On AI, Psychedelics, and Spinal Tap
Maybe incoherent output isn't so worthless after all?
Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd was hardly the only musician to take LSD back in the day. Psychedelics influenced Fish on Marillion's epic Misplaced Childhood, Jim Morrison of The Doors, and countless others. Each took drugs to expand their creative horizons.
I was thinking about those musicians in the context of playing with AI. Can their failures give us crazy ideas and help us brainstorm?
To this end, I recently took Luma Labs' buzzy new image/video generation for a spin. As you'll see, the results were decidedly weird.
Since I'm a fan of the breed, I started with a simple image of Teddy the Bulldog:
Here's what Luma created:
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