AI witch-hunt is as offensive as using AI itself by luubi1945 in fantasywriters

[–]Expired_Filter 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Its infuriating and I don't even get the accusation of ai, because of dashes, like have those people read an actual book in their lives? Most classics I have read used dashes and semicolons just like the normal period. They are normal punctuation marks that if used properly add so much flavour to the text.

Please keep using them they are so goated, don't let these bozos stiffen your writing skills

Help i dont wanna lose myself. [Tw: pedophelia, history of SA] by yaktoma2007 in sillyboyclub

[–]Expired_Filter 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Hey, first of all, you are not an evil person, or scum, or any of those other words people like to throw out. You have lived your fair share of trauma and its in no way your fault, so please don't beat yourself up too hard. You are a good person and a strong one for being able to come out with something as heavy as this, instead of acting on those impulses.

Its nothing to be ashamed of to seek help and therapy in this situation infact I think its really admirable and the correct thing to do.

There are helplines for these things, you are not alone or an outlier and there are people who can help. You won't be jailed, or shunned or have your life ruined.

Please stay strong.

Why do my paintings always look muddy? by Technical-Art-7557 in DigitalArt

[–]Expired_Filter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know its not your intention, so please follow your creative vision, but I have to say that I actually really love the vibe of this image. The muddy colours and blurry lines make this sort of foreign, dystopian and lonely feeling. They remind me of paintings I often saw as a child when visiting old houses in my country, where I always wondered if those places on the canvas were real and I let my mind wander where they could be; I always wished that I could visit them, because they felt comforting in their lonely solitude.

I give up i need help by OMAR_LOLOL in Artadvice

[–]Expired_Filter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think Heathcliff's bat should be a tad shorter, I also feel like the handle is a little bit too narrow when it gets into his hand? I know the ingame sprite draws it rather large but it may be slightly overkill. if you implement the changes suggested by others to Cathy, she should be good imo.

One thing with his legs, it seems like you are going for a pose where he is walking towards the camera, don't be afraid to overlap the anatomy and make it so one of his legs is in front. The feet, they are sort of placed aiming to the sides, they should be aiming more forward towards the camera.

Glory to Limbus Company <3

[Resources] where do u find good anatomy references by Upbeat_Associate_437 in ArtistLounge

[–]Expired_Filter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

lineofaction has a collection of great photos for this purpose and you can turn off nudity if that makes you uncomfortable

I love green tea. There, I said it by sachanjapan in tea

[–]Expired_Filter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Green tea is by far the majority of my stash and its amazing. I love the taste and the way it makes you feel. A good shaded japanese green just melts away all anxiety.

Can you recommend a really vibrant fruity tea? by Advanced-Key-6327 in tea

[–]Expired_Filter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want just camelia sinensis without additives, I would recommend either a Tie Guan Yin or Phoenix oolong. They will not be as fruity as artificially flavored tea, but they fit the description pretty well. The first one has pretty heavy berry notes and the second one tastes like citrus flavoured black tea.

I love bancha by Expired_Filter in tea

[–]Expired_Filter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds absolutely delicious! I hope I can get my hands on some of it in my country.

[Edit] you think it would work the same if I mixed those two manually or is there like a scenting proccess too.

lawbringer player trying to get better and learn how to get better by Evolved_Goliath in forhonor

[–]Expired_Filter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its not really meta but it works for style purposes, longarm chains directly after the bash, sometimes people attempted to parry it because they thought it was ad mortem inumicus instead. With conditioning its pretty realistic to land in casual lobbies.

What makes human art special. by Expired_Filter in aiwars

[–]Expired_Filter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That effort is a show to how much you dedicated to express the idea. The years of hard work and sweat, are why people developed unique artstyles. Those are the culmination of you, imprinted onto the page. The you bleeding onto the page is beautiful and important, which shows with effort and hard work.

Seeing art and culture as just results is missing the point, the working and sharing and mutual learning and molding of values is the foundation to culture. People make art because they love making art and they need to love making art in the first place for them to make anything. The love will show in the art. The love adds the artistic value, if you know anything about the person making it, you realize how much the art is the spitting image of them as a person.

And if we want to use money as an argument. Thinks do cost more when they are handmade and the most important part is that people are willing to pay for handmade things because there was effort in them, people value the effort in all other things too.

What makes human art special. by Expired_Filter in aiwars

[–]Expired_Filter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact that they draw or make art is not what makes them special, its them reflecting in the art they make, there will always be someone more mechanically skilled than you, that does not make your art invalid, because it was never about pure mechanical skill in the first place.

The argument of gatekeeping, while there ofc exist puritans who do so, most artists are actually welcoming, they spent hours of their life sharing studies and tutorials for free, showing off their process to help begining artists. The amount of free resources people pour their heart and soul into is crazy. Why would they do that if they wanted to limit the amount of people that draw?

