Which AI Creates the Best (and Most Terrifying) Art?

pcmag.com:

The tech world never lacks trending topics, but one of the most interesting this year is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to create art. The resulting images can be everything from grotesque to stunning.

Here's an ultra-simplified explanation of how they work: Take millions, if not billions, of captioned images, and generate something new and unique based on a text description you provide, called a "prompt." (This article(Opens in a new window) provides a more detailed breakdown of the process.)

Recently, AI tools have created memes (read about Loab, the “AI art cryptid,”(Opens in a new window) for some genuine chills). They've generated the imagery of an entire sci-fi short film and a video game and even won art contests.

Some call AI art a whole new artistic medium(Opens in a new window). Arguably the most popular is Dall-E, which is now used to create as many as 2 million images per day(Opens in a new window) alone. Few safeguards exist against using these AIs for nefarious purposes (think propaganda and disinformation). But that’s not going to stop people, especially with the truly open-source options.

Several big-name tools that were in private beta have become available to everyone, including the aforementioned Dall-E as well as Midjourney and DreamStudio. New mobile apps such as Wonder, Dream by Wombo, and Starryai are also available. Even big tech companies—namely Meta and Google—are in on it. Both have announced tools that will go beyond still imagery and make AI-generated videos, named Make-A-Video and Imagen Video, respectively.

Google’s Imagen will also eventually generate still images, but neither it nor Meta’s text-to-image tool is publicly available yet. Both companies know they’ll face an