#genie in a novel

[genieinanovel]

Review: Forgiving Paris

In Indiana, Ashley Baxter Blake and her husband are about to take an anniversary trip to Paris, but she is hesitant. More than two decades ago, she made her most grievous mistake in that same city. She has never forgiven herself for what happened there, and she still harbors secrets that she’s afraid will come to light. Just before the trip, Ashley gets a call from her niece. Jessie explains that…

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[iskelan]

Thrantober 2022 part 2

#thrawn #star wars #art #eli vanto #fanart #thranto #sketch #inktober #thrantober #genie!thrawn #grand admiral thrawn #mitth'raw'nuruodo #thrawn novel #chiss

[exghul]

thinking.

#tbd. #hi! im here lurking! #i havent been writing for no other excuse than D.C Doesnt Know What To Do With My Son #ive been chewing on the insides of my brain figuring out simply where i want to take him next #i really cant rely on c.anon for ideas bc LOL! their stories for him suck rn #why is there robo!broose? #why is dami uber loyal to him? #why is r.as a genie attached to n.ika rn? oh right bc she can talk to dead ppl #but apparently cant talk abt it to her /not-developed-relationship/ bf ? about it? #or really anything ? #sighs i wish they'd get more development #like i like her as a character i think she's neat af - and they're doing . alright w dami's severe lack of affection #.... but THAT SAID- #how are we gonna go from kiss @ the end of rob 21 -> some allusion to Theyre Official by dami talking to broose -> present #present being ' theyre a thing !! look at that BOYF and GIRLF ' !!! #:| at least give me some suspense or something jfc #maybe i read too many romance novels lol this romance is DRY ! AF ! WHERES THE SPICE! !!! THE LONGING!!!!! THE PINING!!!!! #de.monfire wouldnt treat me like this #i digress #my point here today: dami's character is in a limbo and its frustrating #so im approaching it from the idea of / let me just uhh . rebuild him from ground 0 and see where the dice roll / #so i have thousands of words offline in hc dumps ... #but when i get to his timeline around 15- it goes stagnant. sure that's where i'd put his t.itans verse but also ?? the c.anon for it SUCKS #i'll only be pulling characters from it & the /idea/ of the plot is good #m.ara deserves more screentime #so does . m.aya. #sighs #dami isnt allowed to have female friends thanks d.c #scrubs my face #i need to give him a Direction and ik i'll be flooded w muse again

[annon-guy2]

Tales of Symphonia: Successors of Hope Novel Question

Special thanks to tumblr user, The Science of Aster, for download to the Novel.

#Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World #Tales of Symphonia: Successors of Hope #Lloyd Irving #Colette Brunel #Genis Sage #Raine Sage #Sheena Fujibayashi #Zelos Wilder #Presea Combatir #Regal Bryant #Kratos Aurion #Marta Lualdi #Richter Abend #Aster Laker #Light Novel #Question Poll

[magicalgirloftheday]

✧・ﾟ:*Today’s magical girl of the afternoon is: Tepsekemei from Magical Girl Raising Project: Limited!✧・ﾟ:*

#Tepsekemei #Magical Girl Raising Project: Limited #light novel #brunette #genie #magical girl #magical girl of the day #mahou shoujo

[blqgumi]

Made a trailer for my Visual Novel. I’m pretty much done with the game. It’s getting plat tested by friends and family currently. Can’t wait to show ya’ll the finished product! The full release will hopefully be within the first two weeks of July 2023.

#blackartist #visual novel #gameplay #gameart #game development #free game #devlog #game trailer #genie #wishful thoughts

[memecatwings]

shane madej should write a book i find his story telling style to be so spontanious colorful and interactive and he clearly loves adding whimsical plot twists to complicate things for fun if he wrote a scifi novel itd be akin to something by douglas adams or terry pratchett

#thinking about the hot daga and the silly genie subplot of puppet history #idk he's so good at improv id love to see what he could write if he were given a full length novel

[quirkycatsfatstacks]

