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Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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> Who is Andrei Kovalev?

I call BS -- every attribute of the "non-profit, volunteers" is calculated to deflect hostile rejection.. "community" has AI chat agents ready to help you?

how many actual art school people do you know who tried to make their showcase website.. Is it like this one? Notice the Andrei says "studio photography" .. a tech skill, not an illustrator.

as a representative of actual Art School people -- this is awful socially.. really

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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post #18

Dunno, I feel sad about artists a bit. I hope they won't stop creating. I am sick of these flashy AI fakes.

A lot of these are very pleasant to look at.. yes, it's easy to spam them so it can get old very fast. But I'm in Midjourney socials and not gonna lie, everyday I see something that stands out and amazes me. Should I feel bad because I'm looking at a flashy AI fake?

No.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

#53
I do wonder how many distinct artistic styles Midjourney and other similar image generators actually have. Say that you you were to cluster all the styles it knows about based on similarity and then generate images of the same things with all of them - how far apart would the styles have to be before the difference between them is larger than the normal variability in output? It's my general understanding that getting a reasonably decent imitation of a particular artist's style is usually a lot more difficult than just putting their name in a prompt, that what that copies is generally fairly superficial and high-level stuff.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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> Who is Andrei Kovalev? I call BS -- every attribute of the "non-profit, volunteers" is calculated to deflect hostile rejection.. "community" has AI chat agents ready to help you? how many actual art school people do you know who tried to make their showcase website.. Is it like this one? Notice the Andrei says "studio photography" .. a tech skill, not an illustrator. as a representative of actual Art School people…

As a graduate of art school, I could give two shits about this matter. And please, don't speak for all of us.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The people who are motivated to create art made art before they were being paid to do so. I don't think they're going to stop. They might release fewer pieces publicly out of style-copying fears. Or if they get paid less they might have less time to spend creating art. Personally I think generative models enable more people to make art and may even let professional artists create more art.

And the people most likely to use AI to copy artists probably wouldn't have hired the artists in the first place. Some people are losing on opportunities, but I think. in most cases, those opportunities didn't exist to begin with.

>And the people most likely to use AI to copy artists probably wouldn't have hired the artists in the first place

I mean, sure. Hollywood has screwed over artists for decades now. But I don't think that's a good excuse to stop trying to make them pay.

To be clear: however many new indie prompt artists come out of this will be swamped by large studios. I hope this isn't a take I need to elaborate on.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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post #18

Dunno, I feel sad about artists a bit. I hope they won't stop creating. I am sick of these flashy AI fakes.

A lot of these are very pleasant to look at.. yes, it's easy to spam them so it can get old very fast. But I'm in Midjourney socials and not gonna lie, everyday I see something that stands out and amazes me. Should I feel bad because I'm looking at a flashy AI fake?

Maybe

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

#57

Can anyone share artistic projects that have used generative AI? Where it is used as a tool, and not as a goal. ie something that’s not: - Poster/illustration where stock photo would have been used beforehand - NSFW - Experiments trying to display model quality (like on /r SD) The closest I’ve found so far was Rock paper scissors (found from HN) [0], but it’s unclear if it was really less work than usual CGI/animatio…

One of the best projects I saw was made during the “early” days of generative AI (2022) and the strange output fits perfectly the story.

Summer Island by Steve Coulson [1] is a short comic book made by an art director who can't draw well. He used the AI to its strengths.

[1] https://ianetica.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Summer-Islan...

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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post #18

Dunno, I feel sad about artists a bit. I hope they won't stop creating. I am sick of these flashy AI fakes.

I think artists who create art out of love and passion will be valued even more. Much like how handicrafts in an industrial and mechanized day and age still have their place. Also the countless “amish furniture” references I’ve encountered are a testament to that.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Can anyone share artistic projects that have used generative AI? Where it is used as a tool, and not as a goal. ie something that’s not: - Poster/illustration where stock photo would have been used beforehand - NSFW - Experiments trying to display model quality (like on /r SD) The closest I’ve found so far was Rock paper scissors (found from HN) [0], but it’s unclear if it was really less work than usual CGI/animatio…

I’m creative but have never been adept at sharing visual ideas in my head with the rest of the world. I’ve found genAI image tools empowering because for the first time I can turn an idea into my head into something other people can see and enjoy. I’ve used it for everything from portaits and memes to recreating scenes from my memories that I don’t have photos of to help me remember.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Dunno, I feel sad about artists a bit. I hope they won't stop creating. I am sick of these flashy AI fakes.

> Dunno, I feel sad about artists a bit. Well this is coming for every other profession, so ...

As we go deeper down this path it makes sense to me why they destroyed and banned all the “thinking” machines in Dune.
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