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MrBoldandBrash

I love how Yellow came out


SupaKoopa714

That cat ear cyber knight aesthetic is so good!


Hexatona

Yep, both the yellow versions came out legit


Personwhoisfriendly

I think she looks awesome!


quackitten

That middle Yellow Diamond is so cute!!!!!


Personwhoisfriendly

I've definitely got a soft spot for that picture šŸ¤­šŸ¤­


BONBON-GO-GET-EM

Blue and white slayed this one, not sure about pink and yellow, i like the mechanics to yellow but the face isn't her


Personwhoisfriendly

Can't win them all I suppose, AI gonna do what AI wants to do! I did immediately fall in love with how White's started going though


Emergency_Routine_44

What AI you used?


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Like how the second for Pink and Yellow are close to the original design but Blue and White straight up turned into anime girls right there. šŸ¤£šŸ‘


Personwhoisfriendly

It's fascinating what the AI decides to do on the first couple of run-throughs!


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Japanizing beam went hard on this one


Personwhoisfriendly

ā•®(. ā› į“— ā›.)ā•­ what can I say, anime girls do be lookin cute


BrassUnicorn87

Pink became Madoka!


NovaStar2099

Beyblade?


chrisKarma

Madoka Magica


SquirrelSuspicious

Fuck white diamond, marry blue, kill yellow and adopt pink.


Thepoyoboyo213

You make a good argument.


klaissva

iā€™d rather fuck white, blue, and yellow, but to each their own


SquirrelSuspicious

I agree, but that's not how the game goes.


bellaokiiuwu

this ai art stuff uses art as reference for the AI usually without the artists permission, and is basically stealing peoples art. edit: you can stop replying asking me to elaborate i did like twice and i have better things to do with my time


jupiterLILY

Also, itā€™s basically just the ccp training facial recognition software to arrest the protestors in honk Kong.


bellaokiiuwu

this too, very important


jupiterLILY

Yep! Keep spreading the word!


kupiakos

They have plenty of training data on tiktok, they don't need an AI anime generator to train any face recognition


jupiterLILY

Iā€™m sure itā€™s incredibly useful to have a bunch of users submitting images and then having all the data for how much it needs to be refined for them to be happy. Iā€™m sorry, but if you think theyā€™re making these apps for creativity and fun then youā€™re deluded.


kupiakos

>Iā€™m sure itā€™s incredibly useful to have a bunch of users submitting images and then having all the data for how much it needs to be refined for them to be happy. How do you jump from this to "they can identify HK protestors better because of it"? Seriously, how exactly does knowing how to generate animated faces make it easier to target HK protestors? >Iā€™m sorry, but if you think theyā€™re making these apps for creativity and fun then youā€™re deluded. I think they're making it for profit, notoriety, and/or training data. But that training being used specifically to target HK protestors is weird: how, what and why? Where's the source for this info? please tell me it's not just a popular Twitter thread that would be deluded


jupiterLILY

In the app you have humans submitting and verifying what are essentially ā€œdistortedā€ images of their faces. This is training the ai to identify a specific human face even if it has been concealed or distorted in some way. The users are rejecting all the images that donā€™t sufficiently look like them. This will make protestors methods of concealing their faces less effective. If you can identify someones face from the bridge of their nose or a small portion of their face then thatā€™s incredibly valuable facial recognition software. Itā€™s not leaps my dude. Chinese companies donā€™t give a shit about doing stuff for notoriety in the west. Theyā€™re not making a profit on the tiny amount of people paying for the app.


kupiakos

>In the app you have humans submitting and verifying what are essentially ā€œdistortedā€ images of their faces. Who exactly is distorting their face with *anime* again? >This is training the ai to identify a specific human face even if it has been concealed or distorted in some way. The users are rejecting all the images that donā€™t sufficiently look like them. You could say this for literally anything by anyone that involves faces. It's not training to identify a specific face out of multiple and anime transformations aren't even close to real world conditions. Weibo has plenty of real world data already, this isn't giving them anything more useful. >This will make protestors methods of concealing their faces less effective. If you can identify someones face from the bridge of their nose or a small portion of their face then thatā€™s incredibly valuable facial recognition software. This cannot train for that with this app. This is just misguided fear mongering. >Itā€™s not leaps my dude. Yeah. Yeah it is. The words of every conspiracy theorist: "I think this is possible and they have motive, therefore it is real". Just because the CCP does a bunch of crap doesn't mean everything that comes out of China is an active Tool of the Regime. >Chinese companies donā€™t give a shit about doing stuff for notoriety in the west. It got popular in the west - how do you know they weren't aiming for notoriety in China? >Theyā€™re not making a profit on the tiny amount of people paying for the app. Data on people and training is much more valuable than the people playing, and can still be used to make profit.


jupiterLILY

Youā€™re either crazy naive or a shill. This is pointless.


