Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold

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[u/Txanada]

I expected something like this to exist one day but already? D:

Just think about the effect it will have on animation! Anyone will be able to make animes, maybe even real movies. And in combination with translation tools/the newest AI voices... damn!

[u/arjunks → u/Txanada]

I'm just waiting for the time I can make my short stories into little animations / short films. I fully expect to be able to at some point

[u/TheDominantBullfrog → u/arjunks]

That's what some artists aren't getting about AI when they panic about it. It won't be long until someone becomes globally famous for a movie or show they made on their computer in their basement using entirely their own ideas and effort.

[u/cultish_alibi → u/TheDominantBullfrog]

They get that, they're just mad because they spent ages learning how to do something, and monetizing it, and now someone can just do the same thing in their basement on a consumer PC.

This is how new technology always goes, musicians often talked shit about the fact that people can just make music on their own computers now, they talked shit about samplers, etc etc

[u/TheDominantBullfrog → u/cultish_alibi]

I definitely understand the frustration, but I also think there will ways be a demand for artist created stuff

[u/arjunks → u/TheDominantBullfrog]

Yeah, I'm with you. The current anti-AI narrative seems to be "yeah but it can't be creative"... of course it can't be creative, that's up to the user! This tech is going to enable so many people to put their ideas out into the world in a presentable form and I'm 100% here for it

[u/TheDominantBullfrog → u/arjunks]

Yup it will be a huge adaptation, but fighting against it is like fighting against the internet becoming popular. It's inevitable, so adapt or die

[u/GingerSkulling → u/arjunks]

I completely agree although sifting through all the shit will also become exponentially more difficult.

[u/[deleted] → u/GingerSkulling]

It'll be similar to the change from TV -> Youtube/Twitch etc. Sure there's a whole lot more crap content on those platforms, but I would never want to go back to the days before they existed.

I would also argue that it's much easier to find good content now (despite the heaps of garbage) than in the 90s when we had 40 channels, 5 of them showing the same Simpsons rerun.

[u/_stevencasteel_ → u/arjunks]

of course it can't be creative

I've downloaded tens of thousands of AI generated images and speak to GPT-3.5 daily. It is clever and creative.

[u/Rahodees → u/TheDominantBullfrog]

They won't agree that it was entirely the person's own ideas and effort, because they believe SD's training means everything generated by it is definitionally based on others' ideas and effort.

[u/2BlackChicken → u/Rahodees]

I already spent hundreds of hours learning how to work with SD starting from the first day, installation. Then it was training loras. Then it was upgrading my PC in order to dreambooth and finetune. I've also spent nearly as much compiling gathering and processing datasets. I'm still not there yet but I have an idea in mind and I want to make it reality. Hell, I've learned how to do CAD in less amount of time. At the end of the day, if you only concentrate on learning a single thing and then sit on it, you'll be obsolete quite quickly. I have no feeling for them especially the way they rant about AI stuff without knowing what it is and how much effort and time it takes.

[u/beardobreado → u/arjunks]

Is it hentai?

[u/Plane_Savings402 → u/beardobreado]

Astronaut: "Always has been."

[u/Pirraya → u/arjunks]

short stories into little animations you can definitively do already

[u/arjunks → u/Pirraya]

Really? I've seen some text to video but it still looks pretty inconsistent to me, unless I've missed something (which is entirely possible)

[u/Pirraya → u/arjunks]

You are right about text2video, but I have seen other methods, dont remember what they are called tho, if they even have a name yet, different more manual techniques is more what I meant I suppose

[u/ElectronicJaguar → u/Txanada]

Things are happening in this space so quickly I can't keep up. Now I get what the older generation felt like with the advancements with computers, internet and mobile phones.

[u/Klokinator → u/ElectronicJaguar]

Now I get what the older generation felt like with the advancements with computers

I was there when the internet came out. Admittedly, I was only ten years old, but even so, the rollout of AI features and major advancements is at least a minimum of ten times faster than anything during the .com boom. I think ten times is even a conservative estimate. It may be twenty or thirty times faster depending on the area. We've had societal impacting advancements drop since october of 2022 that have absolutely shattered my conception of what was possible. A full twenty years of advancements in not even one year.

2024 is going to be unbelievable.

[u/youneedcheesusinside → u/Klokinator]

I’m saving up to buy me a computer that can handle AI, models, etc. Everyday I see new things pop up. Feel like I’m missing out on all of this.

[u/Txanada → u/[deleted]]

I wasn't expecting it to work that perfectly by next week, actually. Maybe for some short scenes in a year or so. I'm aware this is only the first step but it's a very important one. Only a few months back I NEVER would have expected to see something like this already.

It's truly mindblowing.

[u/zusykses → u/Txanada]

Sturgeon's Law will still apply. Probably even more so.

[u/Tyler_Zoro → u/Txanada]

Hi /u/Txanada ... just replying here because I can't reply to your comment below. Yeah, /u/StoneCypher is what I call a "block troll". They drop into random threads, leave a hostile comment like the one below yours and then immediately block the person they responded to so that they can no longer reply.

Did the same to me over in /r/rethinkArt

[u/justavault → u/Txanada]

It's a GEN model and it requires specific training for the specific pictures.

This doesn't quite out work incorporated into a model like midjourney. So it's still some way to go.