AI Image Generation

Rabbit_Games said:

The prompt says "a woman". I'm curious if there is a built-in bias for what "a woman" is supposed to look like. What percentage is white and/or dark hair, breast size, etc.

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Honestly, I think the AI sees things in a very fuzzy way. It probably uses some mashup of all the prompt that leads you to a 1940s pinup look.

"a woman posing next to a stunning vintage car, pastel colors, photograph --ar 16:9"

So, you end up getting a 'posing, stunning, vintage, pastel colors, photograph, woman' and a ''posing, stunning, vintage, pastel colors, photograph, car'.

I work with a production team that's embracing AI image-gen for concept artwork. We've been using it to provide animators with concept artwork. It's definitely decreased the amount of time before animators can begin working on various shots.

Just a mere few weeks ago, we were having problems with some historically accurate items, but it seems to be getting better and better, almost by the day. I recall what version 3 of Midjourney was like a year ago and it's amazing how quickly it's progressed.

Even though I'm focused on audio, I can see how this is going to radically change small-scale, artsy, creative productions.

If you're involved in any creative/artistic field, I think you better start at least learning some of the basics about prompting. At least until one of the major companies create the perfect UX/UI for text to image gen.

Mist said:

How it's going to change is that everything is going to start looking the same if all the concept artwork is being generated by things that effectively take an average+remix of tons of existing art.

Companies doing this will quickly become indistinguishable from any of the other companies doing this.

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I respectfully disagree with this assessment of the direction image gen is going.

I've been using this technology since last July — the ability for variation and differential in the generated artwork has been increasing on every iteration. The ability to "craft" an appropriate prompt with modifiers and creative language has nearly become analogous to a painter choosing the brush and paint.

Collectively, the production team and I have generated thousands of images, and each iteration has been an improvement. The thing we're finding out is that we've had to "re-learn" how to craft statements to achieve a result. It's like a boss fight in a game; once we figured out the correct way to create the prompt, it becomes infinitely easier and more productive. Once we starting using job ID's, seed #'s, blending commands, image/text weights to start reproducing outputs; this became more than a 'party-trick' gimmick. (And this doesn't include using a LLM AI to help out)

I think I can confidently say that if you're a person/company whose focused on both being creative AND being profitable; NOT utilizing this technology is a big mistake.

It's still in it's infancy now, and the speed at which is improving is nearly unfathomable to me. My advice would be to stay as current as you can on the tools and techniques that appear, so you can use it to further an idea or inspiration.

We're at an inflection point in human creativity and I for one am probably the most excited I've been in decades about the potential of this tech. Good times.