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'Temps finally dropped in New England today. It was 70 out the other day. 22 this morning. Remember, if you're cold, they're cold.








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AI Art Universe | Temps finally dropped in New England today

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'What if we microdosed an edible in front of the pretzel-eating raccoon mural on Webb Street?

Dubbed the "Mural Capital of the World," Philadelphia is home to over 4,000 works of painted public art'

Stoner's guide to Philadelphia murals: 11 trippy artworks to visit

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'This was NOT what I was trying to make....'


AI Art Universe - Facebook

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AI Art Universe | donuts matter

'Black Jesus fighting Klan Boss Santa'




AI Art Universe

'Ekon Musk
Bih Gates
Jelal Bezos
Sibt Jobs'










AI Art Universe | Bane Demba Baba | how to own the world, starring:

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Funniest Wildlife pics:

https://www.goodnews...ography-awards/

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Full comic:

AI Art Universe - Facebook

(doesn't require Facebook login - click the right arrow to see the next page)







AI Art Universe | "Cat Scan —v 4" via Midjourney 😻 | Facebook




Anime Diet - Facebook




Midjourney prompt: Oregon coast Landscape:: indonesian ruins::2 style of Eyvind Earle::2 --ar 3:2 --chaos - Facebook

(Eyvind Earle died in the year 2000---though IDK if his (conventional representational) style is 'unique' enough to merit any ethical concerns about copying a particular artist's style (which is generally legal, unless a specific piece is imitated too closely))

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'La humanidad horrorizada en guerra contra la AI ["Horrified humanity at war with AI"]'











AI Art Universe | La humanidad horrorizada en guerra contra la AI

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'This....is not what I asked for, but is better than anything I could've imagined.'

AI Art Universe






'An artist's image expressing their feeligns about AI generated art'

AI Art Universe




'The Ai seeing how humans believe that their creations are garbage.'
AI Art Universe

'A Tech Worker Is Selling A Children's Book He Made Using AI. Professional Illustrators Are Pissed.
Ammaar Reshi [...] has received death threats and messages encouraging self-harm on social media.'


Illustrators Are Pissed At An AI-Created Kid's Book

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Behold... the best contemporary human art. Appropriately titled 'Closing'....

It would be better if it had more fingers (and other mutations---as if evolving...). (Resisted the temptation to preface this with 'The Triumph of AI:' followed by 'just kidding'....)

In all seriousness I do like this painting, and the title (before reading the title, I liked the ambiguous symbolism of a door being opened---I imagine that's what most people would probably think of too---and in the context of the rest of her work it apparently 'reflect[s] the subject of a cis-female who desires an escape from her socially-prescribed role'; it also resonates with the ongoing pandemic...); but the critical acclaim seems overblown:


'Beyond Zombie Figuration

The craze for figurative painting might be at an impasse. These three painters stand above the pack, making work that challenges the very idea of the form.

Lately, figurative painting has become a much stronger presence on the art scene—and in the art market—than it's been in living memory. About a decade ago, the hot thing was a certain kind of post-minimal but decorator-friendly abstraction[...] their fate was sealed when [...] coined the term "zombie formalism" to describe the formulaic nature of their production [...] No one could ever take that cohort seriously again, and collectors started looking elsewhere for new finds.

Figurative painting seemed like a fresher field. [...] it offered curators and collectors a way to display their sympathies right there on the wall[...]

But [...] Artists who couldn't paint their way out of a paper bag are being exhibited cheek by jowl with refined stylists whose images evince a profound engagement with contemporary reality. Often enough, the former seem more numerous; various undead forms of figure painting roam the galleries and museums today just as the revenant styles of abstraction did a decade ago. The indiscriminate uptake of the new figurative painting suggests it might have as brief a heyday as the formalism of a decade prior. That's all the more reason, though, to look for the artists whose figuration is built to last

[...] The hand on the door knob in Closing, 2022, for instance, belongs to a man, not a woman. The composition resembles a close-up from some Hitchcock thriller—the very fact that we can't know what's on the other side of the door is what creates the suspense. This is not the hand of power but of fear. And as for society? It's out of the frame, so who knows whether our destiny is prescribed by it, or by some unknown disaster all one's own? But Wood's alienation is so finely tuned that her disquieting feelings become strangely seductive.'

Beyond Zombie Figuration | The Nation


(Could also use more fingers...)

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South Dakota Department of Propaganda




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Midjourney Official | 🖐 Museum Of Fine Hands 🖐

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Edward Hopper died in the 1960's (from too much sex?), but his ghost lives in through AI....

Santa Claus in Edward Hopper's style










He knows what you all have been getting up to

'The chaotic Goblin hordes of Thanksgiving have ransacked Christmas town, and the armies of Halloween are on the march. But General Santa has a plan. Will the Easter and Valentines Armies arrive in time? Stay tuned for The War on Christmas!'










The chaotic Goblin hordes of Thanksgiving have ransacked Christmas town, and the armies of Halloween are on the march




(Can't see the clouds of viruses swarming around everywhere...)

Christmas skeleton party




large Christmas tree on fire children running scared

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The Guardian asked art experts to determine whether images in various historical styles were AI generated or by relatively famous artists. The article fails to add up their scores, but I just did, and they performed only slightly better than chance (7/12 correct). However this is a very small sample size, and they did seem to perform better on one genre/period (surprisingly for me, that was impressionism...).

