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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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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.

Look into training a Dreambooth model. Huggingface has a guide for this.

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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…

Your EI card game looks intriguing! Can you share an estimated ship date?

We’re going to get a first run printed at the start of March. Ship would probably be April-May. Doing some final content polishing and playtesting before then.

You can sign up here if you want updates! https://bcad.substack.com/

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Last I heard, everyone was struggling to fine tune SDXL on furry art too. The only community fine tunes that seem to have succeeded are ones aimed at taking things it was already designed to generate and trained on and making it actually good at those, or improving the aesthetics of its output.

That's mildly surprising, given how large and well tagged e621 in particular is. Though I assume most of the major furry art hosts are blocking scraping by this point, given how divisive GenAI is?

The dataset is not the problem, neither with anime or furry art, the problem is the computation required for a good finetuning.

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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

Having a distinct artistic style also doesn’t suddenly mean you stop paying bills.

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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.

I don't see how generative AI changes the situation. Most people would always face an uphill battle, producing mediocre art which only a few (likely with some personal connection) would appreciate.

You don't understand why people create art.

You're viewing art as a commodity in a capitalist society.

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.

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.

idk, social networks are kinda brutal to artists nowadays. In soo many ways. And too much ai art would make discoverability harder. Even now sometimes if you google some style/artist/a character, top sites on google are AI generators...

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I don't see how generative AI changes the situation. Most people would always face an uphill battle, producing mediocre art which only a few (likely with some personal connection) would appreciate.

You don't understand why people create art. You're viewing art as a commodity in a capitalist society.

Then please educate me:

1) for their own creative fulfillment. Generative AI makes no difference.

2) for enjoyment / appreciation from other people. Generative AI makes little difference here since the average person's art is likely to be mediocre with or without generative AI

3) as a way to earn their living. Here generative AI will make a difference in some art professions, but that doesn't seem to be the implied scenario of the comment I was replying to.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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Perhaps you are not familiar with how ai and machine learning work, and that’s okay, but ai doesn’t “study” and most certainly doesn’t “inspire” itself. It builds token databases that it then regurgitates. There no resemblance of human behaviour, just a simulation. Software always did that.

> It builds token databases that it then regurgitates. Isn't pretty much all human art just regurgitation, recombination of prior art, audiovisual experience, emotions, human experience?

It, but that’s irrelevant. AI doesnt learn as a human does.

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> It builds token databases that it then regurgitates. Isn't pretty much all human art just regurgitation, recombination of prior art, audiovisual experience, emotions, human experience?

It, but that’s irrelevant. AI doesnt learn as a human does.

We don't know that much about how exactly the humans learn and how AIs learn. Both are still to a degree black boxes.

But you're asserting that in case of AI training it's "stealing property", but imply it's not stealing for human learning. I think you need to substantiate this claim/difference. "Humans learn differently from AIs" is not enough.

Re: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles

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You don't understand why people create art. You're viewing art as a commodity in a capitalist society.

Then please educate me: 1) for their own creative fulfillment. Generative AI makes no difference. 2) for enjoyment / appreciation from other people. Generative AI makes little difference here since the average person's art is likely to be mediocre with or without generative AI 3) as a way to earn their living. Here generative AI will make a difference in some art professions, but that doesn't seem to be the implied s…

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