepdream was what, 2015? Generative AI is a young field but it feels like its been ages. I blame covid
