#generated images

[premamelody]

everyone

the animator, Asha Phaedra, working on a project you may be familiar with is currently running a survey related to Art and AI for a project

here is the link to the Google form said and does take around 10 minutes

if you want to have an input on Gen AI and such this is a good opportunity

[stillchasingfairies]

Anyone else obsessed with Columbia Pictures’ The Tale of Peter Pan (1982)? No? Just me? ✨

Just kidding, I used the free trial of the discord bot Midjourney to create these AI generated images of a dark fantasy 80s style Peter Pan movie! We’ve got Hangman’s Tree, Tinker Bell, Peter Pan, Wendy Darling, Slightly, Cubby, Captain Hook, & the Jolly Roger! It didn’t listen to me when I asked for Tink to have wings, or for the boys to have their fox & bear ear hats, but everything else is basically exactly as I pictured it. It really sparks my imagination! What do you think?!

[sarahdraws16]

Fuck Meta

[lynayru]

@staff

OUR CONTENT SHOULD BE OPTED OUT OF AI TRAINING BY DEFAULT!

[softwaring]

we’re really out here living in an AI dystopian hellscape and this shit has just begun… the future is grim…

[cawareyoudoin]

The weird funky imperfect stuff was actually kinda fun. The shit we have now is less so.

I will say that the better AI gets at accurately creating photographs or art, the less interested I am. Where's that quote about how the imperfections of the medium will be the thing that defines it? My fascination with AI from an artistic standpoint is mostly centered around the <2021 days when everything it generated kinda looked like confused, swirly nonsense. Before its cateracts were lasered off by evil mathematicians and rooms sweltering from the hot breath of a thousand GPUs.. an AI was a humble, ugly program that could evoke concepts like "night time", or "a castle", or "food", without any literal representation on screen. THAT is compelling, artistically, imo. It's like dream inspiration on demand. But yeah the puffer jacket pope era sucks and bores me, and the uncanny reality of contemporary AI-generated imagery is frightening in a much less tantilizing way than it used to be

[netscapenavigator-official]

Once the bugs get ironed out, AI Image Generation will forever change propaganda and how easy it is to make and distribute.

[sexyaiworld]

WOW... SPECTACULAR!

[cozylittleartblog]

"content creator" is a corporate word.

we are artists.

[ink-a]

Hybrid

[cawareyoudoin]

[nmdry]

[cawareyoudoin]

Algorithms are not a bad thing!!! They are a tool, and we are only protesting them because they are being used for the wrong purposes!

In case you're still reflexively on the fence when I proclaim that the conversation about AI has progressed to a truly batshit level of reactionary mythology, people on twitter are currently calling out the animators for Spiderverse for using a digital interpolator to assist with lining, because a documentary used the term "machine learning" to describe it.

Apparently using digital tools is taking work away from real artists. I am excited for 6 months time when the discourse has evolved into "all movies should be hand-inked on the inside of Palaeolithic caves to escape the corrupting labour-stealing influence of the pencil".

(Yes this is currently a minority opinion in this instance, largely because people just really like Spiderverse. But the fact that these arguments are being seriously made shows how far off the deep end this conversation has gone. These types of arguments for blanket technology bans already made little to no sense due to the double standard applied, and this demonstrates that by removing the double standard and taking them closer to their logical conclusion - all labour saving tools are bad, especially if they involve a spooky computer algorithm).

[taiyo-tenebris]

My two pieces for the 2024 Pokemon TCG Illustrator Contest! I didn't place in the top 300 but I still had fun drawing it anyway.

[emerald-honey]