It has been about a month since I did this AI art generation thing, so maybe I should talk a little about it. Just a little. *giggles*

Yes this is unprecedented, and many a times I have mentioned about why I still don't like the idea of AI taking over the world, but this is not the point, as I shall, in a nutshell, explain why you are better off NOT worrying about how much stress doing this is, and how everything you idolize and/or follow today is probably still better, though not safe, from this aggressive takeover.

Let's talk about why, yes?

(Nah, this doesn't count in the "What Otakus Do In Japan" series because they go see real things. *sob*)

For why I decided to try an AI image generator out, I think it just occurred to me one day that I wanted to do this, out of curiosity, and out to fill in a blank. But the idea of doing so didn't happen in an instant though, this AI art thought. Actually, I started last year and thanks to Twitter/X recommended posts I have seen way more than I would want to, and some of them - often curated and then edited by the artists themselves - caught my attention, even if passing. But the explosion happened around the time when that "Engage Kill" mobile game was already ending service, and suddenly I have no mobile games to play other than "IDOLY PRIDE" as of now which is honestly saying, just an obligation right now. *silence* For months I've been looking at what I can do to fill in this space, from (yes) doing nothing on my free time at work lol just scrolling social media I guess how is Facebook a never-ending list of memes and successful lives of contacts lmao, to yeah spending more time on my blog right here which is also why the new version of this blog went on without much issue during July this year, but after that... Well, I don't know what else to do.

And that's why I had that thought of testing what AI image generation has to offer, and also, to offset my innate creativity (please, I was the only one who got an A on that art test in class when I was a kid *dabs*) apart from yes I write fanfics too why not take a look at those over here too if you are keen on my fictional life, I thought that the next best thing is to try out what others have been doing ever since the world exploded with AI last year and see how far I can take it. Not talking about rated stuff but I will talk about them here too lol hehe that's a thing by the way, so next up is to find which service will fit my into my life better.

I ended up with PixAI as mentioned on the title of the post mainly because PixAI runs on a credit system which means it has a free tier not just a trial period or full on paid service, and of course, they give you some of them for free when you login and publish some artwork. So basically you don't need a subscription or buy credit in order to generate images you want, and I will talk about the disadvantages when you don't, but otherwise, that wasn't the limiting factor, trust me. You can import and/or train your own models, but that's in another level which we will not talk about.

Going forward from here, I will only be mentioning from a normal user standpoint, using prompts on selected AI models to generate what you desire. Yes, your innermost desires... (No really, I mean it haha)

What I ended up getting out from this past month is rather spectacular but also rather cringe, in a sense. This really made me see a new perspective of art in general, and how real art drawn by real artists are so complete, and AI art can still have its flaws so super obvious, it'll only take me a few seconds to figure it out, and so will you, maybe. But more importantly ignoring the fact that this is literally stealing data from copyright owners who just want to share something with the Internet and are now in dozens of image generators out there I am so sorry how I know some of these styles because I know some of them, is that this is such a dedication to want to generate many, MANY images per day, and I tell you, it's taking over my life.

I capped myself to creating up to 5 images every day, but PixAI rewards you for up to 10 images, but that is if you have a lot of credit to burn and/or if you have a lot to time to burn, and I will tell you, one of them is more important than the other. *giggles* You could of course be like me and not burn credit to speed up the process (YUP) or find a model that doesn't use that much credit (there are literally 0 credit ones, but they are more... eh, "kinky", per se) (actually more like "literal", I will elaborate later) but then your sacrifice will be time. And that's why now I understand why they want to reward you for turning on your notifications, not really for the social feature since most of them just post on social media platforms to gain more "recognition" anyways, is because you can be informed when your images get generated get queued for up to an hour before they are generated. Evil, isn't it? *laughs*

I also, because I am basically a salaryman and I have a full-time job haha BRUH, do not have that much time to fine tune the prompts, wait for hours and then come back to them at work or even after work, because just like social media traffic, there are also certain times of day people will notice the stuff you publish, if quantity isn't what you aim for. Remember, they only reward you for publishing, they didn't cap the limit afterwards. *cringe* It sure made me more active at work, I'll tell you that much.

So yeah, if you are that 12-year-old and why are you even here go away (lmao I'm sorry) and want to try things out for yourself and create images that you want, to better help us, here are some tips as to how you should go about doing this:

Yeah so basically (haha) I spent the past month learning of new terms and how to describe them, thanks to ChatGPT (lol accomplice) I also learnt some Japanese along the way, because I also forced myself to type the captions to my published works in Japanese. Not that it changes anything I highly doubt people are searching by title there are tags that one should not search for too (#peeing) (haha) (please don't), but yeah, maybe it is helping in my vocabulary in some way or another, it will make your images hit what you want most of the time.

