#Bing Image Creator

[therobotmonster]

On the subject of comic books and emphasis.

Getting some use out of my Tyrannomax extras.

[metamorphicmuse]

Fear Not the Storm

[kimolisai]

Using Bing Create with the prompt: An oil painting, thick rised impasto, palette knife, different size brush strokes of a plus size african american woman, cherry blossoms, full length body view, whimsical, swirl pattern, with thick impasto, expansive view

[tenshichan1013]

princess rapunzel

[gingerbredman1989]

Bing Image Creation

[deepdreamnights]

The Daily Dæme is…

016 - Gel-Lee

She enjoys training, fighting, justice, and bad movie nights.

Features: Agile, Brawler, Food*

Quirk: Tsundering-Do

*Special: Biting or cutting attacks cause no pain or damage, with removed sections instantly regenerating, though this is taxing. Gel-Lee’s candy heals humans and Dæmes.  

The Dæmomancer:  They respect only those who respect their need for training and constant improvement. Ironically, their coaches are often shiftless manger-types and lazy con-artists. Perhaps a form of rebellion against their confectioneers.  

Prof. Lyrica: Centuries of confectionary expertise and martial arts skill blended together with just the right amount of artificial flavoring and dye to make the ultimate champion of the people, able to fight for them in hard times, and feed them in lean ones. 

Warden Parks: Look, we all instantiate strange stuff, but candy is just wrong. I understand they’re adapted to it perfectly, it’s like a haircut, they actually benefit, but it’s still creepy… and every color tastes the same. 

Sy Fife: Able to focus mystical energy through discipline, Gel-Lee’s chi grants her supernatural bounciness and the agility to control it. She can even heat her sugar to boiling and project chi-blasts of sizzling sucrose and gelatin. 

Dr. Entendre: Ursucrosus Harribois, h 1.6 m, 73 kg. A common food Dæme, Gel-Lee is highly adaptable, developing in multiple potential directions depending on the training it receives from its coach, or by its own wandering. Their passion for combat exceeds that of most Dæmes. 

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[tangibletechnomancy]

The (Personal) Is (Political)

~7 hours, Dall-E 3 via Bing Image Creator, generated under the Code of Ethics of Are We Art Yet?

Or, Dear Microsoft and OpenAI: Your Filters Can't Stop Me From Saying Things: An interactive exercise in why all art is political and game of Spot The Symbols

A rare piece I consider Fully Finished simply as a jpeg, though I may do something physical with it regardless. "Director commentary" below, but I strongly encourage you to go over this and analyze it yourself before clicking through, then see how much your reading aligns with my intent.

Elements I told the model to add and a brief (...or at least inexhaustive) overview of why:

Anime style and character figures - Frequently associated with commercial "low" art and consumer culture, in East Asia and the English-speaking world alike, albeit in different ways - justly or otherwise. There is frequently an element of racism to the denigration of anime styles in the west; nearly any American artist who has taken formal illustration classes can tell you a story of being told that anime style will only hinder them, that no one will hire them if they see anime, or even being graded more harshly and scrutinized for potential anime-esque elements if they like anime or imply that they may like anime - including just by being Asian and young. On the other hand, it is true that there is a commercial strategy of "slap an anime girl on it and it will sell". The passion fans feel for these characters is genuine - and it is very, very exploitable. In fact, this commercialization puts anime styles in particular in a very contentious position when it comes to AI discussions!

Dark-skinned boy with platinum and pink [and blue] hair - Racism and colorism! They're a thing, no matter how much the worst people in the world want you to think they're long over and "critical race theory" is the work of evil anti-American terrorists! I chose his appearance because I knew that unless I was incredibly lucky, I would have to fight with this model for multiple hours to get satisfactory results on this point in particular - and indeed I did. It was an interesting experience - what didn't surprise me was how much work it took me to get a skin color darker than medium-dark tan; what did surprise me was that the hair color was very difficult to get right. In anime art, for dark skin to be matched with light hair and eyes is common enough to be...pretty problematic. Bing Image Creator/Dall-E, on the other hand, swings completely in the opposite direction and struggles with the concept of giving dark-skinned characters any hair color OTHER than black, demanding pretty specific phrasing to get it right even 70% of the time. (I might cynically call this yet another illustration against the pervasive copy-paste myth...) There is also much to say about the hair texture and facial features - while I was pleased to see that more results than I expected gave me textured hair and/or box braids without me asking for it, those were still very much in the minority, and I never saw any deviation from the typical anime facial structures meant to illustrate Asian and white characters. Not even once!

Pink and blue color palette - Our subject is transgender. Bias self-check time: did you make that association as quickly as you would with a light-skinned character, or even Sylveon?

Long hair, cute clothes, lots of accessories - Styling while transmasc is a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation, doubly so if you're not white. In many locations, the medical establishment and mainstream attitude demands total conformity to the dominant culture's standard conventional masculinity, or else "revoking your man card" isn't just a joke meant to uphold the idea that men are "better" than women, but a very real threat. In many queer communities, especially online, transmascs are expected to always be cute femboys who love pink (while transfems are frequently degraded and seen as threats for being butch), and being Just Some Guy is viewed as inherently a sign of assimilationism at best and abusiveness at worst. It is an eternal tug-of-war where "cuteness" and ornamentation are both demanded and banned at the same time. Black and brown people are often hypermasculinized and denied the opportunity to even be "cute" in the first place, regardless of gender. Long hair and how gender is read into it is extremely culture-dependent; no matter what it means to you, if anything, the dominant culture wherever you are will read it as it likes.

