#sci fi synthography

[robsheridan]

A truly magnificent, tasteful, and modern coronation ceremony today - and grand feast! Thousands of peasants lined up for miles for a chance to witness the arrival procession of the droopiest fleshwalkers from across the kingdom! Inside the palace, the chum blorbs were swollen, the excretion tubes were lubricated, the glopsacks were filled with the creamiest of fluids, and oh, how moist were the sphinctricles! There were audible oohs and aahs as attendees witnessed the chancellors of the seven provinces presenting the ancient ceremonial entrail glorps, which have not been seen since the last coronation 150 cycles ago. Each glorp is worth over ten million flurgles! The peasants will return to their huts in joy and mirth tonight, knowing that that the wettest of boys rules over them on the grand prolapsian throne!

[templeofthev01d]

©️ ᐯ丨丂丨ㄥㄩ乂 - 2024

[ghostowlattic]

re-embroying for birth twenty seven

[proximasan]

quiet mornings

[aetherium]

©️ ᐯ丨丂丨ㄥㄩ乂 - 2024

[sos-escapisme]

I am not a bot.

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@nightcafes-blogtudio

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[venezart]

CITIES OF THE DOOM | CONCEPT PROMPTS

[misanthropic-wolf666]

Cyber-Demon

[anomalyztheseries]

Who is Fedora Zane?

Dr. Fedora Zane is a unconventional scientist, a genius level intelligence, someone not afraid to play fast and loose with the rules.

After secretly continuing research her employer had abandoned, Zane came up with a breakthrough: a “Chronosuit” that allowed its wearer to travel through time. She traveled to a far future where the ecological problems of the present had been solved by weather control technology. She stole diagrams for the weather tech and brought it back to the present, where her employer used it to repair climate change... but still wouldn’t promote her.

Zane decided that she would keep the time travel tech to herself. After traveling back to the future, she realized that everything had completely changed. A new timeline and a better world had been created. With more brand new, amazing technology to take back to the present.

So she did. Again and again. She sold future technology to the highest bidders in the present day, making the future of humanity even more technologically advanced. And she went back for more and more. Every time, the evidence of her crimes was erased.

Well... maybe not. Because the Sisters never forget.

Images generated by Midjourney AI. Video generated by RunwayML Gen-2 Image-to-Video. Story and concepts by M.J. Romanowski. Copyright © 2023 M.J. Romanowski. All rights reserved.

[ai-or-not-ai]

Things to know:

I do not think AI art is inherently evil and terrible. I believe that if the art is clearly labelled and that if the generators are collecting their data and operating their services ethically that it is a perfectly fine tool to use. Unfortunately, as far as I know, that is not currently the case.

the true problem with certain uses of AI is capitalism

In that vein, I hate when AI art gets shown around completely unlabelled. If you claim AI art is its own art form it is imperative to label it as such at least in your tags to prevent confusion between digital or traditional artwork that was created manually.

So many of these AI images are stolen from the accounts that originally posted them. I’m not sure whether I personally consider that theft or if it is even legally theft, but in the process of reposting the picture they leave out important details like the fact it was AI generated in the first place.

These are all my personal opinions. This blog is not intended to be a place for me to open myself up to a bunch of discourse. I may reblog posts about AI but I will not engage with you if you are rude and incensed. That will get you blocked.

I myself am predominantly a digital artist (and sometimes a traditional artist when the mood strikes me) as well as a student of art history. This is my point of view as someone with knowledge in both historical artistic movements and the creation of art itself.

If you do not want to come across AI art I suggest blacklisting related tags. They will not always be labelled but many are.

Some tools that are called ‘AI’ have been around for years or serve extremely useful functions that do actually reduce the amount of tedious tasks a human would have had to perform previously. Such as generative fill tools in photoshop when used to edit a flaw from a photo, etc. AI has become a tech buzzword applied to any and every technology (usually for the sake of getting investors excited about it). This blog is mainly focused generative AI. Mainly images, but also sometimes LLMs (large language models) like ChatGPT or video/sound generation. I am not talking about the kinds of AI used by game devs to help NPCs function without coding every single one yourself or how in the Spiderverse movies they coded an ‘AI’ tool to help the 2D lines follow the 3D forms. There are many different kinds of tools called ‘AI’ and it has become a functionally useless term in some instances, as there are many varied forms it takes and often the classic idea of artificial intelligence from sci-fi (being a computer that thinks for itself) is not the actual implication.

If you are worried about energy usage involved in AI generation, please direct those criticisms to the organizations operating the models. They are the ones who are most responsible for that and the ones who can actually make a material change (and some indeed have been trying to).

The best thing you can do to ‘fight’ the negatives of AI is supporting independent artists.

We are all human beings who make mistakes (including me! please, I want you to always use your own critical thinking skills!) Give each other grace.

Post labelling

I will do my best to find the original source, including the original poster and what generator was used if I am able.

I will tag the posts with ‘ai image’, their respective generator (if applicable) and ‘synthography’ a term for computer generated art intended to set it apart from other art forms

I may speculate on images used to synthesize the final artwork if something comes across as particularly obvious to me.

Post submission

Send me posts you suspect are AI generated but unlabelled as such

Send me posts that you know are AI generated but reposted and unlabelled

Do not harass the original poster. If they are a reposter, block and report them. If they are an AI enthusiast and you don’t like AI, block them. If they turn out to be an artist posting their actual art for the love of god I hope you didn’t personally accuse them of generating their art and if you did go apologize immediately and profusely.

Tags to blacklist to avoid AI

Generative Art

AI Generated

AI Art

Midjourney

Dalle 3

Synthography

If I reblog from you….

Sorry

I probably follow you on my main blog

It is not a negative reflection on you if you could not identify an AI generated image yourself. I personally do not just rely on my eyes for these and try my best to find the image source to verify ai generation when possible.

Some AI generated concepts look cool I don’t blame you for reblogging them. I personally just wish people were more obvious about what is AI so that the average person can make better informed decisions about whether or not they want to share it. This is just so you can make that choice.

[robsheridan]

VIDEONOMICON (1988), part 2 (see part 1 here). More stills from Maxim Voronin’s cable TV miniseries about a mysterious AV club using Satanic video test patterns to transform unwitting volunteers into demonic flesh vessels.

As the hypnotic powers of the video patterns begin to warp the consciousness of the volunteers, more is revealed about the mysterious cult behind the strange experiments. Unseen by the research volunteers, the “hosts” communicate to them only through various goat heads mounted throughout the facility. Are the human(?) hosts trying to control the evil powers they’re harnessing? Or are they merely pawns in something much more sinister? The answers will only be found by seeing what is beyond; by releasing the prison of the flesh and plunging deeper into the technological hellscape of… The Videonomicon.

To be continued…

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NOTE: This alternate reality horror story is part of my NightmAIres narrative art series (visit that link for a lot more). NightmAIres are windows into other worlds and alternate histories, conceived/written by me and visualized with synthography and Photoshop.

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[templeofthev01d]

©️ ᐯ丨丂丨ㄥㄩ乂 - 2024

[sivatherium]

[proximasan]

[aetherium]

©️ ᐯ丨丂丨ㄥㄩ乂 - 2024

[templeofthev01d]

©️ ᐯ丨丂丨ㄥㄩ乂 - 2024