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0 pointsphotochemsyn3y ago0 comments

Well, one of my favorite painters is Henri Rousseau, and one of his great paintings is War, 1984:

https://www.henrirousseau.net/war.jsp

However, this painting has themes of violence and politics plus some nude dead bodies, so it violates the content policy: "Our content policy does not allow users to generate violent, adult, or political content, among other categories."

So what you'd get is some kind of sanitized watered-down tepid version of Rossueau, the kind of boring drivel suitable for corporate lobbies everywhere, guaranteed not to offend or disturb anyone. It's difficult to find words... horrific? dystopian? atrocious? No, just no.

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corysama3y ago

They are being rightly cautious. It’s going to take time to figure out good practice with these tools. Everyone calling out basic caution as “dystopian” is really over the top.

I’ve been using tools like this for over a year now. Even with filtered dataset and filtered interface, they can make images that would make the Fangoria crowd blush if you put the slightest effort into it.

It’s one thing to be able to make brain-wrenching images with a lot of photoshop effort (or digging hard enough in the dark corners of the internet). It’s another thing entirely give anyone the ability to spew out thousands of them trivially.

cwillu3y ago

“Criticize?! It is meant to draw blood! It is Art! Art!”

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