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Not if you want to generate a picture of Xi Jinping.

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In fact here's a list of painters whose style is immune to direct mimicry in Midjourney because their name is banned:

Ambreen Butt

Jan Cox

Constance Gordon-Cumming

Dai Xi

Jessie Alexandra Dick

Dong Qichang

Dong Yuan

Willy Finch

Constance Gordon-Cumming

Spencer Gore

Ernő Grünbaum

Guo Xi

Elena Guro

Adolf Hitler

Prince Hoare

William Hoare

Fanny McIan

Willy Bo Richardson

Shang Xi

Wang Duo

Wang E

Wang Fu

Wang Guxiang

Wang Hui

Wang Jian

Wang Lü

Wang Meng

Wang Mian

Wang Shimin

Wang Shishen

Victor Wang

Wang Wei

Wang Wu

Wang Ximeng

Wang Yi

Wang Yuan

Wang Yuanqi

Wang Zhenpeng

Wang Zhongyu

Xi Gang

Xie Shichen

Xu Xi

I have this list because I recently made a site[1] that displays the 4 images from a prompt of "Lotus, in the style of <paintername> <birth-death dates> [nation of origin]" for every painter listed on wikipedia's "List of painters" -- except for those in the above list.

The fact that they banned both Xi and Jinping separately to prevent Xi Jinping was surprising to me. Twice as banned as Adolf Hitler.

[1] https://lotuslotuslotus.com - small chance you get an NSFW image if you hit upon Fernando Botero or John Armstrong, perhaps there's more.

So if you're an artist and don't want your style to be used in an AI product, all you have to do is changing your name that includes a variation of controversial leader names (xi, adolf), or slightly offensive name (dick, gore)?

> So if you're an artist and don't want your style to be used in an AI product, all you have to do is changing your name that includes a variation of controversial leader names (xi, adolf), or slightly offensive name (dick, gore)?

Nope, that doesn't stop models from being trained on your art. It makes it somewhat more difficult for people to prompt specifically for your style, but your art still influences output, and there may be other ways (e.g., titles of specific works) to deliberately and specifically evoke it in particular.

No, because self-hosted programs like SD will still be trained on your art.

Anyway, I suspect with more competition many of the restrictions on sites like Midjourney will eventually be removed.

FYI: MJ is in the process of introducing a smarter word filter that recognizes the difference between 'Wang Jian' vs. 'suck my fat wang'

I wonder what happens if you write Xi in Chinese instead of the romanization. Xi Gang's Xi (奚) is not Xi Jinping's Xi (习).

What mechanism or project did you use to automate prompts and capture results of the prompts?

ChatGPT made me a python script for automating pasting results, as well as most other tasks related to this project.

I already had a discord bot I wrote by hand before for downloading the images.

I thought of the project in the morning while my kid was getting ready for school and had it running jobs before we were out the door, worked a little before I left for work, and and a little more after work, and it was done before dinner time.

ChatGPT is incredible.

Adolf Hitler distinctive style? Naive watercolors with botched perspectives is a style now. Okay..

I listened in to their weekly chat today and it sounded like they'd be happy if they could just ban all political mimickry. I think the AI images of Trump being arrested (which looked like Midjourney to me) were disappointing.

Maybe that just means banning images that are meant to fool people, and obvious satire would be ok, but they might be ok erring on the side of caution.

(Nothing in the talk was this explicit, but this was my read of the subtext)

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