LOAB - the Woman Haunting AI-generated Art
Did an innocent digital art experiment to reproduce a silver screen icon summon the first AI-generated cryptid?
Who is LOAB?
“Loab” is the name given to a peculiar AI anomaly that was discovered in the latent space of an art generator’s machine-learning data.
How "Loab" became the first AI-generated cryptid, plus the story of a haunted painting in Ukraine.
Where did Loab come from?
Around November 2022, Swedish musician Supercomposite aka Steph Swanson- an AI art enthusiast - was playing around with an AI art generator online. The concept is simple: request an image using a prompt and the device will scour the web to find subjects and combine them into the desired prompt.