#dall-e 3

[therobotmonster]

On the subject of comic books and emphasis.

Getting some use out of my Tyrannomax extras.

#Dr. Underfang #Mrs. Nautlius #tyrannomax #ai assisted art #generative art #dall-e 3 #bing image creator #giant vat of glowing ooze #comic books #retro comics #media #the past is a different country #no shame in needing a travel dictionary

[not-terezi-pyrope]

Realized I had Dall-e 3 access today in ChatGPT, so I had a chat and figured out a way bypass the copyright protection on my first attempt

This AI shit is so easy, lol.

#not-terezi-speaks #AI #chatgpt #Dall-e 3

[tangibletechnomancy]

The (Personal) Is (Political)

~7 hours, Dall-E 3 via Bing Image Creator, generated under the Code of Ethics of Are We Art Yet?

Or, Dear Microsoft and OpenAI: Your Filters Can't Stop Me From Saying Things: An interactive exercise in why all art is political and game of Spot The Symbols

A rare piece I consider Fully Finished simply as a jpeg, though I may do something physical with it regardless. "Director commentary" below, but I strongly encourage you to go over this and analyze it yourself before clicking through, then see how much your reading aligns with my intent.

Elements I told the model to add and a brief (...or at least inexhaustive) overview of why:

Anime style and character figures - Frequently associated with commercial "low" art and consumer culture, in East Asia and the English-speaking world alike, albeit in different ways - justly or otherwise. There is frequently an element of racism to the denigration of anime styles in the west; nearly any American artist who has taken formal illustration classes can tell you a story of being told that anime style will only hinder them, that no one will hire them if they see anime, or even being graded more harshly and scrutinized for potential anime-esque elements if they like anime or imply that they may like anime - including just by being Asian and young. On the other hand, it is true that there is a commercial strategy of "slap an anime girl on it and it will sell". The passion fans feel for these characters is genuine - and it is very, very exploitable. In fact, this commercialization puts anime styles in particular in a very contentious position when it comes to AI discussions!

Dark-skinned boy with platinum and pink [and blue] hair - Racism and colorism! They're a thing, no matter how much the worst people in the world want you to think they're long over and "critical race theory" is the work of evil anti-American terrorists! I chose his appearance because I knew that unless I was incredibly lucky, I would have to fight with this model for multiple hours to get satisfactory results on this point in particular - and indeed I did. It was an interesting experience - what didn't surprise me was how much work it took me to get a skin color darker than medium-dark tan; what did surprise me was that the hair color was very difficult to get right. In anime art, for dark skin to be matched with light hair and eyes is common enough to be...pretty problematic. Bing Image Creator/Dall-E, on the other hand, swings completely in the opposite direction and struggles with the concept of giving dark-skinned characters any hair color OTHER than black, demanding pretty specific phrasing to get it right even 70% of the time. (I might cynically call this yet another illustration against the pervasive copy-paste myth...) There is also much to say about the hair texture and facial features - while I was pleased to see that more results than I expected gave me textured hair and/or box braids without me asking for it, those were still very much in the minority, and I never saw any deviation from the typical anime facial structures meant to illustrate Asian and white characters. Not even once!

Pink and blue color palette - Our subject is transgender. Bias self-check time: did you make that association as quickly as you would with a light-skinned character, or even Sylveon?

Long hair, cute clothes, lots of accessories - Styling while transmasc is a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation, doubly so if you're not white. In many locations, the medical establishment and mainstream attitude demands total conformity to the dominant culture's standard conventional masculinity, or else "revoking your man card" isn't just a joke meant to uphold the idea that men are "better" than women, but a very real threat. In many queer communities, especially online, transmascs are expected to always be cute femboys who love pink (while transfems are frequently degraded and seen as threats for being butch), and being Just Some Guy is viewed as inherently a sign of assimilationism at best and abusiveness at worst. It is an eternal tug-of-war where "cuteness" and ornamentation are both demanded and banned at the same time. Black and brown people are often hypermasculinized and denied the opportunity to even be "cute" in the first place, regardless of gender. Long hair and how gender is read into it is extremely culture-dependent; no matter what it means to you, if anything, the dominant culture wherever you are will read it as it likes.

