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《Foker Pace》

A blurred, pale green anime face with three eyes, in a silver frame with a small nameplate

AI-generated image (Stable Diffusion 1.5, Anything V3), inkjet print in silver-finish wooden frame, engraved metal nameplate

Framed element 64 × 46 × 4 cm

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Rainbow-coloured text on a dark background: “AI art should be looked like AI, not like humans.”
https://civitai.com/models/9409/or-anything-xl

フロンティアモデルが次々と更新されるなかで、数年前の画像生成モデルはもう骨董品のように扱われがちだ。久しぶりにローカル環境でStable Diffusionを立ち上げ、昔のモデルを試して遊んでいたとき、なんとなくAnything V3を思い出した。Civitaiでそのページを開くと、「AI art should be looked like AI, not like humans.」(AIアートは、人間のようにではなく、AIのように見えるべきだ)と書かれていた。

読んだ瞬間、なんだかはっとした。そこからしばらく、SD1.5で遊ぶようになった。

Anything V3はアニメの絵に特化したモデルだ。ステップ数を下げたり、抽象的な言葉を入れたりしても、どこかで見たことがあるようなアニメのシルエットが勝手に浮かび上がってくる。面白かったのは、はっきりしない像のなかから、急にどこかで見たような当時のイラストの一部が出てくるところだった。輪郭も意味もぼやけた靄のなかに、目や髪の流れだけがふいに現れる。誰か一人の絵ではないのに、誰かの絵に見える。

As frontier models keep being updated, image-generation models from only a few years ago tend to be treated like antiques. While running Stable Diffusion locally again after a long time and playing with old models, I happened to remember Anything V3. When I opened its page on Civitai, it read: “AI art should be looked like AI, not like humans.”

The moment I read it, something caught me. After that, I spent a while playing with SD1.5.

Anything V3 is a model specialized in anime-style images. Even when I lowered the number of steps or gave it abstract words, anime silhouettes that looked like something I had seen somewhere surfaced on their own. What I found interesting was how, out of an unclear image, a fragment of an illustration from that era would suddenly appear, one I felt I had seen before. In a haze where both outline and meaning are blurred, only an eye or the flow of hair abruptly shows up. They are not any one person’s drawing, yet they look like someone’s.

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