I once heard that Ireland experimented with a government allowance, and tax exemption(?), for fiction writers (and maybe other artists too), to preserve and encourage interest in Irish culture (and cover their writers’ living expenses). Considering the current and predictable advances in AI, other countries may need to follow this example.
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Playing around with a basic elf character prompt I found on the Civit-ai website (for the AlbedoBase checkpoint). Guess I made the right call to unsubscribe from Daz3D. However, I can’t find a way to remove the halo / reflection effect from the characters’ eyes, even with A1111’s in-painting feature.
…So close to caveman level prompts conjuring photo-realistic images…

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Setting up an image prompt for some Freyja portraits in SDXL, and pressed the generate button about six steps too early. Received an almost ideal passport-size picture (512x512).
A successful fail, I guess.
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Out of the 3 I edited today, this one came out basically the same as I have here, except this has been cartoonized.
This was also an option:
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