I Trained a Custom Model… \ stacker news ~art

2094 sats \ 12 comments \ @antic 30 Dec 2023 art

To give me fuzzy inspiration for drawing cyberpunk pilots on dystopian hover-bikes.

I think this is the great power of AI models. I have a vague notion of something I want to see, and I can train a model to make thousands of variations that I can use as inspiration and to explore ideas.

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871 sats \ 2 replies \ @plebpoet 31 Dec 2023

interesting, but do you worry that the model you use to create your art will depart from reality? is there a choice between imagining what you want to see and working to locate it in life versus rendering it virtually? I want to say there is a trade off there, and only in the extreme case of what you describe. I don't have any problem with what you've got here, but I am just using what you've shared to jump off and entertain some thoughts I have about this general topic. Art and life have a relationship, though it is very personal how you arrive at the meaning or limits of that relationship. Is there competition between real life and AI generation (what's a better word for that?)?

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @antic OP 31 Dec 2023

I’m not really concerned about it. Art imitates life with dreamy edges and then life imitates art to expand into those edges. Sort of how we create the future through ideas.

In this instance, I wanted to mostly get some ideas of how to layer mechanical connections, which was something the machine learning could map out in more options than I could without more effort. Some of the layering and wiring and components are certainly not realistic, but I wasn’t really concerned with realism :)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet 31 Dec 2023

I understand you, and I like it. thanks for expanding your thoughts on it

144 sats \ 2 replies \ @antic OP 30 Dec 2023

Some random sample renders from the stable diffusion model. A nice thing about this is that I’m not trying to make a finalized/refined artwork, just to make quick fuzzy ideas. So I can generate them super fast and small.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @td 6 Mar

There's an NFT artist, Teux, who creates work very much in this visual style. It is very good. They publish on Tezos.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @elysia 31 Dec 2023

I wonder if that could be helpful when creating comic books?

40 sats \ 4 replies \ @cryotosensei 31 Dec 2023

Thanks for sharing. How have you incorporated AI’s creative inputs into your work?

Personally, I write a lot. I notice that these generative AIs tend to suggest that I use words like captivate/entrance/enchant to uplift my writing. Sometimes, I follow their suggestions. Other times, I purposely don’t do so because I wanna my writing to come across as raw and authentic.

40 sats \ 1 reply \ @plebpoet 31 Dec 2023

I share your sentiment

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 1 Jan

Good to know!

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @antic OP 1 Jan

I had a similar experience when I tried to use chatGPT to help me write a Substack. It came out all wrong so I ended up writing the first draft and then asking it to make the draft better but I disagreed with how it sounded—it removed my style in favor of patterns that I felt were clunky so I discarded it and went with my own.