Tom White's artwork investigates the Algorithmic Gaze: how machines see, know, and articulate the world. As machine perception becomes more pervasive in our daily lives, the world as seen by computers becomes our dominant reality. White explores this phenomenon in his work.
Collaborating with AI systems, White creates physical abstract prints that are reliably classified by neural networks. It’s art by AI, for AI. By giving the algorithms a voice to speak in, we are better able to see the world through the eyes of a machine.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/lambdalabs/stable-diffusion-image-variations
The normal Stable Diffusion model is trained to be conditioned on text input. This version has had the original text encoder (from CLIP) removed, and replaced with the CLIP image encoder instead. So instead of generating images based a text input, images are generated to match CLIP’s embedding of the image. This creates images which have the same rough style and content, but different details, in particular the composition is generally quite different.