AI Art Tools and Resources in One Place

https://www.aiartapps.com/

by brandopp • 4 years ago

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asicsp3• 4 years ago

Related: "List of Stable Diffusion resources" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33416632 (162 points | 6 days ago | 23 comments)

pvg• 4 years ago

And https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

jasfi3• 4 years ago

Coming soon, a platform for AI art creation and more, https://inventai.xyz. I'm hoping to add features that set it apart.

RugnirViking• 4 years ago

probably best not to post this link until you have some actual content, else people will get the wrong idea :)

jasfi3• 4 years ago

Yes it seems so, I'll refrain from posting the link again until I have a working product.

shreyshnaccount2• 4 years ago

Are we slowly going back to the old curated, directory driven internet? I hope so

silviot• 4 years ago

One lone datapoint to support this theory: since a couple of years I often google "awesome <technology-name>" to get manually curated lists of tools/resources/documentation related to a piece of technology I'm interested in.

asicsp3• 4 years ago

There are lists of such lists:

* https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness

* https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

lostmsu• 4 years ago

No, every list like this stops being maintained pretty quickly.

aiartapps5• 4 years ago

Thanks.

spaceman_20202• 4 years ago

Old man rant incoming: Can someone tell me what's the need for AI art in the first place?

Like, why are we wasting resources to fix something that human beings actually enjoy doing themselves?

Shouldn't AI and robotics focus first on fixing issues that human beings don't like doing? Where's my robot that can chop onions for me?

Am I the only one who finds the current crop of AI startups a little misguided in their priorities? Instead of fixing unpleasant stuff in human lives, they're trying to takeover the fun and pleasant things we actually like to do - write, paint, code.

/endrant

jasfi3• 4 years ago

I see this a lot, so I'll probably write a blog post on it sometime. But the short answer is that not everyone is good at art, but they know exactly what they want, and they want it as soon as possible.

There's no motive to harm artists, it's just that the tech is ready and there's a niche for it. Artists can actually benefit too, they can use this tech for inspiration and for a starting point, if nothing else.

sharperguy• 4 years ago

Plus there are many use cases where it would be nice to have professionally made, unique art, but the costs of creating it would simply be too high.

For example, a group of friends sitting around playing D&D, would not likely commission custom artwork for each of their characters. With tools like stable diffusion, you could have a set of several images of each character, as well as for NPCs, landmarks, runes and so on, all in an afternoons work, with some knowledge of the tech.

avian• 4 years ago

not everyone is good at art, but they know exactly what they want,

This is pretty much like saying "not everyone is good at programming, but they know exactly what they want". Then consider all the debate about agile processes and amount of ink spilled over how to get your customers to figure out what they want from your code...

Honestly, as much as I think AI art is deeply unfair to artists who unwillingly contributed its learning material and are getting replaced by "in the style of ..." prompts, I can see how just deferring a commercial customer to AI can be a blessing. Let the machine deal with "this looks fine and it fits the material I gave you, but I imagined it differently. Can you redo it by tomorrow?"

aiartapps5• 4 years ago

We have a deep answer and a business answer.

Business answer: Automation saves money; makes humans do more things. The AI-generated content doesn't has to be perfect to be useful. Like 80% good is enough!

Deep answer: We believe artists nor human art isn't going anywhere! We enjoy the process of art being created. Look at Insta/TikTok/Shorts how artists are still growing by sharing their creation process.

Conclusion:

Art for business will be automated. As we said, it only has to fail 20% of the time to be acceptable.

Artists can leverage their personal story and authenticity to still thrive in the era of AI-generated content.

headsoup7• 4 years ago

Who believes artists and human art isn't going anywhere? So this business art is just replacing art no one was doing, or it was just happening for free somehow?

Do you think any of the artists that created the content the AI learns from are going to get any royalties for this business use?

Jevon233• 4 years ago

General-purpose robotics is a much harder problem and costs more money.

Art turned out to be within reach of current ML techniques at a relatively reasonable price, so that’s where people are investing their resources right now.

It’s not that people consciously chose to automate art before automating manual labor. It just happened to work out that way.

headsoup7• 4 years ago

The reasonable price comes from not paying any artists to source the learning datasets. Shady use of 'non-profits' to do that but and hope to avoid legal trouble.

headsoup7• 4 years ago

AI art is completely ripping off actual artists to build their learning datasets. They're datasets are full of copyrighted work but until now no one cares much about visual artists. Take a look at the statements for AI music generation and you'll see they're very careful to state they use non-copyrighted, royalty free source tracks. No such thing for artists

Beware the industry pushing AI art forwards, it's not at all an industry built for artists. You'll see "it's a tool for artists" or "it'll happen regardless" or "it won't get that good" or "it's useful for generating references/ideas," etc. Tell me what's the business model here?

They create non-profits to source the datasets to then pass to their for-profit parent company. I hope the class actions come quickly enough.

CuriouslyC7• 4 years ago

Tell me you're a neo-luddite without saying it... "ripping off"

The statement about non-copyrighted sources is because Google is majorly bad PR/conflict averse, so they're trying to sidestep all the "They're stealing my soul, they took my job, herp derp" rabble rousing.

orbital-decay3• 4 years ago

Like, why are we wasting resources to fix something that human beings actually enjoy doing themselves?