Trophies and medals - For one, the trans sports Disk Horse has set feminism back by nearly 50 years; I'm barely a Real History-Remembering Adult and yet I clearly remember a time when the feminist claim about gender in sports was predominantly "hey, it's pretty fucked up that sports are segregated by sex rather than weight class or similar measures, especially when women's sports are usually paid much less and given weirdly oversexualized uniforms," but then a few loud living embodiments of turds in the punch bowl realized that might mean treating trans people fairly and now it's super common for self-proclaimed feminists - mostly white ones - to claim that the strongest woman will still never measure up to the weakest man and this is totally a feminist statement because they totally want to PROTECT women (with invasive medical screenings on girls as young as 12 to prove they're Really Women if they perform too well, of course). For two, Black and brown people are stereotyped as being innately more sporty, physically strong, and, again, Masculine(TM) than others, which frequently intersects with item 1...and if you think it only affects trans women, I am sorry my friend but it is so much worse and more extensive than you think.

Hearts - They mean many things. Love. Happiness. Cuteness. Social media engagement?

TikTok - A platform widely known and hated around these parts for its arcane and deeply regressive algorithm; I felt it deserved to be name/layout/logodropped for reasons that, if they're not clear already, should become so in the final paragraph.

Computers, cameras and cell phones - My initial specification was that one of the phones should be on Instagram and another on TikTok, which the model instead chose to interpret as putting a TikTok sticker on the laptop, but sure, okay. They're ubiquitous in the modern day, for better and for worse. For all the debate over whether phones and social media are Good For Us or Bad For Us, the fact of the matter is, they seem to be a net positive-to-neutral, whose impacts depend on the person - but they do still have major drawbacks. The internet is a platform for conspiracy theories and pseudoscience and dangerous hoaxes to spread farther than ever before. Social media culture leaves many people feeling like we're always being watched and every waking moment of our lives must be Perfect - and in some senses, we are always being watched these days. Digital privacy is eroding by the day, already being used to enforce all the most unjust laws on the books, which leads to-

Pigs - I wrote the prompt with the intention that it would just be a sticker on the laptop, but instead it chose to put them everywhere, and given that I wanted to make a somewhat stealthy statement about surveillance, especially of the marginalized...thanks for that, Dall-E! ;)

Alligators - A counter to the pigs; a short-lived antifascist symbol after...this.

Details I did not intend but love anyway:

The blue in the hair - I only prompted for platinum and pink in the hair, but the overall color palette description "bled" over here anyway, completing the trans flag, making it even more blatant, and thus even more effective as a bias self-check.

The Macbook - I only specified a laptop. Hilariously ironic, to me, that a service provided through Bing interpreted "laptop" as "Macbook" nearly every time. In my recent history, 22 out of 24 attempts show, specifically, a Macbook. Microsoft v. OpenAI divorce arc when? ;) But also, let us not forget Apple's role in the ever-worsening sanitization of the internet. A Macbook with a TikTok sticker (or, well, a Tiikok sticker - recognizable enough) - I can think of little more emblematic of one of the main things I was complaining about, and it was a happy accident. Or perhaps an unhappy one, considering what it may imply about Apple's grip on culture and communications.

Which brings me to my process:

Generated over ~7 hours with Dall-E 3 through Bing Image Creator - The most powerful free tool out there for txt2img these days, as well as a nightmare of filters and what may be the most disgustingly, cloyingly impersonal toxic positivity I've ever witnessed from a tool. It wants to be Art(TM), yet it wants to ban Politics(TM); two things which are very much incompatible - and so, I wanted to make A Controversial Statement using only the most unflaggable, innocuous elements imaginable, no matter how long it took.

All art is political. All life is political. All our "defaults" are cultural, and therefore political. Anything whatsoever can be a symbol.

If you want all art to be a substance-free "look at the pretty picture :)" - it doesn't matter how much you filter, buddy, you've got a big storm coming.

#ai art #generated art #dall-e 3 #bing image creator

[deepdreamnights]

The Secret Origin of Wally ManMoth

Scans from TyrannoMax #26

Cocytus was one of the better-performing comic companies outside the big 2 in the 1970s before the whole company was bought out by Buzby-Spurlock Animation in the early 80s.

TyrannoMax was its biggest title, so almost everyone in the character stable teamed up with the Dinoids eventually.

Process under the fold.

TyrannMax is created via use of Dall-E 3 and Midjourney as pencilers, and me doing essentially everything else (writing, editing, inking, lettering, layout, etc.) DE is on most of the character art, MJ on backgrounds and select characters.

Each panel utilizes anywhere from one gen/prompt (for a handful of very simple head-shots) to around 20 for stuff like the DinoHydra action shot or the hero/villain showcase panels.

