Who cares how theoretically soulless it is under the matrix transforms, the fact is that this spits out the weird, and us humans chew it up and spit it right back.
I think this is the first new era in Art since postmodernism.
These Star Wars galleries are just phenomenal. I can't imagine it is long until you can apply these as filters to movies, for example taking Rogue One and applying a Fritz Lang or Stanley Kubrick filter.
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If I took that galleries above and used it as the input photos, and then used a tool like this, which takes about 5 seconds a frame .. https://gizmodo.com/disney-ai-art-vfx-visual-effects-de-age-...
Or akin to Cars being a remake of Doc Hollywood with anthropomorphized Cars, being able to say something like "I want to see a remake of the 2013 movie Rush, in the world of Zootopia, with 15% styling from Speed Racker, set in the 70's, with flying animals, and the main two rival protagonists being flying squirrels, one of which has a birth defect and a prosthetic wing."
I mean, what's to stop someone from doing that using a basic ass LUT?
It works by using an image classifier in reverse. So for example, you have a neural network that identifies bicycles, feed it an image, get the results, and feed them back to the image, boosting the bicycle-like characteristics of the image, repeat the process a number of times. In the end, you get something that looks like the original image, but made of bicycle parts. It is commonly done with faces, it can also be done on intermediate layers, amplifying more abstract details like geometric shapes.
Originally intended as a way to reveal the inner workings of a neural network (for research, debugging, etc...), it has also been used by artists for really trippy visuals.