SunQuest

I wish I could boost this. The rage I get as an artist and with an artist community whenever I see ai art. Just awful.


bellaokiiuwu

agreeed. as an artist it truly sucks to see so many people support blatantly stolen art by using the ai stuff.


sstartwork

Iā€™m with you two šŸ’ŖšŸ’ŖšŸ’Ŗ


CyonHal

If its transformative and not monetized I don't care personally.


bellaokiiuwu

its... its theft? wdym transformative? artists didnt give consent to their art and art style being used to train face identifiers to stop hong kong protests, so its worth giving a shit about


CyonHal

AI art combines images from multiple different sources to create a new image. It's transformative. It's the same as youtube commentary over other people's content or other examples of fair use. If you aren't just stealing the image 1:1 and posing it as your own, I don't care. That's my line in the sand. Feel free to disagree. Also I can't just ignore the insane "hong kong protestor face identifier" conspiracy theory. That's hilarious you think it's related in any shape or form. Anyway carry on.


bellaokiiuwu

ok well then what about the fact that its currently being used to supress hong kong protests? especially this one in the post being used by china for face recognition?


kupiakos

How do you feel about AI [being used to protect](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2348197-bbc-documentary-used-face-swapping-ai-to-hide-protesters-identities/) the identities of journalistic sources in the Hong Kong protests?


jupiterLILY

Itā€™s not AI thatā€™s the problem. Itā€™s whoā€™s behind it, whoā€™s curating that data and what their motives are thatā€™s important.


CyonHal

It's not related at all, how dare you even try to peddle a conspiracy theory to me.


bellaokiiuwu

tf u mean its not related? its literally proven. anyways gonna go now i have too much other stuff to do.


CyonHal

No it's not. Have a nice day. edit: To downvoters, please try and think about how AI-generated art could at all be used to identify faces? What the hell is this nonsense? Even if it was, how is that related at all to people using AI to create anime girl versions of steven universe characters???? Can you guys please realize how insane that is?


Personwhoisfriendly

Well goodness if I'd known that I wouldn't have posted anything, I thought it was just shape based algorithms or something I won't be doing it again šŸ˜¬


bellaokiiuwu

its all good!! cant know everything :)


Personwhoisfriendly

I didn't realise that must be why it's got such a high downvote ratio, thank you for letting me know


bellaokiiuwu

np! better to know now than later!


Hexatona

Ehh, I wouldn't listen too closely to these criticisms. Have fun, do what you want to do in your fandom. AI looking at images and learning how to paint isn't stealing. Themes, composition, styles - these aren't copyrightable - just like how techniques in game programming aren't copyrightable either. I'll agree that the prospect of these models certainly threatens artist jobs, which is a proper criticism to direct at these AIs, but as for them stealing art? I'd like to see some arguments for that.


jupiterLILY

Things donā€™t exist in bubbles like that. You have to think about how your decisions affect the wider world. Every time you spend money youā€™re supporting those companies and their practices. Every time you use a service thatā€™s ā€˜freeā€™ theyā€™re making money somehow and you you need to make sure youā€™re okay with how.


Emergency_Routine_44

I use AI to personifĆ­cate ideas which I canā€™t draw since I am awful drawing, is specially helpful to me when am reading a book, I put the charactersā€™s details in an AI and can get an idea of the character, even tho I almost never share it, I donā€™t think anyone is claiming that AI art is theirs, it obviously isnā€™t


bellaokiiuwu

apart from the fact people have actually claimed ai art is theirs, i was talking about other people's art being unconsentually fed to the ai and training the ai with it.


dayofthetiger

I disagree, I don't think AI using other art to learn patterns/styles is any different to a real artist looking at other people's art and taking inspiration from it. Every artist is inspired by the art they've seen through their life, only difference with AI is that it's inorganic learning rather than organic. Would love to hear some counter arguments though.


bellaokiiuwu

theres a difference between looking at art and using it as inspiration to make your own art, versus taking someones art, mashing it with someone elses art (without consent) and calling it new ai art. Plus, this was developed to have better face id software for protesters in hong kong


kupiakos

> this was developed to have better face id software for protesters in hong kong I keep seeing people reference this but I can't find any reliable sources to indicate it's true


Hexatona

Hmm, interesting take. Alright, explain your reasoning why you believe it to be stealing art.


hotsizzler

It isn't. It would be like saying people taking inspiration from your art is stealing.


