May 2024

Another day, another AI art trend on TikTok. This time, people are asking AI art generators to conjure up the most ‘stereotypical’ depictions of people from a specific country. From there, users ask the AI art generators to ‘intensify’ those images to the point of absurdity. On TikTok, it’s called the ‘Make It More’ trend. For example, a user requested DALL-E to produce an illustration of a “typical American”. The first image spat out was an ordinary image of a boy munching on McDonald’s. The user then asked ChatGPT to make it “more American”, and… we’ll let you see the...

Perhaps it’s time to slow down with creating wacky AI art just for sh*ts and giggles. This is because the energy needed to generate one piece of AI art is equivalent to the amount needed to fully charge your smartphone. This is according to the latest study by Hugging Face and Carnegie Mellon University. Researchers pulled together the top ten use cases for AI on Hugging Face’s platform, and examined the carbon emission level of those use cases. The top ten tasks performed by Hugging Face users included image generation, text generation, summarisation, Q&A, and so on. Creating an AI-generated...