So, it's been a little while, but I finally got around to seriously building out an AI-generated set of race pictures. I figured that a good theme for an AI-generated image set would be cybernetic / cyborg entities, so that's what I ran with, although we've got some images that morphed over to more alien-looking or robot-looking, depending on the AI's whims, some of which I kept because I liked how they turned out.
Starting off with roughly 2,000 images, which were a mix of text-to-image (for new raw images) and image-to-image (for when a particular image interested me, and I wanted to see more permutations on a specific theme), I whittled down the selection to 375 images that I liked.
Of course, these were all the default AI-generated 512x512 images, so the directory weighed in at 141 megs. While that isn't
entirely insane in this day-and-age of multi-gig downloads, I decided to trim things down a little bit. A batch resize to 75% (384x384) got the size under 100 megs - which is notably small enough to attach to this message - while remaining perfectly fine for the little window that Aurora uses for race pictures.
Overall, the process took about a day, running batches of 20 images at a time in the background while I was browsing the internet or watching something streaming, then a couple hours combing through the results to decide on what to actually include in the image pack.
Anyway, without any further adieu, a preview:
