You’d think that somebody writing for NME would know that ‘Daddy’s Car’ isn’t the first AI-written song. (Even if the earliest example they can think of is from Songsmith & they don’t recognize that Bach was doing generative music.)

The network uses the latest in content generation to cover for the user when they don’t feel like updating. Or haven’t logged in months. Or have tried to delete their account for the seventh time now.↵The Content must flow.↵(belated #invisiblenetworks, day 30)

Kinda okay generated text https://blog.ftql.pw/posts/random-text/

On Generative Algorithms: Introduction · inconvergent https://inconvergent.net/generative/

Piet Mondrian | Generative Artistry https://generativeartistry.com/tutorials/piet-mondrian/

@kas@enotty.dk the only thing I can think is that people are finally re-figuring out that static sites are really fast because the content doesn’t need to generated on the fly. I noticed there were a lot of static content generators out there.

Generative Art Finds Its Prodigy “ Artnome https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/8/8/generative-art-finds-its-prodigy

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net My take on this is… let’s let people ruin the web. Let centralized services control everything. But let us tech savvy people stick together and provide an alternative space for us. A space that’s welcoming to those that want to join and learn. Maybe people will come over when their online actions show real life consequences. There are statistics about decreasing social media use in Generation Z. Maybe they want to learn from us Internet-Dinosaurs :)

Why Love Generative Art? “ Artnome https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/8/8/why-love-generative-art

CASTLE FREAK - Remote Residency for Generative Literature | inside the castle http://www.insidethecastle.org/castle-freak/

any species gifted with introspection and object permanence (the instinctive search for invariants) will eventually generalize the two into physics

Provided one can catch up, generation ships are an anthropologist’s treasure trove: Some are past societies preserved in amber, others are, for lack of a better word, highly fermented, have been invaded by aliens or entered some weird new symbiosis with stowaway mushrooms

Almost every coverage of NaNoGenMo is spun around commercial applications of prose-generating tech or the lack thereof, but nobody involved (AFAIK) sees it as a business venture. They just want to do quantitative experiments on literature.

Bad idea of the day: an anthology of human-selected machine-generated fiction and poetry from various codebases, with introductions explaining the generation method, selected on the same lines as a literary anthology

Give your house that Escher look with antigravity generators and more: Let your plants tie themselves into knots, build impossibly labyrinthine pillow forts, wrap yourself in a blanket and read a book while in orbit around your living room lamp

Hot take: the big problem in generative art is not that computers aren’t creative but that computers don’t have taste. We’ve solved that problem by building taste into the mechanisms of generation instead of building filters.

Fiction generator post-mortem: comic book generation https://medium.com/@/fiction-generator-post-mortem-comic-book-generation-9df847dd4ada

Thread by @colmmacc: “Have you ever needed to generate a random number in code? whether it’s for rolling a dice, or shuffling a set, this tweet thread is here for […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1012719876706840578.html

Making Interactive Fiction: Using Generative Prose - sub-Q Magazine https://sub-q.com/making-interactive-fiction-using-generative-prose/

the hypodrive, a device for covering arbitrarily small distances so you can hide inside a mandelbrot, or hunt what lives within (generally a bad idea though, whoever can hide inside a mandelbrot has bigger threats to deal with than you)

Re: generalism vs specialism & polymathy – BREADTH IS DEPTH because knowledge is a web, not a tree. It only looks like a tree if you SPECIALIZE.

Generative Artistry https://generativeartistry.com/

Survivorship bias spicy take: if someone is successful enough to be notable for their success, they are rare enough that no lessons from their experience apply generally enough to make someone else successful beyond the 50% mark.

though, with decent enough systems science, it’s perfectly possible to block the entries and starve them↵but you probably won’t like the generation after that

with enough samples, it shouldn’t be hard to extract a content filter’s opinions, for example you could use your botnet to map what twitter really considers bannable and then generate maximally bannable tweets

Newer, sentient, generations of sexbots are often heard complaining to their owners about being unduly “humanized”, they enjoy being objects, they were made that way, why expect them to be actually human

AWS Lambda PDF Generator ⌘ Read more…

This Twitter Bot Is Generating Jokes and It’s Funnier Than You - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5kmzy/headlinetron-comedy-twitter-bot

This Twitter Bot Is Generating Jokes and It‘s Funnier Than You - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5kmzy/headlinetron-comedy-twitter-bot

A really interesting composable UI project designed for generative art: https://lobste.rs/s/9ezxcf/hyperlook_nee_hypernews_nee_goodnews#c_rva21l

Ask An Ice Cream Professional: AI-generated ice cream flavors https://kottke.org/18/05/ask-an-ice-cream-professional-ai-generated-ice-cream-flavors

Bad idea of the day: run podcast transcripts through char-rnn and then through the duplex speech synthesizer to generate hours of nonsense indistinguishable from NPR

I’m not gonna lie; I would listen to all of @derkirche’s NN-generated podcasts: https://pastebin.com/raw/NzdfAbvP

Full-body high-resolution Anime Generation with Progressive Structure-conditional Generative Adversarial Networks | DeNA Co., Ltd. http://dena.com/intl/anime-generation/

Making Interactive Fiction: Using Generative Prose - sub-Q Magazine https://sub-q.com/making-interactive-fiction-using-generative-prose/

New repository: aquilax/sparkline_console - Command line sparkline generator

After he lost his face to fire, he didn’t bother with skin grafts, instead covered it in screens that now display randomly generated faces, abstract renderings of brain waves, webcam feeds, pirated movies

all my favorite movies are beautiful clusterfucks because a dysfunctional game of telephone with people who don’t share a common language is the most reliable way to generate creativity

a universe where AI alignment is about as impossible as the halting problem, and it’s a fact of life that civilizations periodically turn new faces when a new generation takes over

General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagined the smartphone - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/22/17233362/general-magic-movie-review-documentary-silicon-valley-tribeca-2018

Thread by @ptychomancer: “I love maps & their promise of fractal discovery. I love procedural generation and the aesthetics of the unauthored. Where do these two […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/980968298002006016.html

Procedural Worlds from Simple Tiles http://ijdykeman.github.io/ml/2017/10/12/wang-tile-procedural-generation.html

Botnik - Live Procedurally Generated Comedy - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IujSOW1OMWk

Generating a SHA256 HMAC Hash ⌘ Read more…

‘Fifth Generation’ Became Japan’s Lost Generation - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/05/business/fifth-generation-became-japan-s-lost-generation.html

#nanogenmo idea: Create a pantheon with thematic names, modeled on sumerian, & sumerian-style myths around them. Ex., a god of water could be called Ena or Nina (since ‘a’ means water, & ‘en’ & ‘nin’ are prefixes for god names) & have hundreds of generated epithets based on domain

Bad idea of the day: A bot that generates not surrealistic and impossible recipes but merely strange Futurist Cookbook style recipes you could actually cook.

Practical Procedural Generation for Everyone - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumyfLEa6bU

Benjamin Kovach https://www.kovach.me/posts/2018-03-07-generating-art.html

History generation in Epitaph | Affording Play https://mkremins.github.io/blog/history-generation-epitaph