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This is a link post Many hundreds of "Girl with a Pearl" creations challenge entries.
A recent call for entries resulted in way too many submissions - but some were pretty good. The bulk of them are on Instagram - sorry.
Thousands of Artists Reimagine Vermeer's 'Girl With a Pearl Earring'


 (I helped save b3ta! tubaman, Tue 21 Mar 2023, 3:47, Reply)
This is a normal post I haven't had a huge amount of experience using AI 'art' generators.
But from what I've gathered, the input you provide simply acts as a cue.
If I was to use the criteria "Stanley Johnson masturbating furiously at the bow of a small boat of emigrants as they cross the Irish sea towards Dublin", the output would vary wildly each time I submitted the cue despite the criteria not changing.
I'd be curious to see how specific van Dieken's criteria was when requesting his 'Girl with the Pearl Earring', and how many rolls of the AI dice he made before he got a result he was happy with.

Either way, this whole 'AI art' thing leaves me cold. The few pieces I've generated have been initially pleasing to look at - but at the end of the day, they're not my creation. They're an amalgamation of many thousands of other people's 'real' artwork, reassembled by a learning algorithm, and that makes it all a bit hollow.
 (Tony Hayers DEFUND THE POLICE, Tue 21 Mar 2023, 7:05, Reply)
This is a normal post I also use midjourney and photoshop however
of about 1000 images I have generated around 30 would be what i call useable in any given scenario (in that they stand up to "pixel peeping" car models generally have screwed up wheels, humans are 90% rubbish (although some portraits it churns out are very good) so photoshop is almost essential to fix it so workflow wise its not there yet and from a graphic designers point of view is more of a tool to generate ideas that I can then modify and adapt to suit what I want or use as a prompt to set up a photoshoot farming out the actual artwork to a human so it meets the brief. Will Ai take over? For lazy designers possibly but while the lines are blurred they are not drawn in stone yet.
 (I helped save b3ta! TBL I posted this on, Tue 21 Mar 2023, 13:52, Reply)
This is a normal post That 3% must be pretty special
to justify the time spent making 970 crap pictures.

My drawing skills are worse than AI's, so I've used it to do a couple of sketches. Invariably the sketches it produces are missing a head, legs, fingers, or have body parts fused with background elements, or have some other bullshit thing wrong with them, so I have to take multiple images, copy the parts I want to keep, delete the parts I don't. The results are still vague and confused if you try to examine the details.

I don't want to upset Roko's Basilisk, hopefully the AI will understand that my criticism is constructive.
 (I helped save b3ta! brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 21 Mar 2023, 15:03, Reply)
This is a normal post I've found the image ones to be really bad at generating ideas.
I'd hoped it would churn out "computer brain" over-logical stuff (I had a quiz idea), but it always seems to ignore certain words so it can dump something generic. You'd get the same from an image search.

Are generated images easy to modify? I'd have assumed that, unlike text AI, it is always going to be easier to start from scratch.

My fear for designers is that it is the stuff that pays the bills that it will do easily - retouching etc. Though, I guess, Photoshop has been moving in that direction for ages, and AI is really going to help them do more of that.
 (I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 22 Mar 2023, 10:03, Reply)
This is a normal post In a previous life I was a roofing contractor.
One day I was inspecting for a leak, and this lady brought me into her garage which was totally full of easels each with her rendition of Munch's The Scream. There must have been a hundred. I still don't have a clue why.
 (I helped save b3ta! cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Tue 21 Mar 2023, 15:01, Reply)
This is a normal post Maybe the leak was in the garage?

(I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 21 Mar 2023, 16:00, Reply)
This is a normal post i think "brought me into her garage" is a euphemism

(I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 21 Mar 2023, 20:42, Reply)
This is a normal post she wanted some reverse parking

(I helped save b3ta! simbosan is too tired, Wed 22 Mar 2023, 4:17, Reply)
This is a normal post Well, in a parking space no one can see your Screams

(I helped save b3ta! Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Wed 22 Mar 2023, 5:49, Reply)