The robot uprising may still be far away in the future, but AI is beginning to look scary for some of us. The advancement in Artificial Intelligence technology has led to some interesting development, on the way to developing a general purpose A.I researchers have come up with a tool known as an image generator.

1. AI Arts, Where Do We Go From Here?
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The robot uprising may still be far away in the future, but AI is beginning to look scary for
some of us. The advancement in Arti cial Intelligence technology has led to some interesting
development, on the way to developing a general purpose A.I researchers have come up with a
tool known as an image generator.
You may have heard it before, it’s almost impossible to avoid lately. Yes, we’re talking about
the rise of tools such as Dall-E, Imagen, Midjourney or even Disco Di usion.
With di erences in their underlying tech and dataset, those A.I tools pretty much does a
similar thing. Basically, you type in a sentence, and then they will spit out an image or two (or
ten).
The text or sentences are commonly called a prompt. It could range from the mundane (a

2. give you an image.
Some of those images can sometimes be quite impressive. An artist even won a competition by
submitting an artwork created using such tools. (We’ll get to this in a moment).
The rise of tools like Dall-E and the like has given rise to the usual fear of technology
replacing humans. We have seen this fear during the advancement of photography and even
during the industrial revolution. But so far, those fear has never really manifested into the
doomsday scenario that some were afraid of.
But, you may say, something is di erent today. The tools, the A.I., isn’t just a new way of doing
something, it could very much replace the work of a human being.
Yes, that might be true. But we shouldn’t just go and ban or hate on this upcoming tech.
Where Did The A.I Comes From?
Okay, rst let’s back up and have a quick history lesson. Where did all this A.I. actually come
from and why were they created.
The A.I. race has been going on for some time now. But we can argue that Google’s AI win
over a human player in the game of Go, in 2016, really kicks things up a notch. Previously,
headlines about A.I. achievement were usually won by IBM.
The race got hot quickly with Amazon dan Microso also looking at A.I. seriously and
publicly. It was not a coincidence that a year earlier, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and other tech
investors pledge their money to OpenAI. This formerly non-pro t organization is currently
backed by Microso .
In June 2020, OpenAI announced GPT-3, a language model trained on trillions of words from
the Internet. This system’s aim is to understand everyday language, also known as Natural
Language Processing. From this, DALL-E was born in early 2021.
DALL-E’s name is a combination of the beloved robot character WALL-E and renowned
painter Salvador Dali.
What Does The A.I Do?
DALL-E, Imagen (from Google), and several other similar systems are really buzzing on the
scene right now, mid-2022. Each has a similar way of using it, such as the aforementioned

3. Other common features are “inpainting” and “outpainting”. Inpainting is basically the ability
to ll in missing parts inside an image. While outpainting could refer to the ability to generate
images outside of the current image area.
For example, if we delete the head from an image of the Monalisa painting. We can use
“inpainting” to draw something else in its place, according to the prompt given. While if we
use outpainting, the ‘canvas’ is expanded and A.I. is used to draw on the new area, according
to the prompt.
How does the A.I able to do this? In short, the system learns from an abundance of images on
the internet. This dataset consists of an image and its description.
So, every time someone inputs a prompt to the system, it will ‘learn’ from the dataset to
understand what is the text about. And then, through a method known as di usion, it will
generate an image.
Now, di usion itself is pretty cool. If you ever used Midjourney, it will somewhat show how
this work. At rst, the system will just create noise, then it modi es that noise slowly until it
resembles something similar to the text given. It does this several times until it nally creates
the nal image.

4. Jason Allen’s painting was created using Midjourney.
Should Artists be Worried?
In short: no. This is just like the invention of any other creative tool. This may render some
jobs obsolete, of course, but it may also create new jobs or new opportunities.
So, about that case where an artist won a prize for submitting a generated artwork. Here’s the
story.
Jason Allen, as quoted in many places, was announced as a winner of the digital art category at
the Colorado State Fair ne arts competition. His submitted work was titled Théâtre D’opéra
Spatial and has been described as a sci- /fantasy scene of epic proportions showing a portal
and some people. Allen used the A.I. Midjourney to create the image, and Gigapixel, also an
A.I. based system, to upscale the work before printing it on canvas.
Many artists were outraged at this decision. But the organizer and judges stood by their
decision and even welcomed the conversation it created. Allen himself explained his work.
He described the process as trying many prompts and ne-tuning the prompts, before nally

5. Allen’s win actually highlighted some things about the role of A.I in design, arts, and
creativity. At its current iteration, all those tools still need humans to drive them. Just like a
camera needs a person to operate, A.I. needs a human to create something valuable to another
human.
Another thing that should be noted: the A.I. still used datasets from already existing images.
Most systems are able to generate art based on previously known styles, such as Picasso,
Basquiat, or Rembrandt. But it does underscore the fact that there needs to be a Picasso or
Rembrandt in the rst place.
Screenshot from Draw with Jazza, comparing an A.I generated art (left) and
Fiverr commissioned art (right).
A.I versus Fiverr
One common thread of discussion about these A.I. tools is: will it replace freelance jobs?
Especially for casual and everyday tasks, not replacing ne arts and masterpieces.
An example where the A.I. can be used is when a company, or someone, needs a stock photo
for a brochure or just to illustrate a blog post. These A.I is said to be more than capable of
handling such a task.
The art vlogger Josiah Alan Brooks, otherwise known as Jazza, created a video where he
compares art generated by A.I with art commissioned through popular service Fiverr.

6. Some A.I. arts generated by Jazza were superior to the Fiverr commission. It was even
discovered by Jazza that some art from Fiverr was pulled from existing stock photos.
But in one case, an art created by a human on Fiverr was able to illustrate the prompt in a
more pleasing and accurate way. Even when that artist didn’t demand so much in price.
Jazza seemed overall unimpressed by the A.I capabilities and was rather disappointed by so
much low-quality work on Fiverr. This actually illustrates how you need to be really selective
when commissioning work on Fiverr.
Choosing works from Fiverr veri ed Pro is one way to ensure you have the best work. And
also look at the portfolio of works they have created. Don’t forget to communicate clearly what
you expect from the work to be done.
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