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About the upload policy change...
3 years ago
In reference to: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10321622/
Specifically the part about AI-generated images.
I am unhappy about this, and I disagree with it.
I do understand that the site admins/moderators don't want the site's front page or users' feeds to be full of chaff. (The first half of the policy change makes this clear.) And with the increasing availability and accessibility of AI image generators, it opens the door to a potential flood of low/no-effort content.
But that's not what I do. The images I've posted in my gallery are each the product of several of hours of work, and I mean my own labor here, not the GPU time spent rendering which I'd estimate closer to 100 hours in total for each image. The reason for this, is that I'm using the AI as a tool, and not just feeding it a single prompt and getting a single image out the other end of it.
My process goes something like this:
1) I come up with an idea. Usually something simple like an aesthetic or environment and a character (animal). And I feed this to the AI.
2) The AI generates a batch of images.
3) I look through the results for something that has the right kind of shapes and colors in it that I was imagining.
3.5) Sometimes I find a result that gives me a new idea, and I run with that instead.
3.75) I may run additional batches if I'm not satisfied with the current results.
3.875) Multiple 'lineages' may emerge from this process if there's more than one initial result that I think looks promising.
4) I take something I like from the results so far and feed it back through the AI with changes to the generation settings and the prompt.
5) I repeat this for dozens of iterations, experimenting with different settings and prompts to 'sculpt' the image into what I'm looking for.
6) This frequently involves cropping, scaling, compositing, and color-shifting images to feed back into the AI so it starts from something closer to my vision.
If that doesn't qualify as "artistic merit" then I don't know what does.
Regardless, I won't be uploading anything else here unless/until the policy changes. I will however be leaving my current posts up. If a mod should happen upon them and want them removed, so be it.
Specifically the part about AI-generated images.
I am unhappy about this, and I disagree with it.
I do understand that the site admins/moderators don't want the site's front page or users' feeds to be full of chaff. (The first half of the policy change makes this clear.) And with the increasing availability and accessibility of AI image generators, it opens the door to a potential flood of low/no-effort content.
But that's not what I do. The images I've posted in my gallery are each the product of several of hours of work, and I mean my own labor here, not the GPU time spent rendering which I'd estimate closer to 100 hours in total for each image. The reason for this, is that I'm using the AI as a tool, and not just feeding it a single prompt and getting a single image out the other end of it.
My process goes something like this:
1) I come up with an idea. Usually something simple like an aesthetic or environment and a character (animal). And I feed this to the AI.
2) The AI generates a batch of images.
3) I look through the results for something that has the right kind of shapes and colors in it that I was imagining.
3.5) Sometimes I find a result that gives me a new idea, and I run with that instead.
3.75) I may run additional batches if I'm not satisfied with the current results.
3.875) Multiple 'lineages' may emerge from this process if there's more than one initial result that I think looks promising.
4) I take something I like from the results so far and feed it back through the AI with changes to the generation settings and the prompt.
5) I repeat this for dozens of iterations, experimenting with different settings and prompts to 'sculpt' the image into what I'm looking for.
6) This frequently involves cropping, scaling, compositing, and color-shifting images to feed back into the AI so it starts from something closer to my vision.
If that doesn't qualify as "artistic merit" then I don't know what does.
Regardless, I won't be uploading anything else here unless/until the policy changes. I will however be leaving my current posts up. If a mod should happen upon them and want them removed, so be it.
Sometime I agree with AI usage as a tool
I remind before AI invention, when some artists used real photos for the background, and editing the photos to fit the drawing style