Another Played By Creator

Misadventure

I personally dislike using real people for played bys. Too much baggage.

hobos

I feel the same way about it, and that is an awesome generator! Thanks for sharing it.

Here's the last character I played on a MUD.

faraday

I like the idea of those. I'd rather use fictional representations than celebrities. But every one I've seen is either cartoonish or uncanny valley or just ... not great looking. It's jarring. I hope the tech continues to improve though.

Arkandel

@faraday Have you seen https://www.artbreeder.com/ yet?

There's also a subreddit for it, and some of those people do incredible work. There's a Harry Potter-verse set of posts which are just amazing, in my opinion.

faraday

@Arkandel I had not, thanks for sharing. But looking at it now it still seems pretty uncanny valley to me. Also honestly the UI is not very intuitive.

Arkandel

@faraday Oh agreed on the UI. I am just shocked at the quality of the art folks are creating despite of it.

I think as these tools improve with time we'll be seeing some awesome portraits.

That said, the uncanny valley will probably be a factor for a long time though unless they are a bit cartoony to avoid it.

Ghost

@Misadventure said in Another Played By Creator:

I personally dislike using real people for played bys. Too much baggage.

https://artflow.ai/

Agree with you 100% on this, especially if there's TS involved.

Looking back on it, I feel really guilty about the idea of using an actual living human being's face as a reference to sexual content without their consent.

hobos

I don't usually ask AIs for photorealism because it does look less uncanny if it's a cartoon, but... I asked DALL-E for a "photo of silver-haired man with blue eyes and vampire fangs" just to check how it's doing, and got these.

They are still fairly uncanny but the technology's getting better for sure.

surreality

It's worth checking out the possibilities with StabilityAI for this. It can do a pretty good job, or at least the best I've seen thus far.

Their site is up at https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/dream and nightcafe also has an option to use their engine. Neither is completely free, but they have free options available if you don't use them much. I think Midjourney has options for using it as well, though I have no experience with their setup for it or their server in general. There are some google collabs you can use free or mostly free that run it as well.

Unlike DALL-E, you can request likenesses if you want someone who sorta looks like whoever as a general appearance range or starting point. (DALL-E doesn't want people making likenesses on the whole, and you can lose your account for trying too much.)

(Seems like I've missed a lot of something I'm pretty sure I'm glad I missed, but back to doing something else for another year for me. This past year's 'something else' is relevant to the theme of this thread, so it was worth tossing the info out there. All the while tinkering with the Stability beta I kept wondering if people had suggested it for the hobby, and it's cool to see that's happening. It's neat, fun, addictive stuff.)

Ghost

@surreality Oh wow, it's surr. Hope all is well!

I kinda wish some of those AI generated picture programs were around when I was mushing. I kind of like the abstract, inspired style of night Cafe. I probably would have preferred that weirdly interpretive style of things rather than just "that one dude from that one show that people think is hot".

surreality

@Ghost There are a bunch of google collab things for Stability that are (relatively) self-explanatory, and if you don't mind slow and limited sizes, they can be fiddled with free or pretty steadily for $10/month for more reliable access.

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1jUwJ0owjigpG-9m6AI_wEStwimisUE17

^ That one is pretty solid.

(It says 'no NSFW filter' but don't assume that's because it's for porn-hounds; they set up a NSFW autodetect that is notoriously and often hilariously buggy. You'd see buildings, clouds, rocks all censored to much gnashing of teeth in the beta because the autodetect thought it might be a nipple.)