i know nobody here cares but i'm gonna bitch here about it anyway since this is my AI art blog: it *really* bites my ass that neuralblender, the thing that has become astoundingly popular seemingly overnight for AI art, very transparently uses several pre-made AI Art code assets without any sort of credit towards the creators who spent months of hard work on that code.
I'm genuinely a little offended that clicking on "credits" brings you to a page where they ask you to spend microtransaction money on generating stuff from other people's code notebooks (THAT YOU CAN ACCESS FOR COMPLETELY FREE, WITH MORE OPTIONS, THAT RUN FASTER, HERE'S NEURALBLENDER HYPERION AND HERE'S NEURALBLENDER CRONOS, BOTH FOR FREE THAT YOU CAN RUN AS MUCH AS YOU WANT, FROM THE ORIGINAL CREATORS), and not, like, a page crediting the original sources of their code.
just as to continue the gripe chain the website is also just lazy as hell, they didn't even change the favicon from the default react icon, so the fact that neuralblender is exploding and the original creators of the work (and the people whose shoulder's they are standing on; Advadnoun, RiversHaveWings, and DanielRussRuss for starters) don't receive a lick of credit or acknowledgement really just bothers the shit out of me, that they can exploit the hard work of the developers in the AI art scene without crediting them.
Anyway, I would appreciate it if you felt like spreading this around and reblogging it. Here's a whole list of all the dozens of variations of CLIP+VQGAN and other generative art resources that you can be using for free instead of shelling out for Neuralblender's grift. you do not need to be good at programming for any of these.
Before anyone feels too bad, I did find that they do source what code is used and their reasoning for the website:
It is a free open source code so it's not the entirely stealing that is kinda the point of it. Also if you are worried about the moral choices here, the main code is made by Elon Musk's Open AI company and one of the codes author is using it to make NFTs so steal away
haha hey hi i'm one of the people who made one of the notebooks they're ganking from and i definitely don't like NFTs and also just because openAI made the CLIP algorithm doesn't mean all the stuff people built with that algorithm is right to steal 🥺🥺🥺 since elon musk literally had nothing to do with the people who made the CLIP+VQGAN notebooks and in fact nobody really knew you could use CLIP to generate images until a couple of very smart people put it together so uhhh 🥺🥺🥺🥺 don't steal away, are you fucking serious
