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Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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Post by jmathai »

op00to wrote: post #19
rafram wrote: post #13

For 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.

Didn’t the artist “steal” from artists that came before them by looking at and taking inspiration from their photos? Especially ones that would do such artistic genres as commercial coloring book art?

Yes. But they are people, perhaps with families to feed. Not computers.

Cool idea. I can see keeping colored pages of these by my kids up on the fridge a lot longer than what’s on there now!

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Post by 13_9_7_7_5_18 »

rafram wrote: post #13

For 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.

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Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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Post by richardw »

rafram wrote: post #13

For 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.

My opinion isn’t fully formed but I currently think either all content producers have a claim (potentially workable as eg a discount), or only those who contribute should get access to AI’s.

And by all I mean the AI companies owe a huge debt to all humans who wrote or designed or drew anything. The vast majority of the benefit of this technology relies on volume: the billions of pages and lines of code we wrote for other humans, but have now been repurposed. This technology relies on bulk, which was mainly unprofessional or freely given content, by those who intended it for other humans. It was not 100% built only on the output of the few who charge for their exquisite words or designs, even if their output is higher quality.

Alternatively, let the AI companies go for it but everyone who uses any kind of AI should understand that they’re standing on the shoulders of the millions of developers and nonprofessional writers whose work has now been repurposed. Not the few artists and journalists. So those artists and journalists should both refuse to contribute to, and use, AI.

* I’ve written very little of this useful content, but would be happy to pay my share to those that have built what we have. I also turn off training on my content, but I pay a lot for models. Feel free to help me think through this with comments of your own.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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Post by subpixel »

mdeeks wrote: post #5

This is a cute and simple idea! I'd like to see what a real physical book looks like before I buy it though. Do you have real pictures of a printed one? I think our kids would appreciate seeing the original (even if a small thumbnail) along side it. You can't always tell from these AI drawings that it was originally you and your family. Also, it's REALLY expensive. $30 for a book that my kids will draw on in one or t…

It’s not cheap, but my kids treasure coloring books for a long time and probably one like this until it falls apart.

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Post by Terretta »

Seems like this cat (and various variants in similar settings) was a top rated image in Sora's explore/images a week ago. Was it yours, should it be credited, or did you hit edit prompt to get a variant?

No worries, just wondering how that should work.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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Post by subpixel »

avree wrote: post #18

Cool idea and really nice looking site. Pricing is quite high - 24 pages maximum for $23.99. There are 100-page coloring books on Amazon for $5.00, and the age group that really would be using this is not going to remember what was on the page a week from the day they did it. Maybe it can work in the nice of "adult coloring books" - I've seen some social media content where people really go crazy on coloring books, a…

Presumably you aren’t the parent of a 5-7 year-old child. I might try this manually and save some money but my kids will absolutely cherish coloring themselves, their friends, and their parents. We’re on vacation now and this is gonna be big when we get back.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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Post by zakki »

mdeeks wrote: post #5

This is a cute and simple idea! I'd like to see what a real physical book looks like before I buy it though. Do you have real pictures of a printed one? I think our kids would appreciate seeing the original (even if a small thumbnail) along side it. You can't always tell from these AI drawings that it was originally you and your family. Also, it's REALLY expensive. $30 for a book that my kids will draw on in one or t…

To the author, I have this idea, for each page, put a sheet of transparent plastic or something like that. So the owner will color the plastic which can be erased. But it may increase the cost anc the color may not stick to the plastic.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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Post by jstummbillig »

rafram wrote: post #13

For 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.

If it does not cost that much, that is obviously because the artist is too cheap. If you find that to be a preferable equilibrium, that's a choice I guess, but I find it fairly ironic in light of the purported motivation.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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Post by beering »

kelvinjps10 wrote: post #14

Why not just an option to print the image?

You can simply open up Chatgpt and generate the image yourself, faster than it’d take to transact with this third party. The cool thing is that they are printing a physical book for you.
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