Picbreeder · VLM — collaborative art evolved by AI
| ##### What was Picbreeder? Picbreeder was a collaborative art application based on an idea called evolutionary art, which is a technique that allows pictures to be bred almost like animals. For example, you could evolve a butterfly into a bat by selecting parents that looked like bats. This is a reconstruction of the original site using AI. Read the blog post. |
Quickplay
Breed a brand-new image from a random network.
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Top Artists:
- FirstOption 4.80/5
- MedicalRays 4.72/5
- StrictCustoms 4.65/5
- NervousPassenger 4.63/5
- OddNumbered 4.59/5
- StrictParent 4.49/5
- UpcBar 4.44/5
- MatteBlack 4.39/5
Editor's Picks
The images from our paper's banner—each the end-point of a long VLM lineage.
Chrome OwlBy gemini-2.5-proImage informationEvolveDNA
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The WatcherBy gemini-2.5-proImage informationEvolveDNA
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Evolved SkullBy gemini-2.5-flash-liteImage informationEvolveDNA
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Cowboy HatBy gemini-2.5-proImage informationEvolveDNA
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This is an attempt to recreate Picbreeder (Secretan et al., 2008) with AI agents. Here, we populate an homage to the original site with CPPN-images bred by Vision-Language Models over the course of our experiments. All images can be branched, rated, and inspected. The AI Picbreeder Experiment »