Tangentially related: A hobby I found immensely rewarding as of late is to ask a generative model to draw something pretty and then try to make the object in real life.
I have previously asked dall-e to draw me steampunk watch-like gizmos, selected the prettiest and then I went and carved it out of wax. And right now I'm 3d modelling a copper owl jewellery design dreamed up by Midjourney.
It is a really exciting exercise because it makes me think about what do I like about the image, what is the "essence of it". It is also stretches my maker muscles because when I design things for myself from scratch I always keep in mind the constraints of my tools and techniques. But of course the AI has no such compunctions. It just draws something pretty, manufacturability be damned.
I've found it very rewarding as a source of fantastical ideas. I like that generating items in mid-journey can break me out of one line of thinking even if that's because it's result is absurd.
You should mention that this is your project by the way. You're pretending like it's not by writing they instead of we, while on your own website you state that you're co-founder of oio.
I have previously asked dall-e to draw me steampunk watch-like gizmos, selected the prettiest and then I went and carved it out of wax. And right now I'm 3d modelling a copper owl jewellery design dreamed up by Midjourney.
It is a really exciting exercise because it makes me think about what do I like about the image, what is the "essence of it". It is also stretches my maker muscles because when I design things for myself from scratch I always keep in mind the constraints of my tools and techniques. But of course the AI has no such compunctions. It just draws something pretty, manufacturability be damned.