I woke up today and was somewhat shocked to find out that ten people had DMed me screaming that AI Generated FE art was here. It was posted on 4chan and it looks pretty legit. In the middle of the massive leaks for Engage, an anon just started posting a bunch of images of AI generated portraits.
(Not included: One example of a big boobied chick exposing her goods.)
And in case you thought these were too big for FE or unusable ingame…
They’re not.
I’m very excited for this. It’ll be a great way to get all of the characters from every FE game finally made for the repo, which has been my goal with the CCC. The tech is not released for it yet, but I imagine it will be sooner rather than later.
So, I’ll reiterate my stance: I’m happy to add AI generated content and characters to the repo. BUT. It must be high quality. Since you might soon be able to generate a thousand images in the time it takes an ordinary spriter to make one, there are going to be some quality control standards.
- All AI generated portraits MUST be labeled as such. And don’t try to sneak them past me. I’m very good at spotting these things.
- In the case of portraits, they must have frames included, properly formatted.
- They must work properly ingame.
- Important: I must be able to PNG Info your sprites to get the prompt used for them. Since AI artwork is going to primarily be made through prompting, having access to its PNG Info is a necessity. Figure it out because it will help save countless people from asking “Puh-rompt???”
I’ll only be putting ones of ‘high quality’ into the Repo if they do eventually start dropping. These same rules do not hold for normal pixel art. But if you’re going to pop out a morbillion pieces of AI art, then at least have the decency to ensure they’re of a high quality level, lest the repo’s filesize explode out of control.
I’m probably going to make AI-generated sections in the repo to separate AI Art from ‘True’ artwork. Either that, or a tag at the start of the filename. Ex:
[AI] Lyndis FE7 Wedding Dress {Klok}.png
I did not expect AI to crash into pixel art this quickly. It has huge ramifications not only for the FE community but basically every other community as well. I actually made a few guesses that we’d see it by the end of 2023 at the earliest, and 2024 seemed more reasonable.
Now, though… yeah. Also please refer to FEU’s policy on art and credits.
Rolls away
Edit: Anti-AI arguments, I’ll just pre-empt them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eokIcRWzBo