On Ai generated Art

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Figured I'd write this after I got a feel for how the Ai art that I generated did and to see how many people would either love it or hate it. By far more people love it since I'm filling in a niche of characters that didn't really have alot of art of .i.e Mama bear and Mother Bear and Little Bear and Brother Bear from their respective tv shows.

But most of the negativity I get (at least they PMed me) is mostly from people who down right hate Ai art and think its gonna take over the entire platform or have the fear that its gonna take away from commissions artists get ect ect., idk if they're coming from a point of ignorance, paranoia, jealousy or whatever else there is but I did the math on Ai art.
Inkbunny currently has a total of 2,385,218 total submissions, of those 2.38m submissions, currently 9306 are ai generated, that is a grand total of 0.4% of the total submissions in about the span of 17 months. 17 months ago being when decent quality ai images were starting to pop up. Less than half a percent is hardly "taking over", even checking the popular section of the home page, I counted 16 submissions that were ai generated, out of 252 total submissions, that's still just 15.7% of the popular page.

And generating ai art isn't just as simple as typing what you want into a prompt line and then magically getting exactly what you want every time. To even get started it requires a pretty beefy PC, RTX 2000 - 4000 series GPUs is pretty much mandatory to get generations that don't take 5-10 minutes per picture or even longer, a GTX 1080ti might be able to pull off decent times but its lacking tensor cores which really speed everything up. Then getting a Ai platform installed and running like Stable Diffusion or A1111, finding a main model you want and LoRAs or make your own if you got loads of free time and want to learn how everything actually works. Then learning the way to write prompts for whatever it is you're wanting and tweaking it and re-generating images over and over until you get something decent. But even that will just get you generic boring images. The more advanced stuff like, controlnet, inpainting, LoRA networking, splicing LoRAs together, openpose, ect. is when you get some pretty good looking generation. Then using photoshop to finish up the image and fix any anomalies for images like how I did on my Little Bear x Uncle Rusty story and illustration

And finally as a former digital and traditional artists, I get it if someone straight up steals your art for their Ai models and/or is selling it, use a program like Glaze to mess up Ai models on your art, don't start whining about how Ai art is bad and should be banned.

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Guardianslade

2 months, 4 weeks ago

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Edited 2 months, 4 weeks ago by Owner

People might have forgotten but.. When photography came out, people were angry that it wasn't art and made traditional things like painting obsolete. That soon blew over and photography is now seen as an art form. later, just around 15-20 years ago in fact, photoshop and digital art came around, and once again traditional artwork using things such as paints became outraged as it was "fake" uses cheating and layers. But again, just a while later photoshop is now considered just as much an art thing as anything else.And now, as the times change once again, people are upset about the new form of image creation.

AI art stuff, in the beginning was more like a silly meme, you put in a prompt, it referenced *not traced* a big database of images and created a very random image. It's main gain, it was fast, that's about it. However, it is becoming very complex, and is forming into a very powerful tool. In the right hands, especially an artist, you can create some pretty impressive stuff now. Though the use of tons of addons, controlnet, regional specify, inpainting.. the list is growing. Those features though, thake quite some skill and talent to use well. Furthermore, you have to step back and see a really huge picture. Not only is it becoming able to make just images, but full animations, even full movies. This is some really impressive time savers, I am getting rather old, and I for one am quite excited to be able to produce such things in a fraction of the time, where likely it was impossible before. Is still going to take a little time before this is a reality for most of us without a literal insane computer setup though. lol

It will take a little time I think, before people realize how it actually does all work. And how to use it as a creative tool to make some really impressive stuff, enhance their own work and save time. *the put in a prompt and go, is *usually* honestly not all that impressive, looks rather boring, has terrible composition, wrong or bad posing, or is full of errors currently, gotta put some effort into it!*

Kittzy

2 months, 4 weeks ago

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@ Guardianslade

You pretty much summed it up perfectly.
Its just a new tool some people are scared of and don't know how much it could help them if they only took the time to learn how to use it to improve their own art.

RNSDAI

2 months, 4 weeks ago

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Unfortunately, this topic is often more about emotions than facts. On my profile you can find a journal in which I have done the math: Every week, 10% of all new images are AI. This is hardly an overwhelming number. A certain popularity, but not outstanding.

https://inkbunny.net/j/510689-RNSDAI-just-some-satistic...