AI and it's Art
A humorous look at what and how not to ask AI to create images.
I am the first to admit that I am oblivious to a lot of what is happening on Vocal. There is a lot to keep up with. I did ask to be made to feel warm and fuzzy, but now I feel like I if I am not careful, I will internally and externally combust. Things have certainly heated up on the platform.
There are challenges everywhere, some I have not even had a chance to look at, most I think I have attempted to write in. New communities abound and demand attention.
I still have right hand in and left hand out with Discord. Then there are the Facebook groups, which are getting more and more complex as one tries to navigate them. But, I am doing my best and working at my own pace, which leaves me miles behind everyone else. Totally fine, I ain't in no race with nobody.
Which brings me to AI Art. They rarely are on the same page that you are, and many are fearful abominations that would scare the pants off of the less brave among us.
I realize that whenever I ask for just plain creations, with no pretty words attached, I tend to get what I ask for. For example, if I do not specify ethnicity, I will most assuredly get white folks all the time. White women tend to come out looking quite lovely. No offense, I love white folks as much as every other color folks. But I have to be very specific with what I request, in order to get what I almost want. 'Cause it is a toss up about that......
If I ask for "A pic of black women surrounded by flowers". I get this:
If I ask for "A beautiful Black woman surrounded by flowers". I get this:
I also notice that AI tends to expose or highlight Black women's breasts way more often than it does other (I won't mention who or whom else's) breasts. Case in point:
Black witch
White witch
If I ask for a pic of an older woman however, AI is very respectful of this and dresses her in matronly clothing with a most genteel aura.
Makes me wonder where AI draws its images from. Is it free to roam the worldwide web for pictures, or is it specifically programmed to draw its characters from specific written lines of code or whatever one refers to for images.
So, I say to you, be careful what you ask AI for, for you shall surely have it. As I told Mike, or was it Paul? You have to have a romance with AI. Whisper sweet nothings in his, her, its ears, and you will receive the most lovely of creations.
I asked Open AI for a picture of a pirate ship. I got this:
I have no idea how the guys created lovely centaurs for the centaur challenge, but they were gorgeous male and female centaurs.
Maybe I should have just asked for the body of a horse with a beautiful female head attached...Lord knows what I would have got!
I asked for: A centaur with the body of a horse and the head of a beautiful woman (NightCafe)
Imagery (Wiki)
"Many mechanisms for creating AI art have been developed, including procedural "rule-based" generation of images using mathematical patterns, algorithms which simulate brush strokes and other painted effects, and deep learning algorithms, such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and transformers".
One of the first significant AI art systems is AARON, developed by Harold Cohen beginning in the late 1960s at the University of California at San Diego. Cohen developed AARON with the goal of being able to code the act of drawing. In its primitive form, AARON created simple black and white drawings. Cohen would later finish the drawings by painting them. Throughout the years, he also began to develop a way for AARON to also paint. Cohen designed AARON to paint using special brushes and dyes that were chosen by the program itself without mediation from Cohen
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) were designed in 2014. This system uses a "generator" to create new images and a "discriminator" to decide which created images are considered successful. DeepDream, released by Google in 2015, uses a convolutional neural network to find and enhance patterns in images via algorithmic pareidolia, thus creating deliberately over-processed images.
I still don't know where it draws its images from after this well-informed read from Wikipedia, apparently it is a very convoluted network of neural interfaces and whatnots.
But I am getting wise in the ways of Ai art, peeking at and copying from the masters of Ai art on the various platforms. Most of them don't mind, they invite us to share and learn.
AI has come long way. Can we keep up?
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Several companies have released apps that transform photos into art-like images with the style of well-known sets of paintings. The website Artbreeder, launched in 2018, uses the models StyleGAN and BigGAN to allow users to generate and modify images such as faces, landscapes, and paintings.
Several programs use text-to-image models to generate a variety of images based on various text prompts. They include VQGAN+CLIP which was released in 2021. OpenAI's DALL-E which released a series of images in January 2021, Google Brain's Imagen and Parti which was announced in May 2022, Microsoft's NUWA-Infinity, and Stable Diffusion which was released in August 2022. Stability.ai has a Stable Diffusion web interface called DreamStudio. Stable Diffusion is source-available software, enabling further development such as plugins for Krita, Photoshop, Blender, and GIMP, as well as the Automatic1111 web-based open source user interface.
There are many other AI art generation programs including simple consumer-facing mobile apps and Jupyter notebooks that require powerful GPUs to run effectively. (Wiki)
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Congrats on Top Story! Amazing work and well deserved. 🎉🎈 Super proud of you!!!
Hi Novel, I just wanted to let you know that I think this story was skimmed and put on another blog. I found it because one of my stories was taken too. I just filed a DMCA takedown request, and thought you might like to know too! Here's the link to the offending blog: https://adventuretour700.blogspot.com/ Feel free to message me on Discord (I sent you a friend request) if you need any help navigating the DMCA request!
