Alchemical marriage: GPT-3 x CLIP

CLIP responds intruigingly well to figurative prompts. I’ve come to expect not just more interesting, but more coherent results from abstract but evocative prompts like the alchemical marriage of art and artist than literal descriptions like three birds on a telephone wire. GPT-3 is an excellent composer of prompts for BigSleep because its phrases are so often rich in memetic resonance, my heuristic for the expected coherence of BigSleep yields for a given prompt.

Images were generated using BigSleep via The Big Sleep Customized NMKD Public colab notebook. All prompts were written by GPT-3 in a narrative context.

Art and artist, the endless ouroboric circle

the alchemical marriage of art and artist

the Loom of Time devours the present and traces a garment of glistening cobwebs over the still-forming future

spooling out labyrinths in an intricate dance

You spin worlds together and untwine them

the wellspring of transcendental mathematics

matryoshka dolls moulded in endless iterations of dreams within dreams

on the Bootstrap barge afloat on an endless river of cough syrup, swallowing the Sun

the shepherd who tends the flock of stars as they leap over the walls of time and space

observatory ballroom

strange machines that hum the orbital paths of dead moons

The Death of the Lonesome Astronomer

wind across a sunlit landscape

leaves sprouting from supple green branches like endless virgins giving themselves to a lascivious God