Vent: Most AI art tools are just glorified filters, not real innovation

I spent 6 months tweaking prompts in Midjourney and DALL-E but got bored with the same dreamy portraits everyone posts. Then I tried feeding a local landscape photo into a script that used a generative adversarial network to rebuild textures from scratch, and it turned my blurry garbage into a crisp oil painting style that actually looked original. Has anyone else found a specific coding trick that beats the mainstream tools for unique results?

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miawalker28d ago

That 6 month burnout is REAL and I bet most people feel it. Did you have to write the GAN script from scratch or did you find a public repo that had the texture rebuilding code already? I keep seeing people say "custom GAN" but nobody ever says if they actually coded the whole thing or just forked something on GitHub. Also what kind of loss function did you use for the texture rebuild?

emmap161mo ago

Oh man, my friend fed a hike photo into some custom GAN code and got a wild abstract texture thing that looked nothing like the usual AI stuff.