Once I know what I want for a page I lay out the rough dialog and panels, then start generating pics. Basic prompt format and a few examples:

, , , , comic panel by 1968, in the style of 1968

A portly 50 year old man, resembles Alan Hale Jr, jolly smile, wearing a tweed jacket, slacks, sandals, a fedora, sweatervest and a loosened ascot, full body character design, comic panel by Jack Kirby and Alex Toth 1968, in the style of 1968 Marvel comics

a mad scientist mid-transformation into a green anthro-tyrannosaurus, asymmetrical transformation, boils and growths, screaming/roaring, bald, portly, with round glasses. wearing a tattered lab coat, vest, slacks, tie. Comic panel by jack kirby and alex toth, 1968, in the style of vintage horror comics

Then I take the pics into PS, arrange and composite them, and then remove all the color. I don't tend to prompt for my final colors on characters and instead choose light tones I can easily extract. Why not just do B&W prompts? Style impact.

Then I start to re-ink over errors and details that don't match the mood I want, match line thicknesses over various elements, etc. Through this process I adjust dialog placement and panel arrangements, and do generally the things and editor and letterer would be up to.

Once I have the inks, flat colors, and the text on various layers, I do the weathering and compositing to simulate scans of a 1970s comic book. This is also where the deliberate flaws in coloring and print alignment are added for authenticity.

#tyrannomax #wally manmoth #unreality #cocytus comics #AI assisted artwork #AI edits #Midjourney V5 #Dall-E 3 #bing image generator #generative art #graphic design #comic books #vintage comics #farrah fyendlyne #tilly tepesh #dr. underfang #fauxstalgia

[blademort88]

Alien en glamour

#dall-e 3 #aiimage #bing image creator #digitalartai #blademortai #ai community #comunidad ia #unreal engine 5 render #Alien ai Woman #tinyalienfemale

[gravidasomnia]

Request: "friendly full-term librarian"

Generated with Dall-e 3 via Bing, then reprocessed with SD img2img to tweak the realism, and then some slight editing done. The hand isn't perfect but I'd consider it acceptable for AI content, but not for use as a stock image. I'd be pissed to see this sort of garbage accompanying an ad or article bc it would mean a photographer and a model are getting screwed out of the scraps thrown to them by the Stock Image Cartels. Which is a lot of what Dall-e 3 and Adobe Firefly is already getting used for. Already you may have seen AI-generated ads without knowing what they were bc advertisers using AI sure as hell aren't open about the fact.

Bing prompt: "1997 photojournalism picture about a modest alternative scottish librarian wearing glasses, she has an arm tattoo, she is putting a book back on the shelf in the small town community library, she is about 30 years old, overweight and wearing a reddish floral fashion print dress with a nametag, she is very pregnant, she has short light auburn curly hair"

the original dall-e 3 output was quite lovely as well but is still obviously a digital image:

as a comparison here's the prompt put into SD 1.5 with a photorealism model:

And here is a version using SD 1.5 as well as using a custom model, lora, negative embeddings, and tweaking the settings just right, and tweaking the prompt weightings and syntax, it's a lot more work but the results are also good:

some things are better, some things are worse, but Dall-e 3 is worlds ahead in terms of general composition. Stable Diffusion struggles a lot with depictions of dynamic actions, and the backgrounds are often an abysmal disjointed mess. But at least it's free and uncensored, whereas Dalle-3/Bing will likely never let users create anything like this:

#ai art #stable diffusion #Dall-e 3 #pregnant librarian #clothes on/off #AI generated #AI art #AI art generator comparisons #Infopost

[simlicious]

Did you think this was a Sims 4 screenshot? Well, I'd think so too, at first glance. Bing's image creator AI Designer, which is running on DALL·E 3, can depict Sims 4 sims surprisingly well 🫢 Aside from the figure having 6 fingers, which AI has trouble with, most evidence that this is AI-generated can be seen in the background, where flowers are poking through the window, mismatched tiles can be seen under the window, and the floor tiles are much too uneven. I will always tag any AI-generated image on my blog accordingly, but sadly, not everyone discloses this information. This AI-generated image should create much more doubt right away:

#nonsims #DALL·E 3 #dall e #ai generated images #ai-generated #dall-e 3 #dalle3 #bing image creator

[mastreworld]

Saw someone shitting on AI artists again so I did the constructive thing; blocked the A-hole and brought up some of my favourite creations to wash the bad taste out.

These make me happy.

