I’d be surprised if they actually care about the kids. All this time they always try to push regulations in the name of “protecting the kids”. I really hope this won’t be the start of open source AI’s death.

From what I researched back then (± half a year ago), porkbun is the best one. The other choice was Google Domain but it was sold to SquareSpace recently…

In her decision, Judge Howell wrote that copyright has never been granted to work that was “absent any guiding human hand,” adding that “human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”

It seems like AI art is un-copyright-able if it’s fully generated by AI.

She wrote that this would create “challenging questions regarding how much human input is necessary” to copyright AI-created art, noting that AI models are often trained on pre-existing work.

There are so many ways to create AI art. Does small edits in photo editor count? How about inpainting? What about drawing a rough composition to be used as a guide? AI currently evolves very fast, it’s gonna take a while to enforce it.

What are your thoughts? Does art generated by AI deserve copyright protection?

I’m not sure honestly. Copyright in the current state is abused thoroughly by big corporations to stifle creativity and minimize competition. Just look at how Monster Energy tried to copyright “monster” word and sued everyone who used that word. Maybe if it’s not beaten to death, I’d be more inclined towards “yes”. After all, copyright was made to help creators profit their work.

SD 1.5 is natively trained on 512x512, but you can do 512x768 (2:3) and 768x512 (3:2). I’ve tried 768x448 (12:7) before and it was fine. Though it’s recommended to keep one side at 512 pixels and >2:1 ratio, or it’ll produce some weird artifacts. For the best result, make sure the resolutions are cleanly divisible by 64 (without any decimal).

As for SDXL, it’s trained on bigger resolution and finetuned to more diverse resolution. This has some recommended resolutions. Just make sure that the total pixels are as close to 1,048,576 pixels (1024x1024) as possible, while not exceeding it.

Watercolor is calming to look at, and it’s also a nice breath of fresh air in a sea of high contrast, 2.5D anime style.

The easiest way is probably to just use some automatic selection tool in Photoshop and manually cut/paste it.

The drop shadow makes it look like paper cut. That’s a really interesting effect.

I don’t think sampling method can change the paper-like texture. Maybe add some prompts like paper background or paper texture.

That’s a pretty impressive watercolor-like color. The smudges and paper-like background makes it much more believable.

Sometimes I visit that sub to look at some irl designs. Though most of them are rather “cosplay”-like, instead of the more practical one.

The crazy neurotic people there apparently don’t like generative AI very much.

It’s kind of expected tbh. People hate AI art as of now, outside of the AI community. I understand their hate, as I was one of them. I thought actual artists were going to lose their job. It took a while for me to shake that oponion away. I just recently tried to learn more about it, after reading some opinions about AI art. One particular comment that stood out to me was that “despite the support for artists against AI art, most people won’t pay for artists’ works anyway” (heavy paraphrasing). That one is very much the truth. People rarely respect artists’ work, often undermining their effort. So I started to look at the other side of AI art; what positive things could it brought. I joined a Stable Diffusion subreddit to lurk into the community and learn more about it. As I learned, I could see more potentials of using AI art to actually help artists. Not only that, it’d also help indie game devs to speed up their work and reduce expenses. Thanks to that I had a change of opinion.

I usually do 3-4 inpaints at a time, slowly modifying the denoise, prompts, and inpainted area. Sometimes I can’t get the result I want even after a lot of generations, so I have to make a rough drawing as a hint.

Man, that looks so cute. Also really chonky.

how the admins are planning to introduce government ID verifications

Yiiiiikes wtf, imagine sharing your ID to some strangers just to see some porn.

Holy shit they took the effort to find out every single character’s age. Anyway, if they really want to interpret the rule to the extreme, 99% of anime porn will be banned.

Yeah this happens on me too. Don’t know if that’s the correct behavior.

Erm… what’s the context?