Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: AI
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Above: The procedurally-generated No Man's Sky With the growing popularity of AI-driven 2D image generators, it's no surprise that we're starting to see many people speculating about how AI-driven 3D image generators may soon transform games and metaverse platforms. (For instance, well, AM Radio and me.) However, veteran game industry artist Aura Trilio just hit…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Zoe Jimenez is primarily a Second Life creator and photographer with an obsession with graphic novels and magazine covers. Her Second Life photos are full of covers and character cards, most not safe for Google. However, with the advent of Midjourney, she…
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The Lensa app has gone viral in recent weeks, with much excitement over its new AI-driven “magic avatars” feature. Small problem: It's not exactly magic nor purely artificial intelligence. Instead, to create these avatars, the app is apparently scraping up artists' images without their consent. The image appropriation is so blatant in many cases, the…
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Game industry artist Martin Nebelong recently started experimenting with ChatGPT, and discovered he was able to quickly create an entire “choose your adventure”-style adventure game through the AI text generator. Taking that a step further, he then took the ChatGPT text and fed it into Midjourney, the AI image generator, which then created illustrations to…
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Five faces of Whiskey Monday and her IRL owner — via her Flickr You can create an avatar based on yourself in Midjourney, but famed Second Life artist Whiskey Monday went a step further, combining multiple images of her SL avatar with photos of herself in real life to create an incredible new persona. "I…
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What you’re looking at above is an excerpt from a moving conversation between tech artist Michelle Huang, and Michelle Huang as a young girl. “I trained an AI chatbot on my childhood journal entries – so that I could engage in real-time dialogue with my ‘inner child’,” as she recently explained on Twitter: I kept…
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Update, 6:35pm PT: I'm having trouble replicating this process with my own photo. If you have advice/tips, please post in Comments! Update 2, 11/18: Finally got this to work on my own photo. The original instruction included brackets and quotation marks but those aren't necessary when communicating with Midjourney. The photo at top left is…
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Sooner than you might have expected and probably quicker than you were planning, NVIDIA just announced GET3D an AI model for generating virtual world objects — think Midjourney meets the Metaverse: NVIDIA is looking to take the sting out of creating virtual 3D worlds with a new artificial intelligence model. GET3D can generate characters, buildings, vehicles and…
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AI is enabling some really magical experiences. 🪄 Originally planned to share this tomorrow, @sergeyglkn scooped us! 😜 Keep on eye on this space. It moves fast! 💨 pic.twitter.com/Of8PgJWZMM — Russ Maschmeyer (@StrangeNative) September 19, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js This is a fun and impressive demo: Online e-commerce site Shopify prototyping AI image generation used in fashion.…
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The sharp eyes of New World Notes' image curator Cajsa Lilliehook caught what looks to be a pretty major breakthrough (or first step toward disaster, depending on your point of view): The Bulwark, a major US news analysis publication, is using Midjourney to create illustrations for their articles — and crediting Midjourney as the image…
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