Now that I got your attention, I want to do a quick preface. I had been working on this thread for the past week and I was questioning doing it due to people's opinion on AI, especially After news of people being assholes using AI tech. This is highly unethical use of this technology and 100% disagree against that person's actions. I mean in no way to replace artists with this thread, and I urge you to support your favorite artists (not just by viewing their twitter). I merely just find this tech endlessly fascinating, and often times funny as hell. We finally have a glimpse into the room full of theoretically infinite monkeys on typewriters, and I can't help to peak what they come up with I don't claim any of this art as my own, nor am I suggesting people to profit off of it.
With that said, onto the weirdness. So as of last week Novelai came out with their image generation stuff. I had already had a Novelai account due to their text generation stuff (great to use in DnD, highly recommend even outside of image generation), and since I had tried Midjourney/Dall-e before, I decided to check it out. Unlike those AI, Novel's has been trained off of game/anime fanart. In that it makes it a lot different than those other AI, more dangerous in some aspects, and consequently more inline with the gaming forum.
So here's a some prompts I've been doing recently. One of my favorite things to do is take a character, and just see how far I can push the AI to put them in a weird/mundane situation. I've been constantly laughing at what the AI tries to come out with, sometimes horrifying sometimes so accurate it seems like black magic.
Case in point. "Cloud Strife trying to fix the jammed printer"
But I think we can go more specific. How about Lara spending her weekend evening?
"Lara Croft using a computer to post on the Resetera message board. She's angry at other users posting baqd impressions in the official Tomb Raider OT,computer,forum"
Unfortunately due to the nature of what it's trained off of, it's way better at women than guys. More popular the character, more likely it's accurate. Terry Bogard comes off as a knockoff.
But if the character is popular enough, it's pretty good. Here's link that came out better than I expected:
Unsurprisingly Tifa comes out scarily accurate, and produced one of my favorite pictures of the batch:
I liked that first one so much I enhanced it which adds more details from the preview images you get. Sometimes it's worse, sometimes better.
But like all fanart, it can be used for evil
So I accidentally left the "Furry" setting on from the previous sonic picture making this one. It came out interesting...
Here's the exact same prompt, no furry setting.
We can also make Megaman fans cry
Or get Mai in some decent clothing for once
It's been a rough launch.
One neat thing you can do is try to get the AI to draw a character in a specific artstyle.
Daisy always seemed like an extreme party girl. Also, out of all the characters the Daisy was the one the AI wanted to give maximum cleavage. This was one of the more subdued daisy pictures if that's any indication. This gives us some insight into the minds of Daisy fans.
I tried to get a nice action picture of Samus. The AI unsurprisingly really wanted her in her Zero Suit (heathens), so I had to specifically ban those words. The AI has a terrible time with armor, especially multicolor but it came out decent?
Let's end with something cute and try to generate the next pokemon starter.
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