Part of me thinks "this is really cool, it's all moving really fast", but the other part of me thinks "this is moving too fast, aren't people missing something?".<p>It feels like everyone's so desperate to create or predict the next AI unicorn, that no one's paying attention to the fundamentals. Gives me weird dotcom bubble vibes.<p>I still cannot see how this can fundamentally change the fashion industry. Fashion is not about design, it's about generating desire to buy. You hire models and influencers to showcase your items, so people think they can be just like them, you just have buy the same piece of clothing. AI doesn't change that. You could totally have a niche for AI-generated clothing, but that's it.<p>Besides, clothes are a physical item. AI can automate the generation of a "blueprint", but it is still heavily constrained by the physical result. It would be mostly hit and miss. Feels more efficient to have designer use their experience to create sketches that would actually look good in real life.<p>All in all, I am amazed as much as I am skeptical of the entire synthetic art revolution going on. It's been what? A month? It's too soon. Aren't we jumping the gun?<p>Whatever happened to boring opinions? "Hmm that's amazing, but we'll see what happens, it's too soon". I'm yet to be convinced of how, beyond being an overall better tool, synthetic art will fundamentally change businesses.
I love that the author shows the whole workflow. It highlights how much tweaking and work it takes to achieve a polished output. Still amazing how easy it was to chain the networks together.
I worked at an ai startup that was trying to generate products to sell. The AI engineers didn’t understand that the image isn’t useful, but only good for judging whether the design looks good. It needs to spit out json schematics for the product in a way a specific manufacturer can understand.<p>There’s also the problem that AI can’t be specific. I can’t design merch with a specific video game logo or band name. The output always has that “AI dream residue”.<p>This is a useful tool only for creative inspiration.
AI images are rapidly becoming just like clip art and stock photos: i.e. you can, with some training, recognize the signs. And, just like clip art and stock photos, you <i>should</i> recognize when an image is used without much effort, since it is probably not additive to the context of whatever media it is embedded in, and can be safely ignored.
There does seem to be a lot of editing work required to get this working.<p>I would like to understand if there's a more automated way of doing this.
NoMoreBro here on HN is also generating fashion pieces: <a href="https://unshush.com/" rel="nofollow">https://unshush.com/</a>
Jesus christ fast fashion is just going to get worse isn't it?<p>Standing infront of your augmented reality mirror in the evening swiping through AI generated outfits for the next day that are made automatically during the night and shipped to you by drone the next morning to wear for the day and then dispose of.
Fashion is mostly a scam. The idea that people - especially, but not just - women are supposed to replace their wardrobe (*) frequently, and that the items in their wardrobe need not last, induces artificial consumer demand, diverting social resources - especially those distributed among the masses - from more useful endeavors (social or private), and is environmentally wasteful.<p>So, my non-artificial intelligence has generated the following new fashion: Last year's.<p>(*) - Note I'm not saying change clothes on themselves, but the set of clothes they own/use.