History of AI art, focused on the CLIP era
- Inceptionism
- /r/DeepDream
- (LessWrong, SlateStarCodex)
- VisionsOfChaos
- GAN, DCGAN, WGAN, CycleGAN/DiscoGAN
- StyleGAN, StyleGAN2, StyleGAN3
- OpenAI - GPT2, “safety” fearmongering
- EleutherAI - GPT-Neo
- CLIP
- Adverb - Big sleep
- EleutherAI Art, LAION, BATbot
- Kat - CLIP+VQGAN, cuts
- Kia’s Prompt Poetry
- Chigozie Nri - Keyframed img2img animation
- Dribnet (Tom White) - Pixray
- SportsRace48 - VQLIPSE/PyTTI - Depth warping
- PyTTI-Tools
- Dango’s method (cuts), prompt “vitamins”, “trending on artstation”
- Multi-Modal comparators → OpenCLIP
- Classifier-Free Guidance, Kat’s super-conditioning
- Disco Diffusion
- Disco Deforum
- Princess/Majesty Diffusion - Dango, Apolinario
- Stability AI
- Emad
- Victor
- Tom deserves his own full book…
- Drama with Emad’s wife’s friend
- MidJourney
- pre-harmonai discord, …PANTZ? something like that? Shape Rotators?
- Waifu Diffusion
- A1111, hypernetwork drama
- A1111 extensions
- textual inversion, Dreambooth, LoRA
- KLMC2, Keyframed
- VKTRS
- ControlNet, Adaptors, IPAdaptor, QRMonster, Purz’ thing
- Modelscope
- Zeroscope
- ComfyUI
- Comfy Extensions
- wasquatch
- AnimateDiff
- Banodoco
- Oobabooga
- /r/LocalLlama, Teknium/Nous Research, vLLM, Mistral
Important Academic Research Developments
- Spherical interpolation (GAN)
- SDEdit
- LCM
- Instruct tuning
- flash attention
- token merging
- prompt/prefix tuning
- samplers
- v-parameterization vs eps
- VAE
Misc entities that belong in this history
- Gene Kogan, Eden
- xander steenbrugge
- Dadabots
- Huemin (late)
- Shonenkov
- minDALLE
- /r/LocalLlama
- Hans Brouwer, wavefunk.xyz, audioreactive GAN
- mahouko/Birch Research
- LeonardoAI, Ethan - Games angle
- That company that tried to productize pytti
- Tero Karras
- Ben Poole
- NeRF
- Gaussian Splatting
- Pharmapsychotic - Deforum, stability animation, big list of tools and notebooks
- nsheppard
- jdp
- gandamu
- louis/CARP
- uwu