I often want to include an image in my posts to give a sense of a
situation. A photo communicates the most, but sometimes that’s too
much: some participants would rather remain anonymous. A friend
suggested running pictures through an AI model to convert them into a
Studio
Ghibli-style cartoon, as was briefly a fad a few months ago:
The model is making quite large changes, aside from just converting to
a cartoon, including:
Moving people around
Changing posture
Substituting clothing
Combining multiple people into one
Changing races
Giving people extra hands
For my purposes, however, this is helpful, since I’m trying to
illustrate the general feeling of the situation and an overly faithful
cartoon could communicate identity too well.
I know that many of my friends are strongly opposed to AI-generated
art, primarily for its effect on human artists. While I have mixed
thoughts that I may try to write up at some point, I think this sort
of usage isn’t much of a grey area: I would previously have just left
off the image. There isn’t really a situation where I would have
commissioned art for one of these posts.
Ghiblification for Privacy
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I often want to include an image in my posts to give a sense of a situation. A photo communicates the most, but sometimes that’s too much: some participants would rather remain anonymous. A friend suggested running pictures through an AI model to convert them into a Studio Ghibli-style cartoon, as was briefly a fad a few months ago:
House Party Dances
Letting Kids Be OutsideThe model is making quite large changes, aside from just converting to a cartoon, including:
Moving people around
Changing posture
Substituting clothing
Combining multiple people into one
Changing races
Giving people extra hands
For my purposes, however, this is helpful, since I’m trying to illustrate the general feeling of the situation and an overly faithful cartoon could communicate identity too well.
I know that many of my friends are strongly opposed to AI-generated art, primarily for its effect on human artists. While I have mixed thoughts that I may try to write up at some point, I think this sort of usage isn’t much of a grey area: I would previously have just left off the image. There isn’t really a situation where I would have commissioned art for one of these posts.
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