AI Art Programs And Malicious Compliance

Let's talk about AI blunders in NSFW art.

My DeviantArt fans need to know just how hard it is to get usable NSFW art out of Civitai and other AI art programs. Let me make it clear: I an using Civitai because it is by far the best platform for creating NSFW images, IMHO. That's because it is virtually the ONLY platform that allows model and lora creators to develop models and loras to create NSFW images. Deviant Art is not interested in policing creators beyond not allowing them to create outright illegal art.

Here we are. Naked. Gagged. Bound. Vibrator on/in pussy. But also, three hands. Foot from nowhere. Two out of three hands hoplessly mangled. A fairly common result when you seek to create NSFW images.

But since Civitai is the platform I use, it's the source of most of my blunders. It's not the fault of censorship deliberately blocking NSFW imagery as it is on other sites, it's the fault of models and loras that just don't quite get all the little details right.

This is the sort of image that makes me use the term "malicious compliance." Woman being proneboned on a bed while bound and gagged. Face and gag beautifully done. Cock entering woman's butt at the right angle. Wonderfully done! Until you notice the man's forearm has merged with the woman'd upper arm. She's also been given ANOTHER right arm that is tied to a big chunk of flesh that goes... nowhere? What the hell? It's like they gave the image all the sexy I asked for, but didn't bother with details like... arms. And hands. 

More malicious compliance. Beautifully done image of a slavegirl in bondage being anally fucked. A few tiny mistakes: rope that disappears behind the guy's cock, the whole wrist bondage thing, but maybe fixable. But then what the hell is that black plastic thing in her anus that he's sticking his cock into? I don't know, and I don't WANT to know! 

It's a naked, bound woman giving a blowjob allright, but it's three-breasted, three-armed Suzy Longtorso! With a pink vibrator on her chin!

I decided at some point to go for something completely different, so I asked for a happy, healthy, naked native tribe having an orgy in a jungle clearing while spaceships flew overhead. Jungle: check! Spaceships: check! Orgy: I got a bunch of naked Europeans including Suzy Longleg and some background people that don't bear looking at, standing around like they've just been discovered and are posing for a photo. Orgy: none. Of course!  

The only point of this post is to let my Deviant Art fans know about all the winnowing and work we have to do to create a winner. Totally worth it when we do, though.

Over the Edge, Lipwise

 
The vast majority of models on Civitai are Japaneses anime and furries. The preponderance of such images on Civitai is evidenced by the fact that even though I have never asked for such images, sometimes I get them anyway, as was the case here.

Master's domination and fucking of her was so powerful that she soon went into full lip-biting mode without even knowing it!

Image source: Kink video 42392, "Blue Collar Justice" starring Mr. Pete and Alexa Nova.

AI Art Fix-Up: Before And After

After.

Before.

When I was preparing my image files for my Deviant Art site, I came across quite a few images that would have worked for the site, but they needed a bit of work, so I put them in a folder called "Easily Fixable" as I sorted.  The "before" pic is from my Easily Fixable folder as is. I used an SL avatar in a submission pose and then ran it through Civitai asking for a picture of a busy city street with her on it, along with other people walking around. I was hoping for something a little more paved, but this was still an intriguing image.

The first difference between the before and after pics is that the "after" pic looks a lot brighter. The colors seem to pop more. This is not unusual with AI art: it gets the dynamic range of the colors in an image wrong. Fortunately, it's a very easy fix in GIMP.

Then there's the ropes and straps hanging down between her legs. They don't make any sense visually, they don't connect with the rest of the figure in any logical way, so I replace them with background art, a little more troublesome than changing the lighting with a slider, but not difficult really. Note: I did leave in the plastic vibrator controller underneath her. Adds a nice "vibe" to the pic!

There was also the little square thing atop her butt. It looks like maybe it's the end of a dildo, but it's at the wrong angle for a dildo. It looks more like the top of a periscope. Well whatever it was, it looked like the visual equivalent of noise, so out it went. I replaced it with background art, much more easily than the leather straps between her legs.

Finally, there was one little thing. A finger, to be exact. The figure's right had was gifted with an extra finger by Civitai. This was by far the trickiest fix. I had to create a new outline of the wrist, extend the ropes around her wrist, and merge them with the background. Fortunately there were a lot of shadows, and those shadows, they do hide a lot of sins.

An Educational Experience

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AI Art Surprises Me!

Sometimes it's time to hit the bricks, but for her it was time to lick the bricks. A freebie image I put up my DeviantArt page.

The original Second Life image I used to create the art above. You may notice some differences!

AI art programs can fuck up an image in all sorts of ways, but sometimes they accidentally improve things. In this case I wanted to show a woman chained to a sandstone wall and menaced by another naked woman carrying a spear and wearing a gold mask. It was supposed to be cover art for a story called "Blast from the Past" about a female archaeology who has the ability to experience past life recall from touching historical artifacts. (Basically, this is a lot of woo hooey but it worked for my story.) She experienced the life of a woman captured and enslaved in Bronze Age times when she touches a chain that was used to restrain the enslaved woman.