There's entertainment (99% of the stuff) and there's high art. For creators, entertainment is largely driven by money. As a result, especially since 70-80's and artists like Frazetta and Vallejo, most of the entertainment converged into simplified, easily repeatable styles that are easier (=cheaper) to produce, at the cost of quality and thought put into it. However, for other people the interest in entertainment is driven by novelty; same stuff gets boring very fast. This is a fundamental conflict of interests.

With the new tools, it becomes possible to automate the mechanical work like rendering; make a sketch and it turns it into a fully rendered picture in your own visual language that you constructed beforehand. This opens a whole new range of styles that were impractical to use before, due to the amount of work involved. For example, you can make animation in practically any style, not being limited to the striking "3D CGI" look or the simplified cartoonish look, or needing a huge ass team of VFX specialists - the tool does most of the rendering for you without putting specific limits on your style. Long form indie animation becomes possible.

Am I the only one who finds the current crop of AI startups a little misguided in their priorities?

They are misguided, but probably not in a sense you imply. First, there's plenty of successful ML-based tools in the visual industries. ML-driven keying is pure magic, it's completely accepted in video editing now, it saves huge amount of work and enables things that weren't possible before. Same for denoising, and many other things.

Image generation tools are a bit a solution in the search for a problem, in particular because text to image is a gimmick and is insufficient for anything, and those startups don't seem to realize that. The novelty of prompt-based generation will wear off quickly.

What is needed is style transfer: construct you own visual language, teach it to the model and let the machine use it on a massive scale, leaving you to higher level concepts. This is a product that can be used in production.

Take a look at NVIDIA Canvas, which was a good early demonstration of the principle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlZYRwJ2oJg

NVIDIA Canvas was a flop because the model was so basic, it couldn't make anything useful, and most importantly you couldn't teach it new stuff. The current generation of diffusers (Stable Diffusion in particular) is better but isn't quite there yet. You can train the model on your visual style and use it to automate most of the routine stuff, but it still makes mistakes that don't pass the quality test. The current generation isn't optimized for style transfer, the models are too small to be coherent, lack temporal stability for animation etc. Still, open models are very good at honing out the concept and identifying what is really needed.

CuriouslyC7• 4 years ago

I enjoy making art, but I don't have the technical skill take the things I can visualize in my head commit them to a medium. AI art tools let me iterate using image transformation to get those things out.

I enjoy creating written stories, but I find the process of going from an outline/abbreviated rough draft to a polished story to be tedious. AI tools automating the process of finishing a written story would make the process of writing much more enjoyable.

I enjoy building software, but I don't enjoy writing a ton of boilerplate. AI writing the boilerplate for me would make the process of creating software much more enjoyable.

ausbah2• 4 years ago

I enjoy making art, but I don't have the technical skill take the things I can visualize in my head commit them to a medium. AI art tools let me iterate using image transformation to get those things out.

what do you mean by iterate here? do you mean getting an outline from a model to base your work off of, or just using multiple pass throughs of the same image to create a desired final product? as I would not call the latter the process of making art

jkbl3• 4 years ago

Great collection; I would love to see it becoming a number one site for discovering AI art tools. Some improvement ideas:

1. I would add a filter based on the type of content created in the tool. Seeing image generation alongside text generation was a little confusing. Choosing what I am looking for from the start would be easier.

2. Tags are great, but you can't click on them. Instead, it just redirects you to the tool's website.

3. Add more tools. I am the creator of the AI art tool – getimg.ai[1], which I have been building for more than a month. During that time, I've literally seen hundreds of different AI tools worth including on this site.

[1] https://getimg.ai

aiartapps5• 4 years ago

Thank you so much!

This is gold.

We will implement your suggestion.

Btw, great job on your site!

Looks beautiful.

jkbl3• 4 years ago

Thanks. I am always happy to help

nekopa• 4 years ago

Great site! I found a small typo:

Explore images genereted with getimg.ai

jkbl3• 4 years ago

Thanks, I will correct it! I must have missed that.

smcleod4• 4 years ago

I'd really like to see this - but for text generation / completion.

ML generated art is really amazing, and there's so many tools for it being established right now - but it's really hard to find the same for text.

I want to find tools like copilot, copy.ai - but I /really/ want to find self-hosted versions like fauxpilot - but for general / article generation from prompts and sources.

aiartapps5• 4 years ago

I got you.

Thanks for your feedback.

We have text resources listed, though they need their own category as you said.

Maybe /ai-art-text-generation/

Thanks.

smcleod4• 4 years ago

Oh do you - yeah I missed them! Thank you that would be great.

ogou• 4 years ago

https://artreviewgenerator.com

smcleod4• 4 years ago

That's interesting - thanks!

frozencell• 4 years ago

You don't have the right to register emails and publish users submissions.

Simon_O_Rourke• 4 years ago

That's super cool, thanks for curating those websites and putting them up!

NicoleJO• 4 years ago

Promoting these apps is the same thing as promoting software cracks

Why are you doing it?

Prosammer• 4 years ago

Can you elaborate on that for me?

EMIRELADERO2• 4 years ago

An AI such as Stable Diffusion doesn't pirate. It learns from the world through images and art, and "acts" accordingly.

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