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naraburns  nihil supernum  2yr ago (text post)   Edited 2yr ago   2706 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for October 7, 2022

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I'm having so much fun with NovelAI. It's basically StableDiffusion but trained on danbooru, which is an anime art booru. The AI has some limitations - you can only really do one character at a time, it has some issues with anatomy, and my god does it struggle with the hands. That said, if you work the prompts and iterate on the generations you like, it generates some really good stuff. It's also remarkably consistent at depicting the same character once you have the prompts figured out, at which point it's a matter of generating until you get something that looks good and doesn't have the typical AI shortcomings. I've shown some of the fanart of characters I've generated to friends and then dropped that an AI made it to near-universal shock.

I'm also using StableDiffusion to generate assets like scenery and enemies for my online 5e campaign, which it has done very well. I'm on the browser model for that since my graphics card is AMD and I haven't had the time to jump through the hoops to get everything working yet.

I'm sympathetic to the issues this will cause for artists, but at the same time these tools are incredible. I dislike the "soulless" description I've seen thrown at the tech. My main creative strength has been with words and fiction. I've tried my hand at digital art and made stuff I'm proud of before, but I've always considered it a massive bottleneck in terms of time, talent, and resources. What I can't depict by hand vastly outstrips what I can depict, so being able to convert words into illustrations is both delightful and mindblowing to me. This isn't soulless AI vomiting images to drown out human intent, this is AI allowing human intent to manifest more easily for many more people.

In short, AI art is very cool, try out StableDiffusion, or NovelAI if you're a weeb.

Are you using the NAI leak that came out yesterday? I can't believe that happened so quickly. Haven't had any time to play with this yet, but have been checking in on friends and the threads every so often.

As for soulless, it sure beats Sakimichan clone #7735.

Damn, I hadn't heard of that. I feel bad for them, their prices are pretty high but they were the only company besides Stable Diffusion that seemed to actually want to give people what they wanted and not grandstand about keeping the tech away from the plebs or combating social bias.

Yeah, on one hand it sucks for them, but on the other wow it's karmic pottery for what they did to artists. ("Oh no, we put so much time and studying into this, and someone came along and copied it!")

Are you following any communities experimenting with stuff? I've only been able to glance at every third /h/ or /g/ thread, but there must be other groups out there.

I follow some ai artists on Twitter but I’m actually not into hardcore/hentai stuff so I don’t frequent those boards.

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