I'd argue that this belongs in C# Utilities/Image Enhancements, rather than in AI Fiction - I'm not using AI to make stories, just new art assets.

True. I was trying to group all of the AI related stuff together.

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:

Bottom right on the top set looks like a cyborgified star wars First Order trooper

That is really great  . Experimenting with some AI stuff myself atm. How can I get access to this image generator?

I followed this installation guide (found through Reddit), which has excellent step-by-step instructions, with pictures.

If you've got a decently hefty graphics card (I'm running this on a 3060 Ti, and each image takes about 10 seconds to generate) and the space and ability to download several gigs of data to get everything set up; I totally recommend checking it out.

I've been playing around with Stable Diffusion, an AI image generator, for a couple days now. One of the first things I thought to work on with it was new race pictures - I could make* my very own! No need to scower through the internets for work of a correct type and in a style that I like that's been created by others to crop and resize... I can now get my computer to labor over new pics on its own!

Anyway, I've been running it through it's paces some, and I thought I'd share some of the more successful outputs.
This is "head and shoulders, cyborg soldier, sinister atmosphere, highly detailed, intricate line drawings, artstation", which gave me the following:



I then ran the one in the lower left corner through img2img, with the simple command of "trending on artstation":



The future is now, and it's pretty cool, I've got to say.

*For certain definitions of 'make'