Ask HN: Generative AI Courses for Artists
I have a group of friends who are professional artists and they are not big fans of generative AI. I've tried my best to explain what it is and isn't and a few of them are interested in taking a more serious course on the subject.
Most of the learning material is either very technical and geared towards programmers or too vague and hand wavy to be practical to someone who wants to incorporate generative AI into their artistic workflow.
Most of them are familiar with text2img models, but ideally I'd like something that explains _how_ diffusion models work, their probabilistic nature, how they're trained on images/text and maybe even a high level description of what the different parts of a setup in, say, ComfyUI are doing (LoRA, VAE, CLIP, UNet models).
I admittedly have a tough time judging the technical expertise of people, but I think some of the resources I've personally found great for explaining the basics (3blue1Brown, Andrew Ngs course, ComputerPhile videos) are still too technical and impractical.
What resources would you point your friends to who both want to learn about generative AI and assuage their fears that AI will make artists obsolete?