<story><title>I Resurrected “Ugly Sonic” with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion</title><url>https://minimaxir.com/2022/09/stable-diffusion-ugly-sonic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cercatrova</author><text>Anyone else getting bored of generating images? I used Stable Diffusion even before the public release (there was a guide on 4chan with leaked weights) and I&amp;#x27;d been using it for a few weeks. I just feel like I&amp;#x27;ve generated all the images I want to for now, and I just don&amp;#x27;t have any more interesting concepts I want to explore anymore. When you have so much variety in images, I got acclimatized to them and they all became the same and uninteresting after a while.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like a hedonic treadmill but for AI image generation. I assume this will have the most usage as a once in a while tool for artists to get inspired from, and also a tool for commercial usage such as in a Photoshop or Figma plugin for designers. The lay person who wants to generate images will get bored after a while.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>illubots</author><text>The first human who discovered that they could draw something on a wall probably also got bored after a while.&lt;p&gt;And thought &amp;quot;I assume this will have the most usage as a once in a while tool to decorate my cave with funny animals&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;But then drawing animals turned into writing. Turned into printing. Turned into emails and the web and the web 2.0 and now here we are, sending our thoughts across the world with the speed of light. Using software that we wrote to tell computers how to do this for us.&lt;p&gt;It might be similar with AI driven image generation. That it evolves in ways that are currently hard to foresee. Maybe one day, our thoughts are translated in realtime into images and send across the galaxy with the speed of light. Or faster?</text></comment>
<story><title>I Resurrected “Ugly Sonic” with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion</title><url>https://minimaxir.com/2022/09/stable-diffusion-ugly-sonic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cercatrova</author><text>Anyone else getting bored of generating images? I used Stable Diffusion even before the public release (there was a guide on 4chan with leaked weights) and I&amp;#x27;d been using it for a few weeks. I just feel like I&amp;#x27;ve generated all the images I want to for now, and I just don&amp;#x27;t have any more interesting concepts I want to explore anymore. When you have so much variety in images, I got acclimatized to them and they all became the same and uninteresting after a while.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like a hedonic treadmill but for AI image generation. I assume this will have the most usage as a once in a while tool for artists to get inspired from, and also a tool for commercial usage such as in a Photoshop or Figma plugin for designers. The lay person who wants to generate images will get bored after a while.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>No particular reason to think this is suddenly going to make you want to be an artist</text></comment>