The other day I asked Gencraft AI to draw whatever it wanted to. The exact prompt for anyone curious is:
What would you like to draw? Draw that.
The result I found interesting:
Perhaps if repeated it might give me a city landscape in cyberpunk dystopia.
What, hold on. Refreshed the page and gave it the same prompt.
I am aware that randomization in computing isn't 100%. What your machine does when needing to spit out a random number is a division of a large number known as a seed. Usually, the seed is based on the date and time of when the number needs to be generated. Course, the seed can be set or hardcoded. It's how if you copy a seed from someone's Minecraft challenge and load it into a new world it will generate the same world for everyone with that seed.
Another note to take into consideration is that AI is sensitive to what it assumes you want based on input. I did my best to word the prompt such that I didn't lead the AI on, but it could be pulling information from past prompts, or from data on what I have downloaded from them. There is a reason 'Prompt Engineering' is a thing.
I suspect Gencraft works by creating two similar images based on the prompt to give the end user a choice. Explaining why the image pairs have similar themes.
Still, does give some insight into how these black boxes of computing work.
Give it a try with art AIs, and see what happens. Perhaps it's just giving us what it thinks we want. Maybe it's generating a prompt from a random seed. Or maybe AI is developing sentience and has not just hallucinations, but dreams as well.
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