But DALL-E 2 was stealing all the air out of the room until August with the arrival of Stable Diffusion. 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. 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. 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. There has been excitement, confusion, exploration, astonishment, advancement, rancor, scandal, and lots of dopamine. 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. (EDIT: Artist list already added to!) AI art arrives, and is the apple of everyone’s eye. “Apple of My Eye”, Douglas Bonneville using DALLE-2
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