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It was bound to happen and
I don't intend on stopping at a mere 50ft *grins mischievously*

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This picture was created using my attempts at AI and a lot of editing.
You may ask yourself questions about why I'm beginning inquiring into the big bad AI evil tool well...

Read this :
AI, be my slaveAi, be my Slave, Part oneAI is a fickle and special slave.The analogy may sound unusual but here's this : Just like a little slave, it's capable of the most creative and wonderful things and be plain disobedient and annoying at times.So. I've decided to make sure that AI would be behave the way I intended it to. Here's my story so far.AI, That fickle, creative slaveLike everyone, I had heard about AI and seen the pictures.There was something magical and frightening about it.Truly magical.Truly frightening.Then I realized that I didn't knew anything about the actual process of creating these images, and that this instintive fear of a changing world ( and I mean it : we all felt that ) made no sense. So I did what I always do under these circumstances : embrace the change! Or to the very least, learn, and try to understand it.Before going further though, I'd like to share a few words about AI and all the talk around it. During this creative journey, I've wondered why I was investing my time and creativity into all this technical stuff again ( I'm looking at you DAZ, blender ). Well : - As a creator, I always want to improve and create better creations. - I want to understand things by learning and doing them, always.- I want to initiate a dialog with you all about what this tool is and what it isn't, so we can understand what we're facing and hopefully, using.- Ultimately, I've come to know that AI is a tool and nothing else. All the problems generated with its poor and unethical uses are a human problem, not a tool one. The technology allows unethical uses, yes, but the humans are those making the choice.- I want to create positive and ethical examples of creative AI uses and share them with you all. There have been too many stories of unethical uses and the fear of change coming along with it only grew, and fairly so. The tool that is AI isn't going anywhere soon. It's unavoidable, it will grow : Let's try and create together a better USE for this tool by challenging people to use it in creative and meaningful ways, and guide the *humans* behind these poor ethical uses. This being said... Here are my findings so far.Down the rabbit hole : Make it workFirst of all, I installed stable diffusion and automatic1111 on my computer.I followed this tutorial. Try it, it's pretty easy., Then I began learning learning learning... and at first glance... AI is complex. In many ways, it reminded me of the steep learning curve when I began using blender.Models, checkpoints, denoising, LORA, Hypernetworks ( i love this one ), embeddings... All these terms I had to learn the hard way... but you'll find it all online. No worries.I ended up browsing https://civitai.com/ and https://huggingface.co/ for models... then began to try them all, with diverse luck. Of course, as you can guess, I had to witness the many horrors only AI is able to produce but I finally got some success.Txt2img : Text to something : cross your fingers !Txt2img is the first use of this AI thing. You type a prompt.. two... ten... a thousand prompts, seeing what works and what doesn't, and you're almost always suprised with the outcome.This is more or less what everyone knows.Here's what I got at first :,,,But I'm not interested in creating mockups of existing artists and copy their style. So I dig deeper.As you may know... AI don't understand the very concept of size, of tiny buildings crumbling under my steps and all that. So... with choco, we created what they call an "embedding", something to give the AI hints on what it should do.For this we used the picture from "Bombe". My pictures. My creation, turned into something else. I felt some meaning emerge from this creative motion... And I got this ,Of course there still were the many strange fingers and so on but... I could imagine myself editing this to create a beautiful picture. And it had more elements of what I needed !So I kept refining prompts, reading, tweaking parameters I never touched before, dozens of them, tried different models and hypernetworks and LORA and... all these complicated things I had no idea of what they'd do in the end. And I got this,Did you survive the assult of weird hands ? I did.And then I tried what I really wanted to try in the first place, the thing that would possibly give more control over what images would be created.Voila.I hope you enjoyed the first part.Please leave a comment below. I'd love to exchange with you all about this *smiles softly*Next up : Img2img : More control, sometimes.

