Dall-E 2 AI image generator is a surprisingly great fashion designer
Are fashion designers the latest group to be displaced in the robot uprising?
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Karen Cheng is one of many creatives utilising AI as part of their idea generation process. Her recentfashion design projectcombines a few different AI models to get a smooth, automatic outfit switching catwalk video, and it’s a true testament to how AI can benefit artists in such an immense way.
Her process first involved using Dall-E 2 to generate a whole bunch of designs over the top of some stills. By indicating the intended design area with the brush and feeding it a brief for each type of clothing, i.e. white overalls, Cheng was able to get some really interesting generated outfits. It even did an alright job of matching the lighting, though she did have to sift through a good deal of bad designs, like the “dress inspired by MC Escher” below.
So, the AI still isn’tperfectfor idea generation, but it got there in the end.
After the initial generation stage, Cheng ran the frames throughEbSynthto make it work with video, and then through Depth-Aware Video Frame Interpolation software (DAIN) to smooth the frames out.
The final video came out spiffingly, and almost matches the professional level of Paul Trillo and Shyama Golden’s incredible sci-fi fashion design project Chengreferences in a later tweet.
As usual the comments are filled with the expected barrage of AI worriers concerned that robots will displace humans, and put them out of creative jobs. A concern I must confess I briefly prescribed to myself.
When I spoke toDavid Holz, the founder of the Midjourney AI image generating Discord bot, he had some pretty positive view on how the rise of AI is affecting creatives:
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“When we invented cars, and all of a sudden cars could go faster than we could walk, we didn’t chop our legs off, you know. And there are still professional people who move things around,” he says.
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“It’s like this thing that amplifies people, but it doesn’t replace people. Cars didn’t really replace people, aeroplanes didn’t replace people, boats didn’t replace people. These are things that just kind of amplify society. They make us stronger and better, and let us do more.”
I’m with Holz on this one, and as long asAI is still unable to hold rights, we creatives are probably quite safe. Just remember to start integrating AI into your workflow so the overlords can recognise you as an ally.
Screw sports, Katie would rather watch Intel, AMD and Nvidia go at it. Having been obsessed with computers and graphics for three long decades, she took Game Art and Design up to Masters level at uni, and has been rambling about games, tech and science—rather sarcastically—for four years since. She can be found admiring technological advancements, scrambling for scintillating Raspberry Pi projects, preaching cybersecurity awareness, sighing over semiconductors, and gawping at the latest GPU upgrades. Right now she’s waiting patiently for her chance to upload her consciousness into the cloud.
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