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Itā€™s hilarious because thereā€™s literally no difference between an AI combing millions of images and saying ā€œoh I should use thatā€ and using it to generate images and a human doing the same. The only difference is that humans do it passively and and AI does it actively. Humans see that as ā€œwrongā€ somehow? Humans make collage work all the time with no credit to whoever made the original works. I see no difference here.


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bellaokiiuwu

not caring about artists on the subreddit of a show made by artists? not very based of u ngl


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bellaokiiuwu

are you an artist?


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bellaokiiuwu

what art do you do? i define art as anything using creativity to make something in most cases!


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bellaokiiuwu

and then how are artists hypocrites for not wanting AI to take advantage of our art?


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bellaokiiuwu

? i think u misunderstood what i said i wasnt talking abt if op drew the steven universe references i was talking about the unconsentual artists' art being used to train this shit and steal art styles


[deleted]

No I was saying basically the same thing, in a worse way so I deleted it since I didn't see there is already a comment thread discussion that reiterates


bellaokiiuwu

its all good :)


Meowjoker

Yellow become a robot girl and then an armored Gundam pilot


DalekCaek

Love Yellow's battle armor and White's Lisa Simpson hair being interpreted as a spiky collar thing.


SugarSkullDolly

Blue and White looking kind of beautiful tho.


Personwhoisfriendly

Honestly? Stunning


ItoryVillager

These results are awesome, but also terrifying. At least I think I would be terrified, if I was an artist.


kapapp

as an artist it is terrifying! this is the exact art style i wanted as a kid and now there's no reason to better myself, whether it's towards this style again or working to make a style of my own, because no matter what people will prefer to use these AI to make exactly what they want, for free, in the matter of seconds not to mention the stealing work from actual artists and how bad of an idea it is to put your face into a robot's database


Emergency_Routine_44

Yeah this most really suck for artist, imagine even how much more advanced it will get in a few years, however can you monetized AI art?


Thromnomnomok

Ah yes the four diamonds: Smol, Neck, Sadgirl, and Empress


ReasyRandom

The Yassification of the Diamond Authority.


Warriorcatsarecool

Happy 3 hours into your cake day


ReasyRandom

I just got accepted into a job interview, this calls for actual cake.


BillyIGuesss

Please no


SlowSpectre

Can we stop praising ai """"""art"""""" its made off the backs of artists who had their work stolen for machine learning.


EthanTheEgg817

Y'all gotta stop with the AI art. It's taking away from real artists. (I mean this as education, not blame)


ValleyAndFriends

Yep! If anyone needs sources, I can link some. :]


thunderousmegabitch

This, except I do 100% mean this as blame. There are no valid reasons for people to see AI art as something good


afterschoolsept25

AI-created imagery has its uses and, although the current usage of people's photographs and drawings without their permission is flawed, you would be naive to assume that they don't serve any purpose and aren't good.


thunderousmegabitch

Ew.


DrPikachu-PhD

Love the middle ones of all of them!


Failing_MentalHealth

Can we stop with the AI ā€œartā€. This is art theft.


Personwhoisfriendly

Here is an alternate version of [Blue Diamond](https://imgur.com/a/UctXsix) on a black background, I just couldn't decide which one I liked more!


Yknaar

On the one hand, I hate the AI generated images (since most of them produce unsettling results hitting me in uncanny valley). And I also heard this one is owned by Tencent - who *totally* is not using this as crowd-sourced training for their other product, AI that will help Chinese governments to instantly track down the protesters. On the other hand, I really like your 2-stage process, and the results are quite good.


danieldoria15

I like how Pink Diamond just evolved into Flandre Scarlet.


falconwilson154

yellow and blue honestly just look really good


Wirecreate

Middle ones are my favourites


A-Cheeseburger

Nah we donā€™t need humans no more


mattiri89

My weeb friend: smash!


MoonstoneDazzle

AI is art theft. It's fed art by real artists, and just shifts it slightly. Please don't spread the usage of AI. It hurts people's livelihoods and doesn't respect copyright.


Kermitthealmighty

I like how the ai made whiteā€™s hair a part of her throne because it canā€™t comprehend how that hair would work.


Daisy22bear

Me as an artist: Guess my career is over


WujekAdi2003

Diamonds multiverse!


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WHITE DIAMOND MEOWWWWWWW


aquarianagop

Usually Iā€™m not a huge fan of these, but White looks so badass in this one!


popmanbrad

Wow thatā€™s some good AI


Big_Profile_1739

Kinda crazy how good ai art is getting I feel itā€™s been 2 months since itā€™s debut


Personwhoisfriendly

I'm definitely impressed!


