I have several of these drawn just for Xmas and New Years’ of 2015. I suppose I could ask GPT if it could update the year for the others. We’ll see…
EDIT: Strange. I scheduled this for Friday, but it posted right away. I was hoping that the remaining kinks in the scheduler were worked out by now, but maybe not.
Gave it a shot using Gimp:
Nice work! What tools did you use, as I’m still pretty bad at GIMP.
I’m far from good at it, but I basically marked the “2” and pasted it as two new layers over the 1 and the 5. I rotated the one I had pasted over the R and used the eraser tool to leave a bit of a white line where I wanted it, but for the most part I was just using the paintbrush tool to make adjustments wherever I saw fit.
I used the “Hardness 075” brush (050 would probably have been better) and set the transparency to around 50 in order to avoid any lines from coming across as too hard, hold ctrl and click on adjacent places in order to choose colours in the tones I’m looking for. Then it’s just a matter of splashing on layers of colour until it looks somewhat alright. I guess a trick is to choose the tones in the edges (so in this case, just when the white hits the red), and to soften the edge by applying these tones all around the newly drawn edge.
But yeah, it’s a pretty simple operation, and I’m sure there are better ways of doing it!
Thanks; makes sense, I think!
I used to use GIMP pretty often about 3-4yrs ago to repair gaming machine art used in modern simulations of arcade games and pinball machines, but when I came back to it recently, I’d forgotten almost everything, and wound up wasting loads of time on something relatively simple. Also, I know that there are typically a variety of ways to get something done, and I sometimes get overwhelmed trying to figure out the best, most efficient way to do so.
Btw, I did try out GPT, and it did a good job on the numbers, but incidentally regenerated the rest of the piece for the worst when I’d specifically stated ‘don’t touch anything else.’ After some questioning, it admitted that it didn’t have the tools yet to do specific editing, because it was far more geared to be generative and imaginative at present, but that it should be able to do so down the road, because that’s where things were headed. I suppose that means future artists and editors out of work, though… :/
Yeah, I was a way more frequent user a bit more than a decade ago (my god), so I’m really rusty. I like to do small things now and then just to not get completely unfamiliar with the tool.
It’s funny that GPT is struggling with following basic instructions. I’m in the camp of thinking it is fundamentally a bullshit machine, so I find it amusing just how incapable it is of not bullshitting for a second. And now it’s exam season, and I’m about to spend 40 hours grading AI slop submitted by mediocre bachelor students that I didn’t even teach myself. Bah.
In fact, I’ve found GPT surprisingly candid and useful in explaining areas where it’s still limited, and in identifying its mistakes and why it made them. It’s almost ‘superhuman’ in that regard, as I’ve found it rare as hens’ teeth for people to both admit an error and then surgically explain where they went wrong. Meanwhile, I agree it has an hallucinogenic (“BS”) aspect, but that’s only one side of it. I find it’s also super-good at summarising things based on its impressive ‘search and synthesize’ capabilities. When working with it, I just try to keep things as concise and technical as possible, not pushing it in to its more wonky areas. Frankly, so far it’s been one of the most useful tools and aids I’ve ever used, altho I certainly couldn’t say the same about others, like Gemini.
Yikes, I certainly don’t envy that grading challenge, though. :S
Interesting they still have the old logo from banania. Was cleansed by the great logo purge of the 2010s. Understandable though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banania
Edit : controversy in France was 2006-2010
Oh boy, that original illustration looks scary as hell. I can see why they later changed it up.
The formula sounds pretty great, though. I’d love some banana flour in my cocoa!
You need ChatGPT to change “2015” to “2025”?
To “2026,” preserving the original formatting, yes.
Just copy paste the already existing 2 over the 1 and make the 5 into a 6. You could do this in paint in 5 minutes. Why do you need to parse this through AI?
For the reason stated above. Also, ‘making the 5 in to a 6’ sounds great as a throwaway statement, but the numbers have gradients that would take time to properly preserve. There’s an added lamp glow on that “5,” too. If I did a quick & dirty job it would look dumb, and if I did it properly in GIMP, it’s the kind of thing that would stretch in to half an hour or more of fiddling around, for no particularly good reason.
Also like I said, I have a few of these in a variety of styles, and it would be vastly simpler to have AI handle that than potentially spending hours on a project with fractional value.
Thanks for playing.
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It took you longer to type that cope than it would have for you to make the edits. I think it’s hilarious that you, the sole poster on an obscure art forum, are too lazy to create art.
AI is for losers and frauds.
Congrats, you’re the first person who earned a ban at the new instance. That’s a month off for breaking the core sidebar rules, which was specifically being completely pushy, obnoxious and hostile.
I think it’s good to position oneself as a pro-art and anti-ai community.
Shoot, I missed your comment, first time around.
And… yes, agree!Let’s be polite though, if we’re going to be arguing according to the sidebar guide.
