Audio, Visual Media, Music, Text generation. With Examples and Friend-Links. — Do you want it? A place where all potential creative tools are collected? With direct links and short explanations — for you to decide where to start your art? Well, here it is — an ongoing index of all creative uses of AI. At least those being covered by Merzazine…

There are currently several lawsuits between some prominent authors and OpenAI and other companies that train their text models on literature. The authors claim that they were not given the opportunity to opt out of the datasets or to be compensated for their participation. My 2ct. For the sake of fairness, the…

After my book is published, I added my artist name to my LinkedIn profile: Merzmensch. In my English profile it looks like a call name in movie credits: "Vladimir (Merzmensch) Alexeev" In my German account the system adds "geb" to Merzmensch. "Geb." means "born", and is usually used as "née"…

Digitale Bildkulturen — an event in Berlin — Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. Times are changed; we, too, are changed within them. Our human perception, our habits our understanding of semantics and semiotics — everything is in an continuous eternal change. German art historians and media scientists Wolfgang Ullrich and Annekathrin Kohout explore global aesthetic questions…

The Situation WIRED explores a very important topic: to apply AI we should train it. To train it, we shall collect a bigger Dataset (the bigger, the better for generative capabilities — Merzmensch). But the actual datasets are full of contents whose creators are not aware of (yet probably don’t…

Evolution in comparisons and approaches (including an almost fail-free solution). — Generative AI is getting better and better. CLIP had problems with realistic faces. Diffusion models struggled with hands. And most of the models couldn’t cope with typography. All these shortcomings have their charm. Imperfection is the beauty of AI-driven art. It’s all narrow AI: StyleGAN’s models could only imitate written…

Multilingual poem — In der twilight, l’homme sans visage, ハットとコート, shadow’s entourage. Wandering through поля и rochers, Spires колыхаясь, lueurs à chercher. Silent Schritte, murmure de vent, Тайны въ руке, shadows he sent. Звѣзды above, l’obscurité profonde, Im Nebel tanzt 影の envoy sans monde. Destin versteckt, съ рассвѣтомъ уходит-съ, Ambassador of crépuscule, in shadows…

Mixing Styles as new Genre — To German Version Eclecticism doesn’t blindly follow a particular style. Rather, it combines them into a paradigm that transcends cultural and epochal contexts. In fact, it’s the way human art evolves, only on steroids. Especially in places where cultures merge, we can see beautiful examples of eclecticism, such as in…

AI models, trained on my memories. — Memories are doors to our past. Deceptive doors, because every time you try to remember things, your mind makes them up. In the end, it’s not your past — it’s your present. With photography it’s different. Not that photography shows us the truth — it never does. The photograph is…