AI Generative Art

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3 hours ago, Neopatch said:

I'm not sure I'll continue with another toon as I did not manage to get anything good on this one 😞

If you’ve read through this thread then you know we’ve all been there. The programs have some blind spots, which range from annoying to hilarious. But every once in a while the AI nails it.

 

I’d think that your Thin White Duke would be pretty easy, but I don’t know what you’re going for. Those renders look decent to me. (Extra fingers aside. But those are easy to fix.)

[sbloyd]

My attempt just from describing what I see there omitted the suit jacket for some reason, but I rather like the result:

[Neopatch]

30 minutes ago, sbloyd said:

My attempt just from describing what I see there omitted the suit jacket for some reason, but I rather like the result:

You did spot it way better in your attempt then I did on hours of tries ! Was it on Bing ?

[sbloyd]

1 minute ago, Neopatch said:

You did spot it way better in your attempt then I did on hours of tries ! Was it on Bing ?

 

Yup!  I'm at work; my students are working on posters, so I had time to kill.  My prompt was:

slim caucasian man, style of artstation, wearing a white trilby hat with a black band, wearing a white shirt under a white vest under a white suit coat, wearing a white tie, wearing white slacks and white wingtip shoes, with close-cropped white hair, wearing white glasses with crimson red lenses, wearing white gloves, surrounded by a white aura of power

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I gave it a go, too.

 

oil painting, a dapper man dressed in an all-white bespoke tailored suit with white fedora, white shoes, sunglasses, with a slight glow emanating from hismbody

 

 

Realizing there was a typo, I re-entered it.

 

oil painting, a dapper man dressed in an all-white bespoke tailored suit with white fedora, white shoes, sunglasses, with a slight glow emanating from his body

 

[Mark]

West Founders' Falls

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Tanker time - New Hampshire & Battleshield.

 

No confirmation from their representatives if they're dating but social media is rife with speculation.

 

 

 

Bonus: Doppelganger fight

 

[Techwright]

9 hours ago, Trike said:

oil painting, a dapper man dressed in an all-white bespoke tailored suit with white fedora, white shoes, sunglasses, with a slight glow emanating from his body

 

I'm curious now how an A.I. creation's images would distinguish a bespoke tailored suit from any other suit.  I mean, in really life I'll tell largely based on the materials and stitching quality, but I'd think those would be hard to render at these sizes.

 

Continuing the (mostly) white suit trend, I heavily modified @sbloyd's description a few panels up, and took a crack (pun intended) at my Egghead homage, the Eggsterminator, a thugs/eggs force fields mastermind.  Bing A.I. did some pretty good work I think.  Things to note:  got a pair of warnings for trying to use words like "guns" and "pistols", however, it was perfectly cool if I used "NERF gun", and even a few of the results came out with nickle-plated guns.  Uh-huh...sure its NERF.  Go figure.  Also, the thing went completely to rubbish when I tried to add in Eggy's goatee.  No idea why but that threw every other design element off, so I left it out.  Still, pretty pleased with the results. I find the two to the extreme left to be Eggsellent.

 

Last descriptive used :  slim man, art station style, with bald oval head with greasepaint-white skin, with round glasses with opaque yolk-colored lenses, wearing an open-collared yolk-colored shirt under a white suit coat, wearing gold chains around the neck, wearing white slacks and yolk-colored wingtip shoes, wearing short yolk-yellow gloves, holding a pair of white NERF guns, stoic dangerous pose, with six random ethnicity thugs wearing street clothes in the background

 

 

Edited February 22 by Techwright

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3 hours ago, Techwright said:

I'm curious now how an A.I. creation's images would distinguish a bespoke tailored suit from any other suit.  I mean, in really life I'll tell largely based on the materials and stitching quality, but I'd think those would be hard to render at these sizes.

I’m starting to find that repetition is my friend when it comes to AI. In keeping with this topic, it requires a real belt-and-suspenders approach. That’s why I frequently include ridiculous phrases such as “white Caucasian”, “black African”, “female woman” or “male man” - otherwise it just doesn’t get it or has the computer version of ADD.

 

In my attempt to get a proper jacket on Citizen Robot upthread I tried both tailored and bespoke, neither returning satisfactory pictures, but using “bespoke tailored” did.

 

 

3 hours ago, Techwright said:

got a pair of warnings for trying to use words like "guns" and "pistols", however, it was perfectly cool if I used "NERF gun", and even a few of the results came out with nickle-plated guns.  Uh-huh...sure its NERF.  Go figure

 

With Bing AI in particular I run afoul of its content warning constantly, and it makes no sense. For a couple weeks the word “zombie” was verboten. So I used “undead” instead. Then yesterday I forgot and used zombie again, and it was fine. When I was trying to get a picture of Skunk Punk I found that the phrase “skunk hero” resulted in constant rejection, but that “hero skunk” was a-ok. Like… wut?

 

One of my anthropomorphic animals kept returning the warning, but the exact same prompt had just rendered. I kept pushing the button and every other time it produced a pic, followed by a rejection. Baffling.

[sbloyd]

With anthro animals, it may be that the large amount of furry art out there has skewed the results to something Microsoft considers inappropriate.

[Oz The Elderly Gaymer]

10 hours ago, Techwright said:

Things to note:  got a pair of warnings for trying to use words like "guns" and "pistols", however, it was perfectly cool if I used "NERF gun", and even a few of the results came out with nickle-plated guns. 

