Those who have both long memories and also were past members of the Crux Foundation may - just - dimly remember that in 2011 I published a series of poorly executed pencil sketches telling the sad tale of Sasha.
This was in response to a request by a member there called Buchatron who particularly wanted to see a woman crucified in their briefs. So he gave the name 'Mr B' to the story.
The story is long lost, but I kept the pictures, or at least a version where she lost her briefs part-way through. I recall that 'Mr B' was a rather nasty gang leader in some god-forsaken and lawless country somewhere whose 'bit on the side', Sasha, had betrayed him to a rival gang. Not noted for his forgiveness he got a couple of his thugs to crucify the poor girl. I think in the original version the rival gang turned up too late to save her from the cross but in time to save her from death.
Anyway, here's one of the original drawings.
See what I mean? High art it isn't.
Now, I have been following the discussions in these forums about AI, and I fairly naturally fell to wondering what AI might make of my drawings. So I uploaded the above to 'Deepimage.ai', and it came back with the following:
A freebie, you see, with the watermark, but sufficiently encouraging for me to spring for a few credits.
What I discovered was that AI is a very tricky beastie, and it's nearly impossible to get a consistent appearane across a story. Pretty much every image needs work from my Paintshop Pro, but I think I'll inflict the result on the long-suffering members of Crux Forums, if you don't mind.
So we start with one of Mr B's thugs shoving Sasha, plus beam, forward.
Sasha doesn't feel particularly co-operative, so with a 'Fuck you all!' she throws the beam on the ground and makes a run for it.
One of the thugs retrieves the beam, and sets it up in front of an ominous looking post.
Meanwhile Sasha is easily recaptured and brought back to the place appointed by Mr B for her severe punishment.
This was in response to a request by a member there called Buchatron who particularly wanted to see a woman crucified in their briefs. So he gave the name 'Mr B' to the story.
The story is long lost, but I kept the pictures, or at least a version where she lost her briefs part-way through. I recall that 'Mr B' was a rather nasty gang leader in some god-forsaken and lawless country somewhere whose 'bit on the side', Sasha, had betrayed him to a rival gang. Not noted for his forgiveness he got a couple of his thugs to crucify the poor girl. I think in the original version the rival gang turned up too late to save her from the cross but in time to save her from death.
Anyway, here's one of the original drawings.
See what I mean? High art it isn't.
Now, I have been following the discussions in these forums about AI, and I fairly naturally fell to wondering what AI might make of my drawings. So I uploaded the above to 'Deepimage.ai', and it came back with the following:
A freebie, you see, with the watermark, but sufficiently encouraging for me to spring for a few credits.
What I discovered was that AI is a very tricky beastie, and it's nearly impossible to get a consistent appearane across a story. Pretty much every image needs work from my Paintshop Pro, but I think I'll inflict the result on the long-suffering members of Crux Forums, if you don't mind.
So we start with one of Mr B's thugs shoving Sasha, plus beam, forward.
Sasha doesn't feel particularly co-operative, so with a 'Fuck you all!' she throws the beam on the ground and makes a run for it.
One of the thugs retrieves the beam, and sets it up in front of an ominous looking post.
Meanwhile Sasha is easily recaptured and brought back to the place appointed by Mr B for her severe punishment.
