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
Restrict the size of the image, because otherwise it simply gives advantage to those with more tokens/processingpower/time. (or simply, max 1024x1024). I don't think the size needs to be more restrictive than that, personally. If you ask for a 3/4s shot of a 1girl, most people are going to default to 1:1, 2:3, 3:4, or 1:2.
I'd say to avoid "artstyle" in your categories, simply because that results in things looking very samey. On the one hand, things looking samey means its easier to determine a "winner", but on the other hand, it's more boring. Give an idea, and let people go wild. They want to run a pastel oil LORA or an Instagram LORA or a thin-line pencil sketch LORA? Go wild! More fun results that way.
To avoid this looking like you just ran out of tokens and are asking competent people who can run A1111 to make your own gens for you, I'd say the prompt would need to be either fairly vague but gaming-oriented, or otherwise be voted on by the community, or decided not by you, but by the judges.
Personal opinion: It should be handled a bit like a cooking competition show: Each judge gets to ask one component of the gen (be it a mandatory prompt, a mandatory LORA at a specific strength, a theme, or just a "feeling" they want in the gen), and then freestyle beyond that, to see what abominations people can whip up.
All good suggestions. Restricting art style might be a bit much in some cases. I'm planning on weighting the judging criteria to creativity and artistry rather than raw fidelity, so there needs to be room for people to think.