As if this isn't obvious enough but I think I should emphasize again, do not, and I say DO NOT EVER seek for the perfect work of (AI) art. For starters, this is impossible. You aren't the artist, and there will be flaws in generating (mathematically, by the way) the perfect image for you, and because I know LLMs and how they run, this also applies to stuff that are impossible to the knowledge of the model mainly because the model hasn't been trained on stuff they never seen. So, don't try things like (and I have, by the way, tried) "idol bending down to thank fans" lol I tried too hard on this and gave up, to even "sitting on a sofa with arms spread out", not that assisted specific models (referred to as LORAs) will help out much on this aspect since there aren't any like this, but even if there is a thing for that, but the model can't do it on your first try, it's better to give up, really.

Which is why I went into this thinking that oh heck, it can generate whatever I want it to do (of course, safe for work) but ended up time and time being disappointed on what I can NOT create instead. What, I can't replicate the shot where Moeshi jumps out of the pool in her photobook?? Don't even try because I did. *laughs* I ended up with like, a woman in knee high water with splashes around her. LAME!!

Of course, there is the reference image feature where you can upload an image and they will try to replicate it in Anime character form I did try a few with them Suruga-ya bromides hehe, but do you really want to do that? I'm here to test its creativity, not give them more training material. *silence* Let's move on haha

Then again, most people will just create AI art using Anime characters they know haha BORING

Every single idea I created has a story to tell, and every time PixAI generated something for me, I have a new brain wave, like that time I thought a tube top dress would look better with a front zipper. *laughs* (Don't worry, the zipper was up) That's why it's fun to explore ideas sometimes ESPECIALLY if the prompts didn't go your way, or if you have new ideas halfway through. Which is why this brings me back to exercising my creativity, not creating half-a** works like many of them which is just girls posing in different outfits. Meh. *laughs* I like how I managed to make them pose as if they fell down because they broke their heels and look at me for help because THAT is what I call an Anime-worthy mishap. *dabs*

I also ended up experimenting with multiple girls in the same image, such as the one where it looks like girls in a locker room were preparing to go for swimming class (hell yeah) (of course, safe for work they already changed to their swimsuits) to even sisters having a barbeque party, stuff that many people don't dare to try because it's way more complicated to fine tune. Not gonna lie, I DID take more time on those especially that wefie with classmates after school oh boy that one was ROUGH haha it took me a couple of days and I'm still not pleased at the final product, but yeah, as much as I say that some things might be impossible, go for results with smaller tweaks to do, and explore ideas as you make them.

Another thing I notice many will not care even including me, is to not be satisfied with defaults. If you don't prompt them, they will just choose what they want: Blue eyes, long hair, focus on upper body shots... You get the idea. So if you want something away from the norm (which ironically brown eyes is a norm in real life), you will have to tell them.

This is itself a double-edged sword and I hate myself for the decisions I make with my limited credits. *laughs*

And come back to Earth, I will tell you now why ALL of this really doesn't matter much because real life artists are better, and here's why:

To have such control means one's artwork should gear towards what they want, consistently. Heck, I can't even create the same girl again for another scene, like, right now! How do you think I can be consistent about my work in a month?

I don't consider my work top notch but my ideas are novel, and that is what's wrong with the community who doesn't give a f**k. There, I said it, happy now? *laughs* Like, who in the right mind will make an Anime girl angry showing off her bikini? Or getting caught by a cheeky witch? Or even just sad that summer's almost over? Think about it.

To conclude, and I can go on forever but I won't because I know what you are here for, let me showcase (hehe) (just a bit more) of what I have done in the past 30 days (not including today) so far!! *laughs* If you want the latest stuff I am still active but will be less than the past month since I just spent a couple of hours writing this today after work lol, but yeah, with an outstanding 150 images created just so I can brag about how I created 5 images per day on average haha yesterday I had to churn out 8 of them actually since the first few days were just playing around, here are some of the highlights!

If you still want to see more, feel free to visit my PixAI profile. No rated content though, you can't see those anyways without an account. *giggles* Heck, I'm pretty sure you can't even see it, flagged is just condemned for life, dude.

I don't know for how long I will do this, honestly. I'm getting rather frustrated to even bored of the iteration already, but as one of my followers (lmao) wrote on their profile, is that they hate themselves for not having the talent to draw. Yeah, because if I do, I won't even bother to dabble in this cr*p, honestly. *giggles* Like, right? Need I say more? On the other hand, I am still enjoying this play on creativity where I can offset on days I have too many ideas on my mind, so that isn't a bad thing and it's still fun, so unless I find a new mobile game to play or find myself a new hobby *looks at Alternative Girls 8th anniversary livestream*, this might be the new thing I continue to do on a daily basis.

I wish I was born an artist.

P.S. Will update with as many references of images as I can over time, my arms are stiff from writing this essay which is why I don't even want to do this even if it is to make a statement.

You're welcome.