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https:\/\/ml.berkeley.edu\/blog\/posts\/clip-art\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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These models have so much creative power: just input some words and the system does its best to render them in its own uncanny, abstract style. It\u2019s really fun and surprising to play with: I never really know what\u2019s going to come out; it might be a trippy pseudo-realistic landscape or something more abstract and minimal.<\/p>\n

And despite the fact that the model does most of the work in actually generating the image, I still feel creative \u2013 I feel like an artist \u2013 when working with these models. There\u2019s a real element of creativity to figuring out what to prompt the model for. The natural language input is a total open sandbox, and if you can weild words to the model\u2019s liking, you can create almost anything.<\/p>\n

In concept, this idea of generating images from a text description is incredibly similar to Open-AI\u2019s DALL-E model (if you\u2019ve seen my previous blog posts, I covered both the technical inner workings and philosophical ideas behind DALL-E in great detail). But in fact, the method here is quite different. DALL-E is trained end-to-end for the sole purpose of producing high quality images directly from language, whereas this CLIP method is more like a beautifully hacked together trick for using language to steer existing unconditional image generating models….<\/p>\n

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Relevant Twitter Accounts<\/p>\n

(these are all twitter accounts that frequently post art generated with CLIP)<\/p>\n

@ak92501
\n@arankomatsuzaki
\n@RiversHaveWings
\n@advadnoun
\n@eps696
\n@quasimondo
\n@M_PF
\n@hollyherndon
\n@matdryhurst
\n@erocdrahs
\n@erinbeess
\n@ganbrood
\n@92C8301A
\n@bokar_n
\n@genekogan
\n@danielrussruss
\n@kialuy
\n@jbusted1
\n@BoneAmputee
\n@eyaler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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