oh oh now i am pregant at last and i must stay a girl forefer! but i love it being a girl now it is so right so good being female at last like it is suppose to be!
Forgive the meme. I have spent the last several weeks battling the four horsemen of linux, apache, mysql, and php to merely hold my ground against the inevitable tide of entropy. Although it does seem faster. Enjoy continuing to exist.
Of the options given, I selected "given as ransom" as I thought that it was the most-humiliating of these indignities for our hapless protagonist to be forced to suffer. Close second plotline for me is the "estranged twin sister"
I have an option-7, however, where our protagonist turns out to be a bodyswapped peasant boy (late adolescent or early young adult) who works a very lowly laborer job, like: ditch-digger; chimneysweep; shoeshiner; maybe even a beggar. One day, he sees this princess carriage go by and catches a glimpse of her peering between the curtains in her window at the working class surroundings passing her by with a disgusted look on her face. Filled with bitter resentment, he mutters to himself, "Why can't I be royalty? They have such easy lives and get everything handed to them without having to work for it and every whim met at the snap of a finger.
Not long after this scene, this princess' carriage is overtaken by an angry mob of peasants and members of the working class who stage a revolt, taking her prisoner. Later that night, hours after hearing of this news, our protagonist goes to sleep with a s***-eating grin on his face, only to wake up the next morning as this captured princess
Right now I think we're getting the worst end of AI, where it's convincing enough on the surface to blow up social media, but not really practical enough for a big improvement in production.
There is a (bright?) future where a single person will be able to make a complete film using these tools. I don't know what it'll be like when there's a thousand or ten thousand new shows released every year but it sounds like we will live in interesting times.
My worry is that the best tools will remain proprietary and lawfare will be used to remove the open source alternatives.
Some people think that the current tech will cap out and never really be useful - I think this is cope. The capabilities are clearly already there, it's just a matter of controlling them.
It is unnerving for sure - especially when I go to deviantArt or rule34 or even google images and the entire page is destroyed with ai garbo. I've said this before but that's why I feel the need to mess with it, because I need to understand the threat and how to use it.
Oh I guess my other big worry is that we'll enter a completely post-fact world and it'll be impossible to find a verifiably real image of anything. Every book will be rewritten and every image repainted, all recently recorded history will be in doubt, etc.
It's a shame this is a "zero-skill user" tool as you called it. Definitely one of the best looking ones so far, AI often has a hard time keeping the iris / pupil consistent but it looks decent here! The hair bounces slightly and the blinking looks natural! I know the reason it looks good is because its barely moving the image, there is still a long way to go for tools to properly realize 2D images in a 3D space.
But I can see some uses for some of these tools now, you could add blinking eyes, animated hot breath, background weather conditions, any small thing that can flourish static images.
I am definitely not thrilled about the future of AI generation, I have a feeling it could get pretty dystopian. I am however much more excited for how these tools can ENHANCE art rather than how they can replace it.
I found this color version of the character design and the previous sketch ending page that I never posted. It's a little rough but I'm not going to fix anything because it is so old.
Tacking it on as a bonus page to the comic so all of this character is in one place without needing another character tag.
This AI image-to-video from Pika Labs. You provide a single image and a text prompt and roll the dice. It's implemented as an online service via a discord bot so you sometimes have to wait a long time and there is NSFW filtering.
This was one of the only results I managed to get with a coherent movement that didn't morph into something strange. Most of the time you get the windy hair/fabric effect applied to random parts of the image or no animation at all.
Maybe if it could run locally, you could run it hundreds of times and cherry pick good results, but as it is now, it doesn't seem to have any use at all.
I'm fascinated by the implication that the genie's lifecycle is an endless chain of transforming horny, hungry wishers into near-duplicates of herself.
Oooo! Well, now she'll have all the milk she could ever need, fresh and pure straight from the tap! She may even need a special machine to "milk her" each day too after this.
