I'm thinking of starting an informal AI art contest. To encourage innovation I'll try to make the prompts pretty specific, i.e. "X character in X artstyle with X style of clothes in X resolution." Also, that would help to stop a devolution into posting porn. Lol.
Some details I need to clear up:
- a standard image host would be a good idea. Not sure what to go with.
- would anyone be interested in judging? We could also go by simple upvotes, although there are a lot of problems with this.
- maybe it should be a requirement to post the model and prompts. Possibly LoRA as well.
edit: here are the current stipulations:
- catbox.moe for image host
- separate contests for pure and retouched photos
Thirding catbox.moe. I'd definitely participate if you did this. And yes, a fairly niche theme is recommended, to make the entries more comparable, and limiting the amount a mere difference in taste from the judges plays. Make it clear what the judges are looking for.
I don't know If I'd limit it to specific characters, but you should engineer the theme in such a way as to push people out of their typical habits when generating, make it complex enough that mastery over the generation tools is required, but broad enough to give space for ambition and skill to shine through to differentiate between works that meet the theme.
Definitely. It'll be a learning process for sure. I love playing with AI, but I'm relatively unsophisticated and don't branch out of my favorite models too much.