Review: Dreams Really Do (Come True) by Brindi Quinn

Series: Come True #3Author: Brindi QuinnPublisher: Midnight Tide PublishingReleased: June 14, 2023Received: Street Team Book Summary: Dolly Jones’ life has changed drastically in just a few months. It’s hard to believe that she was suffering from a series of self-imposed punishments not too long ago. Now she’s found the love of her life, is getting ready for a wedding, oh, and adjusting to life…

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[genieinanovel]

Ranking Karen McManus's Books

Now that One of Us is Back is released and I’ve read it, I can finally say I’ve read all of Karen McManus’s books to date! And that means, it’s time for a ranking. I did this a few months ago with the Harry Potter series and ranked the series by my top to least favorites, and I really enjoyed it. So I thought it’d be fun to do more series or just ranking books by authors I’ve read. So here we…

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[iskelan]

Thrantober rolling in

#thrantober #thrawn #star wars #art #eli vanto #fanart #thranto #au #inktober #genie!thrawn #grand admiral thrawn #thrawn novel #mitth'raw'nuruodo #traditional art

[meleighm]

We Have a Release Date!

Whiskey Jug Genie will be released on November 30, but you can pre-order it right now! The ebooks will be available at most major book retailers. Paperbacks will be available through Barnes and Noble. So, if you like a little humor along with your magic, and a hint of romance, check it out! Whiskey Jug Genie–from Sultonna Nadine! And remember, Always Look For the Magic…

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[annon-guy2]

Tales of Symphonia: Successors of Hope - Cover and Illustrations

Special thanks to tumblr user, The Science of Aster, for download to the Novel.

#Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World #Tales of Symphonia: Successors of Hope #Lloyd Irving #Colette Brunel #Genis Sage #Raine Sage #Sheena Fujibayashi #Zelos Wilder #Presea Combatir #Regal Bryant #Kratos Aurion #Yuan Ka-Fei #Seles Wilder #Marta Lualdi #Richter Abend #Aster Laker #Brute Lualdi #Light Novel

[tim-official]

all the frothing-at-the-mouth posts about how "don't you dare put a fic writer's work into chatGPT or an artist's work into stable diffusion" are. frustrating

that isn't how big models are made. it takes an absurd amount of compute power and coordination between many GPUs to re-train a model with billions of parameters. they are not dynamically crunching up anything you put into a web interface.

chances are, if you have something published on a fanfic site, or your art is on deviantart or any publicly available repository, it's already in the enormous datasets that they are using to train. and if it isn't in now, it will be in future: the increases in performance from GPT 2 to 3 to 4 were not gained through novel machine-learning architectures or anything but by ramping up the amount of data they used to train by orders of magnitude. if it can be scraped, just assume it will be. you can prevent your stuff from being used with Glaze, if you're an artist, but for the written word there's nothing you can do.

not to be cynical but the genie is already far more out of the bottle than most anti-AI people realize, i think. there is nothing you can do to stop these models from being made and getting more powerful. only the organizing power of labor has a shot at mitigating some of the effects we're all worried about

#ai art #ai discourse

[therobotmonster]

Please don’t use midjourney it steals art from pretty much every artist out there without any compensation. I didn’t know this at first and tried it but then during the creation process i saw water marks and Getty image logos (though I’m sure they’ve hidden that now) so it’s definitely stealing.

No, it isn't. And you've taken the wrong lesson from the Getty watermark issue.

AI training on public facing, published work is fair use. Any published piece could be located, examined, and learned from by a human artist. This does not require the permission of the owner of said work. A mechanical apparatus does not change this principle.

All we, as artists, own, are specific expressions. We do not own styles, ideas, concepts, plots, or tropes. We do not even own the work we create in a proper sense. All our work flows from the commons, and all of it flows back to it. IP is a limited patent on specific expressions, and what constitutes infringement is the end result of the creative process. What goes into it is irrelevant, and upending that process to put inspiration and reference as infringement is the end of art as we know it.

The Getty watermark issue is an example of overfitting, wherein a repetitive element in the dataset over-emphasizes specific features to the point of disrupting the system's attempts at the creation of novel images.

