YHK - yet another hacker news clone

I’m a bit behind the times…

How does Opus actually paint? Thought it only generated text…

This is in the same space as this creative exploration posted a few months ago -

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Training AI to Paint with Code, March 2026

https://surya.website/rling-qwen-to-paint-with-code

HN Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49411800

Thesis presentation:

https://vimeo.com/1190839818

And I believe the HN user who created this is @kickingkeys

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fascinating space to explore:

Instead of having AI directly generate an output, what happens if we ask AI to take a stab at the PROCESS of creating something.

Now combine this with a robot able to move a paint brush and mix on a palette, and you could make some pretty awesome real-paint artwork

What capability makes this possible? It’s incredible! Does it have an image-generation model?

I love the canvases, and truly would like to have a bit more inside on the process this specific author used to reach the results shown. I have read Surya's "Training AI to Paint with Code" but, what's Alice's technique?

This is simultaneously incredibly impressive and annoyingly uncanny valley, since most of the landscapes are "ruined" by a cluster of churches right next to each other that is completely nonsensical.

I don’t like how it’s a human aiming to portray the ai generation with their taste and judgements about it but then becoming lazy and quitting on that and leaving in the ai generated portrayal about its own judgment in the site.

Just share your opinions, dude, we get its ai generated but share your own taste. We want to know what YOU think. Stop being shy and lazy.