Ironhide's AI art gallery - feel free to exhibit your own art

Vermilion wrote:
kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:Agreed, it's one for the ages.

As is your avatar.

This was what finally prompted me to work out how to upload one.

I’m feeling pretty good about my life choices :datass:

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:
Vermilion wrote:
kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:Agreed, it's one for the ages.

As is your avatar.

This was what finally prompted me to work out how to upload one.

I’m feeling pretty good about my life choices

It's the laughing gnome in the background that's the icing on the cake. :lol:

Sony World Photography Award 2023: Winner refuses award after revealing AI creation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65296763

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The Watching Artist wrote:Sony World Photography Award 2023: Winner refuses award after revealing AI creation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65296763

Most winning pics of these comps look fake af these days anyways, genuine pics rarely ever seem to get a look in.

...wait, what? Did you read the article? Why is he a dickhead? It sounds like you agree with him -- he submitted the piece but refused the award as a kind of protest because he thinks image synth shouldn't be conflated with traditional photography.

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:
Stugene wrote:

Bumping this in case anyone has forgotten it.

We all remember it. :datass:

site23 wrote:...wait, what? Did you read the article? Why is he a dickhead? It sounds like you agree with him -- he submitted the piece but refused the award as a kind of protest because he thinks image synth shouldn't be conflated with traditional photography.

I think i misread some of it.

Have edited my previous post.

Vermilion wrote:
site23 wrote:...wait, what? Did you read the article? Why is he a dickhead? It sounds like you agree with him -- he submitted the piece but refused the award as a kind of protest because he thinks image synth shouldn't be conflated with traditional photography.

I think i misread some of it.

Have edited my previous post.

No problem I was just really confused! :lol:

The thing is, while ai generated images are indeed easy to create in general, getting the exact image you want can take quite a lot of time and repeated attempts before the AI spews out something visually pleasing.

There's no artistic skill needed per se but rather the skill is in expressing to a unaware and uncaring 'entity' exactly what it is that you wish to see.

site23 wrote:
Vermilion wrote:
site23 wrote:...wait, what? Did you read the article? Why is he a dickhead? It sounds like you agree with him -- he submitted the piece but refused the award as a kind of protest because he thinks image synth shouldn't be conflated with traditional photography.

I think i misread some of it.

Have edited my previous post.

No problem I was just really confused!

I just feel despair

Ironhide wrote:...getting the exact image you want can take quite a lot of time and repeated attempts ... the skill is in expressing to a unaware and uncaring 'entity' exactly what it is that you wish to see.

Yeah, one has to respect Stugene's time and effort in describing that "ballsack in tight shorts" scene in such detail

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Preserved for all eternity.

Honestly, i'm thankful it's not available as an NFT.

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You really need to understand composition and certain points of how the model actually interprets what you input. Theres a lot more to generating a "realistic" or believable piece of AI art than just plonking in a simple prompt. And to be honest, that AI image that won that award looks awful and is quite obviously generated

Stugene wrote:You really need to understand composition and certain points of how the model actually interprets what you input. Theres a lot more to generating a "realistic" or believable piece of AI art than just plonking in a simple prompt. And to be honest, that AI image that won that award looks awful and is quite obviously generated

I've been looking on here for inspiration for prompts and it's dramatic improved the quality of results

https://lexica.art/

The Watching Artist wrote:I just feel despair

If it makes you feel any better, I think art is about expressing yourself, and I think good art is about expressing yourself in an interesting way. I think image synthesis can be a super cool tool and/or medium for artists, but I don't think the development of a new artistic frontier makes your art any less brilliant. In the same way that MIDI keyboards didn't destroy the orchestra, I think people will always want to connect to your paintings and appreciate the techniques you have mastered, and even more importantly, I think that your artistic process will always be meaningful to you no matter what anyone else does. :wub:

site23 wrote:
The Watching Artist wrote:I just feel despair

If it makes you feel any better, I think art is about expressing yourself, and I think good art is about expressing yourself in an interesting way. I think image synthesis can be a super cool tool and/or medium for artists, but I don't think the development of a new artistic frontier makes your art any less brilliant. In the same way that MIDI keyboards didn't destroy the orchestra, I think people will always want to connect to your paintings and appreciate the techniques you have mastered, and even more importantly, I think that your artistic process will always be meaningful to you no matter what anyone else does.

This.

Art is for everyone, regardless of how or why you create/generate it.

I'm finding the process of entering, altering and reiterating the prompts to fine tune the output quite a relaxing and interesting experience.

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I think if you've never tried to use AI generation, and you can, then you should - at least to put to bed these ideas that AI is giong to somehow replace the creation of art. Because it is just creating another kind of art - and it requires a deep understanding of art and the process to actually make good gooseberry fool. It is entirely comparable to the MIDI analogy of site's - you still need some artistic flair to make anything of note.

It doesn't matter if the piano is stolen, or it's another composers sheet music, if you can't actually play the piano to begin with its not going to be anywhere near as good as someone with a basic understanding.

I can see AI art being of interest in its own regard - much like how people came to appreciate electronic music more when it stopped trying to ape acoustic stuff - but it's not going to replace human created art. It can make some impressive stuff, but it's only as innovative as it's souce material - and can only make what the user enters.

More incoming, yes they're all anime but I've experimented with different art styles this time.

Spoilered for size, there's nothing really NSFW.

Been putting pictures into the PhotoLeap app and it's scary how good it is for the time it takes to generate the look.

It's a bit gooseberry fool with faces, but stick a car or a building in and you get great results:

It's not perfect and there's a fair few rough edges, but considering it takes approx 5-10 seconds to edit your photo it's pretty impressive.

The cartoon filter is odd, keeps trying to generate the faces of the Simpsons in places. Like hovering above the driver seat here:

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