#ai-based experiments

[redslug]

Helping Neuroslug help me

Admittedly it took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure out and start using inpainting, but now that I've had a taste of it my head is spinning with possibilities. And so I'm making this post to show the process and maybe encourage more artists to try their hand at generating stuff. It really can can be an amazing teammate when you know how to apply it. For those who didn't see my first post on this, I've trained an AI on my artworks, because base Stable Diffusion doesn't understand what anthropomorphic insects are. That out of the way, here we go:

I noticed that a primarily character focused LoRA often botches backgrounds (probably because few images of the dataset have them) so I went with generating a background separately and roughly blocking out a character over it in Procreate. Since it was a first experiment I got really generous with proper shading and even textures. Unsurprisingly, SD did it's job quite well without much struggle.

Basically masked out separate parts such as fluff, skirt, watering can, etc. and changed the prompt to focus on that specific object to add detail. There were some bloopers too. She's projecting her inner spider.

Of course it ate the hands. Not inpainting those, it's the one thing I'll render correctly faster than the AI does. Some manual touchups to finish it off and voila:

The detail that would have taken me hours is done in 10-20 minutes of iterating through various generations. And nothing significant got lost in translation from the block out, much recommend. But that was easy mode, my rough sketch could be passed off as finished on one of my lazier days, not hard to complete something like that. Lets' try rough rough.

I got way fewer chuckles out of this than I expected, it took only 4-5 iterations for the bot to offer me something close to the sketch.

>:C It ate the belly. I demand the belly back. Scribble it in...

Much better. Can do that with any bit actually, very nice for iterating a character design.

Opal eyes maybe?

Lol

Okay, no, it's kind of unsettling. Back to red ones. Now, let's give her thigh highs because why not?

It should be fancier. Give me a lace trim.

Now we're talking. Since we've started playing dress-up anyway, why not try a dress too. Please don't render my scribble like a trash bag. I know you want to.

Phew

I crave more details.

Cute. Perhaps I'll clean it up later. ... .. . SHRIMP DRESS

[vioyume]

I don't think people should be using mental health as a quirky game mechanic where its only purpose is to act as another difficulty or to "make it scary". :/

[nyoomerr]

is duckduckgo's main search any good? i've been using startpage for a while but since it's just filtered google it's started to get the same ai listicles clogging up search results

eh, five years ago i probably would have preferred google's results, but at this point we're stuck with grading search engines based on "what's the least shitty" instead of "what is actually decent."

i don't see the AI garbage that google pushes on me, the higher standard for privacy is appreciated, and supposedly if you don't have an adblocker then you'll see less ads, too.

also, this is a purely personal anecdote, but it seems like duckduckgo prefers to serve smaller websites and avoids some social media as first page results. i.e. whenever i search related to programming, google will often give me reddit pages in the first page while duckduckgo will prefer to give me some random devblog i haven't heard of. this could be either a good thing or a bad thing depending on your preferences, i suppose, but it's pretty easily solvable by specifying a domain when searching if you have something specific in mind.

i do specifically go to google for any sort of image search, though.

[funkle420]

a great way to combat genAI in the future would be educating kids (and teens and college students and all ppl) on art way more.

[baronazazel]

Fuck AI and look at my new son.

[manmishra]

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[nyt1ba]

      This little tidbit is interesting to me,   Elegg is asking for a blueprint of the Tetrapod and Lily tells her that it's nearly impossible extract any from the system.   Which confirms another headcanon of mine,   Adam designed his ship with more functions and rooms than meets the eye.   Due to him always wandering contaminated areas,   he built in extra precautions so his mutation wouldn't go TOO out of hand,   within the Tetrapod there's a disinfection chamber,   as well as a little lab to make and mix antidotes to keep his condition stable,   none that can be given to others, as it's made from his own blood and can be highly contagious to ordinary humans.   Among other rooms,   Adam had concealed it all within the Tetrapod's walls,   no doors or openings to be found,   only authorized to be opened by him.   Although he shows non of it,   he's skilled in programming and can designs systems and Ai to serve intended functions or operate more freely,   he'd sworn off anything Ai related since the final war,   the system in his ship is more of an assistant that only responds to commands,   only his,   unless he gives permission.   It's a safety precaution,   since there's always scavenger bandits that would want to steal his findings and his ship if left unattended,   if anyone attempts to dig too deep and extract information,   the system is instructed to self sabotage and erase the information,   hence why the result is always garbled and incomprehensible.

[fagulaa]

im a grown ass man and im coming up with wolf 359 ocs. dont look at me

[lunarreign24]

All of the vocal editing Reddit posts I could find just said to use different AI programs for voice editing, so I tried one

It turned my vocal issued from the Tardive Dyskinesia into a heavy southern accent

So, to answer the question, DON'T!!!

[bitchywitchheart]

ai checkers when someone doesn't know how to write an essay (they were never taught) and therefore their essay is stiff

[shuvva]

tfw you keep accidentally making your characters plural-coded through different forms of transhumanism, multiple timeline, and supernatural/possession shit

[crimeronan]

you guys. my biggest client who dropped me for AI just gave me over $1,000 of work.

[fortunaestalta]

[llycaons]

I wrote a long post abt how hysteria over cheating with AI is borderline irrelevant to my field and how that post implying it's a huge epidemic annoys me and then deleted it bc nobody cares. lol

[syrips]

people who dislike ai really need to hype up less-popular/unconventional artists and creators more. the amount of pet peeves i get from 'oh i love non-ai stuff' but the lack of support drives me so insane

you dont like ai art? how about you focus and show off that WIP, that messy creation, and that taboo art that you know is personal, intimate, and the work of someone who isnt ai, then?

how about you stop bashing ai's uncanny formula for 'perfection' and you praise people who post and share their creations, regardless of how professional or conventional it may not look?

for all the hundreds of thousands of notes on 'anti-ai' posts, it drives me insane at how little a 'cringey', unneat, immersive, intimate, 'obviously-created-by-a-beginner' type of creation gets.

like please, i know theyre kind of separate things, but can you at least prove you dislike ai by promoting non-ai stuff more? especially the beginner/intermediate/'obviously-human' ones?