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2 years ago
So, I did a bit of experimentation with an AI generator and SOME of the art was amazing. Most was dreadful, some was "scratch your head" and the rest was interesting with some serious issues. Yeah, I posted a couple before being reminded that AI-generated art is not allowed on FA. Since I don't want to be banned for sharing such an experiment, I took them down as soon as someone reminded me (thank you, Good Samaritans/watchdogs). It was more a matter of, "huh, check this out" than any claim to having an artistic bone in my body. My skills lie in the written word.
I am not going to stop commissioning art from real people because of this. Look at my Gallery and all you will see is my writing and commissioned artwork done by amazing artists whom I cherish. THERE IS NO REPLACEMENT FOR HUMAN ARTISTS. THERE NEVER WILL BE. Especially with the advent of the SAG/AFTRA strike over writers in Hollywood being replaced by ChatGPT (a RIDICULOUS idea), and as a writer myself, I am WELL on the side of human artistic endeavor.
Some odd items I saw in the mix while playing about:
AI can't seem to do eyes/pupils properly. If you enter "Gold eyes" you get solid gold eyes...
AI can't handle tiger stripes very well. The eyes disappear as it tries to figure out where they belong.
Even with "no" prompts, AI still throws in the occasional extra limb, reversed hand, floating tail or badly malformed ear.
No matter HOW you prompt it, an AI still needs some sort of artist's original work to base itself off of, meaning that ANY AI-generated artwork is infringing on an artist's creativity and I find that unacceptable.
Regardless of how 'cool' or 'well done' or 'neat' an image was done, I cannot see myself ever wanting to display it on my walls. I share pictures of an artist's work when I hang them on the walls WITH THE ARTIST to let them know that they have affected/influenced another human being enough to display their work in their home. I could never feel impacted enough by some randomly-generated piece done by an AI to do the same, regardless of how well it might portray the character in question.
That is all.
* steps away from the mic *
I am not going to stop commissioning art from real people because of this. Look at my Gallery and all you will see is my writing and commissioned artwork done by amazing artists whom I cherish. THERE IS NO REPLACEMENT FOR HUMAN ARTISTS. THERE NEVER WILL BE. Especially with the advent of the SAG/AFTRA strike over writers in Hollywood being replaced by ChatGPT (a RIDICULOUS idea), and as a writer myself, I am WELL on the side of human artistic endeavor.
Some odd items I saw in the mix while playing about:
AI can't seem to do eyes/pupils properly. If you enter "Gold eyes" you get solid gold eyes...
AI can't handle tiger stripes very well. The eyes disappear as it tries to figure out where they belong.
Even with "no" prompts, AI still throws in the occasional extra limb, reversed hand, floating tail or badly malformed ear.
No matter HOW you prompt it, an AI still needs some sort of artist's original work to base itself off of, meaning that ANY AI-generated artwork is infringing on an artist's creativity and I find that unacceptable.
Regardless of how 'cool' or 'well done' or 'neat' an image was done, I cannot see myself ever wanting to display it on my walls. I share pictures of an artist's work when I hang them on the walls WITH THE ARTIST to let them know that they have affected/influenced another human being enough to display their work in their home. I could never feel impacted enough by some randomly-generated piece done by an AI to do the same, regardless of how well it might portray the character in question.
That is all.
* steps away from the mic *
Vix
I view the AI stuff more as a fad at the present time, but it does sadden me that actual artists are having to put up with the competition. :(
Personally I don't think we should try to stop AI generated art or writing, just have it clearly marked which is AI, which is human, and which is a combination of both.
*I wrote this as genderator, calling Dr Freud...
I was listening to an Armin Van Buuren mix on Pandora the other day and the images of Bianca and Signet appeared and I went off on a little waking dream about them just dancing their asses off at a club, so even if it doesn't spark anything I write, it helps to flesh them out a little.
Actually my new avatar is from one of those AI images I generated using the above site. She's a pretty good representation of Future Paula from the GITM story universe.
I've found that it depends on what prompts and how you word them will determine the quality of the outcome. I asked someone who posted an amazing image how to do it for Stable Diffusion and use variations on what he told me to get the images I have now. In case you are interested in the AI images I've generated, check out https://www.mage.space. My profile is "xhTCeJDZ" (I haven't customized it since I'm not sure how long I'll keep playing with it).