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And because of so many variables, it will rarely, if ever, arrive at the exact same image twice in a row.

As far as I know, there is a random seed used because otherwise you wouldn't get different results for the same prompt. Computers are super deterministic.

My colleague once wanted to create a picture book for his daughter with illustrations of a personal story. He is good with graphic design but not illustration so he used AI for the pictures. He found it almost impossible to create images in a consistent style and finally ended up with a book that uses another graphic style for each page. (However, from my observation, children care much less for the graphic style of books than adults)

In looking up reference photos, and then drawing your interpretation of those photos, you are creating a transformative work, regardless of how much your drawing closely resembles those original photos.

This is probably derailing this thread a bit, but IMHO this would still be a copyright infringement (depending on license yada yada). I'm sure that books with reference pics for artists have a small print somewhere that tells you what you are allowed to do with the pictures. Taking a random picture from google, without checking license, and doing a paint over, is most likely a copyright violation (and google itself is probably doing a copyright violation by storing and providing the picture in the first place...)

If you change the picture enough so it can't be traced back, it is most likely not a copyright problem anymore. But isn't this what AI does? Can you trace a generated picture back to the source?


It's definitely an interesting question. I think the main problem is, that AI was so suddenly there, that we couldn't ask all those questions and find good answers, yet.

Yes, AI is trained with large datasets. But this is just how human learning also works. I've never been to Egypt but if you asked me to draw a picture of the pyramids and the sphinx, I could probably make a mediocre drawing of it. Why? Because I've seen tons of photos of it throughout my life and I made a model of it in my brain. Would this count as plagiarism? Hardly, I'd say.
Now, if you asked me to make a more realistic drawing, I'd probably do a Google search for pyramids and use the pictures I find there as reference. Is this plagiarism? Most likely, but I dare to say that most people who do graphics have looked up reference pictures before without giving credit. So is this better than AI?

Another example: Imagine an app to look up birds. You take a photo of a bird, upload it, and the app will tell you that the bird is most likely a European robin. This also has to be trained with lots of data of questionable sources. Would you claim here as well that this is all plagiarism and how can people use such a thing? The data is the same, just the output is different.

Misj' mentioned art he did before but I wasn't able to open the profile page to look at older posts. I assume it is because of the ' mark.

What I don't get: don't all traditional human artists train on existing art? I imagine that art teachers will show a bunch of Picasso paintings to their students and tell them "Now do something similar" and people will look at the pictures and copy parts of it or only concepts into new paintings. Heck, even the old masters learned by just copying other paintings.
Why is it different here?

Interesting.

Just for clarification: I was referring to a now deleted post that probably was by a spam bot.

Since when has Aseprite AI support?

Sorry for the delay. I missed the first post and then I was waiting if AGA would reply, but since he didn't, I dared to press the "Transfer winners" button and it seems that did the trick.
It didn't add METRO CITY: Resistance DEMO though. We decided to have a joint winner (same number of votes) for best demo category but the transfer tool only took one game. @AGA could please set this game as a winner as well?

I played two months of The Year of MAGS, but is there no way to save? I lost all progress

Happy Birthday @Mandle !

You can change the delay for each individual frame in a view.

I think the problem with her arm is, that the back arm movement is less smooth than the front arm. It almost looks as if she is pushing something forward.

The timing of front/back and side walkcycle don't match. Make sure you adjust the frame delay accordingly in AGS. I find this rather annoying in games, especially when combined with a walking step sound.

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It sometimes is the first that pops into my mind. And I only use it when I know that T ist part of the word. I try to stop overthinking and often use the first word I come up with.

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Lucky! But I sometimes use this word as second guess.

Wordle 1,415 2/6*

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Using symbols instead of words is a neat idea, but I would've gotten nothing but the currencies...


Wordle 1,398 5/6*

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Step by step, ooh, baby
Gonna get to you, woooord

I agree with @heltenjon . I found this game some time ago on itch. It is definitely a better one of the series. I like how the two characters work together.

Short reviews:

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50 words:

- After the Month No Werewolves Came by RootBound
Blame the non-native speaker, but I didn't really understand the story.

- Backlot to the Future by Mandle
Nice, but I had to read it several times to understand it.

- 2:31:15 by Mandle
It has so many possibilities. I love that a tiny thing like a missing monitor seems to point to something huge.


200 words:

- Lesion by RootBound
The ghost story based on pain but all people still alive just didn't work for me. I don't know, I need a bit of distance there.

- My Wife's Two Bottles by Mandle
Yeah, that could have happened. But when she poured it away and didn't like the smell, it probably wasn't good anymore.

- Guarding Gay by Mandle
I recently thought about what would happen if I met my high-school bully. Luckily I don't have a gun It was well written with good character development.

- Gatekeepers of Smoking by Mandle
A fun joke

- Leaving Home by Mandle
Picking up on Sinitrena's thoughts, for me in the end humanity has left concepts like wealth and currency behind.


500 words:

- There's No Taste Like Home by Stupot
I knew what flesh this was pretty soon, when he said "Pork, perhaps?". There is an infamous Austrian movie where in the end they are inviting their neighbours to a BBQ eating another neighbour.

- A Tragedy of Errors by Baron
I love how in the end everything worked out. Is his second life going to be better? Or is it even his second or has this happened before? Will history repeat?

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Another option: Before leaving the apartment, you have to pick up the key. Otherwise the PC will refuse to leave. This way, you at least KNOW that you are still looking for something.

My votes:

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50 words:

- 2:31:15 by Mandle


200 words:

- Guarding Gay by Mandle


500 words:

- A Tragedy of Errors by Baron


Overall:

- Guarding Gay by Mandle

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Right, @AGA could you please remove the banner for the AGS awards? (I knew I forgot something)