
“Apple of My Eye”, Douglas Bonneville using DALLE-2
AI art arrives, and is the apple of everyone’s eye. Well, not quite everyone.
There is no question that 2022 has been the year of the arrival of AI art (#aiart), or image synthesis (#imagesynthesis), or AI infused art (#aiia), or any of several other hashtags that have come to denote this new art form.Mini-mini history lesson
There has been excitement, confusion, exploration, astonishment, advancement, rancor, scandal, and lots of dopamine. We barreled into 2022 riding the crest of Disco Diffusion mostly through Google Colab notebooks, which itself piggybacked on VQGAN through the fall and winter of 2021. And then all craziness broke loose in March 2022 with the arrival of DALL-E 2 which blew the doors off of everyone’s expectations of what diffusion based models would be capable of so quickly. And almost simultaneously, we saw an explosion in popularity of the Discord-based MidJourney and it’s novel take on diffusion, which took “beauty in AI art” to new levels. But DALL-E 2 was stealing all the air out of the room until August with the arrival of Stable Diffusion. Stable took everything we new about the possibilities of AI art, put it in a little box, and the blew the roof off the house with its open model. A month later in September 2002, Stable diffusion had been integrated into Photoshop via 3rd party plugins, Canva, multiple Colab notebooks, and DreamStudio from Stability.AI, the maker of Stable Diffusion. Stable Diffusion as of writing this, is going everywhere all at once.A move towards Stability
Huge advancements and innovations in inpainting, originally pioneered by DALL-E 2, have poured into Stable Diffusion from every direction. Since SD was released as open source, as well as making SD available through API for integration into any project anyone wanted to come up with, the pace of invention is currently speeding up and mushrooming throughout all the digital tools in art workflows across the planet.A temporary controversy

“The Cat, The Horse, The Train” Douglas Bonneville with Stable Diffusion
This was the big year
It looks like 2022 will be (already is) the biggest watershed period in history since the invention of Photography. And nobody knows what is next, though some have some inklings about the possibilities.Let’s name names

“Diverse Artists at a Party #1”, Douglas Bonneville with Stable Diffusion


I love that a meme I made that basically just showcases a mishmash of people I follow(ed) is somehow still a fixture in the community
— surea.i (@sureailabs) October 12, 2022
The big list of links

“Diverse Artists at a Party #3”, Douglas Bonneville with Stable Diffusion
- https://twitter.com/yontelbrot
- https://twitter.com/KaliYuga_ai
- https://twitter.com/proximasan
- https://twitter.com/Inner_Sanctum__
- https://twitter.com/dbonneville (yours truly)
- https://twitter.com/takyon236
- https://twitter.com/delta_sauce
- https://twitter.com/huemin_art
- https://twitter.com/nvnot_
- https://twitter.com/Shade_9SQ
- https://twitter.com/pharmapsychotic
- https://twitter.com/Morph_VGart
- https://twitter.com/KevinWPage
- https://twitter.com/zippy731
- https://twitter.com/gandamu_ml
- https://twitter.com/_Lost_letters_
- https://twitter.com/TormanJeremy
- https://twitter.com/singlezer0
- https://twitter.com/inigma_a
- https://twitter.com/thors_thunder04
- https://twitter.com/illustrata_ai
- https://twitter.com/images_ai
- https://twitter.com/HvnsLstAngel
- https://twitter.com/artistjaneadams
- https://twitter.com/EErratica
- https://twitter.com/advadnoun
- https://twitter.com/RiversHaveWings
- https://twitter.com/0xCrung
- https://twitter.com/sureailabs
- https://twitter.com/Somnai_dreams
- https://twitter.com/KyrickYoung
CODA…

“Diverse Artists at a Party #2”, Douglas Bonneville with Stable Diffusion