MIDJOURNEY CUT ME OFF hours before the drawing session, so I tried to improve my portrait with Artificial Intelligence through all the other online AI programs I had access to:
LEONARDO.AI REJECTED my drawing above, claiming that my portrait was pornographic":
"Our content filter has detected references
to adult content in your prompt.
Remove any references to references to adult content
and try again."
Leonardo.AI used to make the best AI Fake drawings in my KRRRL drawing style when they first came out in 2023 (as they let me train a model on my figure drawings). Then apparently Canva bought Leonardo earlier this year and everything tightened up.
did not really improve my bad portrait drawing
prompt: "Can you finish this portrait for me?"
Not a wonderful result,
but Google AI Studio did the job
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This animation is based on my portrait drawing,
even though it hardly looks/feels like it
VIDEOCRAFT apparently is the new incarnation of HAIPER, and they are giving me free daily generations (though I thought it was now a paid service now). I just uploaded my drawing, with the prompt "laughing":
prompt: "laughing"
Second portrait drawing
Whisk shoehorned the above drawing
into a more conventional and realistic portrait
I then used AI to animate that Whisk portrait
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prompt: "Can you add shading to this drawing"?
BEWARE of the
IDES OF MARCH
Today (March 14th) I got locked out of Midjourney again. This happened last month as my bank declared my account dormant after 11 months of no deposit/withdrawal in person at a branch (online subscription and ATM withdrawals apparently don't count). After I reactivated my account it was STRIPE that locked me out. I think they were the ones that abruptly would no longer accept prepaid credit cards. STRIPE is this unseen silent middleman bottleneck standing between me and Midjourney. Sigh -- it was so nice back when you could hand actual cash to the merchant directly. I'll probably appeal to Midjourney billing again, but I am getting diminished returns from their AI generations, so my enthusiasm is dying.
Meanwhile Google bricked their Chromecasts last Sunday, March 9th, the same day we went on Daylight Savings Time:
"a Reddit user hinted an expired certificate embedded within..."
I spent an hour trying to cast from my laptop to the big screen at Quelab -- but all I got was a message "available for specific video sites," but couldn't even cast my YouTube video. Apparently Google fixed this problem and by Friday (March 14) I could cast from my laptop again:
Furthermore when I went to the Argos Studio/Gallery website the ICANN won't let anybody in, as they can't verify the owner of the website. This comes out of nowhere, I'll bet the owner is paying for the domain.
When I booted up my laptop (March 15), I was greeted with a pop-up screen, insisting that I continue or it would remind me in three days. I continued skipping all the options until I got to a screen demanding that I sign up for the Microsoft Cloud, with no option to pass.
Moreover Windows 11 insists that I reset my password every 45 days, and won't let me log on until I do with a USB thumbdrive. There is no way to easily opt out.
These are digital age problems. I need a credit card to buy a stamp as my local post office, they don't always take cash. McDonalds by UNM put in the digital ordering kiosks, but it takes more than a half hour to get a hamburger there now. These are not improvements -- automation and AI are causing more problems than they are fixing.
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