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Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by omnimus »

gumballindie wrote: post #34
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 gradually things will settle down. People are beginning to understand that many of these image generators are built on theft, and are pushing back accordingly. We need one or two Kim Dotcom adventures and the rampage will calm down.

Doubt any companies who needed commercial art will care at all. Most likely they will force artists to use AI to hyper speed up the process and fix some of the imperfections at the end. But there is no way they will be keeping artists exponentionaly so they can produce the same result the “inefficient” way.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by gumballindie »

omnimus wrote: post #71
gumballindie wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think gradually things will settle down. People are beginning to understand that many of these image generators are built on theft, and are pushing back accordingly. We need one or two Kim Dotcom adventures and the rampage will calm down.

Doubt any companies who needed commercial art will care at all. Most likely they will force artists to use AI to hyper speed up the process and fix some of the imperfections at the end. But there is no way they will be keeping artists exponentionaly so they can produce the same result the “inefficient” way.

I am not against using machine learning, nor am i against companies doing so. What I dont want is stolen property, which a lot of ai currently relies on.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by BadHumans »

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”

Being immortalized doesn't suddenly mean you stop paying bills

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by chmod775 »

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.

Our vision of the future used to be one where every unpleasant job is automated, and humans are free to pursue higher callings such as art.

It's increasingly looking we'll all be working in construction, scrubbing floors, or performing maintenance on the machines that took our pleasant jobs.

The saving grace is it'll probably be just 10 hour work-weeks.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by AStrangeMorrow »

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…

Ethical concerns aside (which is a big topic by itself) having been quite invested in the generative scene for years now, no matter what some people say there is a core of more power users that push to experiment with the technology, the styles, the limitations and the weirdness of it. Not that it has crazy complexity, but some still.

But at the same time the barrier to entry is really low. I now see AI art everywhere: in articles, on LinkedIn, on posters etc. But most of the time in the very most basic style. It feels like instead of searching for an image of X people just type "image of X" in MJ / DallE3 and co, and go with whatever generic stuff they get

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by distortionfield »

omnimus wrote: post #62
gfodor wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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”

I feel this way about my code being included in the GitHub arctic vault, but not about it being in CodePilot, for lack of a better analogy.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by CaptainFever »

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…

- Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse (slightly, seems to be in-house): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n12kHKvesc

- Everything Everywhere All At Once (Runway AI): https://variety.com/2023/artisans/news/artificial-intelligen...

Two massively popular films recently that used generative AI.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by cdcox »

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…

Linkin Park used it in 4 videos recently and seemed to use a combination of img2img and leaning into the glitchy style. [0] (These are 9-11 mo old so using much older models and techniques)

Peter Gabriel used it extensively in some recent music videos. The artists behind it also leaned into the glitchy style but are probably using some pre trained stuff to keep style.[1]

A writer/creative named Austin McConnell used AI art to make a 50 minute anime short to help market a book he wrote using AI [2]. Not sure how he kept consistency but this video got some flak and he has another video addressing his techniques.

Corridor crew did a second video which is a lot better but still a lot of work. [3]

I think a lot of projects using it are still kind of in the spec stage and are usually using a combination of loras, clip, generating multiple angles, and aggressive use of img2img and controlnets. And a few companies (Scenario [4] etc) are working on consistency. I think you won't see a ton of big projects using it yet because the tech is still early days and the early versions were really a bear to work with. A lot of people on YouTube are using it like theyd use stock art (YouTube thumbnails, backgrounds, ads, or story boards for writing focused/story YouTubes).

There is still a stigma so a lot of people using it aren't announcing their use broadly, so I've found I usually have to stumble on their projects. Also, a lot of major companies aren't using it for that reason. I know Wizards of the Coast has had some arguments about that recently. Also consistency is still a problem as you mention which limits it's use in bigger projects.

Video games I think will be the first place we'll see it widely accepted. As people have been using AI generation techniques for background tools for like 20 years, see speedtree.

[0] https://youtu.be/7NK_JOkuSVY?si=GsENyRZTVPslNl6q and https://youtu.be/iKBCVZqqooY?si=4bTelG8AjUCduAwj

[1] https://youtu.be/px76Jn4CUcc?si=Ebpy7NtxbbefdJOR and https://youtu.be/6chvzqAVCnI?si=Q9dEnD72U0ytqBtT

[2] https://youtu.be/kJCkHae1dgE?si=4rhbk69q7KL-R3C9 and the discussion of techniques and controversy https://youtu.be/iRSg6gjOOWA?si=O8H5G2Y3IbZx0hzI

[3] https://youtu.be/tWZOEFvczzA?si=XhzrGg3Lct0QFsi9

[4] https://twitter.com/araminta_k/status/1744842633900347621

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by loceng »

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 it's a consequence of abundance, which can lead to excess and undue waste if we begin to lose control of self-regulation.

Resources will have to fairly be being distributed; not through authoritarian collectivism mechanism, control and suppression isn't the answer - but through "a rising tide lifts all ships."

Tyranny is extremely expensive, and abundance generates exponential riches for all - so long as the greedy and authoritarian don't capture systems and implement policy that suppresses various populations; why I believe Elon Musk said he thinks UBI is inevitable, however how that manifests is important. A corruptable-capturable centralized state government is too much of a single point of failure to risk such a mechanism, and if learning from the efficiencies of free market systems then in reality it will be the controller(s) of systems who then employ and fund their workers enough [who voluntarily decide they are the best employer to support to accelerate the values-processes of the organization's hierarchy] via their inherent built-in profit mechanisms to the organizational structure, to allow for those families to thrive, and fuel evolution towards such a culture winning out; otherwise "leave the dead to bury the dead [who are misguided off a cliff by tyrants]" - as Jesus said.

I agree too, the "flashy AI fakes" are in my mind equivalent to porn, crafted to maximize excitement but void of soul-spirit-authenticity, etc; at least so far - I could see, as AI avatars begin to become a thing that an individual can refine to respond how they deem acceptable, could also craft or refine AI art generator styles to weight various aspects in much more nuanced way - that then reflects their own tastes and sensibilities.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Post by ilikehurdles »

phyzome wrote: post #70
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.

I asked DALL•E 3 if he takes commissions and he said no. I tried screaming the question at photoshop too but it didn’t answer. I’m still awaiting MSPaint’s reply.
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