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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 Something1234 »

ipaddr wrote: post #37
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.

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…

And yet there’s plenty of adult coloring books made by a human out there if you’re willing to go to a brick and mortar shop. Got a super cool one from dick blicks, with a lot of underwater scenes. Also paper quality is important. I can’t imagine getting as far as I did in mine if it was newspaper

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

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Post by ronsor »

bix6 wrote: post #31
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.

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.

They're dismissive because we've had the same moral panics before with the introduction of photography, then sound recordings, and then digital art tools, and then vector art, and then 3D, and also the Internet to an extent, and...

You can see where this is going, right? In the end, humanity and even artists will be fine overall, even if the world changes.

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

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Post by jw1224 »

transformi wrote: post #42

Why don't you use canny/HED filter :O? (seems pretty overkill for this job..)

Do you not think the AI output looks far more polished and print-ready? Canny edges have a lot of noise and don't look at all clean for coloring book purposes.

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

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Post by blibble »

ronsor wrote: post #43
bix6 wrote: post #31

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.

They're dismissive because we've had the same moral panics before with the introduction of photography, then sound recordings, and then digital art tools, and then vector art, and then 3D, and also the Internet to an extent, and... You can see where this is going, right? In the end, humanity and even artists will be fine overall, even if the world changes.

how will artists be fine when Google can steal all their work, then use that to compete with them and ultimately replace them

for the cost of showing ads?

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

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Post by seeEllArr »

ipaddr wrote: post #37
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.

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…

The food you order online was not stolen from the server/bartender without their permission or compensation. Even if the analogy holds, this is whataboutism, and in the U.S. at least tipping is a fucked system too.

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

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Post by sen »

barbazoo wrote: post #16

For anyone looking for a prompt to do this manually, it seems to be as simple as this: > Generate a version of this photo that can be used as a coloring sheet

Yeah I've been doing this with image-gen AIs pretty much since they started and it's a lot of fun. Even early Dall-E etc was awesome at doing stuff like "Create a colouring in sheet with some dinosaurs having a party" or generic prompts like that, and more recently giving photos to convert has been loads of fun for the kids.

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

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Post by avree »

subpixel wrote: post #26
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.

Interesting presumption. I know about the 100-page coloring books because I've bought them. Paying $1 per page at the speed they get colored would cause me to go bankrupt. I presume you're fabulously rich, and it doesn't matter.
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