On AI-generated Realism

(Imagen 4)

There are groups and communities for every interest, including AI art.

Through Danie Wylie, who I originally met when she revealed her misgivings about HiveLLM, I eventually joined a private Discord server (Promptly Collective Hub) devoted to AI art. Regardless of the reasons that the members create (in my case, primarily to augment Bredemarket’s self-promotional messaging), the common thread is enjoyment in using the tools, and learning how to use them better.

My next mission, should I choose to accept it, is to read the “Realism” guide and work through the workbook I downloaded from the server. While the use of the term “realism” with AI art may sound jarring, the purpose is to have the viewer suspend disbelief (like the Velveteen Rabbit) and treat the image(s) as something that really happened. 

Just like the movies: I hate to break it to you, but Frankenstein’s monster was a guy in a suit wearing makeup.

Anyway, the server itself is private, but if you go to the public “Promptly Ai Collective” page on Facebook at the https://www.facebook.com/dysfunctionalfairytale URL you can learn how to join it.

And to see how the picture in THIS post was created, visit the https://facebook.com/groups/bredemarketpicclub/permalink/3628048683992263/ URL.