After the mixed results of training ERIS-2 on e621 images, I wondered what would happen if I gave her a more "consistent" dataset. I decided to download 85k images from derpibooru.org, nicely filtered to make sure there are no/very few sketches, monochrome images and other things that might confuse the AI. I hoped the colorful images of distinct characters would result in better images.

The results were...interesting. It seems that the program is even more unpredictable on this dataset, but I think has been quite consistently improving over the generations. One of the most unusual things I have noticed is that it much more than previous AIs produces slight variations of the same images. It may be suffering from the slightly smaller dataset, but I'm not quite sure. I have a hunch it'd benefit from more training. But instead of continuing, I have written a new version with some tweaks to the data. We will see! As always, see this journal for the full technical rundown.

Training Timeline: http://imgur.com/a/JfWmm