I know I've been AWOL for a while. sorry about that. I kind of got burned out on the whole thing and just couldn't get back into it. I can't promise I'm back fully yet, but I did want to generate some images so figured I might as well share those.
I will be putting much more time and effort into all my galleries moving forward. What this means is that the galleries will be smaller, and less frequent (not too much I hope), but hopefully much better. I will put effort in to clean up details, reduce the number of images that look very similar and increase image quality. I will still post the 'random' category galleries, and these will be much larger. These galleries will be a random collection (what a surprise) of things that either come out when I'm testing, or just are not good enough for the main gallery. I hope you enjoy this new direction for my content.
A lot of people seem to think that generating AI art is easy. You just type in what you want to see, click a button, and *poof* it's there, right? Not really. Not at all, really. Getting set up is not too difficult. You install some software, get things configured, find a good AI model, (or just use the SD models) and away you go. You type in your first prompt and click the button and what do you see? Most likely a bunch of humbled jumbled nonsense. Unless you grabbed your prompt from some site like prompthero or lexica then you might see results similar to what that prompt is known to generate. Or maybe you get something that's not even close and you think "what the fuck is this nonsense?"
There are a lot of misconceptions about AI art. It's not easy or low effort. I might make it look that way with all the content I generate, but I guarantee you that is not the case. For each image you see, there were probably at least 5 others that didn't make the cut. Those others either get thrown in the trash or, if they're good enough, then they get saved to go into my Nightmare Fuel or Derp galleries. Not a lot of AI content creators post the misses. It's great to see some of the other generators out there are posting some galleries of their misses as well.
Crafting an ideal prompt takes studying, testing, and time. And even then, SD just takes your prompt as a suggestion. It still does whatever the fuck it wants. As a prime example, right now I'm working on a gallery where I want wavy white hair. Out of several images generated almost all of them have white hair. But for some reason I changed one little thing and they started coming out with dark brown hair. I didn't remove anything about the hair, I didn't add any other keywords anywhere that woudl generate dark colors, SD just decided that it wanted to create dark hair. Often times what works great in one scenario does horribly in another. Or, what works good with one model, produces absolute shit in another.
Mangled hands and other fine details are a reality that we all deal with when producing AI images. AI just does not draw hands well. There are things you can do to combat it, but for the most part you just kinda gotta roll with it and hope you get one with a good looking hand. Or, you can do what I do and focus on images where the hands are hidden or they are just not a focal point. Even with that though, there is also other mangled anatomy that will happen, and happen often.
So that's that. AI Art is a lot of trial and error. You throw something at the wall and see what sticks, tweak things and test again. A lot of times my galleries start off with images that are 'test' images. They're just the 'good ones' that I saw when testing. I'm not going to do that anymore on themed galleries. From now on if I have test images that come out decent I'm going to save those and post them in a Random gallery. Then once I've tweaked the prompt and figured out the style I'm going for I'll start generating the gallery for real. There might be one that slips through the cracks here and there, but it'll be okay.
Hope this helps some of you who tried the AI thing and saw horrible results understand why, and helps the others understand that even though I produce a shit load of content, a lot of time goes into each gallery. It's not all sunshine and rainbows.
I will be deleting a shit-ton of content and will no longer generate images depicting Celebrities or any Copywritten Fictional Characters.
WTF?! WHY???
I have been giving this a lot of thought lately. It can be very nice to sit there and think: "I wonder what that actress would look like naked" - and then push a button and see it. But, AI generated porn is a very shady gray area. Eventually deep fakes will get to a point where the celebrity community will throw a big fuss and I don't want to be caught in any legal battle because of my decision to generate fake nudes of celebrities. So I will not generate any further images depicting celebrities.
Copywritten Fictional Characters are a whole other battle, but the same story. Ultimately, someone else owns the rights to the likeness of those characters. Not me. By generating images or using their likeness in my images this could be considered a copywrite violation and could also cause legal trouble for me. So I will no longer be generating images of characters that are owned by someone else.
Some of my galleries are already images of original content where I created a prompt to generate a generic 'woman' or 'femboy' or 'futa' These galleries will all stay up and stay live. (Example: Beautiful Iranian Women, Rainbow Haired Girl, Demon Girl Futa, and the new Cyberpunk Women I posted today) All those galleries were based on generic prompts and any resemblance they have to real people is purely coincidental so they will stay live.
OK... so, when?
I know I just posted galleries today of celebrities. Effective as of when this blog post goes live, I will no longer generate any new content containing celebrities or copywritten fictional characters. I will no longer take requests to generate such content. If you request it then I will kindly refer you to this blog post. All my existing galleries that fall into these categories will remain live until Sunday, December 4th, 2022. At which point, they will be deleted. If you like any of those, I suggest you download that content and save it because once it's gone, I will not repost it. If you choose to repost it, that is fine, but the onus for that content then falls on you.
Well what's next then?
Moving forward I will only generate content using generic prompts like 'Blonde Woman', 'Purple haired demon girl', etc. I will not use any celebrity names, character names, keywords, etc in the prompts I use to generate images. I will continue generating images and posting regularly. I understand that a lot of fans I have liked my celebrity galleries and galleries of other characters. If you no longer want to be a fan, then I'm sad to see you go but you gotta do you. I will continue to take requests, but if you request something then use generic terms like 'a brunette girl with pigtails in a pleated skirt'. That I can do.
