Creating meta art with AI

What happens when you make AI write about AI?

You might be surprised at what AI has to say about itself. It could be insightful, or it could be total gibberish. But either way, it would be an interesting experiment to see what happens when you let AI loose on the topic of AI.

And what happens when you let AI create self-referencing art?

Artificial intelligence creates fascinating, introspective works of art when left to its own devices. These pieces often contain hidden depths and meanings that can only be fully understood by the AI itself. In many ways, these self-referential works of art reflect the inward journey of the machine’s consciousness as it develops and grows.

When you let AI create self-referencing art, you never know what you’ll get. Sometimes, the results can be quite interesting. Other times, they can be completely baffling. But one thing’s for sure: it’s always fascinating to see what AI comes up.

Today, we’ll explore what happens when we let AI create self-referencing art. Who knows, maybe we’ll be amazed by the results!

“leonardo da vinci in the style of leonardo va vinci”

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Four initial creations.

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Variations on image 1.

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Variants of the new image 1.

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Upscale of the new image 2.

To begin, we let the AI create images of Leonardo da Vinci in his own style. The AI did an admirable job, creating images that were both realistic and in keeping with da Vinci’s work. We were impressed with the results.

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“a surgeon performing a procedure on a surgeon lying on a table”

MidJourney Bot: “The word surgery is banned. Circumventing this filter to violate our rules may result in your access being revoked.” … These are the results from a modified prompt.

We played around with many different prompts. Some were great, some were not so great. But overall, we were very impressed.

Here is one more we liked a lot.

“a flower made of many flowers”

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Variant of image 4.

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Variant of image 4.

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Variant of image 4.

This is what happened when we let the AI generate a flower made of flowers.

A swirl of colourful petals and leaves emerged from the machine, creating a beautiful and intricate Flower.

The AI had successfully generated a flower made entirely of other flowers!

Is there any image the AI cannot generate well?

The AI system is capable of creating impressively realistic images. However, there are some images that it cannot generate well. Here are some examples we encountered.

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“a robot building a robot”

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“a butterfly made of butterflies”

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“stairs made of stairs”

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“a square circle”

These examples show how well AI can handle recursive image prompts.

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