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Why would people do this when aspiring artists are practically giving their real photos and paintings for free on places like deviant art? Why further commodit

Why would people do this when aspiring artists are practically giving their real photos and paintings for free on places like deviant art? Why further commoditize something that's already been commoditize to practically free?

adamhowell 4y ago
Well, I'm focusing on business use cases – stock images and how Accomplice could be useful for marketing and content creation. i.e. The ability to easily take your logo and stylize it: https://accomplice.ai/@adam/iterations/2bcc90ad-3237-486a-8db9-38b1d90c4f33 https://accomplice.ai/@adam/iterations/2bcc90ad-3237-486a-8d... Create a photorealistic avatar whenever you need it: https://accomplice.ai/@adam/iterations/988b7d54-dc39-43b1-b502-7c86efb227a3 https://accomplice.ai/@adam/iterations/988b7d54-dc39-43b1-b5... Easily remove the background of a photo: https://accomplice.ai/models/97746c4b-c6f0-49cb-ae1b-859716b437bf https://accomplice.ai/models/97746c4b-c6f0-49cb-ae1b-859716b... Upscale a photo: https://accomplice.ai/models/bd4619ee-8202-4cf0-a04e-291820f27915 https://accomplice.ai/models/bd4619ee-8202-4cf0-a04e-291820f... Etc etc. AI can make all this stuff easier. And you have a sense of ownership over what you create. All in one place where you can collaborate on all of it with your team. I feel like that's valuable. It's certainly a tool I've always wanted. But, also, as a bit of an aside – if the Googles and OpenAIs of the world are just going to bite every artist's style anyway with a mostly black box service and training set… it feels like the option for an artist to train/finetune their own model, promote it and possibly make money off of that is worth trying.
pmoriarty 4y ago
I'm an artist, and I'd absolutely love to use something like this to inspire me or to give me something to continue working with on my own. In one sense it's kind of like a much "smarter" photoshop filter, where it can make your own art/photos look more like what you want (ex: Van Gogh, Dali, Picasso, or combinations of those, or something completely weird/new/different). You could also train the models on your own work and have it generate art in your own style that could inspire you or could be useful to you either as a base to work from or that you could take interesting elements from to create new art. Similar things can be done in music, by the way, and that would be really useful to musicians too. Poets could use something like this to create poetry, novel writers to write novels, etc.. This is really an improvement on the collaboration potential between humans and computers -- which is probably why it's called "Accomplice".

adamhowell 4y ago

Well, I'm focusing on business use cases – stock images and how Accomplice could be useful for marketing and content creation. i.e. The ability to easily take your logo and stylize it: https://accomplice.ai/@adam/iterations/2bcc90ad-3237-486a-8db9-38b1d90c4f33 https://accomplice.ai/@adam/iterations/2bcc90ad-3237-486a-8d... Create a photorealistic avatar whenever you need it: https://accomplice.ai/@adam/iterations/988b7d54-dc39-43b1-b502-7c86efb227a3 https://accomplice.ai/@adam/iterations/988b7d54-dc39-43b1-b5... Easily remove the background of a photo: https://accomplice.ai/models/97746c4b-c6f0-49cb-ae1b-859716b437bf https://accomplice.ai/models/97746c4b-c6f0-49cb-ae1b-859716b... Upscale a photo: https://accomplice.ai/models/bd4619ee-8202-4cf0-a04e-291820f27915 https://accomplice.ai/models/bd4619ee-8202-4cf0-a04e-291820f... Etc etc. AI can make all this stuff easier. And you have a sense of ownership over what you create. All in one place where you can collaborate on all of it with your team. I feel like that's valuable. It's certainly a tool I've always wanted. But, also, as a bit of an aside – if the Googles and OpenAIs of the world are just going to bite every artist's style anyway with a mostly black box service and training set… it feels like the option for an artist to train/finetune their own model, promote it and possibly make money off of that is worth trying.

pmoriarty 4y ago

I'm an artist, and I'd absolutely love to use something like this to inspire me or to give me something to continue working with on my own. In one sense it's kind of like a much "smarter" photoshop filter, where it can make your own art/photos look more like what you want (ex: Van Gogh, Dali, Picasso, or combinations of those, or something completely weird/new/different). You could also train the models on your own work and have it generate art in your own style that could inspire you or could be useful to you either as a base to work from or that you could take interesting elements from to create new art. Similar things can be done in music, by the way, and that would be really useful to musicians too. Poets could use something like this to create poetry, novel writers to write novels, etc.. This is really an improvement on the collaboration potential between humans and computers -- which is probably why it's called "Accomplice".