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Best AI art generator for character portraits?
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overgeeked
B/X Known World
"Kelly McKernan
What a time to be a career artist, huh?
rolls up sleeves ok darlings, I’ve got a platform and I’m using it: if you haven’t been following my IG stories, my art has been trained on by AI without my consent or compensation. For some reason, I was one of the first 400 artists stable diffusion’s tech bros chose to train their database with.
At first it was exciting and surreal, now it’s nauseating and devaluing. I’ve since discovered nearly all of my artwork shared online since 2010 through haveibeentrained.com. I’ve been shown my own art regurgitated into “new” artwork (all I see is uncanny valley, tbh). I’m credited along with the legendary @yoshitaka_amano on the Wikipedia page for AI art as a “style prompt.” I’m getting tagged in image prompts and met with indignation when I request my name removed. And now many feel comfortable profiting from these images with others happy to pay! wtf y’all??
To me, much of this is unethical. It feels violating. No, I will not argue on it in the comments, but I do wish to make my position clear in my statements. I’m incredibly anxious for the future of my career, more than ever before. Further, I’m concerned for the future of human creativity.
Current art students are discouraged from continuing to study; professors don’t know what to tell them; emerging artists are feeling hopeless and giving up. The gaslighting and disrespect shown toward artists by those who believe they’re entitled to use this exploitative tech has been incredibly disheartening.
Please don’t support the unethical use of AI image generators while thousands of artists are infringed upon. Demand better, and please keep speaking out! If artists can’t defend the use of their names and artwork, what have we got left?"
What a time to be a career artist, huh?
rolls up sleeves ok darlings, I’ve got a platform and I’m using it: if you haven’t been following my IG stories, my art has been trained on by AI without my consent or compensation. For some reason, I was one of the first 400 artists stable diffusion’s tech bros chose to train their database with.
At first it was exciting and surreal, now it’s nauseating and devaluing. I’ve since discovered nearly all of my artwork shared online since 2010 through haveibeentrained.com. I’ve been shown my own art regurgitated into “new” artwork (all I see is uncanny valley, tbh). I’m credited along with the legendary @yoshitaka_amano on the Wikipedia page for AI art as a “style prompt.” I’m getting tagged in image prompts and met with indignation when I request my name removed. And now many feel comfortable profiting from these images with others happy to pay! wtf y’all??
To me, much of this is unethical. It feels violating. No, I will not argue on it in the comments, but I do wish to make my position clear in my statements. I’m incredibly anxious for the future of my career, more than ever before. Further, I’m concerned for the future of human creativity.
Current art students are discouraged from continuing to study; professors don’t know what to tell them; emerging artists are feeling hopeless and giving up. The gaslighting and disrespect shown toward artists by those who believe they’re entitled to use this exploitative tech has been incredibly disheartening.
Please don’t support the unethical use of AI image generators while thousands of artists are infringed upon. Demand better, and please keep speaking out! If artists can’t defend the use of their names and artwork, what have we got left?"
Benjamin Olson
Hero
I go through a 2-4 hour process of numerous slight iterations and manual editing and compositing to make Stable Diffusion (the desktop distribution on my gaming computer, not their web service) Image to Image mode turn base images (usually photos of people in roughly the pose I want, with other elements I want roughly drawn or copied in, sometime I start with Midjourney created art instead) into fantasy characters. I do things in this laborious manner so that they will be exactly what I want, so that they will look better, so that they won't meaningfully infringe on anyone else's work, and so that they aren't bound by any overly prohibitive end user license agreement (which many AI image services involve). Here's AI-assisted art I did for some NPCs from Lost Mines of Phandelver whom WotC didn't bother to illustrate:
I was willing to put in the time on these, because they are good stock characters I can find other uses for. A quicker, dirtier project was my most recent campaign image for a paid DM gig starting next week (in theory) on startplaying.games. I was lazier because, although it's more important on some level as advertising for a paid gig, I'm only ever going to use it for this one campaign which may well not actually happen:
I was willing to put in the time on these, because they are good stock characters I can find other uses for. A quicker, dirtier project was my most recent campaign image for a paid DM gig starting next week (in theory) on startplaying.games. I was lazier because, although it's more important on some level as advertising for a paid gig, I'm only ever going to use it for this one campaign which may well not actually happen:
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