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I have a friend who works as an artist and he's excited and nervous about this. But also he's trying to learn how to use these well. If you try these AI out, th

I have a friend who works as an artist and he's excited and nervous about this. But also he's trying to learn how to use these well. If you try these AI out, there's definitely an art to writing good prompts that gets what you actually want. Hopefully these AI will become just another brush in the artist's palette rather than a replacement. I hope these end up similar to the relationship between Google and programming. We all know the jokes about "I don't really know how to code, I just know how to Google things". But using a search engine efficiently is a very real skill with a large gap between those who know how and those who don't.

squeaky-clean 4y ago
Replying to myself because I just had a chat with him about this. He's thinking of getting a high end GPU now, lol. Some ideas of how this could be useful in the future to assist artists: Quickly fleshing out design mockups/concepts is the obvious first one that you can do right now. An AI stamp generator. Say you're working on a digital painting of a flower field. You click the AI menu, "Stamp", a textbox opens up and you type "Monarch butterfly. Facing viewer. Monet style painting." And you get a selection of ai generated images to stamp into your painting. Fill by AI. Sketch the details of a house, select the Fill tool, select AI, click inside one of the walls of the house, a textbox pops up, you write "pre-war New York brick wall with yellow spray painted graffiti"
emporas 4y ago
I have a friend who paints, google/ athanasart. His paintings are usually purchased before they are even finished, and sometimes even stolen. All of that technology, Dalle2, Disco diffusion, Stable Diffusion, is totally boring to him. He doesn't even care. He will not install this technology to his machine, or use it online, even if he is paid to do it. I love Craiyon, Dalle2, Stable Diffusion, but just beautiful images, are not art.
- Yntec 4y ago
  > but just beautiful images, are not art. But the definition of art can't depend on your knowledge of how was it made. I can show you two beautiful pictures and ask you if any of them is art, and you'd know I was trying to trick you. But you could pass a piece made by an AI as art if you didn't know how it was produced.
  - emporas 4y ago
    Yes, in case someone gets a painting without any additional information, a computer art piece, could easily be mistaken for a human art piece. That's true. My position on the subject is as follows, the best art for humans is made by humans, and the best art for computers is made by computers. Actually i have yet to see a computer generation on the same level as Mona Lisa, not even close. However computer generated women, some of them are alright!

squeaky-clean 4y ago

Replying to myself because I just had a chat with him about this. He's thinking of getting a high end GPU now, lol. Some ideas of how this could be useful in the future to assist artists: Quickly fleshing out design mockups/concepts is the obvious first one that you can do right now. An AI stamp generator. Say you're working on a digital painting of a flower field. You click the AI menu, "Stamp", a textbox opens up and you type "Monarch butterfly. Facing viewer. Monet style painting." And you get a selection of ai generated images to stamp into your painting. Fill by AI. Sketch the details of a house, select the Fill tool, select AI, click inside one of the walls of the house, a textbox pops up, you write "pre-war New York brick wall with yellow spray painted graffiti"

emporas 4y ago

I have a friend who paints, google/ athanasart. His paintings are usually purchased before they are even finished, and sometimes even stolen. All of that technology, Dalle2, Disco diffusion, Stable Diffusion, is totally boring to him. He doesn't even care. He will not install this technology to his machine, or use it online, even if he is paid to do it. I love Craiyon, Dalle2, Stable Diffusion, but just beautiful images, are not art.

Yntec 4y ago
> but just beautiful images, are not art. But the definition of art can't depend on your knowledge of how was it made. I can show you two beautiful pictures and ask you if any of them is art, and you'd know I was trying to trick you. But you could pass a piece made by an AI as art if you didn't know how it was produced.
- emporas 4y ago
  Yes, in case someone gets a painting without any additional information, a computer art piece, could easily be mistaken for a human art piece. That's true. My position on the subject is as follows, the best art for humans is made by humans, and the best art for computers is made by computers. Actually i have yet to see a computer generation on the same level as Mona Lisa, not even close. However computer generated women, some of them are alright!