AI Weekly briefly surveys and links the new leading-edge technical papers on generative AI each week. Its next art/cover challenge is ‘Weird’. Weirder images than generative AI usually produces, I guess. Unlike most arty challenges, there’s $50 in it for you.

Talking of ‘weird’ AI, Google has a new alphabet-generator called GenType. Give it a prompt, and out pops an A-Z alphabet of snazzy type. I suggested a font based on the idea of “Cosmic tentacle-beings from the mind of H.P. Lovecraft”, but that was refused as too weird. Thus I never got to see GenType produce any type. But you may want to give it a go.

Also, in AI Weekly one learns that it’s now just-about “possible to train diffusion models using mixed-resolution image datasets”. Which brings hope for a ‘face of H.P. Lovecraft’ plug-in for Stable Diffusion. Since many of the training images would necessarily be low-res. Stable Diffusion already knows what Lovecraft looks like, more or less, though often adds in Nick Cage (starred in the Colour movie, and thus gets tagged as ‘Lovecraft’), Buster Keaton (1920s film star, somewhat similar face), etc. We still need a LORA plug-in that guides the AI back to Lovecraft’s face and head shapes.