AI Art Community Newsletter

Actors Strike & DeviantArt

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Hi all!! Welcome to volume 13 of the AI Art Community Newsletter. And a hearty hello to 150 new subscribers this week 🎊 On Thursdays, we share news in AI, artist features, memes and more.

Your first letter? Would love to learn a bit about you. Where you’re from, what you do outside AI art, etc. Join me for a mini interview here.

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🗞️ AI News

Last week, Sketch-to-image. This week: Actors Strike & DeviantArt drama.

Thank you as always to our trusty crew of Newsies. This week’s links powered by: @focused.instability, @barbara.chira.ai.art, twilight_dreams123.

Our very own @Iva_ai_popsurreal was featured in Amazing Architecture, (instructor at Learn Midjourney, too 👀)
SAG Actors are on strike now, as well - their worries: AI-powered digital likeness. For more context, watch Joan is Awful, one of the new Black Mirror S6 episodes
DeviantArt’s decision to label AI-generated images is causing a stir - good article with helpful context
Colorado State Fair allows AI generated art (with attribution). While, elsewhere, suspected AI art is removed from an art competition; turns out it’s actually just a great photo
Scantily clad AI-generated “influencers” are starting to appear en masse … ugh
AI art & Science: using AI art to design protein (so cool)
Selling bundles of AI generated PNG images on Etsy - shocker - is not a good source of revenue

Not art, still cool

Coming soon: prompt a whole website with Wix (epic!)
Give ChatGPT custom instructions for how to respond to all of your questions. aka “the prompt before the prompt”
ChatGPT seems to be performing worse lately; simple math from 98% to 2% correct
AI-powered voice cloning phone scams are proliferating

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Artist spotlights

Nothin’ better - Artist spotlights ✨. Take a sec to check out, support & follow a handful of other artists in the community, hailing from three continents. Creative directors, restaurant owners, journalists, architects and more.

Want a feature? Let me know!

@momhugssss (Long Beach, CA) - Freelance Creative Director

@ai.dreamhead (Europe) - In real life, I'm a journalist, an editor, and a photographer. I devoted the most time to concert shooting and theater shooting of ballet.

@queenpixeldust (Maryland USA) - Professional architect, avid artist, dollhouse miniatures, acrylic paintings, wannabe fashion designer, expert photoshopper, tech junkie, determined to never open a real computer again, midjourney ai wizard, animation newbie.

@jeaninespets (California, USA) - Consultant and affiliate faculty, Etsy shop

@sergiocarpanelli - (Buenos Aires, Argentina. ) - I own restaurants in Buenos Aires and Madrid.

@les_pixeles (Spain) - Photographer

Twitter tips: “PNG” “Alcohol Ink Painting“ “3dcg sculpture“

Twitter is a uniquely helpful place in which to improve your prompting and learn a new style. Elsewhere, artists guard their methods. Not so on the bird app. A few favs this week:

How to make professional pictures with white backgrounds in Midjourney
They're perfect for designs, websites and presentations.
Prompt: png image of a [SUBJECT], isolated white background --style raw
Here's the thing:
The images still have a white background.
Want to remove… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Chase Lean (@chaseleantj)
11:52 AM • Jul 15, 2023

🎨ALCOHOL INK PAINTING🎨
“Wet color” is a term that is used for types of paint applied to a surface while they are still wet.
Alcohil Ink is a form of wet color.
Prompt : Alcohol ink painting of a [Character], detailed, rich colors, realistic style
— LudovicCreator (@LudovicCreator)
8:00 AM • Jul 16, 2023

Super prompt for incredible 3d sculptures
Abstract full body 3dcg sculpture of ( Subject), glitched sculpture, collage art, intricately detailed, contrasting surreal background
Share your creations
— aiartist (@aiartist_15)
12:21 PM • Jul 15, 2023

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