That first one is very flower like, Floral Nebula maybe? But yes, much too cool to just bin.

I agree, very cool stuff Darkglass!  

And for you Byrdie, I have a few fur balls playing in the snow that I was working on...  :)

I also found a few old barns in the countryside that brought back some memories...

And a raven keeping watch...

I love ravens, crows and magpies.  MJ doesn't do magpies well.  Or at least didn't last time I tried

rhol:  love the puppies.  The barns are so cool, old buildings "speak" to me.  I will have to try to do one.  Just finished an eagle that is a scene very much like your raven.

This is similiar to what you did, rhol.

Darkglass:  saw the models you posted in the gallery.  Awesome work.  Just awesome.

Awww! Puppies! Adorable. And a very handsome raven, too. 

I haven't been doing much Mid-J today too much into a nostalgia thing with my Vinyl collection, letting Lou pick out some stuff she's not familiar with. Like the old Paul McCartney Album "Ram" this morning Al Stewarts "Year of the Cat" this song sent me to the computer for a minute.

Year of the Cat

The Lyrics  "On a morning from a Bogart movie In a country where they turn back time You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre Contemplating a crime" got me this

The Lyrics "She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running Like a watercolor in the rain Don't bother asking for explanations She'll just tell you that she came In the year of the cat" got me this...No Cats though

Leonard:  those are cool.  Especially like this last one.

Ladylake - Great job on that eagle!

Len - Always finding some excellent lyric images and some good old tunes.

An owl in the rain...

Silly owl , get out of the rain!  Very realistic.  

Pretty close to what it looks like here right now...  ;)

Poor thing.  It was 85 degrees, slight breeze here today.  Actually thought it  might be summer.  lol

Pretty snow scene, it always looks pretty at first then in a day or so is really ugly.  (imho)

My version of the old barn.  I also posted this in the gallery.  

That's an excellent old barn image, you can see more of the weathered red paint, luv it!

rhol:  this one is for you cause I was so snarky about your snow!  ;-)

Using the same lyrics as Len, but with no prefex at the end finds a few strange cat's...   

'She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running Like a watercolor in the rain Don't bother asking for explanations She'll just tell you that she came In the year of the cat'

And when you add something like this at the end of the song...

vivid, high definition, hyper detail, volumetric light from above, photorealistic, stylized, cinematic, 4k octane render, unreal engine --ar 3:2

the cats seem to dissappear...

I like the cat in the center Image, looks like Tommy the Cat

I think I like the ones with the cat...   ;)

And just so everyone knows who Tommy The Cat is...

Primus - Tommy The Cat

The middle part ' Like a watercolor in the rain' gives it a nice painting effect...

David Bowie - Cat People

Thank you for the dragon fun Ladylake...  :)

Hope you don't mind if I mess with it a bit, lol, some Midjourney tweaks...

John Fogerty - Fortunate Son

A steampunk dragon in a cyberpunk city

Lots of super creative images everyone, very cool eclectic mix...!!! 

Can't believe i've never got round to doing a dragon on its own....that's now remedied....went for the more traditional....

What i've actually be up to is spending time in V3...because i started in V4...i like it a lot...the images it gives are very aesthetically pleasing to the eye... a small sample...of the time spent.....

love this last image....!!!

Excellent stuff Darkglass, making me want to to dust off V3 for a while, lol...  ;)

I wanted to see if I could used Mid-j's twisty hands and feet to good use, lol...

Play some Twister anyone...

Really like those cityscapes myself Darkglass

I spent most of the day auditioning Speakers, Blew one of my Klipch's yesterday think I got it narrowed to a pair of Polk Audio RTA 10s or 12s.

Anyone else see the Thing on the NBC Nightly News about AI Generated Art had an interview with a user and the Founder of Mid-J and the HooHa about is it Art or not and the copyright brewhaha, founder of Mid-J seems to blow it all off and a bunch of Lawyers seem to say there's millions of users of AI not much you can do about it, it's prolly here to stay.

Just watched that NBC clip Len, an interesting interview. I'm sure there will be some give and take, greed and money on both sides eh, that's the human condition. For myself, I'm looking forward to even better results in ai, it's the best way so far to reproduce the image in my mind's eye. I just do this for myself anyway and I'm having a blast, so don't care what the naysayers say...   ;)

 Some sore fingers after wearing out a few pairs of scissors to get those fine celtic patterns, lol...  

No Twister for me.  I would break in a hundred pieces!!!

These last two images are wonderful.  Especially like the bird.  

Here are a couple of similar I posted in the gallery a while back.  Not as elegant as yours though.

