This Week in AI Art Today

Highlights:

• Deep Dive into Video & Audio Quality: Lively debates on optimizing video bitrates (around 24 Mbps seems ideal), codecs (H.264 vs. the efficient H.265/HEVC), and mastering with Apple ProRes.

• AI Model Mania: Explorations of new models like Luma Ray 2, Adobe's video suite, Sora, Han 10, and Alibaba's multimodal offering.

• Agents of Creation: Discussion on utilizing AI agents and LLMs to help to assist with creative tasks.

• Fairness in the AI Art Space: Critical conversations around transparency in contests (Suno, Project Odyssey) and the need to prioritize showcasing artists over "engagement farming."

• Community Support & "Hand-Ups": The group emphasized supporting indie artists and equitable access to resources. A potential memecoin for AI Art Today was even floated to support community art!

• Centralization in Crypto: Growing concerns about Bitcoin's centralization (BlackRock's influence) and the future of stablecoins/CBDCs.

• "AI Art Today Deep Dive" Analysis: Detailed discussions and experiments with AI media techniques are explored. The community value and the concern around centralization are highlighted.

Tools of the Week:

Here’s a curated list of the AI tools and platforms mentioned, with links to more information where available:

• Video:

  • Sora (OpenAI): AI video generator known for high quality and complex scenes.

  • Runway: AI video editing platform.

  • Luma AI: Platform for creating and experiencing 3D content.

  • DID (Deep Identification): Creates realistic AI avatars that speak.

  • Kling AI: AI video platform

• Image:

  • Midjourney: AI art generator, known for detailed and surreal images.

  • ComfyUI: Node-based interface for AI art workflows.

  • Firefly (Adobe): Adobe's family of creative generative AI models.

  • Stable Diffusion (SDXL): Open-source AI image generator.

  • Flux Gen:AI platform tools for image and video generation.

• Audio:

  • Suno: AI music generation platform.

  • Udio AI music creation platform

  • 11 Labs: AI voice cloning and generation.

  • [Audio Lab](URL not found)

  • Riffusion: AI music generation platform where you create music from text prompts.

• Other:

  • Perplexity AI: AI-powered search engine.

  • Vast AI: Cloud computing for AI and machine learning.

  • Pinocchio: An open framework for executing any AI Application.

  • MoviePy: A Python library for video editing.

  • Cursor: AI-powered code editor.

  • OpenVINO: Toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference.

  • Grok (xAI): AI chatbot.

  • [Automatic 1111](URL not found)

  • [Collab](URL not found)

  • [Imagine App](URL not found)

  • Civitai: A platform for sharing and discovering Stable Diffusion models, LoRA's, and resources.

Key Questions & Debates:

• What's the ideal balance between video quality and file size for different platforms?

• How can we ensure fairness and transparency in AI art contests?

• How can AI tools support artists without replacing human creativity?

• What are the ethical implications of AI's increasing role in society?

• What is the role of DAOs in the AI art landscape?

Community Spotlight:

• Host: David and Mad Butter

• Regular Hosts: Beiju for Tuesdays and Thursdays and Ghost sometimes on Thursdays.

• Speakers: Benny, Terry, DJ, PJ, Tom, Chris, Peter, Key, Whitney, Cindy, Mr. E, Ariel, Mike, Wolf, ABC, Frisky, Toby, M.

• Discussions centered around finding places for artists to showcase their work: Rad TV and the AILM3 channel.

• Video Enabled AI Art Today spaces on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

• There is an open call for eight artists to showcase at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum for February and March, contact PJ.

Upcoming Events:

• Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum Open Call: PJ is hosting an open call for eight artists to showcase at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum for February and March.

• Project Odyssey Announcement: The announcement for Project Odyssey will be this Friday.

• Audacity: A nine-hour programming event for ladies happening this Friday.

• ETH Denver Art Contest: There is an art contest for ETH Denver that ends this weekend.

• Subway Art Display: There is another contest to display art in a subway tunnel.

• AI Art Today Video Enabled Spaces: Video enabled spaces will become a regular thing Tuesday mornings and Thursday mornings, hopefully next week.

• Possible Interview: Mad Butter proposed doing an interview with Toby and Mr. E next week.

• Travis Space: There may be a space hosted by Travis at one of his coffee spaces.

Humor of the Week:

• "Wake up with your bit rate" - a potential t-shirt slogan.

• The ongoing joke about Adobe needing to "cut Tom a check" for promoting their video model.

• Relating the "high amount of credits and usage" of the AI tools, followed with getting "brain fluid" oozing out from too many ideas.

• Mentioning his TV snob friend who works at Best Buy.

Conclusion:

This week in AI Art Today was filled with technical explorations, creative inspiration, and important conversations about the future. The participants are actively grappling with technical limitations, pushing creative boundaries, and engaging in important discussions about the ethical and societal implications of AI. The strong sense of community and collaboration is an encouraging sign for the future of this field.

Treat your AI right!