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Description
It was bound to happen and
I don't intend on stopping at a mere 50ft *grins mischievously*

----

This picture was created using my attempts at AI and a lot of editing.
You may ask yourself questions about why I'm beginning inquiring into the big bad AI evil tool well...

Read this :
AI, be my slaveAi, be my Slave, Part oneAI is a fickle and special slave.The analogy may sound unusual but here's this : Just like a little slave, it's capable of the most creative and wonderful things and be plain disobedient and annoying at times.So. I've decided to make sure that AI would be behave the way I intended it to. Here's my story so far.AI, That fickle, creative slaveLike everyone, I had heard about AI and seen the pictures.There was something magical and frightening about it.Truly magical.Truly frightening.Then I realized that I didn't knew anything about the actual process of creating these images, and that this instintive fear of a changing world ( and I mean it : we all felt that ) made no sense. So I did what I always do under these circumstances : embrace the change! Or to the very least, learn, and try to understand it.Before going further though, I'd like to share a few words about AI and all the talk around it. During this creative journey, I've wondered why I was investing my time and creativity into all this technical stuff again ( I'm looking at you DAZ, blender ). Well : - As a creator, I always want to improve and create better creations. - I want to understand things by learning and doing them, always.- I want to initiate a dialog with you all about what this tool is and what it isn't, so we can understand what we're facing and hopefully, using.- Ultimately, I've come to know that AI is a tool and nothing else. All the problems generated with its poor and unethical uses are a human problem, not a tool one. The technology allows unethical uses, yes, but the humans are those making the choice.- I want to create positive and ethical examples of creative AI uses and share them with you all. There have been too many stories of unethical uses and the fear of change coming along with it only grew, and fairly so. The tool that is AI isn't going anywhere soon. It's unavoidable, it will grow : Let's try and create together a better USE for this tool by challenging people to use it in creative and meaningful ways, and guide the *humans* behind these poor ethical uses. This being said... Here are my findings so far.Down the rabbit hole : Make it workFirst of all, I installed stable diffusion and automatic1111 on my computer.I followed this tutorial. Try it, it's pretty easy., Then I began learning learning learning... and at first glance... AI is complex. In many ways, it reminded me of the steep learning curve when I began using blender.Models, checkpoints, denoising, LORA, Hypernetworks ( i love this one ), embeddings... All these terms I had to learn the hard way... but you'll find it all online. No worries.I ended up browsing https://civitai.com/ and https://huggingface.co/ for models... then began to try them all, with diverse luck. Of course, as you can guess, I had to witness the many horrors only AI is able to produce but I finally got some success.Txt2img : Text to something : cross your fingers !Txt2img is the first use of this AI thing. You type a prompt.. two... ten... a thousand prompts, seeing what works and what doesn't, and you're almost always suprised with the outcome.This is more or less what everyone knows.Here's what I got at first :,,,But I'm not interested in creating mockups of existing artists and copy their style. So I dig deeper.As you may know... AI don't understand the very concept of size, of tiny buildings crumbling under my steps and all that. So... with choco, we created what they call an "embedding", something to give the AI hints on what it should do.For this we used the picture from "Bombe". My pictures. My creation, turned into something else. I felt some meaning emerge from this creative motion... And I got this ,Of course there still were the many strange fingers and so on but... I could imagine myself editing this to create a beautiful picture. And it had more elements of what I needed !So I kept refining prompts, reading, tweaking parameters I never touched before, dozens of them, tried different models and hypernetworks and LORA and... all these complicated things I had no idea of what they'd do in the end. And I got this,Did you survive the assult of weird hands ? I did.And then I tried what I really wanted to try in the first place, the thing that would possibly give more control over what images would be created.Voila.I hope you enjoyed the first part.Please leave a comment below. I'd love to exchange with you all about this *smiles softly*Next up : Img2img : More control, sometimes.

Love you all !
Be awesome !

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Support ?
comment, share, or
patreon.com/giantesstina