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Welcome, Kyle! Thanks for joining us here.
I vaguely remember seeing a similar report quite recently, but I’m afraid I don’t even know whether it was posted to these forums or whether it was on the official support forums just before they closed. Either way, I couldn’t tell you whether or not the problem was resolved.
Alfred wrote:No one should expect a response to each and every post, but many of the replies to your posts have included direct questions that you seem to have ignored. ...
What direct questions?
This seems peculiar. Am I missing something?
My apologies, William! I got it the wrong way around. You haven’t been ignoring questions that others have asked you, you’ve been asking questions and then — as Ali has pointed out — failing to acknowledge the answers.
I don't get it, William. You asked a question and people have answered it - wouldn't you expect an acknowledgement if it were the other way around?
The comments about photography are equally relevant to any art.
In post #28 you have effectively asked the same question again: are you dissatisfied with the responses so far? Because it seems to me that your question has been answered and most people seem to agree that AI-generated artwork is not art.
You seem to be treating us as if we were AI bots: you seem to be asking the same question in a different way hoping to get a more favourable (to you) outcome. This doesn't therefore feel much like a discussion (since you aren't actually joining in with the discussion).
I was unaware that I was expected to respond to each post.
No one should expect a response to each and every post, but many of the replies to your posts have included direct questions that you seem to have ignored. Perhaps they were awkward questions, but I know from past experience that when you’ve been asked a question which you’d rather not answer you’re perfectly capable of saying so explicitly.
If you’re happy to use a solution hosted somewhere other than your own website — and why wouldn’t you be, if you were happy to use Serif Web Resources (SWR)? — then Cognito Forms is worth a look. It’s free for individual users.
Welcome to my merry little band, Peter! Thanks for joining us here.
Tectite FormMail is an option if your hosting package supports PHP. Setup is quite complicated, but Frank Browne (‘Frank B.’ on the old Serif forums) wrote a comprehensive script configuration guide which he kindly permitted me to share: you can read it here.
For those wanting another option for a free comic font (IE, in case of one not making indy comics, so the Blambot free fonts would not be an option (but those are better)) for a graphic design or whatever, or any commercial use, but can't afford the 30-40 bucks of Blambot's, this one might do the job. Even if it's in a very different (lower) tier, it's a gazillion times better than Comic Sans (too much hatred against that font, Comic Sans was designed for screens of eons ago for a certain purpose, not for graphic design, and definitely not for comics):
Komika Text.
https://www.1001fonts.com/komika-text-font.htmlA lot of great webcomics can be made with it (and surely are).
There are quite a few free ‘Komika’ fonts out there (see https://www.fontspace.com/search?q=Komika) but the ones of interest are those designed by Fredrick Nader, aka. ‘Apostrophe’, for his Apostrophic Lab.
Readers are invited to consider whether this picture is art,
Please refer to the preceding discussion.
and to consider what was the prompt that was used.
If you’re asking us to consider what prompt might have been used, are you inviting us to make wild guesses or do you intend to provide some sort of guidance?
Once again, William, please, please, please use the forum markup tools to style the text in your posts so that the reader can easily distinguish between quotes, headings, and so forth. For example, instead of typing
[Copilot]
Yes — different prompts can dramatically shape the style, mood, and emotional impact of AI-generated art. Your words are the brushstrokes.
you can type
{quote=Copilot}
Yes — different prompts can dramatically shape the style, mood, and emotional impact of AI-generated art. Your words are the brushstrokes.{/quote}
(with square brackets instead of curly braces) to present it like this:
Yes — different prompts can dramatically shape the style, mood, and emotional impact of AI-generated art. Your words are the brushstrokes.
Similarly, with text like
Art Style References
Mentioning styles like cubism, impressionism, cyberpunk, or minimalist guides the visual language.
Example: “A portrait in Van Gogh’s style” will evoke swirling brushwork and vivid colors.
making ‘Art Style References’ bold clearly identifies it as a heading:
Art Style References
Mentioning styles like cubism, impressionism, cyberpunk, or minimalist guides the visual language.
Example: “A portrait in Van Gogh’s style” will evoke swirling brushwork and vivid colors.
As an aside, we have a peanut feeder opposite a window of a side room, with no direct access to the feeder. Access is through the back door. When the feeder is virtually empty a blue tit taps on the window with a sort of "Ere, we need some nuts" attitude. How do they know that those on the other side of the glass are the same ones that provide the nuts? Facial recognition?
Also fascinating, Joe, and a great question! I can’t think how one could even begin to try to determine the answer.
What it's happening is just automated and sophisticated plagiarism. It just predicts what is the more likely token to happen next, based on mere comparison (by probability) with a huge database, based on that humongous database of artists' paintings and illustrations (work which it does not understand!), artwork which the company scrapped (or another company made the scrapping) with no legal permission to do so.
*scraped
*scraping
Gen AI has needed (it is completely impossible to do it other way) to scrap without permission the art from millions of artists
*scrape
The word ‘scrap’ is a synonym for ‘discard’ or ‘discontinue use of’. It can also mean ‘make from scraps’ (i.e. pieces of something, as in scrapbooking).
> (it is not really "AI", it is not intelligent. Actual AI researchers state this)
Exactly so: it is artificial, but it tries to look intelligent. Back in Alan Turing’s day, Artificial Intelligence was all about modelling human thought processes. The idea behind the Turing Test was to assess whether an AI program could fool people into thinking they were communicating with a person rather than a machine.
Welcome, Lionel! Thanks for joining us here.
I asked Copilot "can you produce art?"
Absolutely
Well, Copilot would say that, wouldn’t it!
the greatest President money can buy
LOL. 
Please check your email.
Welcome, Edward! Thanks for joining my merry little band. And thanks for your astute observations about Serif’s/Canva’s “careful planning”.
My intention in posting them and the text, is to ask whether those artworks are art.
You obviously knew your intention, but I respectfully suggest that if you wanted to ask whether those artworks are art you should have done so explicitly.
First of all, William, it seems that you can’t make up your mind whether ‘artwork’ is countable or not (‘an artwork’ versus ‘a piece of artwork’); I would say not, so you should omit the indefinite article. As for what distinguishes art in particular from artwork in general, I think it’s generally accepted that art has to have aesthetic value. You can argue about what constitutes ‘aesthetic value’ and what doesn’t.
Secondly, only your first post here is on topic. The other two don’t discuss the premise at all, but instead simply show the results of asking Copilot to conjure up images for you.
Yes, you can! There’s a ‘Publish as PDF…’ option on the File menu, and if you expand the ‘More Options’ section at the bottom of the Publish PDF dialog you can use the ‘Prepress’ section to select the page marks that you want to include.
Bad_Wolf wrote:...when we are stuck...
You'll never be stuck, I'm stuck.
I’ve just replied to your PM.
If you really mean registration, your old registration key probably won’t work unless your PC hasn’t changed significantly, but you can use the Universal Registration Key 881887 to preclude the appearance of the registration nag screen. If you mean the product key that you need for installation of the software, please email me with details of your DrawPlus version and I’ll see if I can help.
So perhaps
Original artwork
rather than
Original art
?
Yes, that would be better.
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