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Mitch Goodwin, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne

Synthetic futures: my journey into the emotional, poetic world of AI art making

MidJourney text prompt: 'HAL the computer approaching through the foggy morning mist'. Author provided

Generative art making is flourishing. Algorithms that turn text prompts into images, such as DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, are emerging as viable creative tools. And they’re fuelling much debate about their artistic legitimacy and potential to pinch our jobs.

The sudden leap in fidelity of artificial intelligence (AI) art production has been made possible by advances in deep learning technologies, in particular natural language processing and generative adversarial networks.

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