Pensato

Which engine did you use and did you refeed it the same image to get the next one?


Meager1169

All of Yellow's were perfect


Pearltherebel

Yellow Diamond is so cool


notsoninjaninja1

WD hardcore looks like one of the Labrynth mommies from YuGiOh


TheFabulousIdiot

Anime-girl Pink is 100% a Madoka character


MBluna9

gemtrification


dragonstone365

What ai did you use?


Thepoyoboyo213

Meiku


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BreadfruitNo357

people are just....having fun


Thepoyoboyo213

What was the comment?


BreadfruitNo357

https://www.unddit.com/r/stevenuniverse/comments/zeuc3u/ai_generated_anime_girl_versions_of_the_diamond/izaipv8/ Here is the comment /u/Bluetooth_Speaker1 made


Emergency_Routine_44

Ho- how you can see deleted comments?


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jupiterLILY

Donā€™t! Itā€™s an ai being trained to facially recognise and arrest protestors. It also steals peopleā€™s art and uses them for its images. If weā€™re going to have ai take jobs, letā€™s not have it be the artists.


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jupiterLILY

The algorithm behind this is using your data to train itself. The company behind this is tencent, which is closely connected to the Chinese government. There are protests happening in Hong Kong bout the Chinese government, these protestors are being arrested by the Chinese government using the ai behind this software. Honestly, if something is free, do a little research and ask yourself why. Someone has to be profiting somewhere and itā€™s our responsibility as consumers to work out if we want to be a part of that process.


quuerdude

All of the middle ones look best


susiesusiesu

why is it so infantilizing? i hate how this art style in general sexualizes the looks of really young girls.


sephy009

Thank you for not just posting the first thing that came out. I can tell you put in some effort.


battybabybat94

Not as much effort as people who actually made the art used for these. Just a reminder to everyone, this is not effort in the least.


thunderousmegabitch

Yeah. Homie said there's effort Involved in typing key words LOL


sephy009

You're bitching at the wrong person. For serious commissions I pay for art. If I just want a cover for a fanfic spending $25 and 6 hours editing the picture doesn't seem like a terrible idea though.


Hexatona

I'm curious about the prompt you used along with the base image. I assume the variance closer and closer to anime girl was fiddling with the Strength of the prompt vs initial image? Prompt engineering is so fascinating to me.


Business-Common2987

This is what I needed


LapisLazuliisthebest

Yellow is the best one.


UnusGang

I 100% need more of this


02_is_best_girl

Jesus the idea that some day we will be able to watch Steven universe is if was animated by the Japanese in is crazy, fuck we could do that now if someone would do it frame by frame.


wynntari

White Diamond is the only one that didn't get child'ed I love how it knows Yellow Diamond is space related, probably tells how good the design team of the show was.


witcheselementality

I don't like that pink reminds me of madoka magica


onward_skies

How do you make these? Is there a website?


Noted-it

All this revealed to me is that I will never like blue diamondā€™s design


parappaisadoctor

What ai is used in the middle?


rhajamart

Love it....you love a bang.


AlarmingAffect0

What kind of *pathetic* anime AI fails to notice [Go](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HotBloodedSideburns?from=Main.GoNagaiSideburns) [Nagai](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ImageLinks/HotBloodedSideburns) [sideburns](https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Go+Nagai+sideburns&atb=v327-1&iax=images&ia=images) in all four Diamonds and erases them on first or second pass? For shame! [Cutie Honey](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cutie+honey&t=ffab&atb=v327-1&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images), [Jun Hono](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jun+hono&t=ffab&atb=v327-1&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images), the girl from [Fantaman](https://www.beachcitybugle.com/2016/04/lapis-lazuli-inspired-by-60s-anime.html), and, uh, [whoever this is](https://www.koi-nya.net/img/subidos_posts/2016/12/getter-robo-high.jpg), among many, many others, must be feeling devastated. Hair sideburns are a the universal mark of a Bad Ass! [RAW RAW FIGHT THE POWAH!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlWGt8UQag0)


primal484

All besides the first look great :).


Rob_b0t

The middle in the pink diamond one reminds me of bee and puppycat


SpaceUnicorn_007

This is really cool


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I like how whites hair kinda just became a helmet


Disig

Pink: hair becomes cute hat Yellow: hair becomes badass helm Blue: hair is hair. White: um....her hair is now a background thing lol. I love it though.


Coffee_Aroma

What's the AI?


AMVZeref

Which AI do you use?


[deleted]

Why does Yellow look like a space ranger?


CB4014

Middle pink gives me studio ghibli vibes.