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

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

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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.

This is a cool technological feat but what is the cost to humanity and its artists?

Some of these replies seem rather dismissive to the artists’ plight.

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

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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.

Usually when you commission something you're asking the artist to do art and create something unique with their own artistic flair... not just line-trace an existing photo.

The intention and cost of something like that is not at all comparable to what is being offered here.

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

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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.

This is a cool technological feat but what is the cost to humanity and its artists? Some of these replies seem rather dismissive to the artists’ plight.

“learn to code”

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a cool technological feat but what is the cost to humanity and its artists? Some of these replies seem rather dismissive to the artists’ plight.

“learn to code”

Just code the food!

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

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

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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.

In fairness no artists are advertising a personal coloring book. The time, effort and cost would put this out of reach for 99.99 of people.

No artists are losing income because of this and no industry is being upended. This is a new product that's available because of a technology advanced.

Why the focus the artist? Everytime you order in food online you take away a tip from a host, server, bartender and take away a job from a person who answers a phone. Why focus on artists when so many have been affected by technology.

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

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For those interested in building something similar, I prompted a story book generator using v0 and Gemini’s image generation a few weeks ago:

Demo: https://v0-story-maker.vercel.app/

The chat: https://v0.dev/chat/ai-story-book-creator-zw7TrmkN2Eb

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

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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.

Those transactions never would have happened, and never will happen.

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

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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.

This is a cool technological feat but what is the cost to humanity and its artists? Some of these replies seem rather dismissive to the artists’ plight.

Cost is nothing because this service isn't offered currently. No income lost and might spark an interest in coloring books which grows the artist's income.

Artists have been around and existed in more repressive societies throughout time. The best art is usually produced from the greatest struggle. Artists will engage and create art in this new world. The cost of not providing a new surface for artists to explore is what kills art.

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