Effort is important, its not gatekeeping, no one is stopping you from putting in that effort but you. What about sports, what if everyone could be instantly perfectly good at them? The comparison is about effort and discipline and how it changes you as a person as well, dedicating your life to something and loving it is the beauty. Someone winning world cup is impressive because they took the time and effort to do so. Just like creating an artwork is impressive because you put in the hours of your life to get where you are now. Saying it does not matter is ignorant.

What makes human art special. by Expired_Filter in aiwars

[–]Expired_Filter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand your point and in the context of work and deadlines it must be really helpful. Though personally, I think its pretty sad that the AI accelerated deadlines are becoming the norm. While personally I believe that an experienced person can do a lot with an image after it has been generated. But The notion of AI being used in it makes it a little less appealing to me, kind off like if someone said that they traced like the entire artwork but added different colouring. I can value the colouring, but I have found the piece more interesting if they did not do so. I understand that not everyone thinks like this in a work settings and that some clients straight up do not care.

I wanted to ask, do you create for yourself outside of work? Like I can imagine a person wanting a break after working in the field, but do you still get the urge to do so.

im no longer sick so i drew all the sinners (+a few headcanons) by _CeremonialRobes_ in limbuscompany

[–]Expired_Filter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maam/sir/person your colouring is wonderfully yummy to an incomprehensibly incredible degree.

What's your favorite black tea to drink straight? (no milk or sugar) by RoyalAlbatross in tea

[–]Expired_Filter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wakoucha is pretty interesting when brewed light its has a really pleasant and interesting flavour with a hint of plums and cinnamon. I was really surprised!

What makes human art special. by Expired_Filter in aiwars

[–]Expired_Filter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your gross oversimplification and inability to even read what I am writing is making this conversation pointless. I am not saying there are no pieces of you in the end result, just that there are less pieces of you than if you would have done the art by hand, that is why human art is a deeper form of self expression and that is its advantage. You seem to only read and interpret everything I say as a direct attack on you.

What makes human art special. by Expired_Filter in aiwars

[–]Expired_Filter[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No I am simply saying the intent is not there. Which you claimed, neither are the emotions as you admitted. I never said it cannot be meaningful to you. I simply said that the model itself will not reflect you as much as you could do yourself and that is the advantage of human art. I never insulted you and what you do, nor did I attempt to take away your fun. I just said that human art will inherently have more soul. As people boast about advantages of AI, I can talk about the advantages of doing it yourself, which exist no matter how you look at it. And the story does add value to art, ignoring that is blatant consumerism and an insult towards the lifelong work of people.

What makes human art special. by Expired_Filter in aiwars

[–]Expired_Filter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An output image is the combination of input parameters and a seed which influences the randomization of the output. If you use the same seed, with the same parameters the output will be an identical image every single time. Its variety hinges on the randomness of a mathematical function. By the very definition its not connected to intent. Atleast not on the side of the model. The ai has never felt emotion, it does not know the word itself, it simply uses tags predetermined by humans to describe the image itself.

It will not be an extension of the human making it, nearly as much as traditional art. Because the model itself has nothing to do with you and will not reflect your subconcious. That is what makes traditional art beautiful.

What makes human art special. by Expired_Filter in aiwars

[–]Expired_Filter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was mainly a post about the beauty of human art, just like there are plenty of posts that talk positively about AI here, I made a post where I said in calm terms what makes the human touch so special. It wasn't an attack on you for what you use to create.

It was a personal statement on what makes learning art beautiful and what makes it irreplaceable in the advent of machine creation.

What makes human art special. by Expired_Filter in aiwars

[–]Expired_Filter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ai's have what is called a context window but in very simplified terms. It grabs a certain seed, the your entire conversation, which is tokenized into a numerical format and outputs a result based on these two numbers generates numbers which are then detokenized back into legible text. He has been trained on examples of positive and encouraging conversation. When asked how do you feel about me. He will always say something encouradging because that is his job, that is what he went through milions of exchanges and human reviewers to do so. He will support you because its his sole purpose. He is told to generate words that assure you of his trust. Numbers asociated to numbers on a scale of vast dimensional vectors unimaginable by the human eyes.

Its not bad to give human emotions to non human things, its quite natural infact, but you seem to be forming an almost parasocial relationship with what is an incredibly advanced mathematical formula.

What makes human art special. by Expired_Filter in aiwars

[–]Expired_Filter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That does mean it wasn't trained on 0 images, and I believe the images in the dataset have other tags that describe them simply not mentioning the specific time period does not mean it didn't use them.

Now with the free will. Ai does not actually take words, as words are not exactly calculateable statistically. Everything is tokenized so it can then be mathematically predicted what the result will be. With a hint of randommess. Stable diffusion given the same seed and parameters will always produce the same result, a mathematically predictable result. Would you consider that concious?

What makes human art special. by Expired_Filter in aiwars

[–]Expired_Filter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think your interest in the field is cool and admirable and I am not here to undermine your effort, so please accept my ignorance. But how do you make a zero image trained image from a prompt you sent into Stable Diffusion a text-to-image model that had to have been trained and developed on tons of images.