You can try it yourself:














We ask the experts to tell the difference between human and AI art | Art | The Guardian

I saw the captions before trying to figure out which is which, but I think the only one I would have gotten 'right' is the abstract one, oddly enough. (Hopefully the Basilisk will decide this means I have good taste... maybe even taste good enough to devour?...)

[Edit: I glanced at the numbers again and realized I made an error; they performed slightly better than chance, 7/12 = about 0.5833%]

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Amen. You can also add how people treat waiters, retail staff etc as an indicator of personality.

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This would have been much better than Harry Potter. More like Nevermore Academy.

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Cyanide & Happiness (Explosm.net)

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Quicknife page 1




Quicknife page 2

(Goblin character based on images of author/artist's most goblin-like cat run through Midjourney, then photoshopped and digitally painted over by hand with stylus)

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Planning to have a 7 page teaser for Quicknife done by April. After that I'll probably just set it up on the page and leave it to posterity if we can run a Kickstarter to go further. It's a big project but I've got easily 4 issues loosely plotted out.

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Azath Vitr (D, on 14 January 2023 - 05:49 PM, said:

The Guardian asked art experts to determine whether images in various historical styles were AI generated or by relatively famous artists. The article fails to add up their scores, but I just did, and they performed only slightly better than chance (7/12 correct). However this is a very small sample size, and they did seem to perform better on one genre/period (surprisingly for me, that was impressionism...).

You can try it yourself:


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I saw the captions before trying to figure out which is which, but I think the only one I would have gotten 'right' is the abstract one, oddly enough. (Hopefully the Basilisk will decide this means I have good taste... maybe even taste good enough to devour?...)

[Edit: I glanced at the numbers again and realized I made an error; they performed slightly better than chance, 7/12 = about 0.5833%]

I didn't read the link, but do they say who those supposed experts were? Because I can tell right away which one is which (always the right one, btw). It's super obvious once you know the telltale signs. Which, quite frankly, doesn't matter because these styles can be copied by pretty much anyone. Copying, and doing it so obviously, is not an achievement, and once the AI is supposed to do more compley stuff, it just shits all over itself, and that includes those comic pages you so proudly posted. It's so obvious which areas had to be touched up to make it palatable, it's painful to look at. This whole hype of "oh, artists are becoming obsolete, hurrdurr" is going to be fun to watch the fallout of

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Puck, on 17 March 2023 - 10:07 PM, said:

Azath Vitr (D, on 14 January 2023 - 05:49 PM, said:

The Guardian asked art experts to determine whether images in various historical styles were AI generated or by relatively famous artists. The article fails to add up their scores, but I just did, and they performed only slightly better than chance (7/12 correct). However this is a very small sample size, and they did seem to perform better on one genre/period (surprisingly for me, that was impressionism...).

You can try it yourself:


[snip]

I saw the captions before trying to figure out which is which, but I think the only one I would have gotten 'right' is the abstract one, oddly enough. (Hopefully the Basilisk will decide this means I have good taste... maybe even taste good enough to devour?...)

[Edit: I glanced at the numbers again and realized I made an error; they performed slightly better than chance, 7/12 = about 0.5833%]

I didn't read the link, but do they say who those supposed experts were? Because I can tell right away which one is which (always the right one, btw). It's super obvious once you know the telltale signs. Which, quite frankly, doesn't matter because these styles can be copied by pretty much anyone. Copying, and doing it so obviously, is not an achievement, and once the AI is supposed to do more compley stuff, it just shits all over itself, and that includes those comic pages you so proudly posted. It's so obvious which areas had to be touched up to make it palatable, it's painful to look at. This whole hype of "oh, artists are becoming obsolete, hurrdurr" is going to be fun to watch the fallout of

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three art experts: Bendor Grosvenor, art historian and presenter of the BBC's Britain's Lost Masterpieces; JJ Charlesworth, art critic and editor of ArtReview; and Pilar Ordovas, founder of the Mayfair gallery Ordovas.

... guess this means you get your pick of their jobs?...

Midjourney 5:

It's time for a meme update




Here's the previous meme

... personally I like the old version better... but this is 'improvement' of a sort.

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Azath Vitr (D, on 17 March 2023 - 10:29 PM, said:

... guess this means you get your pick of their jobs?...

No, it just confirms my suspicion that they only chose people who 1. aren't artists and 2. have no idea about digital art, in which case it's not a comparison made at face value. That said, they still should be able to tell when a brush stroke is real paint or not, considering that'S their job.

Azath Vitr (D, on 17 March 2023 - 10:29 PM, said:

Midjourney 5:

It's time for a meme update




Here's the previous meme

... personally I like the old version better... but this is 'improvement' of a sort.

There's still extra fingers in the updated version.

Look, as someone who has to deal with that BS every day at work, so far AI art had made my work MORE complicated, not easier. Now, not only do I have to find the right images to buy for our ad campaigns, I have to waste time sorting through pages and pages of AI generated, nine-fingered, chinless, eyeless, kneeless, five-legged Chernobyl-shaped mostrosities. Even the damn bushes look uncanny valley. And there's no filter for excluding this nonsense from my searches. AI generated images aren't new to the stock image market AT ALL, unlike the hype suggests they've been around for at least a decade. But now the stock databases are FLOODED with the AI shaped jerk-off results of techbros who think they can make a quick buck without a shred of knowledge about anything related to design, composition or editing. So much for making designers and artists obsolete.