Eryk Salvaggio on Cybernetic Forests

In my case it’s just a matter of asking, “what kinds of prompts would induce the system into making something it really shouldn’t make?” And so after exploring how these tools worked, and trying to figure out how to do with Diffusion what Brakhage did with “mothlight,” it occurred to me that I should try to type “Gaussian Noise” and hit enter. I did, and my theory was correct: it created something absolutely weird.