Describe Loab. Explanation of The Haunting AI Art Woman

She is she a demon? Ghost? Cryptid? Absolutely nothing? … or all the aforementioned?

 

Do our machines harbour ghosts? Of course not, but a recent trending Twitter post might have you convinced that a dangerous force is awaiting release behind your computer screen.

 

There’s a lot going on here, so let’s clarify. On September 6, the internet was exposed to “Loab,” a supposedly AI-generated “lady.” The internet quickly started calling her “the first cryptid of latent space,” “scary,” a “devil,” and “a gay icon.”

 

To begin with, you need to comprehend what is going on in AI art in order to understand Loab.

 

Here it is: AI art
Artificial intelligence (AI) art, or art produced by AI tools, has exploded in popularity over the past few months as a result of the widespread use of programmes like Dall-E Mini, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion. Users of these programmes can enter a brief sentence, or “prompt,” for the AI to employ in creating an image. It takes a few minutes, at most, to transition from prompt to image. Images can be incredibly unsettling, whimsically gorgeous, or even make you wonder, “wait, an AI produced this?”

 

An artwork produced by Midjourney helped a video game designer win a Colorado art competition in the first few days of September. This is because the AI develops new images based on a vast amount of genuine art, created by human humans, that it has been taught on, which has led to a crisis for artists and designers, with some arguing it has created “an ethical and copyright black hole.”

 

Though there is a lot more calculation and arithmetic involved, the AI is not simply taking old photographs and rewriting them as new images. When you ask an AI to draw an image of a hat, it won’t just combine all the hats in its database and produce the most common one. Instead, it generates an image of a hat you’ve never seen before based on all the images it has been trained on and sort of guesses what you’re searching for. The essential point is this, which I’ve probably oversimplified: Don’t consider the images it creates to be a collage of previous photographs.

 

In this manner, we reach Loab.

 

Loab: Who or what is he?
Loab is a composite of human features created by an artificial intelligence art tool that resembles an older woman. Loab doesn’t really exist. Loab is a fake. Twitter user @supercomposite used an image suggestion to “construct” Loab. In-depth details about Loab’s creation, a “woman,” were provided by Supercomposite in a thread that was published on September 6.

 

(Note: The thread contains graphic graphics produced by AI.)

 

 

 

Simply put, Supercomposite typed a negative prompt, instructing the AI to produce the opposite of what was asked for. The negative trigger they employed spit out a skyline with the letters “DIGITA PNTICS” written across it that was largely incomprehensible. Then they responded negatively to that by… The AI spit out images of an older, long-haired woman with flushed cheeks. Because some writing that appeared in one of the photos appeared to say “LOAB,” Supercomposite gave “her” the name Loab.

 

The “horror story” starts right here.

 

The next stage was to stimulate the AI by fusing photographs of Loab with images created by other AIs. In essence, Supercomposite instructed the AI, “Hey, draw me something new using this woman as a base,” using the initial unsettling images of Loab. This led to all manner of morbid and horrific images, with headless women and children with horrifying faces appearing from the AI’s computations.

 

Loab “haunts every image she touches,” according to Supercomposite in their creepypasta-like tale, which makes perfect sense given how AI art generators operate. They used the original Loab photos with other images as a cue to produce further images. According to Supercomposite, the AI is able to “grab onto the idea of Loab.”

 

Which AI generator Supercomposite employed is currently unknown. Because they “did not want to market” the AI tool and didn’t want to “create some kind of viral trend of others generating horrific stuff with the tools I’ve used,” they told CNET that this was done on purpose.

 

There have been some skepticisms over if there is more to the story and whether Supercomposite was able to produce these photos utilising particular AI instructions.

 

Given that prompts are essential for creating visuals, it’s possible that these secret prompts provided part of the inspiration for the macabre or more horrific elements. It’s also possible that many of the “Loabness”-themed images made were more happier but weren’t utilised since they didn’t fit the topic.

 

Supercomposite told CNET, “It’s a creepypasta because I enhanced the creepiness, but the procedure and the phenomenon are entirely precisely explained in my thread.

 

Loab, a brilliant creepypasta or something grotesque and alarming, is a thing right now. She even has a Wikipedia page of her own.

 

Past Loab
Notably, you cannot recreate Loab using an AI picture generator like Midjourney. None of the photos that appear when you enter the phrase “Loab” include this woman. That proves Loab is not some demonic entity haunting AI art generators, but I’m not sure if I really need to explain that.

 

The software has changed so that the exact same technique is not possible, but you can work around it, according to Supercomposite, who has been retweeting Loab-like images from other creators. Supercomposite claimed to be able to generate Loab again if you used the same negative image prompt in the tool they used.

 

But in actuality, Loab cannot be called forth. Loab won’t show up in your AI artwork. There is no guarantee that Loab will arrive prepared to suck out your eyeballs or anything if you type in “Wonderful fun time playland.” There isn’t any method to locate Loab. You cannot include Loab’s name in your AI artwork if you speak it five times. Loab is a fake. Right? With me, say it.