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by JackFr 1375 days ago
Having recently watched the Warhol Diaries on Netflix, I can't help but think of the examples of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and think that calls for the death of the artist are premature. The funny thing is that I don't find Keith Haring or Jean-Michel Basquiat's work particularly compelling, and from the a technical perspective, I don't think either of them were blazing new paths, but what they (and Andy Warhol) offered was something Stable Diffusion simply cannot offer, that is, something new.

You can't ask for "in the style of Keith Haring' before there's a Keith Haring

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It seems it is possible to achieve that, but it may look different.

Since we still have to give text prompts to generate images, and these prompts need qualifiers (x subject “oil painting”) it seems possible that a prompt giver could generate images in a specific way to achieve their own unique style.

Difficult now since the tools are new and don’t have a ton of features, but down the road if the tools are built out more and prompts get more nuanced I could see “prompt givers” as “artists with their own unique style”