#algorithmic image generation

[puddlellama]

I'm a big fan of "algorithmic image generation" for "AI art" since it's clear, honest, and sounds worse than any slur if you say it with enough derision.

[thevioletcaptain]

i genuinely don't care how good a piece of ai generated art or writing looks on the surface. i don't care if it emulates brush strokes and metaphor in a way indistinguishable from those created by a person.

it is not the product of thoughtful creation. it offers no insights into the creator's life or viewpoint. it has no connection to a moment in time or a place or an attitude. it has no perspective. it has no value.

it's empty, it's hollow, and it exists only to generate clicks (and by extension, ad revenue.)

it's just another revolting symptom of the disease that is late stage capitalism, and it fucking sucks.

[ai-innova7ions]

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[adhdedrn]

Inconsistencies in this image that suggest it was made by an algorithm instead of a person:

The shapes of the stars on the walls and the headboard of the bed are inconsistent - some have five points, some have six, most are either misshapen or (especially on the headboard) barely identifiable as stars.

The filigree pattern on the bed canopy at the front has a solid line that kind of fades into the rest of the pattern. You can actually trace the copy of the curved line directly below it.

Whatever's going on with the canopy dome has no readily discernible pattern and doesn't appear to extend to the rest of the canopy. The purple pillow on the bed has the same problem.

The blankets have two different textures (implying that they're meant to be two different blankets) but blend into each other in the middle.

The blanket on the left appears to be blending into the post on the left.

The only visible foot of the bed doesn't line up with the pole directly above it, nor does it appear to be large enough or strong enough to take the bed's weight.

The wall on the very right edge of the picture appears to be continuing on towards the viewer and turning 90 degrees away from the viewer at the same time.

The main light source appears to be coming from the right side of the image, but is not reflected in the mirror on the left.

Of the three lamp-like devices directly in front of the mirror on the left, only one of them is reflected in the mirror.

The light on the very left appears to be budding off from the rest of the lamp.

The lights on the left and the middle have poles that do not appear to be able to take the light's weight.

The light on the right has no pole and is just hovering there.

There are objects being reflected in the mirror on the right that don't exist in the room.

If the lights in front of the mirrors are intended to be lights, they're not producing any light in their surrounding areas.

The algorithm appears to have forgotten to draw the right side legs of the table in front of the mirror on the left.

The asymmetrical object hanging from the ceiling at the top right of the image is not identifiable as anything in particular.

Image will generally be posted without any attribution.

sorry mutuals if you reblog AI generated images, i can will and must point them out as such 😔

[rootlessly]

there are a lot of people on this website who wouldn't recognize AI "art" if it smacked them in the face with an iron rod

[dollsahoy]

in the realm of "People don't know what they don't know," I'm thinking again of that promotional TV show poster from a few years ago with a distorted clock face in the background, and so many people were just so sure that that part of the image was generated, and a lot of their conviction came from the fact that it had 4 written as IIII instead of IV

because they were so unfamiliar with clocks that they simply didn't know that it is incredibly common for four to be written as IIII on a clock face

(the image turned out to be stock art, which made people angry/confused that Marvel Studios would use that instead of creating it themselves, which is another vector of misunderstanding of how things work)

[cartoonghosts]

genuinely people need to tag triggers. Love all the 'not my responsibility to tag stuff the way you want it' shit but that is for fandom and weird kinks and whatever not LITERAL PICTURES OF SELF HARM AND BLOOD EVERYWHERE like I'd be fine if it was tagged 'tw blood' (which I don't have blocked!! I'd still be triggered as fuck but hey you tried idc) but when you don't tag it at all I have to assume you are actually trying to hurt someone. Yeah I block immediately but thst doesn't change the fact that I'm triggered and the sh urges are back. This is true for text posts too, although I try to block words (I genuinely hate it so deeply when people sidestep other people's word blocks with 'sewerslide' or button mash numbers in the word like. I am going to fucking kill you. 'Oh noo it's triggering to me uwu' bitch you made me actively suicidal for the first time in months. Fucking die. Don't post that shit if using the actual words triggers you). You ABSOLUTELY ARE responsible for what you put out into the words. People saying 'oh ur not responsible for other peoples triggers and emotions' are genuinely heartless and have never felt human empathy. You ain't responsible for how I react to your content, but you NEED to try your best to give people the bare minimum of warnings when you post triggering shit. Look at ur vent post and be like 'hey I'm gonna tag this as tw vent/ tw si' and you genuinely might save someone's life. Probably not but the chance should be enough for you to care and if it isn't, block me. Don't argue, just block me now.

[deus-ex-mona]

such is the tale of a ✨chronically online hypocrite✨

[aurosoulart]

some before-and-after pictures of how I’ve been using AI generated images in my art lately 🤖

I share other artists’ concerns about the unethical nature of the theft going on in the training data of AI art algorithms, so I refuse to spend any money on them or to consider the images generated by them to be true art, but I’m curious to hear people’s thoughts on using it for reference and paint-over like this?

my hope is that with proper regulation and more ethical use, AI could be a beneficial tool to help artists - instead of a way that allows people to steal from us more easily.

[prolibytherium]

I think there's plenty of ethical concerns re: AI art but most people criticizing it fundamentally don't understand how the image generation processes work and are imagining it as very literal 'theft', or are operating on kneejerk reactions about """""Real Art""""" that aren't fundamentally different than any other attempts to separate 'true art' from 'fake lazy art' throughout history, so the conversation is kind of doomed to be bad and annoying from the start

[maretriarch]

coming to the horrifying realization that i actually do want to be an artist while fully knowing how dumb and ill advised that is

[3-aem]

AI art is not art. I don't understand the debate around this I really don't.

[wereh0gz]

Huh

[blackmoldmp3]

very funny when some groups on here rail against the self employed when that avenue is often the last viable option for many people w disabilities. also quick when does self employment end and freelancing (more noble) begin

this isnt even an idpol thing lads u cannot leave disabled people out of class discussions. there are always people who will not be able to work in a way you find adequate or acceptable and u cant just relegate them to objects of pity a,kjhs they need to be at the table

[atmosphericradar]

Here is a screenshot of a misspelled tag (relating to AI art) that is popular enough to show up automatically, in case anyone was under the impression that porn bots are the only ways people spam Tumblr.

For context, Tumblr forgot all of my tags across all platforms a week or two ago. I know at least one other person whom this happened to. I have never (to the best of my memory) used this tag, and certainly not in the last two weeks. I tag AI art "algorithmically generated images" when I reblog it, because I'm a contrarian and I have compunctions against image generators.

This tag is the result of someone who is creating many posts with this tag. And a quick search yeilds that the blog @ai-pin-up-art has been rapid-firing posts for a few months recently, stopping only in July and going completely dead silent. I'm willing to bet the whole blog is automated; the misspelt tag seems like a scripting mistake.

A few other blogs have used the tag only once, which could either be mistypes, or clicking on the same misspelt suggested tag that I was given.

I wrote all this for a few reasons:

1) I went on a little sleuthing expedition and wanted to record my findings.

2) I think that one blog's actions influencing the mechanisms of Tumblr to that degree is both illuminating and kind of spooky.

3) I suspect that AI images are currently being astroturfed into all major social media ecosystems, alongside honest posts from actual adopters. This blog could be run by a technologist who just automated one of their blogs, which just so happens to post and reblog exclusively algorithmically generated porn. Maybe.

[echthr0s]

was about to get annoyed at the bad AI art being passed off as non-AI art in the #randall flagg tag and then I realised Randall Flagg is better represented by bad AI art than literally any other kind of art