How did the launch go? Could you share Revenue stats after the first 24 hours of the launch?
Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
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Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
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This is a cool technological feat but what is the cost to humanity and its artists? Some of these replies seem rather dismissive to the artists’ plight.
Cost is nothing because this service isn't offered currently. No income lost and might spark an interest in coloring books which grows the artist's income. Artists have been around and existed in more repressive societies throughout time. The best art is usually produced from the greatest struggle. Artists will engage and create art in this new world. The cost of not providing a new surface for artists to explore is…
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Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
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In fairness no artists are advertising a personal coloring book. The time, effort and cost would put this out of reach for 99.99 of people. No artists are losing income because of this and no industry is being upended. This is a new product that's available because of a technology advanced. Why the focus the artist? Everytime you order in food online you take away a tip from a host, server, bartender and take away a…
And yet there’s plenty of adult coloring books made by a human out there if you’re willing to go to a brick and mortar shop. Got a super cool one from dick blicks, with a lot of underwater scenes. Also paper quality is important. I can’t imagine getting as far as I did in mine if it was newspaper
That’s because those are not personalized. The economy of scale allows for artists to make generic coloring book with high quality art, but it’s expensive for artists to create (and customers to buy) custom made coloring books personalized for the customers photos.
Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
In fairness no artists are advertising a personal coloring book. The time, effort and cost would put this out of reach for 99.99 of people. No artists are losing income because of this and no industry is being upended. This is a new product that's available because of a technology advanced. Why the focus the artist? Everytime you order in food online you take away a tip from a host, server, bartender and take away a…
The food you order online was not stolen from the server/bartender without their permission or compensation. Even if the analogy holds, this is whataboutism, and in the U.S. at least tipping is a fucked system too.
If you stop going into the restaurant they stop scheduling servers. You or the restaurant didn't get permission from the server who isn't working there anymore.
It's about applying your outrage evenly. Why put artists over a servers? Why do you drive when not using horses means many blacksmiths positions disappear. Technology that is accepted by society changes society. Artists will continue to evolve and create messages about those changes. No need to worry about their plight. Worry about translators or other industries that can't easily provide the same value. Artists are the one group who will survive and thrive.
Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
#65For anyone looking for a prompt to do this manually, it seems to be as simple as this: > Generate a version of this photo that can be used as a coloring sheet
The OP looks like it runs images through a Ghibli filter first
Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
#66For what it’s worth (and it’s probably not much), it doesn’t cost that much to commission comic book-style art from an actual artist online. When you do that, the proceeds go to an artist, not to an AI company that stole from them and a software developer who wrote a wrapper around their API.
I tried to do exactly that once. I was offering between $20-$40 per image to make a few coloring pages as a mother's day gift for my wife. Not complex images either -- just basic coloring pages from photos of my wife and child, without backgrounds, for my kids to color in.
I reached out to multiple artists, and got one image back (from a good friend). I gave up on commissioning actual artists, and traced the images myself on a tablet. I imagine someone with the right knowledge of where to find artists and the willingness to wait on their schedule could have done it faster, but I'd have used this service if it had been around.
Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
#67The comics look pretty Miyazaki-inspired, like all of the comics I've seen lately. I've kinda started to dislike this look because it's _everywhere_ that low-effort comics are these days. Maybe worth trying to train a better style for this. This is probably something where you could put a little effort in up-front (ie: using a model that's for segmentation to get outlines, using some classic image-processing for boun…
It doesn't look particularly Miyazaki style to me; it's just a generic cartoon style. I think the Ghiblipocalypse has gotten people on edge.
It absolutely resembles the current Miyazaka-esque OpenAI image trend that’s been going on.
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#68from clevercoloringbook.com: > Please only upload photos that are in line with OpenAI's Usage Policy. > We are not able to include any photos that do not follow their policy in the final printed book. from openai.com/policies > Editing uploaded images or videos that contain real people under the age of 18 is not permitted. The first two sample pictures on the page contain of adolescent children. Are you concerned abo…
> "that contain real people"
It seems the loophole on this site, is the examples (by my best guess) are AI.
Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
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Hard disagree. Sample #2 is totally the Miyazaki-vibe that is everywhere in OpenAI-generated comics. https://clevercoloringbook.com/samples/2_cartoon.png The cartoon owl at the top has a different vibe and would probably work for the comics as well.
It's nothing like Ghibli, you are overthinking this.
I'm gonna agree with the above comment - #2 looks like a Japanese-style cartoon (for better or worse).
Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
#70This is fucking amazing!
Everyone and their mother are trying to hop on the band wagon of AI and make a half assed service just because it may sell just due to the "ai" tag attached to it - this is different!
Chapeau bas! It's simple but brilliant. It's a great example of what a good idea is - with minimal effort he made an epic product focusing not an AI, but what AI can bring to the table and executing it flawlessly. Hats off!