The one thing I will say about the majority of #aiartists is that we mostly aren't artisans.
The craftsmanship element of art is definitely greatly reduced, although spending hundreds of hours polishing images with outpainting and ControlNets and Photoshop is not uncommon.
Copyright law in the US is hostile to us, we only actually have ownership of our output after it has been modified or altered after rendering.
I'm playing with AI upscalers and this one works great (Upscayl). Is it worth providing these in 4k vs 1080p? It's a few extra steps and needs to be done with my laptop or desktop instead of just on my phone where I do AI art most of the time.
I loaded both the 4k and 1080p versions for comparison.
Let’s kick off the day with our #KoffeeWithKyle chat and see what’s on everyone’s agenda.
I’m having coffee right now, of course. Then it’s church here in about an hour. After that probably just relaxing. I have school work to do as I have been putting it off these past two days. Yesterday we worked on our budget for this month and went shopping so didn’t have much time.
#SDXL does seem to have a much clearer association between people and objects, although it doesn't in any real sense understand physics.
The problem will continue to be how to train a model that has no physical presence in the world how to have a concept of just the basics of how things function.
Continued #sdxl testing, I can confirm that it has modern day cultural figures in the dataset.
It also seems to recognize artists who have passed away, living artists seem to have been been removed from the tags the same as in the 2.0 era models.
I've chatted with many people about how to illustrate my baordgame #HopePunk. And something that many suggest and comes up again and again: use #AIartwork.
Which to me is the worst of ALL options.
It is sad that people immediately jump to this. Even though the game is about collective resistance, about fighting for a future woth living -- about not allowing corporations to get away with everything.
It would be really cynical, if Hope Punk would use AI generated art.