You’ve probably at least seen news about the recent explosion of AI image creation tools. Dall-e 2, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion. Anyone else here following this topic or playing around with these tools?
I spent a month throwing money at MidJourney and ended up with some amazing pieces. Mostly very dark in theme and tone. Dall-E 2 wasn’t as useful because I only gained access after they applied a lot of rules that ended up taking the fun out of what it could do. I haven’t gotten into Stable Diffusion yet.
I did learn quite a bit about how to best applied certain prompts to greatly improve my results with MidJourney. Would be nice if all of them played well together and those same prompts could improve results on others.
I also started off with Midjourney and I was surprised to enjoy their UI through Discord so much. I then spent some time messing with in/out painting with Dall-e when they added that function to their Web UI.
I had fun exploring utility of it for our Meh gag images. Here’s my attempt at a candelabra we sold a couple weeks ago:
starting image:
outpainting result (plus addition of our candelabra image and a clearance poster):
Imagine what a Billion dollars would do for, say free lunches for all school children because who the fuck needs to “means test” a fucking child?
Really, are we that stingy over children that we need to punish their parents, but make damned sure it is only the poor parents that have to jump through hoops just to feed their child?
Or to fund public defenders offices instead of constantly trying to intentionally test the limits of how little can we spend on public defenders before it crosses the line into human rights abuse?
Or to boost elementary school teacher salaries, and forbid shithole states from correspondingly reducing their funding to siphon those funds to the general revenue budgets.
Or to spend on high-crime city police departments - but only for officers who live in the districts they patrol/serve to stop the flow of salary dollars that never come back to that city.
Or to fund hospital gun violence emergency rooms, because thoughts and prayers are doing fuck all, just like the so-called “god” they’re praying to.
Just saying, there are probably more worthy societal benefits to that kind of money ($B) than putting it entirely in the hands of Gates, Buffet, Bezos, Musk, Thiel, Waltons, Carlyle Group, or the rest of the de facto US oligarchy to decide what to spend it on - or not. Time to turn that trickle down spigot wide open, by force if necessary.
I played with a few that had no barriers to entry and I could use from my phone. Craiyon is the one I remember. But I would just think of the most random thing I could think of and see how the system interpreted it and how much of the disparate ideas it brought into the picture. An example I remember having fun with was “a dog teaching math class”. Another that showed off wildly different approaches and levels of pop culture versus astronomical/geological “knowledge” or influence was “love island on Mars”. I also had fun with <name of art style> <random object> prompts.
These engines are very powerful tools and create some awesome results in the hands of people that start with an idea and work with the system to generate and refine results to get to what they may envision. On the other hand, I tend to approach it like a twelve year old that finds out if he puts his hand a certain way on a piece of lab equipment he can use it to make loud fart noises.
I know it was mentioned, but I figured I would add a link to Craiyon. It’s great in that it’s freely available, but also nowhere near the quality of the bigger names. Still, fun for doing things on the fly and throwing silly suggestions around.
@Kyeh No, I’m taller, but with shorter ears. And not as good looking.
And until overhead projectors from computer podiums (podia?) got to be a thing, I never had that empty a blackboard.
These engines are very powerful tools and create some awesome results in the hands of people that start with an idea and work with the system to generate and refine results to get to what they may envision
A friend got Stable Diffusion running on his M1 Mac; I had thought it required NVidia card with the Cuda API but apparently there’s more options. He’s been generating and posting weird images nonstop (sigh)
I spent a month throwing money at MidJourney and ended up with some amazing pieces. Mostly very dark in theme and tone. Dall-E 2 wasn’t as useful because I only gained access after they applied a lot of rules that ended up taking the fun out of what it could do. I haven’t gotten into Stable Diffusion yet.
I did learn quite a bit about how to best applied certain prompts to greatly improve my results with MidJourney. Would be nice if all of them played well together and those same prompts could improve results on others.
@ExtraMedium that’s a really neat result. You can almost see the extra time you put in versus one of my examples
@snapster Some of the best results are just putting in ridiculous things to see if the AI understands what kind of image you already have in mind.
Here’s Jeff Bezos as an Anne Gedess baby.
