April 10, 2023

Drawn at Art Buddies in Albuquerque:

AI

I was locked out of my main AI programs, namely Midjourney on Easter and Leonardo.AI the next day.

I managed to log into Leonardo.AI under a different handle -- "Krrrrl" instead of "Krrrl" (four "r's" instead of 3 "r's") -- which was strange.  Unfortunately Leonardo.AI recognized me as a different person, so I lost access to the models I had previously trained.  However I was able to generate figures in  my drawing style, using the only public model "Krrrl Lines 06":

Generating fake figures

using the public "Krrrl Lines 06" model, 

as the new user "Krrrrl"

I continued working in Leonardo.AI to generate the figures below:

 PROBLEMS

• My Midjourney subscription did not go through, though I am sure I still had money on my prepaid Vanilla Visa Gift card.  So not I can't use Midjourney, as they stopped their free memberships recently.

• I even tried another prepaid Vanilla Visa Gift card, and that did not work either. I confirmed once that I had $100 balance, but subsequently the online "Check Balance" site did not work, for any of my Vanilla Visa cards.  In the past it's always been down

• I called their number -- 1-833-322-6760 -- and the automated service said there was a problem with both of my $100 cards.  I tried to talk to a customer assistant, but after a half hour on hold I had to hang up.

• I think the moral of this story is that the prepaid Vanilla Visa Gift cards are not reliable, so I figure that I've lost all the money I invested in them.  They did not work to pay Midjourney this month, though they worked for February and March.  They did not work to pay Leonardo.AI, and I just figured that was because Leonardo is an Australian company

• Midjourney will accept "Cash App Pay."  And both Midjourney and Leonardo.AI accept American Express, so maybe American Express prepaid gift cards will work.

PRINTS

I laser engraved the first image of this blog post at Quelab on April 12th:

• Eric sent me this link for Electro-Etching