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Not if you want to generate a picture of Xi Jinping.

furyofantares 4y ago
In fact here's a list of painters whose style is immune to direct mimicry in Midjourney because their name is banned: Ambreen Butt Jan Cox Constance Gordon-Cumming Dai Xi Jessie Alexandra Dick Dong Qichang Dong Yuan Willy Finch Constance Gordon-Cumming Spencer Gore Ernő Grünbaum Guo Xi Elena Guro Adolf Hitler Prince Hoare William Hoare Fanny McIan Willy Bo Richardson Shang Xi Wang Duo Wang E Wang Fu Wang Guxiang Wang Hui Wang Jian Wang Lü Wang Meng Wang Mian Wang Shimin Wang Shishen Victor Wang Wang Wei Wang Wu Wang Ximeng Wang Yi Wang Yuan Wang Yuanqi Wang Zhenpeng Wang Zhongyu Xi Gang Xie Shichen Xu Xi I have this list because I recently made a site[1] that displays the 4 images from a prompt of "Lotus, in the style of <paintername> <birth-death dates> [nation of origin]" for every painter listed on wikipedia's "List of painters" -- except for those in the above list. The fact that they banned both Xi and Jinping separately to prevent Xi Jinping was surprising to me. Twice as banned as Adolf Hitler. [1] https://lotuslotuslotus.com https://lotuslotuslotus.com - small chance you get an NSFW image if you hit upon Fernando Botero or John Armstrong, perhaps there's more.
- FooBarWidget 4y ago
  I wonder what happens if you write Xi in Chinese instead of the romanization. Xi Gang's Xi (奚) is not Xi Jinping's Xi (习).
- qikInNdOutReply 4y ago
  Adolf Hitler distinctive style? Naive watercolors with botched perspectives is a style now. Okay..
- neurostimulant 4y ago
  So if you're an artist and don't want your style to be used in an AI product, all you have to do is changing your name that includes a variation of controversial leader names (xi, adolf), or slightly offensive name (dick, gore)?
  - pmoriarty 4y ago
    No, because self-hosted programs like SD will still be trained on your art. Anyway, I suspect with more competition many of the restrictions on sites like Midjourney will eventually be removed.
  - dragonwriter 4y ago
    > So if you're an artist and don't want your style to be used in an AI product, all you have to do is changing your name that includes a variation of controversial leader names (xi, adolf), or slightly offensive name (dick, gore)? Nope, that doesn't stop models from being trained on your art. It makes it somewhat more difficult for people to prompt specifically for your style, but your art still influences output, and there may be other ways (e.g., titles of specific works) to deliberately and specifically evoke it in particular.
- Terretta 4y ago
  What mechanism or project did you use to automate prompts and capture results of the prompts?
  - furyofantares 4y ago
    ChatGPT made me a python script for automating pasting results, as well as most other tasks related to this project. I already had a discord bot I wrote by hand before for downloading the images. I thought of the project in the morning while my kid was getting ready for school and had it running jobs before we were out the door, worked a little before I left for work, and and a little more after work, and it was done before dinner time. ChatGPT is incredible.
- aenvoker 4y ago
  FYI: MJ is in the process of introducing a smarter word filter that recognizes the difference between 'Wang Jian' vs. 'suck my fat wang'
ianbicking 4y ago
I listened in to their weekly chat today and it sounded like they'd be happy if they could just ban all political mimickry. I think the AI images of Trump being arrested (which looked like Midjourney to me) were disappointing. Maybe that just means banning images that are meant to fool people, and obvious satire would be ok, but they might be ok erring on the side of caution. (Nothing in the talk was this explicit, but this was my read of the subtext)

In fact here's a list of painters whose style is immune to direct mimicry in Midjourney because their name is banned: Ambreen Butt Jan Cox Constance Gordon-Cumming Dai Xi Jessie Alexandra Dick Dong Qichang Dong Yuan Willy Finch Constance Gordon-Cumming Spencer Gore Ernő Grünbaum Guo Xi Elena Guro Adolf Hitler Prince Hoare William Hoare Fanny McIan Willy Bo Richardson Shang Xi Wang Duo Wang E Wang Fu Wang Guxiang Wang Hui Wang Jian Wang Lü Wang Meng Wang Mian Wang Shimin Wang Shishen Victor Wang Wang Wei Wang Wu Wang Ximeng Wang Yi Wang Yuan Wang Yuanqi Wang Zhenpeng Wang Zhongyu Xi Gang Xie Shichen Xu Xi I have this list because I recently made a site[1] that displays the 4 images from a prompt of "Lotus, in the style of <paintername> <birth-death dates> [nation of origin]" for every painter listed on wikipedia's "List of painters" -- except for those in the above list. The fact that they banned both Xi and Jinping separately to prevent Xi Jinping was surprising to me. Twice as banned as Adolf Hitler. [1] https://lotuslotuslotus.com https://lotuslotuslotus.com - small chance you get an NSFW image if you hit upon Fernando Botero or John Armstrong, perhaps there's more.

FooBarWidget 4y ago
I wonder what happens if you write Xi in Chinese instead of the romanization. Xi Gang's Xi (奚) is not Xi Jinping's Xi (习).
qikInNdOutReply 4y ago
Adolf Hitler distinctive style? Naive watercolors with botched perspectives is a style now. Okay..
neurostimulant 4y ago
So if you're an artist and don't want your style to be used in an AI product, all you have to do is changing your name that includes a variation of controversial leader names (xi, adolf), or slightly offensive name (dick, gore)?
- pmoriarty 4y ago
  No, because self-hosted programs like SD will still be trained on your art. Anyway, I suspect with more competition many of the restrictions on sites like Midjourney will eventually be removed.
- dragonwriter 4y ago
  > So if you're an artist and don't want your style to be used in an AI product, all you have to do is changing your name that includes a variation of controversial leader names (xi, adolf), or slightly offensive name (dick, gore)? Nope, that doesn't stop models from being trained on your art. It makes it somewhat more difficult for people to prompt specifically for your style, but your art still influences output, and there may be other ways (e.g., titles of specific works) to deliberately and specifically evoke it in particular.
Terretta 4y ago
What mechanism or project did you use to automate prompts and capture results of the prompts?
- furyofantares 4y ago
  ChatGPT made me a python script for automating pasting results, as well as most other tasks related to this project. I already had a discord bot I wrote by hand before for downloading the images. I thought of the project in the morning while my kid was getting ready for school and had it running jobs before we were out the door, worked a little before I left for work, and and a little more after work, and it was done before dinner time. ChatGPT is incredible.
aenvoker 4y ago
FYI: MJ is in the process of introducing a smarter word filter that recognizes the difference between 'Wang Jian' vs. 'suck my fat wang'

ianbicking 4y ago

I listened in to their weekly chat today and it sounded like they'd be happy if they could just ban all political mimickry. I think the AI images of Trump being arrested (which looked like Midjourney to me) were disappointing. Maybe that just means banning images that are meant to fool people, and obvious satire would be ok, but they might be ok erring on the side of caution. (Nothing in the talk was this explicit, but this was my read of the subtext)