Novel, this is such a thought provoking read for me! I now too wonder where AI gets the images from which it generates or uses to combine with other images! I laughed at the pirate ship image... like I can't even... how is that at all what you asked for? Then the boob situation was also hilarious to me! Great article, Novel!
"AI and Its Art" represents a fascinating intersection of human ingenuity and technological innovation, where the realms of creativity and artificial intelligence converge to produce unique and thought-provoking forms of artistic expression.
This was an important look at how ai views human perception and how it is translated. Well done!
Really informative article and well written 👌🙏✨
Great work dear. Really captivating. I'm new here and the app keeps telling me my work is not up to 700 words while it's beyond 1000 word. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?
Beautiful graphics
AI is like everything that deems to automate specific processes: limited and soulless. It can only do so much, even though an increasing number of people are trying to take advantage of it to make a quick buck. I only use AI to inspire my creativity and visualize characters / settings for my stories. Apart from that, I don't think AI-generated art is good or particularly beautiful. Nothing beat human-made art.
Suggesting that machines can create art devalues both art and humanity. https://shopping-feedback.today/futurism/suggesting-that-machines-are-artists-devalues-art-and-humanity%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
That centaur is something else haha! To be honest, I'm also way behind on what happens on the platform. I don't do the discord, and I don't even think I have joined a vocal facebook group... though wow how come I hadn't thought of that...? Ugh. So, I too am way behind - and working at my own pace. Your own pace is a great pace to go. I'm here for it.
insightful work as always. Sadly, the Racism and colorism aspects are not surprising. Thx for sharing your findings. Just curious, were there racial or skin tone discrepancies when you type in men for the gender. Great work as always Novel! Congrats on your TOP STORY!😁
Definitely a Top story for August 😀 Congratulations!
Chuckling and applauding your admission ... Congratulations on Top Story!
Nice to read your Ai experience, I stopped to use Ai because I was deleted at one platform where everybody else use it I later read rules that they do accept Ai creations but you somehow can't create people whose faces don't exist I mean you can't put it on some platforms very confusing rules and about the breasts of Ai creating woman figure like more sexy I was trying to get some for a story in the end I choose photo of mine instead because I got so many similar sexy blond females and males quite beautiful but nothing of the romanticism in it that I was looking for or maybe they were too perfect I still find it interesting and yes you need watch out what you ask for you are right I asked for some and created monsters that got me banned on a design platform because I used four Ai designs just because I predicted something I think what Ai is missing and real human creations won't is the intuitive ability to create things in an abstract ways that will happen next I mean it will always miss such approaches because it's Ai not real human and somehow these creations tend to be pretty familiar but quite funny how it gets on your wishes sexy big boobs for black woman and really almost nun looking white ones get me wonder whose that Ai is for real out of because at some point they are very familiar to some of the creations that many people before Ai were able to draw and create on tablet Very great info about the creators of the programs and apps of it.
Great article. Congrats on the TS.
It's actually true, which is actually creepy in reality, but also in the virtual world. You ask for something from AI, and you get something! Anyway, it's amazing how technology is developing, but I'm telling you(!), the world is falling apart in a scary way. Or not? I really like your post. It got me thinking. I'm glad I read it!
This was a very interesting and informative article! I use a lot of AI generated art for my posts online because I can’t afford to hire real artists otherwise I would definitely do that. My issue is when people try to defend AI as generating real art, because I think that requires a human (or maybe alien in the far future) hand. Our ability to individually iterate and develop our skills make the art produced that way much more appealing to me. Though I acknowledge there is some grey area for this when it comes to AI assisted works. Not sure where I fall on that. Most AI is also sadly not very racially diverse or (as in the case you describe in your article) it sexualizes non-white people in very odd ways that I don’t appreciate, also facial recognition software isn’t great with non-white, specifically black, demographics. Hopefully that’s being worked on, but hey maybe not.
Fantastic!!! Novell, fabulous advice and info!!! Loved it!! Congratulations on Top Story!!!❤️❤️💕
Whoa, your article gives thought to a topic I have not considered. AI is racist. I tinker around generating images, using Dall E until I burn my free credits up, then move over to Midjourney. I've noticed there's some changes there. AI images can be so cool, and it is an art to get what you want out of it. I had not tried to generate images with different ethnicities. Congrats on TS. and P.s. I've complimented you before on your images, you're really good at taming the AI beast.
Thank you for the in-depth information, Novel!
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Dude, I am noticing so many AI poems on Vocal! It rly bothers me; I hope they are able to weed them out for the contests. As for the racism bit, thats even more concerning because this stuff feels so ubiquitous. It needs regulation stat. Congrats on Top Story :)
This is a really great article addressing the downfalls of AI and touching upon racism in tech. I've seen videos of automated sinks not registering black skin, and people were having to put white paper towels on their hands to get it to work. It's an issue that certainly needs to be addressed. Congrats on your Top Story! Very enlightening
Hahahahahahahhahahahaha omgggg I laughed so much for the centaur one! AI art is definitely racist. And sometimes dumb too, lol!