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> generator was uploading one image every 40 seconds before it was banned

> not have the Art Portal flooded with computer-generated art

That was the real problem.



I was looking for this reply. Imagine if you needed to hire an artist but 9/10 listings are from alibaba express, full of fake reviews (other nonartist techies commenting on ai art)

Or maybe because this is where artists place their portfolios and theres no reason to make ot that much harder to find.


Why would you want to hire an artist whose work is indistinguishable from AI when the AI can work faster and cheaper?


It's not indistinguishable, it's just overwhelmed by volume.

This is like giving someone the needle-in-a-haystack problem and asking "Why do you need the needle when it's indistinguishable from this easily-findable piece of hay?" The hay isn't useful to me, but now you've given me all this hay to sift through before I can find my needle.


Then why do they pretend to ban a specific art type?

I could have generated variations of a human created digital piece in less time than these AI (currently) since the creation of this platform but they didn't seem to feel threatened by this up until now... so there is clearly an other problem.


> I could have generated variations of a human created digital piece in less time than these AI

Seems dubious that you could achieve over 2000 upload each day, without stopping.


The point I was making is that prior to AI generated pieces, a human could create one piece and then apply random filters to it and also upload thousands of small variations every day. People didn't do it because it is not very interesting. The broader point is that these AI pieces can be interesting, and such a ban is not just because of bandwidth/storage limitations.


I generated over 30k, maybe 40k images since stable diffusion 1.4 model went public 2 weeks ago. Most of it is just endless exploring and generating a lot of nonsense but I got some prompts that generate consistently good results. 2000 decent quality images per day would be quite easy, even with my humble rtx 2070s GPU.


I was responding to claim that bot uploads of autogenerated work is not a problem, as humans can generate work at the same rate.




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