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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
How's AI art even work?  Like are they generating random images or are they given guidelines on what to draw?  Pretty cool either way.
gpt
They're probabilistic models, they create semi-random large scale color compositions based on what the probability of things being there in the prompt, qnd refine based on probabilities and random chance. You can check by generating an image and putting it on 1 step or one pass, it's a bunch of probabilistic color blobs. 

As an example, if you want to create a "castle", it goes: "images of castles typically have blue on top, green below, and grey in the middle" and generates that. Three blotches, blue on top, grey in the middle, and this time yellow on the bottom.

Second step: images of castles that have blue on top and yellow on the bottom, typically have the grey be this big, the tower can be from this small to this big... It randomizes within parameters...

The end result is the opposite of a collage, it's it saying "this is what I think castles look like", no different than a real person drawing something they have little context for. 

You'd get the same result as getting Michelangelo to draw you a fighter jet after showing him a thousand picture books of fighter jets. The issue is the lack of context in how what's being portrayed interacts with reality.

And so, you can make AI that learns from the reactions of its users and retrains itself in the most liked pieces, developing a particular style from its interactions with its audience from a generalist model. No model currently does this because it would invariably become a porn machine, but it's not even difficult, and deliberately avoided.