Use Stables Diffusion? That’s what it’s for, no? Not like you’re putting an artist out of work with that, and it can be great fun learning how it all works, I suggest you start with the Automatic1111 frontend and ignore the controlnets and stuff for now, then move into ComfyUI for extra performance benefits with XL and chaining models and such, it’s all fairly simple to install nowadays and is free (as in beer) and open source like the model itself.
Once you get controlnets working, if you can sketch it’s great because you can much more precisely guide the model into filling out parts you struggle with in drawing, img2img can also be useful if you can at least draw stick figure composition to guide it.
AI art isn’t plagiarism, it uses art to train, same as any person would. You shouldn’t just believe random unsourced tacked on claims even if they’re in an Hbomberguy video.
Learning AI art has it’s own skills and knowledge and challenges, it’s just a different skillet same as digital art to traditional art. It’s not just “fiddling” anymore than drawing is fiddling.
'sides, not everyone can draw well in the end, and even those who might be able to can’t really dedicate that much time to such a pursuit as a hobby if they have work/family etc. I’ll probably never get good at a musical instrument but I wouldn’t let that steal the joy of making music on my PC in a DAW with some VSTs.
I know PewDiePie did it with that one challenge, and the anti-AI crowd praised him, but aside from saying slurs on the internet it’s not like he has a job, he’s just a multimillionaire who never has to work a day in his life again so not exactly a valid comparison for a normal person.
Use Stables Diffusion? That’s what it’s for, no? Not like you’re putting an artist out of work with that, and it can be great fun learning how it all works, I suggest you start with the Automatic1111 frontend and ignore the controlnets and stuff for now, then move into ComfyUI for extra performance benefits with XL and chaining models and such, it’s all fairly simple to install nowadays and is free (as in beer) and open source like the model itself.
Once you get controlnets working, if you can sketch it’s great because you can much more precisely guide the model into filling out parts you struggle with in drawing, img2img can also be useful if you can at least draw stick figure composition to guide it.
Or just like… actually practice art so you can learn instead of fiddling with plagiarism machine for hours
AI art isn’t plagiarism, it uses art to train, same as any person would. You shouldn’t just believe random unsourced tacked on claims even if they’re in an Hbomberguy video.
Learning AI art has it’s own skills and knowledge and challenges, it’s just a different skillet same as digital art to traditional art. It’s not just “fiddling” anymore than drawing is fiddling.
'sides, not everyone can draw well in the end, and even those who might be able to can’t really dedicate that much time to such a pursuit as a hobby if they have work/family etc. I’ll probably never get good at a musical instrument but I wouldn’t let that steal the joy of making music on my PC in a DAW with some VSTs.
I know PewDiePie did it with that one challenge, and the anti-AI crowd praised him, but aside from saying slurs on the internet it’s not like he has a job, he’s just a multimillionaire who never has to work a day in his life again so not exactly a valid comparison for a normal person.
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