I put “12 Ounce Prophet” into a text-to-image AI generator and this is what I got

[One Man Banned]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[LUGR]

^Those are all pure comedy!

 

Hells Angels Barbie dolls is the funniest thing I have seen in a while.

[diggity]

Didnt see a thread about this but wanted to see if anyone else here has been tinkering. I'm totally blown away by it. it struggles with certain details but its only a matter of time. I just got a midjourney account and subscribed.       

[Schnitzel]

a lot of this is pretty berserk

 the hotrod dudes are cool as

 

[Schnitzel]

has to be said that my instagram is going bananas with "fuck AI generated art" posts

 

 was there some galvanising thing that happened recently because I'd seen it before but today it's just everywhere on instagram

 

[Mercer]

Complex subject. There are some rare artists that develop signature illustration styles that take years to come up with. The styles are intentionally hard to imitate.  AI can be used to break down every pen & brush stroke to produce similar illustrations that are identical in style. This essentially disincentivizes human advancements in art. I think this is what most people are upset about. Personally, I'm not sure if this hate is valid or invalid yet. I mean if your work is great, but nobody knows your name, and they would prefer to buy an AI piece over your artwork I think you must have slacked on creating a compelling public persona and accumulating fame. I know tons of people with skills 100x better than respected writers, but we all feel personally aren't shit, when they're compared to so called "talentless" bombers that actually do more than legals and dead spots.

 

I've always been the type to diss "purists" artists that think the tools some artists use are so good, that their art doesn't count. Think someone who likes rock, and hates rap, so they say the beats are invalid because there's not a person playing the drums. That's bullshit. Same thing for people who think an artists needs to grind their own pigments, and assemble their own brush, and stretch all their own canvases, etc. It's bullshit. I'm so far gone of this shit I appreciate visual, and musical art created entirely digitally sometimes way more than organically produced shit. Being upset someone has a better tools is usually just envy based. I can't lie though, I feel this way myself seeing kids that don't know how to shoplift paint a piece way better than my garbage pieces in the 90's with low pressure cans and youtube tutorials on their phones. Fact is, if I had mom's credit card and low pressure artsy paints I would have used them too. If I had been better at doing pieces maybe I wouldn't be jealous now. Emotions are not a measure of validity.

 

[diggity]

I see this being used as a tool to help generate concepts to build from, that said I think that it will also destroy anyone creating in the midtier space. for instance, any artist that makes paintings/photos that go in hotels/private homes will probably be edged out of work if they havent already.

You can see the effects of AI in news/journalism. I suspect they are responsible for most clickbait new stories that we are fed. I'm not sure if I've mentioned this but there have been countless times where I have clicked a news article from a big news corp only to find that the article has absolutely nothing to do with the headline.

 

I'm fairly certain AI has been getting used in the youtube space alot too for reviewing products/pushing affiliate links. The scripts, Vo, etc are all generated with ai and fill with product shots.

 

I'm considering using ai to rework my resume/website copy and coverletters for the next time I switch jobs. 

 

I would really like to think this is how people felt when the camera came along but its so much more than that. 

I know that there will be artist that try to build things that confuse AI but I'm wondering if the next step will be not allowing their work to be photographed at all in order to ensure their exculsitivity. I remember seeing a fashion documentary that talked about how with clothing, designers could copyright a design but after it gets made into a piece of clothing, it was fair game to rip it off. There was a shoe designer that started making shoes that were cost prohibitive to be duplicated cheaply.  I think he made really thin heels for womens shoes out of a really expensive/strong metal. I remember asking myself if he was really designing for design or just designing to not be copied at that point. In someways I understand what hes working against but also I think about the limits hes now placed on himself.

 

@MercerI 100% agree with you on the moms credit card. at a certain point, keeping it real just becomes stupid when theres a much better product to use that yields better results with less effort. 

