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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   2696 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 8, 2023

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I guess it's only natural that AI would generate a picture of Internet Explorer Man embracing the older generation.

Ouch.

If you'd like to know what I was trying to achieve, that guy is a knockoff Superman who is simultaneously embracing his mother as she actually is, young, healthy and beautiful after anti-aging therapy, contrasted with how he sees her in his mind's eye, old and withered, as would any woman of her age be today.

Largely a psychological hangup from the fact that his superpowers leave him unable to avail of some of the options available to baseline humans, such as said therapies, cybernetics and so on. He has a hard time accepting that despite the entire world looking up to him, he's going to age and die in a few decades, while she might live on for centuries, millennia, or till the Heat Death of the universe. Well, maybe not, if the hostile K2 aliens next door have something to say about that. But in theory at least.

Dude, that granny's arm in the first pic is SWOLE. Damn granny.

HGH is a helluva drug! Maybe that's where the superhero, Consul, got his.

The proportions are still really weird if you look closely. And I agree that it had the kind of waxy, Digital Art^TM look that the other people mentioned, I want one of these models that’s only trained on scanned physical art, just to see what changes.

Waxy? I don't really see it, but I use a combination of artist names and keywords that have served me well since before SD launched for the public.

You can get more naturalistic results if you want, I just wanted this look.

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