Ladylake - Those are just fine the way they are, I like your blues...  :)

You can always add a twist to the story...  ;)

Thise paper cuts are brill - something I haven't got around to trying out yet.

Dragons - I did  loads back in the day using the DAZ dragon but lets face it, they were ok at the time, but really nothing like what MJ can do.

Re the art-not art-art theft-whittering, a couple of days ago I posted some fun pics in a greyhound group on FB.  Greyts in the kitchen, primarily making toast (they don't have stomachs, they have toast receptors!!).  Went down really well, everyone loved them and commented.  Except for one.  There HAS to be one.  He replied to someone asking about prints being available saying "it's AI - don't buy it" kinda spoutoff.  I ignored him and told her no, they're low res and it was just a bit of fun.  So he carries on again after I ignored him saying it was theft and was wrong to be made money on.  I told him to get his facts straight before spouting off but he was having none of it.  In the end, I've blocked him.   Then I made a few more and made a free 12-pack desktop wallpaper set for all in the group who wanted them.  That went down well too.   I can only hope that one numpty has a flea infestation in a very dark place hahaaaaaaaaaaaaa 

rhol_figament posted at 11:48 PM Thu, 19 January 2023 - #4454275

Just watched that NBC clip Len, an interesting interview. I'm sure there will be some give and take, greed and money on both sides eh, that's the human condition. For myself, I'm looking forward to even better results in ai, it's the best way so far to reproduce the image in my mind's eye. I just do this for myself anyway and I'm having a blast, so don't care what the naysayers say...   ;)

Oh yeah RIP David Crosby...gone but not forgotten

considering the sheer amount of uncredited outright stolen images shared on Facebook and other social media as "memes" etc anyone calling you out for using ai can STFU.

I understand in a professional capacity it's use being restricted, at least until the legal stuff like copyrights are worked out but using it just for fun people need to stop gatekeeping.

Already posted this in the other AI thread, figured I'd put a link here if you haven't seen it yet. Long story short: all those numpties screaming about "stolen art" and "copyright thieves" better be careful what they wish for.

https://reason.com/2023/01/19/dont-let-disney-monopolize-a-i-generated-art/

Dragon with a different twist

Already posted this in the other AI thread, figured I'd put a link here if you haven't seen it yet. Long story short: all those numpties screaming about "stolen art" and "copyright thieves" better be careful what they wish for.

https://reason.com/2023/01/19/dont-let-disney-monopolize-a-i-generated-art/

I've read the article but cant' make head nor tail of their point.....must be the blonde in me hahaaaaaaaaa

I've read the article, what's been suggested.....as far as i can make out.....is that every single AI image every created...is a "derivative work"  a creation that includes major copyrightable elements of an original, previously created first work. make of that what you want.....how exactly that assumption was made is very unclear

Darkglass posted at 12:22 PM Fri, 20 January 2023 - #4454303

I've read the article, what's been suggested.....as far as i can make out.....is that every single AI image every created...is a "derivative work"  a creation that includes major copyrightable elements of an original, previously created first work. make of that what you want.....how exactly that assumption was made is very unclear

we don't live in a vacuum

one cannot draw fan art at all without referencing the original

the masters of the past blatantly copied each other, historically copyright is a fairly recent thing

ai is only a threat because it is considerably better at it

well i didn't write the article, just read it....maybe you should ask the author, seems to have all the answers....

The point they're making -- trying to make but maybe badly expressed? -- is that IF these lawsuits against AI developers like Stable Diffusion, MidJourney, et. al is successful and the technology is ruled derivative/copyright violating unless licensed by Big Content then ONLY  Big Content will be able to use it fully. Sites like Wombo & MJ will be so restricted, censored and crippled as to be useless except as cash cows for those who hold all the model licenses.  The jobs and rights people think they're protecting with these anti-AI lawsuits and protests will end up being lost, not because of Jane & John Doe making waifu renders in the style of Some Famous Artist and posting them on Art Station or selling prints on Etsy/Wherever, but because studios run by House Of Mouse, etc. will be using their own perfected AI systems for darn near everything because (A) faster and (B) cheaper. Big profits to be had and to heck with fair use/fair dealing and the public domain.

That's my take on it, no doubt there are other articles out there -- written by actual human beings who know what they're talking about -- that can explain it much better.

one way to look at it... House Of Mouse/ Disney, could control the AI market...if licensed by a controlling party, or whoever holds the model licenses, .....if this becomes the case, you will have no Stable Diffusion, MidJourney...it will be to restricted, censored and crippled to be any use like you said, or it will just in house production and concepts

As with everything that's controversial, not socially accepted way,  99.99% of what you read is surmising, conjecture and presumption, there is no proof or hard evidence.

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