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Oliver Wang: Great art is often in-distribution relative to prior art
“I think that out of distribution sample, that is a little bit too restrictive. I think a lot of great art is actually in distribution for art that occurred before it.”
Oliver Wang: Human intent is the defining element of art
“Like to me, I think that the most important thing for art is intent. And so the, what is generated from these models is, is a tool to allow people to create art.”
Wang: Generative AI can solve visual problems using 2D projections
“I think we can solve almost all the problems, if not all the problems, working on the projection of the three-D world directly, and letting the models learn the latent world representations.”
Oliver Wang: AI image models must raise worst-case output quality
“Every model can cherry pick images that look perfect. So like now I think the real question is like how expressible is this model and what's the worst image you would get given what you're trying to do? So I think by raising the quality of the worst image We r…”
Wang: Image model adoption accelerates once character consistency crosses quality threshold
“Once the quality gets above a certain level for character consistency, it can kind of just take off because it becomes useful for so much more.”
Wang: Generative AI model output reflects research lab preferences over objective standards
“There is no right answer. So actually there's quite a lot of, I don't know if it's taste, but it's like preference that goes into the models. And I think you can kind of see the difference in preferences of the different research labs in the models that they r…”
Wang: Artists want AI models to infer intent, which models now do better
“Really what an artist wants when they want to do something is they want the intent to be understood. And I think that, that these AI models are getting better at understanding the intent of users. So often when you ask text queries now, the model gets what you…”
Oliver Wang: Editability is the main reason to leave pixel representations
“The primary reason I think you would want to leave the pixel domain is for editability.”
Wang: Optimizing AI models for average user preferences dilutes creative output
“So when we're, you know, when we're optimizing these models, like, one thing we could do is we could optimize for Like the average preference of everybody. But I don't think you end up with interesting things by doing that. You end up with something that every…”