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| Drums, Stefan Lattner w Stable Diffusion, 2022 |
That was fast -- It's been two months since the open-source image-generating software Stable Diffusion was released to the public, and already it's being used by scientists to thumbnail their press releases.
Here we have the first instance (that I've seen) of a scientist, Stefan Lattner, using Stable Diffusion to make his own image for publicizing his work. His article is about an AI drum machine, and when that article shows up in the science aggregator, it's paired with this image seen above, I'll just call it "Drums".
Sometimes it's a photograph from the lab, maybe a closeup of some fingers in rubber gloves holding a little but important new technological artifact. Sometimes it's just open content from Upsplash etc.
But this time, the lead scientist said why not, and got a neural network not much different from the one he works on for drums and music, and asked it to make him a picture of drums. Not sure what his prompt was. No mention of it in the press release.
SampleMatch: A model that automatically retrieves matching drum samples for musical tracks
Oct 2022, phys.org
via Sony Computer Science Laboratories in France: Stefan Lattner, SampleMatch: Drum sample retrieval by musical context. arXiv:2208.01141v1 [cs.SD], arxiv.org/abs/2208.01141
Post Script:
"Art is dead Dude" - the rise of the AI artists stirs debate
Sep 2022, BBC News
Policy makers need to get the rules right, "so nobody feels ripped off", and money isn't just siphoned off from artists and into the pockets of big corporations.
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