 

That is so odd, since I never ran into that restriction when I was generating my dual-pistol Blaster. I even added 'Beretta 92FS' to my descriptive text and never got a warning at all.  But since this technology is apparently... 'evolving'... in real-time, it seems likely that descriptors that are okay one day are suddenly not okay, the next. 

[Oz The Elderly Gaymer]

10 hours ago, Techwright said:

I find the two to the extreme left to be Eggsellent.

 

I see what you did there.  And I approve.

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4 hours ago, sbloyd said:

With anthro animals, it may be that the large amount of furry art out there has skewed the results to something Microsoft considers inappropriate.

There's also the matter that "skunk" has a number of slang connotations, some not considered socially acceptable.

[Herotu]

On 2/6/2024 at 9:53 PM, Trike said:

I was goofing around with keywords like “orthographic view with annotated schematics” and it included “art station style” in the pictures.

I tried a suit of robotic armour "in the style of Darkest Dungeon" instead... (this is Leonardo AI).

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[Techwright]

1 hour ago, Oz The Elderly Gaymer said:

 

That is so odd, since I never ran into that restriction when I was generating my dual-pistol Blaster. I even added 'Beretta 92FS' to my descriptive text and never got a warning at all.  But since this technology is apparently... 'evolving'... in real-time, it seems likely that descriptors that are okay one day are suddenly not okay, the next. 

 

I actually started by asking for a pair of Desert Eagle pistols, the kind used by Deadpool, I understand, but got the first warning off of that.  I'd not yet added "henchmen" or "thugs" to the definition, so it wouldn't have been able to judge based on combined elements of gang culture.

 

I used generic "gun" and "pistol" after that until I hit on the idea of using NERF, to show that I wasn't really into malicious intentions.

[Herotu]

On 2/21/2024 at 10:35 AM, Robothenri said:

Ok, I can't resist, I had to check this out 😛

 

I signed up to the Adobe beta AI generator last year, played with it a little bit, but didn't really get far with it. So today I tried the Bing AI as a lot have mentioned it here, and I got to say, I love it! Just tried it with one character to start with, 'ALBION HAWK' DP/Martial Blaster.

 

 

Some ok-ish results to start with...

 

 

But then this came up (below) and I love it! I'm actually going to tweak the CoH costume to represent this image now. Will defo be trying this with more characters, I have millions 😄

 

Looks like an advert for the BNP. 😞

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10 hours ago, sbloyd said:

With anthro animals, it may be that the large amount of furry art out there has skewed the results to something Microsoft considers inappropriate.

It *really* doesn’t like the words “bull” or “cow”. Getting it to make any version of Irish Bull was a struggle. I don’t recall how I ended up with a pic at all, because trying words like “buffalo” or “bison” resulted in regular versions of those animals.

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6 hours ago, Techwright said:

I used generic "gun" and "pistol" after that until I hit on the idea of using NERF, to show that I wasn't really into malicious intentions.

Same. For my Space Patrol series I found that “raygun” wasn’t acceptable but “laser rifle” was.

 

Bizarrely and sometimes hilariously the program itself goes waaay over the line. When I was messing with the Facepunch fellows, I wanted some, y’know, face punching, but it didn’t like that. So I tried variations on punch/hit/strike etc and a couple of them were extremely bloody indeed. One pic featured two of the guys covered in gore while another had a guy smashing his fist through a werewolf’s cranium. Dial it back to PG, Sparky.

 

I also wanted an “after the fight” pic where the hero is holding up a concussed villain by the front of his shirt. I feel like I’ve seen that a dozen times in comics and movies, like when Lou beats up Tyler in Fight Club. Boy-howdy did *that* prompt go off the rails.

[sbloyd]

I dipped into Leonardo today and... well, I wasn't happy with the results. 😞

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6 hours ago, Herotu said:

I tried a suit of robotic armour "in the style of Darkest Dungeon" instead... (this is Leonardo AI).

Talk about falling down a rabbit hole, this was it for me last week.
 

There’s a great passage in the classic Joe Haldeman novel The Forever War where the instructor talks about the evolution of combat armor, particularly how idiotic some of the designs were — Haldeman’s commentary on military hardware and egghead design, similar to the “Bangalore Torpedo” scene from The Big Red One: 

 

Anyway, I spent an inordinate amount of time goofing around with creating a fictional evolution of combat armor from steampunk to nanotech. This AI business is a trap! 😂

 

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Why can’t we sit down like civilized people and solve our differences like adults? Best 2 out of 3?

 

Heroes and villains playing poker, “boardgame”, D&D and Scrabble. Why it chose Spidey as a villain is a mystery.

 

Edited February 22 by Trike
Added “boardgame”

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This is the only one I liked and it’s also the only one where I asked for specific characters. All of the above were “hero wearing silver and blue versus villain wearing red and black playing (fill in game)”.

 

This one was “Dr. Jekyll playing poker with Mr. Hyde.”

 

[Herotu]

48 minutes ago, Trike said:

I love the idea that they're roleplaying mundane lives - "I put out the washing!" ... "Make a laundry roll"

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1 hour ago, Herotu said:

I love the idea that they're roleplaying mundane lives - "I put out the washing!" ... "Make a laundry roll"

We play Dungeons & Dragons while they play Houses & Housecats.

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Awkwarrrd. But we've all been on the receiving end of weird AI add-ons.

 

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