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violet wrote: Wed Apr 19, 2023 7:05 am What are you using for these?
Did you give a prompt for the thing on this one’s head?
These were all created using mage.space. I use a variety of armor related prompts for them and mess around with the weighting until I get what I want. I got the fluff texture/shape by first making them in a very cartoony Stable Diffusion model and then bringing those over to a model better suited to photoquality and remixing the images.
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I think I need to learn how to write my instructions - this is not at all what I had in mind.

Instructions: A human in a darkened theatre. There is a green glow from the stomachs of other humans in the background. The human in the foreground is sideways, half their body is missing so we can see their internal organs, which are all robotic. His stomach glows green too

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My biggest concern is will AI dominate the market for photograph and drive purists out>

I recall back in Art school in SF being told to photograph the downtown area of SF around Market street with the least amount of electric wires visible< Lots of time figuring out shooting angels.

Along came photoshop where the lines can be erased> vias a computer

Now with AI you dont even need travel to get your shots>

Will there need be a disclaimer ( as relates to the op concerning the contest) that the image is a true image and need provide the original before editing?

AI has a amazing future but....
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@phuketrichard there is so much that is going to change and maybe it will impact how the next generation interacts with the internet - as long as current generations can set up the messages of caution without fear mongering.

Video footage and photographs are already at the point where we can’t simply trust them to be real - or easily discern by eye if they are fake.

People have been shrieking about ‘photoshopped’ images for over a decade now as they fail to understand the capabilities of a camera and the process of going from a digital raw image to a jpg or whatever - imagine the hysteria that will be around soon?

The opportunities for manipulation of many by a few - powerful and joe blogs, are huge.

In my humble opinion it will require behavioural changes at the level of the individual, but the psychology of social media and the stupidity and naivety of many of us, plus an attitude of indifference or inflated self-worth means most won’t achieve self control and self protection etc.

This will lead to greater distrust and chaos - and there are people out there ready to make that even worse, so they take advantage and gain power. I don’t have an opinion on how long that will take - when the tipping point will come, or what might ignite the fire, but I do think there are worrying times ahead - and social media will play a large part in it.

And we have the likes of Musk (a person I wrongly used to admire). He’s so delusional and so rich, that he truly believes he’s a person who is going to right the wrongs of others - but will create his own wrongs. He’s no different to Trump.



But, yeah, AI is amazing - and so enticing
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Fwiw making or requesting deepfakes or porn of real people without their consent gets you an instant ban from most AI Art online communities.

Just spent some time trying to see how realistic I can make things. Not quite there yet as I was focused on fluffy battlesheep but this is the best I could come up with in about 20 minutes.
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For AI images of people, there was a site called thispersondoesnotexist.com, but it is now dead (apparently).
Entering that url in your browser redirects to stability.ai which I haven't bothered checking out.

Other sites of interest for AI people are:
https://this-person-does-not-exist.com/en

https://www.whichfaceisreal.com/index.php

and maybe, https://stability.ai/

I'm sure there must be more out there.
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There are tonnes. As previously mentioned, the one I used for all of the images I've posted in this thread is mage.space. I've found it to be the best for my needs, with MidJourney a close second. What I don't like about midjourney is that it's discord based (plus mage.space is far more versatile). Mage is also nsfw friendly, if that's your sort of thing.
violet wrote: Wed Apr 19, 2023 7:41 am I think I need to learn how to write my instructions - this is not at all what I had in mind.
Tell Chat GPT which engine you're using and which model, then describe the image to it in plain English and ask it to write the prompts for you. It may still take a few attempts with adjusting strictness and prompt weighting but ultimately AI is very good at communicating with AI.
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what do you think - we could merge this with the chatGPT thread?
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violet wrote: Thu Apr 20, 2023 5:49 pm what do you think - we could merge this with the chatGPT thread?
Yeah I've been wondering the same; this makes no sense as an extra thread.
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why?
2 pages in and u want merge it to another thread?
they might be similar but surely there not overlapping, as i stared this one for concern about photograph and AI
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