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"I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." -- said by Hayao Miyazaki when he was shown an example of a humanoid 3D model animated using an AI algorithm instead of animated by a human artist. He wasn't talking about 2D art generated with AI, but I think the quote still applies.

something completely different than my usual-- but there's been a lot of discussion about AI "art" on my twitter timeline lately, so I recently poked my head into a couple AI art-related tags, and what I saw has been haunting me. In particular, I'm haunted by the people using AI to almost exclusively generate voluptuous anime babes with dead, uncanny faces, hair that merges with clothes and flesh, many-fingered hands, and melting eyes. I had to create a sweet, sweet AI waifu of my very own... and here she is, on a beautiful sunny beach. Or is it a classroom? With the magic of AI, it can be both at the same time!

(the last image in the gallery for this post is the actual found-in-the-wild AI piece that inspired the background. Absolute insanity. Also please note how the AI tries to turn any skin folds, particularly the armpits, into... uh.)

As you can see from the process pics, this picture took a lot longer than I really should have spent on it for just a weird gag, but I wanted to get something close to the super-saturated realism that so many of these anime babe pictures are rendered in. My intent for this piece is that the longer you look at her and the more details you notice, the worse she gets. Enjoy!

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Anonymous

😍 Can’t wait to see more like this!

Anonymous

this post is great but also gave me psychic damage. don't even know where to start. the armpit vaginas? "exotic concubine challenge"? "africa dancer"? probably what makes me saddest is looking at the fairly refined lighting and coloring and knowing for a fact that was scraped from actual artists who spent years learning how to paint digitally. i'm not exactly in the big tiddy anime art consumer category, but it is really frustrating to know standards are so low that eldritch procedurally generated waifus are so popular. that said, LOVE your eldritch hand-crafted artisan waifu. speaking of hands, the way you captured the unnerving "reads to the eye at first but as you look closer reveals itself to be nonsense" quirk of ai art in the hands is fantastic. and that's just one detail-- you packed a lot into this. great piece and thoughts!

Catie Rowley

LOL thank you so much-- I tried to pay attention to what AI does well (flowing shapes, lighting, fabric folds, generic anime faces) and what it does badly (eyes that don't match and look strange, hands with the wrong shapes and number of fingers, tangents of clothing, hair and flesh that melt and flow into each other, nonsensical backgrounds) and follow those rules to craft the perfect artisanal AI waifu. And GOD yeah, that screencap is really something huh? You're exactly right about the coloring/rendering being the saddest thing-- that kind of painting style is REALLY difficult to do (I can't do it!), and to see it assembled instantaneously by a machine responding to horny nerds hitting the "generate big titty waifu" button is like... upsetting in a very particular way.