#AI Replication

[scriptingthewhy]

Exploring VR and AR: Redefining Reality and Connection

AI generated image. “Projects, projects, and more projects with tight deadlines! How is this my life!?” The Thinking Minute Imagine this: you’re sitting down, staring at the screen, and I’m about to throw you into an existential whirlpool—but stay with me. One day, hopefully far from now, you won’t be here. No more sunsets, no more memes, no more you. Now that the gravity of that thought has…

[kazifatagar]

Scientists warn AI has crossed ‘red line’ and can now replicate itself

Researchers from Fudan University in China have revealed a groundbreaking discovery in artificial intelligence (AI), warning that it may have crossed a critical “red line.” Experiments showed that advanced language learning models (LLMs) from Meta and Alibaba could replicate themselves without human intervention, succeeding in 50% and 90% of trials, respectively. The study, published on arXiv,…

[zomb13s]

The Dire Situation of Artificial Intelligence and the Absence of a 'Fantasy' Database: A Socio-Economic and Political Analysis

Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a subject of widespread fascination, promising advancements in nearly every sector, from healthcare to logistics and entertainment. However, there exists a profound void in AI’s conceptual framework—a lack of a true ‘fantasy’ database. AI, as it stands, has no innate capacity to generate fantasy or imaginative outputs without drawing heavily…

[desertduality]

hey I’m gonna take a quick moment to say this. if you make art, any kind of art, I am proud of you!! even if you think it’s bad. especially if you think it’s bad. if you sit down and create something with your own hands and your own brain I think that’s the coolest thing ever and I hope you never stop. whatever you’re doing is leagues better than whatever a computer can spit out. so i’m proud of you.

[kukopelli]

Self shipping saved my grandma actually

[jjoneechan]

DTeam as Pokémon Gym Leaders!

Dream, Grass Type 🌱☀️

Sapnap, Fighting type! 🥊💥

George, Water type! 🌊💧

this was a commission! Ty Shay for commissioning meee 🥰

[regaliasonata]

AI could NEVER replace me

[prncssguya]

if you claim to love studio ghibli but use the chatgpt ghibli image generator, then no. you do not love studio ghibli, and you fundamentally do not understand or respect hayao miyazaki and his art. in the words of the man himself “i feel strongly that this is an insult to life itself.”

[raens-art]

Had to draw the best girl so here's a page of studies, ranging from redraws to original stuff.

Keep comments in the tags and replies, thank you.

Bonus process of one of the busts under cut:

[junkissed]

i know i'm on hiatus rn but if any of you are putting my fics into ai i will delete my entire blog straight up. i decided to leave my blog open so yall can still read them, so don't ruin it for everyone.

any asks i get about ai will be blocked and deleted.

[posthumanwanderings]

so I started using Instagram again cause that’s where my IRL friends have been posting their updates and my biggest beef with using it so far is that it throws me into suggested posts after like 10 actual posts from people I follow and it’s complete algorithm trash. of all things they could suggest to me (Y2K gaming, giant robots, giant women, the oversaturated VGM DNB mixes I see all over youtube the cool kids have been making etc) all it wants to show me are trendy convenient stores in Japan memes from traveling influencers. which is ironic cause Japanese people are hating the influx of post-covid tourism ESPECIALLY from influencers so it’s just cringe altogether for me. and that’s seriously all it shows me maybe cause last time I was using insta I was in Japan with wi-fi on and it tracked everywhere I went? this definitely makes me appreciate tumblr more and although I have to have some plugins on here to make it less fucked / less twitterfied it’s a way more enjoyable experience here for me. my friends are happy to see me post again but if only they knew that tumblr is alive still and that I’d help gain them traction to make their time worthwhile... but it be what it be think they all said their goodbyes already ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[vivalgi]

😛

[crocrubies]

Drew my faves to find the common thread and I think I found it. Murder

[fantasy-anatomy-analyst]

Making Humanoids Less Human

I did make a small post on this, but now I've got the art for a much bigger and more detailed post! so here we go.

I had several anonymous asks that all came in quick succession weeks ago. Every single one of them was basically just a variation on "how would you take (typically humanoid) fantasy being, and make them look less human?"

