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personally I feel like the inflection point was early 2022. The sweet spot where clip-guided diffusion was just taking off, forcing unconditional models to be conditional through strange patchwork of CLIP evaluating slices of the canvas at a time. It was like improv, always
Image synthesis used to look so good. These are from 2021. I feel like this was an inflection point, and the space has metastasized into something abhorrent today (Grok, etc). Even with no legible representational forms, there was so much possibility in these images.
