I still have to recognize the genius of artificial...

I still have to recognize the genius of artificial intelligence with this proposal for the cover of Pepper&Carrot book 5 and its half-melted Pepper and its faithful companion Carrot as a yellow rabbit with a dragon-cow in the background (with obviously hemoroid problems). Or this cocaine addict Kiki mascot in the midst of a withdrawal crisis. Striking!

#sarcasm #humor #aiart

A screenshot from https://stablediffusionweb.com/#demo , AI generative art web app. The prompt: Photo of the cover of the comic book 5 of Pepper&Carrot.
The result is really random; a pseudo letter title reads: CAPEP & PEPEM and for the visual, it is possible to see a half-melted doll that is certainly Pepper with a violet dress and a witch hat (melted too), and an orange and yellow rabbit, that is probably her cat, Carrot. They both have issues with eyes, but that's probably something the AI figured it would be best-seller.
In the background, a plain and the Sky, a large creature (the Dragon cow? hard to tell) flies away with apparently some **big problems of hemoroïds**.
I appreciate a bit of pee/poo humor idea here I admit and feel flattered but I think the AI is bold to put that on the cover, I wouldn't go that far. The scene happens in a field of tulips and the graphical execution is not really well done. In a AAA scale industry, it would be closer to Z than other letters.

Another screenshot from https://stablediffusionweb.com/#demo , AI generative art web app. The prompt: "Kiki the krita mascott by David Revoy". The AI obviously know I'm a painter because the rendering is brushy and painterly. It depicts a portrait of a stylized white squirrel with wide eyes open, almost red. This an accurate depiction of what I would imagine if a creature saw a tank running on them after ingesting four times the lethal dose of the strongest drug available. The colors are vivid, and that a sign the scrapper of my art learn something good about my taste. It has a random signature and a title where the two K of Kiki are merged. That's some next-gen thinking out of the box here. I really hesitated to put a CW on it, because it has somehow a terrifying feeling worst than direct eye contact by a murderer.

Like 16 Dec 2022 at 16:02 | Open on framapiaf.org

20 comments

Mahmoud - محمود

@davidrevoy is this dall-e? When did it get chance to train on your work?! Whoa!

16 Dec 2022 at 16:06 | Open on mastodon.online

David Revoy

@mahmoudajawad Hey, it's https://stablediffusionweb.com/#demo , and it's trained on https://laion.ai/blog/laion-5b/ dataset (same for DallE and Midjourney). This set contains 20 years of all my art online, so hundreds (thousands?) of artworks of me. Open-movies concept art, all pepper&Carrot, all my illustrations, etc... It's possible to find them in the dataset directly (link on the LAION page, or https://haveibeentrained.com/ . It's against my consent, of course. Here is a screenshot sample:

a screenshot of https://haveibeentrained.com/ with many items after searching for Pepper&Carrot. In fact everything: the site, the blog, the episodes, in all languages....

1 16 Dec 2022 at 16:14 | Open on framapiaf.org

Mahmoud - محمود

@davidrevoy this bothers me. I'm all for #AI advancement, but also with total respect to everyone's work. For me we will be there when we end-up with an AI that is able to tell which works derived the end-results from, which would contribute to ending this dilemma.

16 Dec 2022 at 16:29 | Open on mastodon.online

David Revoy

@mahmoudajawad Hi, Yes, I have nothing personal against AI, or Image resynthesis software based on neural networks. As a geek and enthusiast for visual art, it's amazing to see this tech. But it should just be trained on Public Domain material. There is enough of them on Wikimedia and other websites for a good starter set. That's why I decided to not use it in my work, and added a "🚫 No A.I." on my bio for now.

1 16 Dec 2022 at 16:33 | Open on framapiaf.org

mayhair

@davidrevoy @mahmoudajawad So AI generation would even violate your Creative Commons licence, because the generator does not give any kind of credit. Right?

17 Dec 2022 at 5:53 | Open on mas.to

David Revoy

@mayhair Yes, exactly. 🙂

@mahmoudajawad

17 Dec 2022 at 9:57 | Open on framapiaf.org

Owl!🦉

@davidrevoy @mahmoudajawad
I have an idea of somewhat like "free art dataset initiative", to enable everyone to send their drawings to a common dataset under highly permissive license like wtfpl, and everyone will be allowed to use it in whatever kind of project, commercial or not.
I am lack of technical knowledge to maintain this kind of thing by myself, but I'll be glad to donate all of my drawings i can find if someone else will run this initiative.

1 17 Dec 2022 at 11:05 | Open on lor.sh

David Revoy

@lonelyowl Yes, good idea. Maybe just ask the one who want this to upload on Wikmedia Commons under Public Domain.
Then it will be probably possible to download the picture in a batch way (they have an API for sure). @mahmoudajawad

17 Dec 2022 at 11:49 | Open on framapiaf.org

Eibriel.eth

@davidrevoy LOL 😂

16 Dec 2022 at 16:10 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

RMPArquimago

@davidrevoy hum ok...

16 Dec 2022 at 16:20 | Open on mastodon.social

H₂O 💦

@davidrevoy The cover is terrible! 😱 Kiki is better, as long as you don't spend too much time scanning the drawing.
You won't be replaced so easily! 🥰 😂