Preface: We work in the AI industry, we're just pulling hot takes while we take a two week break to get clear of some in-industry drama we got pulled into.
Nijijourney is **THE WORST* service recently, and i feel like Midjourney is ACTIVLEY NERFING IT despite the fact that they're literally banking on this process..
Like YOU USED TO BE REASONABLY GOOD.
But 90% of the outputs i've had recently bar specifically maybe the Logo Design ones i did for kicks..
Let's compare with a custom DALLE3 output via a custom comc-strip bot in the E&D Discord:
Clearly yes AI stil sort of eats BALS at patterns, but Dalle3's got some really good style
SDXL, AAM (It's Lykon's Anime Art Model, i'm not going on Civit right now to get you links) and someone's Pixel/16bit Lora.
Note that BOTH DALLE3 and SDXL compute out MORE SYMMETRY even with the similar prompts (You can't tell me that my prompts were ALL shit on niji, i tried to make it more normal, and less CHAT GPT bullshit, but even the striped down Danbooru way? Yea no.. still horse shit)
SDXL via Yodayo.com (AnimagineXL, Juggernaut XL)
Again, look at the symmetry, not nesscarily the pattern accuracy, because there's always going to be thigns you'll need to re-paint if you're doing something specific.
Now, if you're an Artist AGAINST AI let me let you in on WHY I needed to do this:
The current landscape of FREE or lowcost stock items for something like these, or even "WALLPAPER" in specific styles, is so overdone - and al ot of them are now "AI" generated anyways...
but if we were to use PAID stock services, think of the cost:
The use case scenario is for a friend's roleplay/ask blog.
As a designer, with a three year degree if you asked me to hand paint something like this 'd be charging you 200USD at the MINIMUM.
Stock sites are at least 10 USD a month for the CHEAP in house ones like "Vectorstock" and Freemium whatever the hell..
YES, some poeple's jobs are threatened - but not because nessecarily the models exist..
It's more idiots that are commissioning artists and then training on their styles.
Eat the rich, feed the poor.
Also lmao.. welcome to my bullshit excuse to make comic strips just for lulz:
This is based off a current known pedo user on one of the AI sites, and they claim to be russian XD and they consistently call everyone a N*ZI for disagreeing with them.
Hell they called us an Incel and to get a girlfriend.
Yolo, we're in a Queer platonic partnership and we're both NON BINARY XD