At one point she is visited and threatened by naked woman wearing a golden mask and carrying a bronze spear, as seen here on the cover art:

Feel free to purchase "Blast from the Past" by clicking here or on the cover art.

The sandstone building and the chains were all purchased on SL marketplace I chose the art for the cover because the helplessness and vulnerability of the slavegirl. Also, naked SL avatar pussies are verboten on book covers.

But the AI art progam fought me as well. There's no rule against buttplugs on Civitai, but not all models grok buttplugs, even the dirty ones. And note how the pussy on the spearwoman got clipped off on the AI art upgrade at the top of the page. I didn't do that. 

O course the real show-stopper is the way the AI art program flipped the woman entirely, had her licking the floor (nice touch, and entirely original. My prompt was a simple description of what my SL image showed). And the way it has something sticking out of her butt with a rope attached to it. And the way the spear went away and became a pole or something. And the way the shackles and chains just disappeared. And the way the shackles on the legs of the warrior woman became ropes, with one rope leading up to... somewhere? 

A tour de force of AI art getting it wrong, but accidentally creating an image that's worth looking at in its own right. It does not happen often.

Only Fitting

As they were untrained slavegirls, it seemed only fitting that they be kept in an unfinished kennel.

Image source: An image search came up with the image as part of a photoset on Exquisite Slave. Exquisite Slave identified the models as Audrey and Abbey, and had a link to Powershotz.com, the apparent origin of the image. But the link did not lead to any products at Powershotz.com.

Second Life to AI Art Backstory

This is a snapshot taken in the Second Life virtual world by me. Those who have visited my Deviant Art site will probably recognize it.

This is the splash photo that greets you when you arrive at my site. Definitely the same image, but... different.

The question of whether AI art is art has been vigorously debated online, with the vast majority coming down firmly on "No." IMHO this is based largely on the (very legitimate) fears of what AI might do to the human economy, and the human race, given that the psychopaths and sociopaths who dominate government and wealth everywhere have finally glommed onto its potential to turn us all into either corpses or work slaves.

AI art threatens no such thing, but it does threaten to drive trad artists away from having an income. It used to be that if you wanted good artwork to market a product, you needed a good artist. Not necessarily true any longer. 

(I do think that long term artists have a better chance of surviving being replaced by AI simply because eventually things created by human design will alway have a cachet of coolness that things created by AI will never have. I base this assumption on what has happened in the world of chess, where AIs surpassed human chess players a decade ago. Did this destroy interest in chess? No, it did not, chess is now doing better than ever thanks to the ease of finding good opponents via online chess. And people follow the chess games of Caruana, Carlson, Praggnanandhaa and many others, all of them human. No one cares about the games of Stockfish and other AI chess programs, because they're not human, hence not relatable. The same will occur with art: people will care about human artists, not AI art programs. This is not necessarily true for engineers, marketers, clerks and so forth.)

But the real basis of the claims of AI art not being art is that digital artists do little or nothing to create art. They just describe the artwork they want and the computer magically produces it for them. Those cases are very different, and in some cases that's exactly what happens. Though even with prompts alone it can be difficult to get what you want, especially if you're creating sexually explicit material, which admittedly horny scientists estimate is roughly 99.9999999 percent of all AI art. Because most AI art models are designed to FIGHT LIKE HELL to avoid creating explicit sexual images. They have to be cajoled, tricked, and sometimes even beaten severely to produce explicit imagery. (OK, I'm exaggerating here. You can't beat an AI art program. But an AI art program is perfectly capable of making you want to beat it severely.)

Still in the case of the Second Life-based image on this page I clearly created the blueprint for the art. I customed-designed the avatar's body. I bought skin for it, I bought custom hair for it and I bought custom hands for it as well as the clothing it is wearing, all from Second Life designers. I obtained the dance animation it is using (it was a freebie, I think, there are a lot of freebies on Second Life).

I also controlled the lighting in the sky (Second Life lets you control that in some sims, though the lighting only applies to your avatar, not other avatars on the sim.) I didn't build the striking buildings in the background, that was the sim designer's work. (And they did a great job, another great Gorean sim build.)

I also chose the camera angle and location from which I took the snapshot. I wanted to go for a romantic, epic image, and I think I got it.

Now the Civitai model that I used did some really great work based on my Second Life image, but it's very obvious that the Civitai model was based on my snapshot. You could probably get a vaguely similar image of a dancer in a chalwar on a rooftop terrace at sunrise/sunset with clouds via a text prompt, but your chances of getting  something close to this image are quite low, and the chances of getting something close to being the exact same image are almost nil.

So I created an original artwork with the help of the Second Life video game. Does that make me an artist? No. An artist is someone who can create an artwork and control how it looks down to the least detail. And I don't have that kind of control, I am at the mercy of Second Life and Civitai to a certain extent. 

But I'll tell you one thing. There are modern artists whose work consists of painting stripes of color on canvas. Or splashes of paint poured right out of the can onto a canvas on the floor. Or whose work consists of written descriptions of what they would have done, pasted on a museum wall. (I did not make any of those examples up.) And if those guys are artists, so am I. And so are you, gentle readers. So are we all. It's a very fluid term, it turns out.