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Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by gfodor » Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 3:43 PM UTC

WA wrote: post #41

imhoguy wrote: 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.

Imagine you are an artist and have a specific style and one day you wake up and the computer program that ripped off your style gets credit for that particular style, as in "4000 midjourney artistic styles". Horrible.

See it’s weird since I would consider this a form of immortalization. Some artists are seeing this way, but very few. It seems crazy to me more artists aren’t being amazed that their entire style is now “canon”

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by omnimus » Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 4:08 PM UTC

gfodor wrote: post #61

WA wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine you are an artist and have a specific style and one day you wake up and the computer program that ripped off your style gets credit for that particular style, as in "4000 midjourney artistic styles". Horrible.

See it’s weird since I would consider this a form of immortalization. Some artists are seeing this way, but very few. It seems crazy to me more artists aren’t being amazed that their entire style is now “canon”

See it’s weird when somebody is upset when corporation steals and uses their code I would consider this a form of immortalization. Some programmers are seeing this way, but very few. It seems crazy to me more programmers aren’t being amazed that their entire codebase is now “canon”

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by ethanbond » Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 4:15 PM UTC

sheepscreek wrote: post #58

imhoguy wrote: 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.

The artistic record is going to be stunning. “Now you can see an explosion in craftsmanship and diversity of perspectives from the Renaissance, when art became professionally viable outside of the patronage of religious/political institutions, to about 2020, when a new technology made it totally unviable for anyone to dedicate their life to developing artistic works. But hobbyist artists kept making it in their free time, so this is what we’re left with!”

Brilliant.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by jmilldotdev » Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 4:17 PM UTC

KolmogorovComp wrote: post #43

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…

https://www.bcad.one/project/7

we produced a connection card game in a couple of months end-to-end using AI. text is a true mixture of our ideas and GPT's 'ideas'. we gave GPT the vibe we wanted, let it generate tons of new stuff, then we heavily curated and remixed it.

art is created and curated by various AI tools. it does not rely on any particular artist's style. we bootstrapped the game using our own money, and this was only possible because we were able to produce our own visual assets.

AI is a tool in our kit just like figma and photoshop. people consistently have fun with the game in our playtest, and we're bringing our first print run to the world soon.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by ethanbond » Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 4:17 PM UTC

nkozyra wrote: post #40

imhoguy wrote: 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.

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

A lot of other professions produce essentially solely economic value. Art and journalism are sort of inverted: people happen to be willing to pay for it which allows it to be produced, but the real value to society is external to that transaction. Thus: museums and archives.

It doesn’t make sense to preserve analogous records for most other professions.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by jakearmitage » Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 4:22 PM UTC

How can I use this? For example: if I have a picture of my wife, how can I apply one of these styles to her picture? I've downloaded InvokeAI and it runs, but I can't get it to just apply a style to an existing picture.

I wanted to give her a birthday present and her picture using the style of her favorite artist in a frame would be amazing.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by omnimus » Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 4:23 PM UTC

sheepscreek wrote: post #58

imhoguy wrote: 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.

There is a difference in material. Mass industrialised processes clearly can’t always replicate what small artisans produce. But when the output is digital most of material differences are gone. There is no reason AI cant generate 100% same digital image or text as human would do. But if you wanted to recreate “amish furniture” you probably can automate some parts but you still end up having the person/artisan. Industrialization didn’t go all all the way as AI did yet if you read people like William Morris it’s clear we’ve lost so much.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by keiferski » Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 4:24 PM UTC

jakearmitage wrote: post #66

How can I use this? For example: if I have a picture of my wife, how can I apply one of these styles to her picture? I've downloaded InvokeAI and it runs, but I can't get it to just apply a style to an existing picture. I wanted to give her a birthday present and her picture using the style of her favorite artist in a frame would be amazing.

Click on the style you want and then look for the text to the bottom left of the image that looks like this: Victorian era cabinet card --v 6

Upload a picture of your wife to Discord (to the Midjourney bot.) Copy its URL and paste it, along with the style words above.

I'm not sure what InvokeAI is, but I imagine the style terms are basically equivalent.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by keiferski » Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 4:27 PM UTC

acomjean wrote: post #35

imhoguy wrote: 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.

It’s amazing you can ask a computer to create something and it does. But we’ve lost something too. At work we have a social gathering run by different groups each week. They put up posters. The past year it’s been very obvious the poster images are ai generated. It’s not like they’re going to hire artist to do this poster… The older posters were know for sometimes being topical and sometime ingenious (movie poster ph…

This tech became available to a mass audience a year ago, tops. I would be a little patient: it will take time for people to learn how to use it and not just use the default settings.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by phyzome » Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 4:28 PM UTC

jakearmitage wrote: post #66

How can I use this? For example: if I have a picture of my wife, how can I apply one of these styles to her picture? I've downloaded InvokeAI and it runs, but I can't get it to just apply a style to an existing picture. I wanted to give her a birthday present and her picture using the style of her favorite artist in a frame would be amazing.

You could try asking the artist if they take commissions.