Comment by taylorhughes
8 days ago
We use nano banana extensively to build video storyboards, which we then turn into full motion video with a combination of img2vid models. It sounds like we're doing similar things, trying to keep images/characters/setting/style consistent across ~dozens of images (~minutes of video). You might like the product depending on what you're doing with the outputs! https://hypernatural.ai
The website lets you type in an entire prompt, then tells you to login, then dumps your prompt and leaves you with nothing. Lame.
Got caught out by this just today. Just wanted to try out because it appeared as if I can try it out.
I noticed ChatGPT and others do exactly the same once you run out of anonymous usage. Insanely annoying.
Hn does that too. You've typed out a long response, oh sorry you're posting too fast. Please slow down.
It's intentionally hostile and inconsiderate.
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Your "Dracula" character is possibly the least vampiric Dracula I've ever seen tbh
If anything, the ubiquity of AI has just revealed how many people have 0 taste. It also highlights the important role that these human-centred jobs were doing to keep these people from contributing to the surface of any artistic endeavour in "culture".
There is a reason people (used to) study art and train for years. Easy art is often no art because you need that effort and investment, and learning artistic context, to understand and appreciate.
Which is not to say don’t be creative, I applaud all creativity, but also to be very critical of what you are doing.
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The ubiquity of AI has just revealed that there are tons of grifters willing to release the sloppiest thing ever if they thought it could make some money. They would refrain from that if they had at least a glimmer of taste.
It is really no different than music. Millions of people play guitar but most are not worth listening to or deserving of an audience.
Imagine if you gave everyone a free guitar and people just started posting their electric guitar noodlings on social media after playing for 5 minutes.
It is not a judgement on the guitar. If anything it is a judgement on social media and the stupidity of the social media user who get worked up about someone creating "slop" after playing guitar for 5 minutes.
What did you expect them to sound like, Steve Vai?
So in the end it turns out that the art was never so much about creativity as about gatekeeping. And "everyone can make art" was just a fake facade, because not really.
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That looks exactly like the photos on a Spirit Halloween costume.
I'm in tears. Clicked to check out Dracula and sure enough it's a spot on spirit halloween dollar tree Dracula.
The Sherlock Holmes is heavily influenced by Cucumber Patch.
People pay consulting firms good money to be told their ideal customer so plainly!
I agree. Bruhcula? Something like that. He's a vampire, but also models and does stunts for Baywatch - too much color and vitality. Joan of Arc is way more pale.
Maybe a little mode collapse away from pale ugliness, not quite getting to the hints of unnatural and corpse-like features of a vampire - interesting what the limitations are. You'd probably have to spend quite a lot of time zeroing in, but Google's image models are supposed to have allowed smooth traversal of those feature spaces generally.
Flux Kontext does pretty well also, for modifications. Though I’ve otherwise found the Flux models somewhat stubbornly locked into certain compositions at times that requires a control net to break where other models have been more pliable, though with other trade offs.
He looks like Dracula on LinkedIn
Having a Statue of Liberty character available is for some reason so funny to me.
Makes a lot of sense for some short kid's skit teaching them about the branches of government or whatever. One could also get more creative with the Statue of Liberty and Joan of Arc.
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Yes we are definitely doing the same! For now I’m just familiarizing myself in this space technically and conceptually. https://edwin.genego.io/blog