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I had the chance to betatest midjourney a while ago. To make the AI "learn" how to produce art.
it's INSANE what it can do.
I made this (well "it" made it actually) and I'm using it for my new wave band:
@DISTANT RUMOURS this is really cool. what was the process like?
Well, it was actually quite simple and easy:
- they asked artists to send in sketches and paintings of their work. All of that was all uploaded onto a server, and after that it would be analysed by the AI. At the same time it also linked with the google search engine.
That way it could "study" how art is made.
So if you would do a suggestion, the AI has a gigantic database to take styles from. It has the whole internet but it also understands how a "artist" would go to work.
This particular work is "painted" but if anyone ask for a woodcut styled work it can do that as well. It can produce any style from hyperrealistic to woodcuts etc. It's mindblowing.
As an illustrator this is both superscary and superinteresting. I know a guy who used to sell cd covers that he painted.
He bought a license and just generates cd albumcover after albumcover now. He sells them and makes good money and its "his" idea anyway he just uses the AI to make it.
But on the other hand it can (and will) eliminate the "artist" quite easily.
Why pay 350 dollars for a cover when you can generate stuff like this in a few minutes 'literally a few minutes!).
It would take me over a week to make this.