Disco Diffusion in Max Msp

nycanimator@gmail.com's icon

I am speechless at what is happening in the world of AI art. I was wondering if anyone has had any luck with getting this type of technology to run within Max. From my understanding query's are sent to a cloud running the AI, not completely clear on the subject yet but I think google does the actual processing, I think google interprets the query's, the result can be collected from the cloud. From my understanding max it should be able to do all these things, as far as sending query's and pulling results from the cloud. Is anyone aware of any open projects where that is happening? Pardon my ignorance regarding the methodology of how the actual data processing happens. I am clear that Max can send query's and collect the data even if remote (on the cloud), it would be amazing if we could do this and be a part of this evolution of technology and art.

Roman Thilenius's icon


there are online services for image generation or analysis, or for splitting music into stems or create crime stories based on AI, and atm they are online only because you could hardly run it at home.

this starts with the processing power required but also with the database, because when it is offline only you will feed it with new material, while online you share that with millions of users.

https://rudalle.ru/en/demo (it is based on openAI methods with 1.3 billion paramters - pro version has 13 billion - and hosted and financed by the russian sber bank) for example runs distributed on GPUs and scans google for pictures and metadata/context to build its knowledge.
if you want to use it from your mac you could at least use automator to request and download via telegram, and if it would be http based you could easily use it from max, too.
but you can not do something like that on your own.

(try phrases such as "three trees and a red car" or "ultraviolet glow shine hot" or "fractal laser beam dark club dance strobe light" to understand how it works)

Augustine Bannatyne - Leudar's icon

Are there any externals that use ai in max offline ?