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что можно именно картинки, которые не сделаны на основе всего одной генерации.
Just to make it clear, you don’t mean images by ai composition tag should be necessary made from more than one AI generated picture? Because from tag description it seemed like one single generated picture with significant part of manual editing is fine too, isn’t it?
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Just to make it clear, you don’t mean images by ai composition tag should be necessary made from more than one AI generated picture? Because from tag description it seemed like one single generated picture with significant part of manual editing is fine too, isn’t it?
This is probably fine too, as well, but determining which “significant part” will be enough is kinda hard to put in words.
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I feel like these aren’t comparable to AI anatomy fails because these can very well be deliberate choices an artist made and for completely understandable reasons.
If it completely deliberate with human made illustrations, then it’d be fine. But it has to be a conscious “breaking of the rules” and not something that happens because they don’t know any better yet.
Granted, no one is ever good at anything when starting, but it’s best to get familiar with how things should be before heavily stylizing, so those changes both make sense and more importantly are consistent.
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Question regarding the rules: is it permitted to post human-drawn art on tantabus.ai?
I’ll probably use that site more than derpibooru in future because AI-drawn art tends to be far higher quality than human-drawn so there’s much less low quality stuff to wade through, but hypothetically in the event of someone drawing art to a high enough quality that it could be mistaken for AI, can it be posted on Tantabus?
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I think if someone’s ultimate goal is to learn how to draw, AI will do nothing for them because using it is not drawing.
Generating images is not drawing of course, but it can provide auxiliary resources for training.
I wonder about the validity of this. Not having any skill at all at drawing myself, I can’t speak from experience, but I have noticed that in past times many artists posted “sketch dumps” and “works in progress”, and you could see their skills improve over time. Now you don’t see those kind of posts often, if at all. I do wonder if nascent artists now find it less effort to just create AI images rather than develop their skills in artistry.
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Question regarding the rules: is it permitted to post human-drawn art on tantabus.ai?
According to that site’s rule #3:
Tantabus is intended for images made by AI or with AI as a major tool, with content focused on MLP and its surrounding community. Images not made by or with AI should have a clear relation to the topic, or one’s workflow. For example, a guide on how to use a tool, or a sketch to be used for a controlnet image.
So, no.
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I sure wish I spoke fucking russian or ukrainian or romanian or whatever the fuck is going on for half the thread now.
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My own personal take, AI doesn’t belong on this site. It’s discouraging to artists to spend hours on a piece, only for it to be pushed off the front page by a half dozen slop that took 10 seconds to generate at most, or taken up the whole trending tab. Artists who take years to develop their skills and you wonder why it makes them not want to post their art. Standards SHOULD be in place. We’re not deviantart. This should be an art community first, archive second. For many this is a passion and their career. Why wouldn’t they get upset over quick generations pushing their art away?
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Banning all ai content seems a bit extreme. A few of them turn out quite nice. But I guess the sheer abundance just spams the site too much.
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@Background Pony #5363
For what it’s worth, it’s only like 3 people who’ve been talking in Russian on the last couple of pages, it seems to have been a fairly in-depth conversation
This fandom has quite a lot of Russian & Russian-speaking members though. English may be the dominant language, but there’s plenty of Russian around. You might find it handy getting a translator plugin for your web browser.
Personally I’ve taken to picking up some Russian for the sake of supplementing translator programs so I can understand the Russians in the fandom.
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This is precisely the reason I have garnered more respect for places like e6 and such that have a total ban on AI art in place. Artists deserve respect for their craft. AI generation is the complete opposite of that.
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or taken up the whole trending tab
I almost completely sure AI-images were not allowed in “Trending Images” tab, so this is not true. Let the mods correct me if I’m wrong.
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@esc
“But I also want to stand as a devil advocate for a while. Here is why.
Learning to draw is hard, many people never dare to even try it, and AI become a salvation for such people. Even if their creative control over AI is low, they are still got an ability to materialize something from their imagination. Everyone who does art knows how wonderfull this feels, and also knows that pain when you are trying over and over to draw something but get nothing but disgust from an ugly doodles your low skill can produce at moment. Not every person could go through it.”
Well put. When I was learning to sing I used (hid behind) several effects such as reverb, chorus, delay. As time went on and my ability and confidence improved, the effects gradually were turned down until they were at the same level as the original song.
Gnot Even
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@Background Pony #9B0D
Let us be clear that the question of whether AI has benefits, and the question of whether AI belongs on Derpibooru or some other place, are really two different questions. It seems to me that as long as there is a place for AI, it’s benefits are available to those who wish to have them.
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@Background Pony #9B0D
Everyone sucks when they start, that’s part of being human, no one is born with all the skills. The difference is, you were still learning and developing your skills; while people using machine-learning image generators are not.
The problem with the overwhelming majority of people using the AI generator tools is that they want all of the acclaim for being artists, but don’t want to do the work to become artists. They want to be admired as artists, but don’t want to have to deal with the struggle for improvement and time and questioning themselves to develop confidence in their work that real artists go through.
The fact that so many of them whinge so loudly about getting moved to an AI-specific space, and demanding they be allowed to be part of real art spaces, is pretty clear proof of that. If they were truly confident that what they are doing is just as valid, they’d be happy to have their own forums away from their detractors and be recognized there. But they’re not happy about it, which demonstrates that they are aware, at least on some level, that what they’re doing is not real art and never will be.
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