 

heres more random, low effort MidJourney. I've got an unlimited account for a bit, if anyone wants to throw out some prompts, I'm happy to share the results but fair warning, it does not allow for certain terms (NSFW,gore,etc)

 

[Fist 666]

Prompts I've been meaning to fuck with:

 

Ren & Stimpy in the style of __________

 

Beavis and Butthead in the style of _______

 

One of my favorite contemporary artists is Mark Maggiori.

 

I'll write a whole actual opinion later, but it's a tool that can be used or abused, period. Time will tell (like social media, industrialization, the internal combustion engine, globalization, etc) if society is better or worse for it.

[Fist 666]

On 12/16/2022 at 9:11 AM, Mercer said:

 Emotions are not a measure of validity.

 

 

This. Forever. About everything. 

[mr.yuck]

@diggityhow complex are some of these prompts you are entering to achieve these images?

 

I can't buy the argument that this is just a better tool. I'm not even sure how to explain my opinion on this. It's like you take a 30 year old digital artist that creates manually and put them up against a 9 year old, that likes to draw, with an AI computer prompt. The 9 year old types in key words to achieve a similar result. The 9 year old has created nothing even if the final outcomes are similar. It's an amalgamation created by some one else's programming. I think it's high tech tracing paper with extra steps.

[diggity]

they are not complex at all. hardly any input really. i'd say 5-10 words tops.

 

for these, all i used was "mr. yuck" they took less than 2 minutes to make.

 

[mr.yuck]

I'd be lying if I said I didn't think most of those are pretty cool. How do you even use this technology? Do you use it as a jump off point or is this it? @diggitySorry to shine the spotlight on you, I'm not even familiar with the art industry at all.

[diggity]

so i've been midjourney and you use it through the discord app - not sure if you have ever used that but its like of like slack. 

So you just type in "/imagine" and then whatever prompt you want it to generate. If you have discord already you can just join their server and they let you generate a few for free to start off with and then you can subscribe monthly. it can be alot of fun but i also find myself getting bored with it really quick.

 

[Mercer]

If Rome Never Fell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 27, 2023 by Mercer

[Mercer]

[LUGR]

Seen this on CNN.

 

 

[Schnitzel]

okay I have had a dabble.

this is off the chain

 

"a maori/pasifika styled artwork depicting the arrival of alien in New zealand"

 

"four middle aged graffiti afficionados two are bald one is bald and has tattoos one is bald and very fat"

[Schnitzel]

AI has no idea how to draw to onions who are bikers fighting in a parking lot while behind them a female onion stands in a business suit for the 90's. drawn in the style of robert crumb

[KILZ FILLZ]

I made this thread less than two years ago and it’s really crazy to see how quickly AI is advancing with chatGPT and MidJourney

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[LUGR]

10 hours ago, Schnitzel said:

AI has no idea how to draw to onions who are bikers fighting in a parking lot while behind them a female onion stands in a business suit for the 90's. drawn in the style of robert crumb

 

That’s even too complex for AI…
 

What site are you using?

[LUGR]

 

[Schnitzel]

midjourney.

 

 will try some more simplified things.

onion gang

 

realistic photo of a man photographing graffiti on a train with a cloudy sky

[KILZ FILLZ]

Inshall-star

[One Man Banned]

Aslamdunk alaykum

[T4M*]

I don't like the new version.

[Mauler5150]

On 7/23/2022 at 6:02 AM, LUGR said:

Horrifying

[KILZ FILLZ]

 

 

 

 

 

[Mauler5150]

The answer to the question above is the AI is realising that something new needs to be tried to get kids to discard their goldfish like 5 second memories and enticing them to read something that isn't Harry Potter books.

 

Perhaps reading grisly accounts of peer death is the way to dissuade Tick Tokers to get off the app and pay their drug debts, as nobody likes addicts who need to use tick to score drugs.

[Mauler5150]

Also add in "Look at that TPWF"  in both acronym and long form to the list of acceptable passphrases to speak to me in public and identify onesself as being an actual conscious human being as opposed to a soulless NPC android.

 

Wonk saggin.

[KILZ FILLZ]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/06/19/germany-bild-cuts-jobs-replaces-editors-ai-sex-scandal/