An interesting example of what might be a ‘name-less style’ in a generative image model, Stable Diffusion in this case (DALL-E 2 doesn’t give you the necessary access so users can’t experiment with this sort of thing): what the discoverer calls the “Loab” (mirror) image (for lack of a better name—what text prompt, if any, this image corresponds to is unknown, as it’s found by negation of a text prompt & search).
‘Loab’ is an image of a creepy old desaturated woman with ruddy cheeks in a wide face, which when hybridized with other images, reliably induces more images of her, or recognizably in the ‘Loab style’ (extreme levels of horror, gore, and old women). This is a little reminiscent of the discovered ‘Crungus’ monster, but ‘Loab style’ can happen, they say, even several generations of image breeding later when any obvious part of Loab is gone—which suggests to me there may be some subtle global property of descendant images which pulls them back to Loab-space and makes it ‘viral’, if you will. (Some sort of high-frequency non-robust or adversarial or steganographic phenomenon?) Very SCP.
Apropos of my other comments on weird self-fulfilling prophecies and QAnon and stand-alone-complexes, it’s also worth noting that since Loab is going viral right now, Loab may be a name-less style now, but in future image generator models feeding on the updating corpus, because of all the discussion & sharing, it (like Crungus) may come to have a name - ‘Loab’.
An interesting example of what might be a ‘name-less style’ in a generative image model, Stable Diffusion in this case (DALL-E 2 doesn’t give you the necessary access so users can’t experiment with this sort of thing): what the discoverer calls the “Loab” (mirror) image (for lack of a better name—what text prompt, if any, this image corresponds to is unknown, as it’s found by negation of a text prompt & search).
‘Loab’ is an image of a creepy old desaturated woman with ruddy cheeks in a wide face, which when hybridized with other images, reliably induces more images of her, or recognizably in the ‘Loab style’ (extreme levels of horror, gore, and old women). This is a little reminiscent of the discovered ‘Crungus’ monster, but ‘Loab style’ can happen, they say, even several generations of image breeding later when any obvious part of Loab is gone—which suggests to me there may be some subtle global property of descendant images which pulls them back to Loab-space and makes it ‘viral’, if you will. (Some sort of high-frequency non-robust or adversarial or steganographic phenomenon?) Very SCP.
Apropos of my other comments on weird self-fulfilling prophecies and QAnon and stand-alone-complexes, it’s also worth noting that since Loab is going viral right now, Loab may be a name-less style now, but in future image generator models feeding on the updating corpus, because of all the discussion & sharing, it (like Crungus) may come to have a name - ‘Loab’.