ChatGPT image issues

[Shenachie2010]

I personally would not use AI image generation to make a book cover, because anyone could do it and come up with the same stuff. I'd rather do anything else to make it distinct, even if it's terrible.

Having no skills in that line I took the obvious route. and frankly having now played iwth the tool I had to hand I'd be suprised if another was very alike. There was a lot of fine-tuning involved. Image, blurb, fonts... but each to their own.

 

[Writer61]

Having no skills in that line I took the obvious route. and frankly having now played iwth the tool I had to hand I'd be suprised if another was very alike. There was a lot of fine-tuning involved. Image, blurb, fonts... but each to their own.

Another option is to use stock photos and add titles with an editing package. For example, I mostly do it in PowerPoint, occasionally resorting to Acorn for more complex effects.

 

[bumpercars]

Having no skills in that line I took the obvious route. and frankly having now played iwth the tool I had to hand I'd be suprised if another was very alike. There was a lot of fine-tuning involved. Image, blurb, fonts... but each to their own.

It's worth bearing in mind that lots of people, especially younger folks who are better at spotting them, associate AI images with cheapness. Not everyone, of course, but you will turn some people off that way.

 

[crookedletter]

It's worth bearing in mind that lots of people, especially younger folks who are better at spotting them, associate AI images with cheapness. Not everyone, of course, but you will turn some people off that way.

This.

No offense to OP, by all means experiment with the technology. But as a reader I would never read a book with an AI generated cover. Maybe there will come a time when I won't be able to tell, but we're not there yet -- especially not if the cover includes AI-generated people. They just look... off.

 

[UnexpectedLuggage]

It's worth bearing in mind that lots of people, especially younger folks who are better at spotting them, associate AI images with cheapness. Not everyone, of course, but you will turn some people off that way.

Hell, I'm 40 and if I even suspect a book of using AI for the cover, or anything, for that matter, I'll avoid it like the fucking plague.

Because that's what this gen AI shit is: a plague.

 

[PennyThompson]

Kane Parsons, the creator of the Backrooms movie, put it in an interesting way.

I can't find the exact quote right now, but he essentially said that if a creative work is using AI to generate something, it means the human creators didn't care enough about their art to put their fingers on every element of the thing. He said that if he doesn't feel like the human creator is in control of their work, then he completely loses interest in that work, and stops paying attention to it.

I think I mostly agree with that, I would rather see a clumsy human attempt at art than a prompted generated thing.

And maybe sometimes I don't notice AI if it's done well or made using the high end pro tools, but if I later find out that AI was used in the work, I just lose any motivation to care about it

 

[Nynah]

I can't find the exact quote right now, but he essentially said that if a creative work is using AI to generate something, it means the human creators didn't care enough about their art to put their fingers on every element of the thing. He said that if he doesn't feel like the human creator is in control of their work, then he completely loses interest in that work, and stops paying attention to it.

It was from a podcast; this article cites it.

Gives me some very cautious hope for the future of filmmaking.

 

[PennyThompson]

It was from a podcast; this article cites it.

Gives me some very cautious hope for the future of filmmaking.

Yesss thank you Nynah
Naturally he says it much better than I did:

When I see in a project online that generative fill or some sort of generative AI has been used in some way for some detail, the part of my brain that desires to really live with a piece of art and look into the details and the nooks and crannies and get excited about what I might see in the background or look for little details and just look for a general deliberate richness in the set direction—that immediately goes away.

Because if the artist is willing to make that kind of completely arbitrary choice and whatever the tool they’re using to create that piece of media is going to obviously not be something that came from them, it’s something they didn’t place there. If it becomes arbitrary, I’m then open to conclude almost any choice in that project is arbitrary on a human level.

 

[Actingup]

Change "skimpy bra and briefs" to "her underwear". Sometimes being less specific with ChatGPT works.

So, regular underwear, plus AI. We're on a real winner here for the reader!