"Using Chat GPT" Topic

Now I was at Hmmeerhead UK show Satutuday chatting to a guy who had made a figure using this system, and woundered if anybody could shed more light on the technique or had tried it?

He had gotten a picture of a soldire in the style he wanted, in his case a splele tunic. He gave the picture to Chat GPT asking it to creatate a picture in the same style but with diffrent weapons in its hand and a diffrent stance. Having got what he wanted he put the picyure into "meshey" It looks like this is it.
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This gives an STL files to scale. Apparently Chat GPT can make the picture a bit chunkier before meshing to make it more robust at small scales.

Hopeless for historical figures as AI has no actual intellegence (I understan why it fails now so miserablely when I use it, seems tascks requireing act
alk intellegence are outside the scope of LLM's).

However when approximations are all that is required it may be of use.

The big problem with both image generation and STL/Mesh generation is that they are trained on thousands (proabably millions) of images and STLs scrubbed from the web, the creators of which were not asked for permission in the vast majority of cases. Which to me seems like thinking its ok to steal a penny from everyone's bank account- its wrong but it doesn't hurt each individual that much, so I can do it. But in aggregate it would ammount to millions. We'd still consider that punishable.

clibinarium, I've heard the argument before. But how do human artists--or actors, writers or composers--learn? By watching great actors, listening to great music and studying great paintings, books and screenplays, last I heard.

When's the last time some aspiring actor sent a check to the Alec Guiness estate? Does anyone punish SF writers for learning from early Heinlein? (And as author of The Rolling Stones, did Heinlein kick back anything to the author of "Pigs is Pigs"? Certainly David Gerrold didn't pay him for "The Trouble with Tribbles," and that was close enough to worry the network.)

Let's not hold the machines to a legal/ethical standard we ourselves couldn't meet.

I use Chat GPT at work sometimes – kind of like having a simple minded assistant – useful but you gotta check their work out

I don't buy the stealing argument in general, though in some particular cases there has been some wrongdoing.

But to the larger point, I've watched a lot of videos about AI generated STL files. I have experimented a little. I'm dropping it for now. In a year, give or take six months, there will be a fun new aspect of our hobby, especially for those of us less artistically gifted.

For the moment you have to bounce around between different services (text to image, image to image, image to STL, STL to usable STL), some of which are crummy, and some of which cost money so I haven't tried them but I'm suspicious. You're still going to put in a lot of time just developing the workflow, finding the services and techniques you like.

This is going to work great in the future, but I'm going to let other people blaze the trail and then follow later.

Meanwhile, I'm having lots of fun with TinkerCAD and Blender.

When I was in a pinch I did use, I think it was Gemini, to make some paper miniatures. I needed some specific goblin pirates. I described each of them, asked for front and back views, did them several times, took the best, printed them out, folded them over, boom – I'm ready for the RPG session. This let me get figures with the exact equipment and expression for the NPCs.

Someday we'll be able to do that for resin minis, but right now it would require so many hours and so many subscriptions that I'm not interested, I have too many other cool things to do.

Robert, they learned FROM other artists, they don't slavishly copy what they did and claim it as 'original'.