My two cents on SD3 and why I don't think it's any better than the last heaps of garbage SDAI hyped up and we all had to finetune the nerfed garbage out of to the point we're stuck with incoherent nightmares: https://civitai.com/articles/5019
For those of you who are Artists who aren't FOR AI:
I urge you now more than ever, not to whine at the people finetuning unless your actual content is being used and then that's ok -- but go see why your jobs are only at stake because of stupid corporations.
"PROMPT ENGINEERING" isn't going to save SDAI out of a model that isn't anything better, worse or even any more comptent than anything out there on the market. SD3 and Stable Cascade have clear devolving issues in control, and quality as well as coherence.
The problem with evolution in AI is they're training things that corporations demand, they're not developing better anatomy, they're not developing better coherence.
Not only that is the constant warning that these models are always "younger focused as to not do NSFW" which then leads to nerfed CSAM and CP that leaks out into media outlets and making things a dystopian future where Joebloggs goes to jail and gets off scot free on a whim saying "ITS ALL ARTISTIC" (I hear this a lot in AI circles: they all think if they. tell the cops it's artistic, then it's legal? I mean, let's be real that's not true at all.)
As an AI gen researcher of sorts, right now with my design and artistic background my fear isn't the loss of work because of styles and artists being trained on: It's the corporate drab souless and incoherent "STOCK" crap we're being spoon fed.
SDAI doesn't want the personal customers to come in, they're charing for the time being via their developer portal at least 10 bucks to top your account up. Then it's so many credits/ otherwise per dollar to generate images.
When I started doing things with AI - I saw a lot of positives. I saw avenues people could use AI for, things that could turn the industry around. No, sadly now those are being shuffled aside because corporations want in on the pile.
Big business wants a play, and most of them don't even understand how these things work.
Example (names have been changed for privacy):
Company A owner expresses a want to create a print on demand business with generative AI. Has admitted to never using generative AI in any format or another before apart from midjourney or Dalle2 back in the day.
Company A sees several users on a popular open source repository for AI content and contacts privately one or more members to source for their position.
GIF to show basically how the whole advertisment sounded:
And then you have the current state of the new "AI BROS" economy fresh off the tracks of failed NFT.
Keep in mind as a disclaimer that the above situation was merely hearsay - and there is no legal basis to who, what where and why.
This isn't to say that AI is dying: This is just to say that AI in it's current format will likely split into a niche market of corporate design use, and those that use it for concept work outside of that... as well as the consistent bot niche market to make PonyXL porn on every g-d model that they can because "YOU CANT TELL ME WHAT TO DO".
(This isnt' against the creator of Pony Diffusion XL, nor any other model creator, this is my take based on how many models i'd been creating recently with an uptake of XXX disney princess loras being used with my models on pictures and the mods not being able to do anything about it because they all look over 21.)
I feel bad for artists right now that are CURIOUS about AI, but don't want to get into it because its' just not worth it. You're fighting know it alls on one side, and you're fighting the others that just demand to monetize every second of their life on the other.
So my stance on AI stands:
I'm middle ground, I do what I do because I enjoy it - but I try and infuse an "eat the rich feed the poor" mentality. SD3 and SD Cascade and OpenAi's new models are not really helping that a long much.
Also wtf - this was me asking for a PHOTOGRAPH and when i asked for realism it got worse LOL.
There may be a chance soon that Aixmedia won't post a ton because it's hard to keep up with our dayjob as a model creator AND try and focus on feeding fresh content because Tumblr isn't a great place to discuss that stuff, and we don't want to feed you incorrect content.
We do feel that AI has it's place.
But we also feel that natural art, digital art -- deserve to exist in a higher space.
And yes to those of you who hate AI:
We purposly used these tags to get you to go ahead and spread how you feel about SD3 based on the images at hand. Just note that this blog isnt' legally responsible, and we're not here to trigger nor doxx anyone.