Trophies and medals - For one, the trans sports Disk Horse has set feminism back by nearly 50 years; I'm barely a Real History-Remembering Adult and yet I clearly remember a time when the feminist claim about gender in sports was predominantly "hey, it's pretty fucked up that sports are segregated by sex rather than weight class or similar measures, especially when women's sports are usually paid much less and given weirdly oversexualized uniforms," but then a few loud living embodiments of turds in the punch bowl realized that might mean treating trans people fairly and now it's super common for self-proclaimed feminists - mostly white ones - to claim that the strongest woman will still never measure up to the weakest man and this is totally a feminist statement because they totally want to PROTECT women (with invasive medical screenings on girls as young as 12 to prove they're Really Women if they perform too well, of course). For two, Black and brown people are stereotyped as being innately more sporty, physically strong, and, again, Masculine(TM) than others, which frequently intersects with item 1...and if you think it only affects trans women, I am sorry my friend but it is so much worse and more extensive than you think.

Hearts - They mean many things. Love. Happiness. Cuteness. Social media engagement?

TikTok - A platform widely known and hated around these parts for its arcane and deeply regressive algorithm; I felt it deserved to be name/layout/logodropped for reasons that, if they're not clear already, should become so in the final paragraph.

Computers, cameras and cell phones - My initial specification was that one of the phones should be on Instagram and another on TikTok, which the model instead chose to interpret as putting a TikTok sticker on the laptop, but sure, okay. They're ubiquitous in the modern day, for better and for worse. For all the debate over whether phones and social media are Good For Us or Bad For Us, the fact of the matter is, they seem to be a net positive-to-neutral, whose impacts depend on the person - but they do still have major drawbacks. The internet is a platform for conspiracy theories and pseudoscience and dangerous hoaxes to spread farther than ever before. Social media culture leaves many people feeling like we're always being watched and every waking moment of our lives must be Perfect - and in some senses, we are always being watched these days. Digital privacy is eroding by the day, already being used to enforce all the most unjust laws on the books, which leads to-

Pigs - I wrote the prompt with the intention that it would just be a sticker on the laptop, but instead it chose to put them everywhere, and given that I wanted to make a somewhat stealthy statement about surveillance, especially of the marginalized...thanks for that, Dall-E! ;)

Alligators - A counter to the pigs; a short-lived antifascist symbol after...this.

Details I did not intend but love anyway:

The blue in the hair - I only prompted for platinum and pink in the hair, but the overall color palette description "bled" over here anyway, completing the trans flag, making it even more blatant, and thus even more effective as a bias self-check.

The Macbook - I only specified a laptop. Hilariously ironic, to me, that a service provided through Bing interpreted "laptop" as "Macbook" nearly every time. In my recent history, 22 out of 24 attempts show, specifically, a Macbook. Microsoft v. OpenAI divorce arc when? ;) But also, let us not forget Apple's role in the ever-worsening sanitization of the internet. A Macbook with a TikTok sticker (or, well, a Tiikok sticker - recognizable enough) - I can think of little more emblematic of one of the main things I was complaining about, and it was a happy accident. Or perhaps an unhappy one, considering what it may imply about Apple's grip on culture and communications.

Which brings me to my process:

Generated over ~7 hours with Dall-E 3 through Bing Image Creator - The most powerful free tool out there for txt2img these days, as well as a nightmare of filters and what may be the most disgustingly, cloyingly impersonal toxic positivity I've ever witnessed from a tool. It wants to be Art(TM), yet it wants to ban Politics(TM); two things which are very much incompatible - and so, I wanted to make A Controversial Statement using only the most unflaggable, innocuous elements imaginable, no matter how long it took.

All art is political. All life is political. All our "defaults" are cultural, and therefore political. Anything whatsoever can be a symbol.

If you want all art to be a substance-free "look at the pretty picture :)" - it doesn't matter how much you filter, buddy, you've got a big storm coming.

[creativecuquilu]

You guys remember that Prime with nachos I generated when I had that dream? Well, I felt as thought Megatron should have some too.

In said dream, D-16 barely ever moved. He just sat in front of Orion, doing nothing. And of course, both of them had no cog.

I found the clip in TVTropes, by the way. Did you also know they where going to play an arcade together? However that scene was cut, and left as an easter egg.

I was also planning on making them have nachos together, but I didn't like the turnout.

But guess what. The Bing Generator also knows who Megatron is!

I used the same prompt as Prime, but with few differences.

"Megatron having a bowl of nachos at a diner booth, illustration, bright colors, vhs lines, grainy", if anybody's asking.

Hope you like it!

[metamorphicmuse]

"The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination, and brings eternal joy to the soul."

- Robert Wyland

[kimolisai]

Using Bing Create with the prompt of a whimsical black woman tinkering on a robot in a cluttered workshop

[tenshichan1013]

princess rapunzel

[ms-divi]

An odypen short I found but make it Telesicca

Full credits to @epic-mau for reference and here are the frames I used.

Help why did I make them look like childhood friends 😢?!

[vvyvernicus]

Better be in season 2...

[tabithasmashkittymoonblossom]

Cute little gay Drarry smoochy smooch

Why do I love it so much.

Kicking my legs and squealing

@pheexblack