Those are some truly remarkable images. How original are they? Does the AI just take existing works and rearrange and modify them or are they new compositions? Are they recognizable as being derived in a cut and past kind of way from existing works?
I could imagine Syd Mead getting a big kick out of tinkering with this stuff.
Some of it is truly beautiful and of course it also has a tendency to be kind of disturbing which has been frequently noted. There’s an aspect of free association about it that’s reminiscent of the dreaming mind.
It does take existing works and uses them like brushes to paint new images... a kaleidoscope of existing images if you will....
I looked through all of Edouard Leon Cortes’ works and the images I generated based upon his particular style were not made up of simple copy/paste parts from his works. And combining the style of other artists to his in varying degrees moved them even farther away from his original paintings.
I actually find some of the images generated based upon Cortes’ style to be superior to his actual works and that is amazing.
I tried to make some creepy Joe memes but the results were so sordid and twisted that there is no way I would post such stuff... it was funny but hit too close to the truth.