I experimented a bit with Dall-E 3 which is now on Nightcafé and it creates beautiful images.

It has some issues compared to SDXL though, in that it doesn't handle people/characters/names well and it way to often claims error due to its excessive filter.

SDXL remains my favourite but I can see myself playing with this one on occasion, when I'm in a headspace where I can handle the frustration.

#ai art #ai art positivity #nightcafe #sdxl #dall-e 3 #mastre art #op

[seriously-mike]

So I was thinking of making a reaction image of an Iron Warrior Chaos Space Marine named Predictabo, for those situations that someone fucked around and found out in a predictable situation. Aaaand then it spiraled out of control.

On the Loyalist side, I added Brother-Captain Obvius. Obviously.

Then, I came up with Thousand Sons member, Jenius. This comes from my response to someone stupid - one of those jeniuses even noticed that I misspelled "genius". Yep, real smrt, that one.

Pidoras of the Emperor's Children is a big crybaby. The similarity of one of the shots to the protagonist of The Good Doctor is entirely unintended, but welcome.

Then, there's Disgustus of the Death Guard, and if he approves of your post, it should worry you. Because you posted something really awful and disgusting.

And finally, there's Fistus of the World Eaters. He's about to deck you.

#random crap #Warhammer 40000 #Warhammer 40K #WH40K #space marines #chaos space marines #ai generated images #AI image #dall e 3 #DALL-E 3 #reaction #reaction image #reaction meme

[melinoelabs]

HAVE YOU DREAMED THIS MAN?

If you have experienced dreams in which a distant, or perhaps abnormally small, man in a white panama suit has spoken to you about one or more of the following topics:

Time travel.

The nature of 4th dimensional manipulation.

Perpendicular realities.

What we've "been up to."

We would very much like to know what he said.

He is described as having a familiar accent that one cannot place.

Any names, dates, or mathematical theorems communicated are of particular interest.

His agenda is unknown. Exercise caution.

#unreality #melinoe laboratories #melinoe labs #the man in the white suit #time travel #recurrent childhood dreams #dall-e 3 #generative art #ai artwork

[neural-blended]

Cyberpunk Cyborg Barbie Style Captain America

#neural-blended #cyberpunk #cyborg #barbie style #captain america #art #ai generated #generated art #ai art #ai artwork #barbie #cyberpunk barbie #superhero #comics #action figure #bing image creator #dall-e 3

[therobotmonster]

I've seen people say that the new AI art has lost the charm that its early first-gen incarnations had...

That the "seeing the pure madness of the machine" had gone. But to that I say:

"a shark buying a Mello-Yello at the 7-11, snapshot photograph, 1977"

Generated with Bing Image Generator, 10/9/23

The longer I look at it the more things I notice.

#ai art #unreality #generative art #dall-e 3 #bing image generator

[d-the-designer]

DALL-E, I realize this is retrofuture, and agree with you about the sexiness of a well fitted suit.

However, my younger audience will think my male characters work for a hotel. Plain gray hoodies are fine, 60s-70s sci fi was almost spot on about what the future looked like.

#made with my custom trained GPT that has 100s of pages of training data #DALL-E 3 #ai #pro ai #ai art community #ai art

[tangibletechnomancy]

It's not just AI that's been so contentious when it first came on the scene.

I was THERE for it when digital painting was broadly seen as "cheating". CNC machining got people heated because it was believed that Real Machinists would be run out of work in favor of Lazy Incompetent Button-Pushers. I still encounter people who think my textile crafting is non-work because sewing machines Do All The Work For You.

Using tools is widely considered one of the things that makes humans a contender for dominant species on Earth, and in fact tool use is a metric we use to determine human-like intelligence in other animals, so it's funny how many major advancements in tool design are so widely looked down upon at first, and sometimes even well into the future by people who don't understand the field.

Are other tool-using animals like this?

Even more than that, just how far back does it go?

#ai art #generated art #dall-e 3 #fucking filters hate the concept of hunting #some 80% of my attempts got blocked #but come on. this wouldnt mean the same thing if i drew it manually

[deepdreamnights]

Gummy Owlbears Hunting Swedish Fish

Pretty much what it says on the tin. (prompt misplaced)

#unreality #dall-e 3 #bing image creator #generative art #ai artwork #misplaced prompt #owlbear #gummy #swedish fish #ai D&D

[blademort88]

El sentimiento es real

#aiimage #dall-e 3 #bing image creator #digitalartai #blademortai #ai community #end of the war #sentimientos