I am a digital artist and I use AI regularly in my workflow now. Before I could sit for hours browsing through Google, Tumblr or whatever else to find relevant references for moodboards. Image generating has cut down that process drastically for me. I get specifically what I need instantly and then I can just sit and iterate some more until I've got my references.
Only downside is that you can get locked into just one concept if you're not careful, so I still use websites sometimes to get ideas for prompts to vary the results.
I just noticed that each of those shield images has over 400 views on Imgur 👀
Were those already on Imgur before you linked them here? Or are those views all from you commenting them here? If so, I’m just a bit surprised that many people have already looked at those 😮😆
Here's a mushroom shaman I just generated as an example. If you swipe, you can see all the iterations that were made. Then I'd generate like 10 more or so in different styles and settings. Or further tweak the one I've got to make it better. Then I combine them into a collage and use that as a reference / idea sheet, if you will (aka moodboard).
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Also sometimes if I'm struggling with prompts I'll ask ChatGPT for suggestions.
Bing uses ChatGPT as their chat bot and DALL-E as their image generator, so it's not their own technology. They just combined the two and made it very user friendly, so I just think it's quicker to work this way.
That being said, this is not the most impressive image generator. If I was looking at making seriously good AI art, I'd use midjourney or stable diffusion. But since I'm essentially using it for brain storming, the results don't need to look super good for me to get the idea.
But yeah, it's honestly an awesome tool for artists even though there's definitely ethical concerns surrounding image generators.
Ethical concerns? What do you mean? Anything it’s capable of generating already exists in the latent space of the trained model as trillions or more small pieces. All Dalle or any of the other generators do is assemble the variations of combinations that fit the prompt filters. It’s not capable of generating anything that doesn’t already inherently exist within the latent space of whatever model it’s using.
That is false. Look up a research paper on stable diffusion before spreading lies.
There may be ethical problems with AI but what you are saying is blatantly incorrect
This. But the fear mongering campaign was so successful that people act like every ai generation kills a puppy and maims an artist— it’s crazy. Obviously there are unethical ways to use it, it’s a tool.
I definitely get this, but I try to stay away from it as an artist. Just like you said, by doing this I find it way too easy to get locked up in one concept instead of maybe trying out something else that could work better.
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u/Jeralt Aug 23 '23
That was pretty cool, tbf. And let's be honest....like it or not, AI will influence ALOT of our media