Stable Diffusion, NovelAI, Machine Learning Art - AI art generation discussion and image dump

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For whoever asked about black and white clipart from SD, it's decent. Midjourney does much better though. Add 'monochrome, pen and ink, style of Rubberhose' to your prompt if you need solid black shapes. You can then 4x upscale it and trace the bitmap in photoshop to get a pretty clean vector.

I really doubt many people tasked with collecting icons for a UI are going to the trouble when Noun Project exists, but I assume it's only a matter of time until NP gets flooded with AI vectors.

Fireman Sam said:
A thought comes to mind...
Would a similar tool one day be used to generate AI music?
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it's happening already but very early. There's a fork of SD named DanceDiffusion that operates on audio data rather than images. It just generates samples rather than full songs but their discord server has a channel with a bunch of people working on compositional generation and they've got some interesting results.

I expect we're likely going to have a network that creates good ambient loops far before full songs.
 
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cerulean hydra said:
I've had the same issue with trying to get certain elements, like a fence along a wooded path. Right now it's probably the point where the human element comes into play when it comes to small details, overpaint it or photobash it in yourself.

edit: very quick, something like this? i am not very talented and did this with a mouse

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Yeah that looks awesome! Thanks!
 
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SomeDood said:
So? All innovation was motivated by doing something faster &/or better.
Driving down costs, maximizing profit, being better than the competition is an inherent trait of any innovation. What we're debating is where the line ends, where people should be protected and our morals.
The best example I can think of right now is how the invention of automated dialing was specifically made to make phone switchboard operators obsolete.
I personally don't think that even the intention to innovate for the reason of automating jobs is inherently wrong in any way.
Also being able to synthesize a Voice didn't put singers out of a job, even fucking Russel Greer still hires people to sing instead of automating his 'work'.

Bonus AI art of "they took our jobs", which looks like any screenshot of your pick of the new Star Wars, Game of Thrones, or Lord of the Rings shows (even if a bit derpy close-up)View attachment 3750108).
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The trouble with all of this again is who decides. None of our bickering on here about this matters in the slightest to how this technology will ultimately be allowed to affect the world, because none of us have the slightest bit of influence over power, and those who do happen to currently have power want nothing beyond securing that power even at the cost of everything good about the world, because all that is good threatens them.

That is to say, I don't hate technology, but people are so lost to power that they think it odd or somehow wrong to think about things in terms of it. Technological development should be influenced towards the good, and it is criminal that we aren't in a position to influence it. Though it shouldn't be a surprise people who let themselves be convinced it is not effective to exercise power (it obviously is) or that it is wrong to do so find themselves without it. Those who argue from that standpoint are the sort that I take issue with.

Edit: as pessimistic as it is, and perhaps a downer to think this way, I think what bothers me is when I see people thinking something is good or promises a brighter future when they are willfully blind to how it actually impacts the influence they, or those who think similarly, have over the world. Nothing good is to come without good people in power. If something good does come, it will be killed by other powers if it isn't defended by our own.
 
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Its surprisingly good at drawing cityscapes. Works extra well when given some existing city from something like a Cyberpunk screenshot or photograph.
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The way it handles cityscapes over water is impressive. Not 100% accurate, but good enough that you need to search for mistakes (most of the time)


Politicians also work kinda well, even in text-to-image mode.
Except for Obama, who turns out cursed for me almost every time. The AI really thinks he is a demon or something.
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Hillary works. Including Gnome Hillary. AI turned her into a witch-gnome, without mentioning "witch" in the tags.
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So does Trump, including muscular trump. Many political figures turn out looking kinda salty.
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SomeDood said:
Ah but it is different, as it is innovation which does not implicitally harm other humans.
To continue your argument: illegal immigration is profitable because they're cheaper than natives.
If we were to continue on this path, slave labour would be on top of human labor cost-efficiency. The only reason we don't usa that is because of the law - and further on hopefully morals.
Even now, we import loads of goods from China et all. because their human labor costs less; and with time they create the most efficiant infrastructure for their exports.
Automation has the inherent advantage to not intrinsically hurt another person (with a low wage, or inhumane treatment). That's why technological innovation is not comparable to just letting cheaper people do it.
But please, if you want to continue this discussion, let's use this thread, because I don't think we're adding much to the general thread, and because I want to see this thread thrive.

One great 80s metal album cover as a bonus <3
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Oh boy. You've some growing up to do. Let me help.

Who is illegal (or mass legal) immigration profitable for? People who can insulate themselves from the consequences of it. It is effectively a way to steal wealth and power from certain population groups and give it to more loyal ones. And no, no one in the know actually believes immigration is a universal good. The idea that it is a net benefit for mankind is always a post hoc rationalization by people who profit. The most effective players of the game know it is an empty sentiment.

Who is offshoring all our manufacturing profitable for?
Those who can insulate themselves from the consequences of it. Reread the last paragraph.

It should be noted that you present as a staunch economic realist except when it comes to slavery. We don't do that because it's bad, apparently. But the negative consequences of the other purely economic calculations? Who cares, I haven't been programmed to recoil at those, or even recognize them.

Revisiting the first two, you can neither argue they are done for "the good of the country". It should be pretty obvious in >current year that the people who enable those things never cared about the country, and when pushed will give euphemistic allegiances to an "international community" over their host nationality. How curious.

It's rather convenient to think the most significant ways to (intrinsically?) hurt someone is through low wages or NATO defined inhumane treatment.

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Because these brainlets are afraid of things they don't have the mental ability to understand.
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Wrong, what decides support doesn't have to do with understanding the matter at hand as much as the perceived potential benefits and costs it bears. You'll change your attitude quickly if you come to see things like this generally aren't the mystical promise of a brighter future you have been primed to believe they are. Or maybe you both understand perfectly well and you happen to belong to a subset which benefits from this while those you call "brainlets" simply don't. This is what war is based on, and why the hagemon encourages people to think in this childish way where those who don't agree with them must simply not understand. It can't possibly be their interests are fundamentally opposed. Can't have your vassals fighting each other.
 
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What GPUs are you guys using? My 2060 only has 6GB of VRAM and is kinda low on CUDA cores so it struggles on image size.
 
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Wrong, what decides support doesn't have to do with understanding the matter at hand as much as the perceived potential benefits and costs it bears. You'll change your attitude quickly if you come to see things like this generally aren't the mystical promise of a brighter future you have been primed to believe they are. Or maybe you both understand perfectly well and you happen to belong to a subset which benefits from this while those you call "brainlets" simply don't. This is what war is based on, and why the hagemon encourages people to think in this childish way where those who don't agree with them must simply not understand. It can't possibly be their interests are fundamentally opposed. Can't have your vassals fighting each other.
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Oh no, I just said that because were are on the fucking internet and I want to have fun using AI to make pretty anime girls.

Speaking of which.

Tried to take the brown haired girl in the chair and take her somewhere else.

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Male Idiot said:
So the guys who want to get 1000 USD for anime tiddy pictures? I can live with that.
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Of course you can, I can also live without truck drivers operating semi-trailer trucks.

So we're agreed that automation is a universal good, regardless of whose job it comes for?
 
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MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
Why do people keep insisting on this retarded lie? This exists solely to displace people at their jobs, nothing more.
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The only people losing against this are people whose business model was “I am the only one who makes your flavor of depravity, pay up or no fap.” I think we could see a renaissance of digital art since artist comissions will be based more on true high skill and personally developed art styles since if you just want fringe material ai can do that
 
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