This blog does not exist for me to just give people original designs for free, my goal is to show off my own personal thoughts about fantasy design and help people figure out how to adjust their own designs to fit their vision better. That means when people ask me questions about how to do something, I want to give them things to think about so they can come to their own conclusion. I don't mind making original designs to illustrate concepts, but a whole flood of "show me how to make this specific thing look different" all at once like that was too much. I'm not answering them all individually, it's just not what I want to do.

But what I can do is show my own thoughts and ideas about how to take any fantasy design and push it further away from "human", and you all can look at my ideas and figure out your own way to do things!

So here are the main 4 methods I've come up with to make humanoids look less human.

(image description: a simplified drawing of a humanoid face surrounded by four altered versions of the same face. clockwise starting from the top left, they are:

Speculative, drawn as a cat person. Additive, drawn with horns, pointy ears, sharp teeth, and a second pair of eyes. Subtractive, drawn with blank eyes, no nose, and no eyebrows. Exaggerative, drawn with a long face and huge eyes, as well as a wide mouth, narrow nose, and big ears.

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I am personally a fan of the speculative route, which means exploring an alternate root of evolution to create a new design. Through this method, I've created monkey elves, frog goblins, and pig orcs.

the additive option is the most common, I think. adding new feature or doubled features to a humanoid form is a very intuitive way to change the design and make it look less human. you see this in most fantasy and scifi designs, like star trek aliens and the dnd player races.

subtractive and evaggerative are the most common options for people that like the uncanny valley. it's really easy to make uncomfortable designs by removing or exaggerating recognizable features, and they're often used together. Slenderman, for example, removes all facial features and skin color but also exaggerates the limbs and body.

Combining the four methods will give you a really interesting design as well! So for practice I decided to explore an alternate design for Tieflings, the part-demon player race in dnd.

(image description: four examples of differnt tiefling designs using the previously described methods. the additive example is just offical dnd art of a tiefling woman with purple skin, horns, and a long tail.

the subtractive sketch looks very alien, with a bald head, empty eyes, and no other facial featuers aside from a small mouth. it has three fingers per hand and two toe per foot.

the exaggerative sketch shows a hunched humanoid figure with huge eyes and big ears. the neck, limbs, and digits are all long with claws at the ends of the fingers and toes, and the limbs are also quite muscular.

the speculative sketch shows a bipedal figure with features similar to a giraffe, including a long neck, ossicones, and hooves.

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now, because tielflings have such a distinct look to them, obviously my new sketches don't really look like tieflings, do they? the only one that comes close is the giraffe. relying only on one type of alteration to the human form has left the designs rather empty and lacking in the more iconic traits of the original concept. so i tried a sketch that combined my ideas! it came out looking like a completely different creature lol, like it could be a kobold or something, still not really a tiefling.

(image description: a sketch of a creature with a giraffe-like head, long tongue, and sharp teeth. it appears to be roaring at something and stands in a half-crouch. it has long limbs with hoof feet and clawed hands, as well as a long tufted tail curled behind it. end description.)

didn't work out. too far into the animal side of the speculative evolution, I think. so I tried again and got a design I liked much better!

(image description: a digital painting of a tiefling leaping back and casting a glowing orange spell. she is wearing a tunic with a corset and detached sleeves, as well as several pieces of jewelry. Her skin is purple with dark patches like a giraffe's spots, and she has a giraffe's ossicones as well as hoof-like hands and two-toed hoof feet. Her tail is long with a tuft at the end. She has glowing eyes and a flat nose, and there is a single sharp tooth visible poking out of the side of her mouth. end description.)

Brought the face back into slightly more human proportions and that helped a lot. Sometimes designs just take a few tries! that's normal.

and hopefully this is helpful to all of you! there are so many ways to alter humanoid designs to come up with something original and unique to you!

[mcsiggy]

i love writing things then realizing other things i wrote down connect together and the story is forming making my head big and large from being SO smart.

[karokawwo]

ok wellll originally i wanted to release all 5 at the same time but im getting distracted by everything so might as well post the 2 i HAVE finished. i do want to finish the rest of the cast but for now you get aisku and mikuras