I also started off with Midjourney and I was surprised to enjoy their UI through Discord so much. I then spent some time messing with in/out painting with Dall-e when they added that function to their Web UI.
I had fun exploring utility of it for our Meh gag images. Here’s my attempt at a candelabra we sold a couple weeks ago:
starting image:
outpainting result (plus addition of our candelabra image and a clearance poster):
Did a lot of Midjourney. The fact that the output was Bezos-esque was purely coincidental. “smirking devil by Mat Collishaw” was the prompt.
Midjourney always had such a problem with eyes and faces.
Microsoft has joined the game.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/microsoft-integrates-ai-image-generator-into-edge-bing-and-a-new-app/
@blaineg I bet its very adept at blue screens and death symbology.
@blaineg Didn’t Microsoft already invest $1,000,000,000.00 into OpenAI (Dall-E 2)
Edit: Yes, looks like they did. Maybe I’m just forgetting how insanely rich they are.
@blaineg @diadem
Imagine what a Billion dollars would do for, say free lunches for all school children because who the fuck needs to “means test” a fucking child?
Really, are we that stingy over children that we need to punish their parents, but make damned sure it is only the poor parents that have to jump through hoops just to feed their child?
Or to fund public defenders offices instead of constantly trying to intentionally test the limits of how little can we spend on public defenders before it crosses the line into human rights abuse?
Or to boost elementary school teacher salaries, and forbid shithole states from correspondingly reducing their funding to siphon those funds to the general revenue budgets.
Or to spend on high-crime city police departments - but only for officers who live in the districts they patrol/serve to stop the flow of salary dollars that never come back to that city.
Or to fund hospital gun violence emergency rooms, because thoughts and prayers are doing fuck all, just like the so-called “god” they’re praying to.
Just saying, there are probably more worthy societal benefits to that kind of money ($B) than putting it entirely in the hands of Gates, Buffet, Bezos, Musk, Thiel, Waltons, Carlyle Group, or the rest of the de facto US oligarchy to decide what to spend it on - or not. Time to turn that trickle down spigot wide open, by force if necessary.
@mike808
Give it to me, I’ll spend it wisely.
@mike808 I wish you were preaching to a much larger choir. I really do. Then it might not be necessary to engage in this kind of rant as often…
I played with a few that had no barriers to entry and I could use from my phone. Craiyon is the one I remember. But I would just think of the most random thing I could think of and see how the system interpreted it and how much of the disparate ideas it brought into the picture. An example I remember having fun with was “a dog teaching math class”. Another that showed off wildly different approaches and levels of pop culture versus astronomical/geological “knowledge” or influence was “love island on Mars”. I also had fun with <name of art style> <random object> prompts.
These engines are very powerful tools and create some awesome results in the hands of people that start with an idea and work with the system to generate and refine results to get to what they may envision. On the other hand, I tend to approach it like a twelve year old that finds out if he puts his hand a certain way on a piece of lab equipment he can use it to make loud fart noises.
VAN MURALS! GROUND SQUIRRELS! SPIT CURLS! AWESOME!
I know it was mentioned, but I figured I would add a link to Craiyon. It’s great in that it’s freely available, but also nowhere near the quality of the bigger names. Still, fun for doing things on the fly and throwing silly suggestions around.
I’m a little worried about copyright application for images created by AI ‘in the style of artist X’.
This professor IS an old goat.
@phendrick Self-portrait?
@Kyeh No, I’m taller, but with shorter ears. And not as good looking.
And until overhead projectors from computer podiums (podia?) got to be a thing, I never had that empty a blackboard.
@phendrick A little hard to write with hooves.
@Kyeh According to my students, it didn’t affect my handwriting that much.
How does the devil do it, telekinesis?
@phendrick The devil has hands.
@Kyeh OK. I guess the hooves are on the other end. (So (s)he can poke me with his (her?) pitch fork.
These engines are very powerful tools and create some awesome results in the hands of people that start with an idea and work with the system to generate and refine results to get to what they may envision
WORKER BEES! HERCULES! TURKEY GREASE! AWESOME!
A friend got Stable Diffusion running on his M1 Mac; I had thought it required NVidia card with the Cuda API but apparently there’s more options. He’s been generating and posting weird images nonstop (sigh)