What is the nature of human creativity if this frame can create any and every possible image? -- Greg Robison
Inspired by my post The Frame of Babel: The Role of Human Creativity in the Generative AI Process on the nature of infinity and human creativity in the age of Generative AI, we introduce a literal version of the Frame of Babel: a real-time, self-contained system that creates random, ephemeral, and untitled images through the frame of a web browser. Check it out at https://frameofbabel.com/.
NOTE: We are experimenting with an AI-generated podcast that summarizes this post by Google’s NotebookLM. Listen here and let us know what you think:
Each entirely unique image is created on a local server with state-of-the-art neural networks and uploaded to the website once processing is completed. Then the process for rendering the next image is started, repeating forever.
No images are saved anywhere — they only exist on the screen for the time it takes to create the next image, then it is gone, never to be seen again. No two images are ever the same, with highly stochastic processes generating each image and leading to an infinite gallery of randomness.
Sometimes the images show true beauty, other times they are visually interesting; but weirdness predominates most of the time. Meaning and insight are lurking for those who have the patience to dedicate their lives to watching the frame's every image (while continually battling existential crisis) — will the perfect piece of art show up in the frame? Will inspiration for my potential masterpiece be displayed? Will a vision of my future appear? Will it include a really, really cute puppy? You have to keep watching to find out…
(We have the website on a spare tablet in the living room as a permanent babbling art installation.) Online at https://frameofbabel.com/.