No one denies that the SD dataset is trained on images Getty claims to own, but Getty has so polluted the image search functions of the internet with their watermarked images that the idea of a getty watermark has been picked up the same way the AI might pick up the idea of an eye or a tree branch. It is a systemic failure that Shutterstock and Getty can be so monopolistic and ubiquitous that a dateset trained on literally everything public facing on the internet would be polluted with their watermarks.

Watermarks that, by the way, they add to public domain images, and that google prioritizes over clean versions.

The lawsuits being brought against Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are copyright overreach being presented as a theft tissue. The facts of the matter are not as the litigants state. The images aren't stored, the SD weights are a 4 gig file trained on 250 terabytes, roughly 4 bytes per image. It runs local, does not reach out to image sources over IP. All you've got are mathematical patterns and ratios. I would go so far as to say that the class action suit is based on outright lies.

But for a moment, let's entertain the idea that what goes into a work, as inspiration, can be copyrighted. That styles can be stolen. That what goes in defines infringement, rather than what comes out. What happens then?

Well, the bad news is that if Stable Diffusion and Midjourney were shut down tomorrow, Stable Diffusion is in the wild. It runs local, it's user-trainable. In short, the genie isn't going back in the bottle. Plus, the way diffusion AI works, there's no way to trace a gen to its sources. The weights don't work like that. The indexing would be larger than the entire set of stored patterns.

Well good news, there's an AI for that. The current version is called CLIP Interrogator And it works on everything. Not just AI generated, but any image. It can find what style it closely matches, reverse engineer a prompt. It's crude now, but it will improve.

Now, you've already established that using the same patterns as another work is infringement. You've already established that inspiration is theft. And now there's a robot that tells lawyers who you draw like.

Sure, you can fight it in court. If it goes go to court. But who's to say they won't just staplegun that AI to a monetization re-direction bot like youtube has going with their content ID? Awesome T-shirt design you uploaded to your print-on-demand shop... too bad your art style resembles that from a cartoon from 1973 that Universal got as part of an acquisition and they've claimed all your cash. Sure you can file a DMCA counter-notice, but we all know how that goes.

And then there's this fantasy that upending the system would help artists. But who would "own" that style? Is that piece stealing the style of Stephen Silver, or Disney's Kim Possible(TM)? When you work for Disney their contracts say everything you make is theirs. Every doodle. Every drawing. If the styles are copyrightable, a company could hire an artist straight out of school, publish their work under work-for-hire, fire them, and then go after them for "stealing" the style they developed while working for said corp.

Not to mention that a handful of companies own so much media that it is going to be impossible to find an artist that hasn't been influenced by something under their control.

Oh, and that stock of source images that companies like Disney and Universal have? These kinds of lawsuits won't stop them from building AIs with that material that they "own". The power goes into corp hands, they can down staff to their heart's content and everyone else is denied the ability to compete with them. Worst of all possible worlds.

Be careful what wishes you make when holding the copyright monkey's paw.

[kaylee-hates-kaleleaves]

prompts from Ready, Set, Novel! A Writer's Workbook by Chris Baty, Lindsey Grant, and Tavia Stewart Streit from the National Novel Writing Month

Have each character retell their first memory.

Write your opening scene from the point of view of a supporting character.

Write a scene of dialogue between your main character and a younger version of themself.

Describe the worst thing that ever happened to your villain.

Flash forward twenty years into the future and write a scene that involves at least three of your characters.

Have your characters share tales of their first kisses.

Write about the last five things your main character bought and why they bought them.

Write a scene in which your protagonist and villain get drunk together.

Lock a few of your characters in a broken elevator.

People rarely get sick in novels. Have your protagonist come down with something.

Write a thank-you card from your protagonist to their sidekick.

Relate the dream your villain had last night.

Your protagonist's mother is interviewed for the local newspaper about her child's achievements. Write that article.

Add a scene in which your character loses something very valuable.

Write a week's worth of Facebook posts from a supporting character. Take it a step further and add comments made by their friends... and enemies.

Have your villain bust out their high school yearbook. Write some of the notes they find in it.

Have your character recount a (hilarious) childhood trauma.

Write a scene describing how your main character's parents met.

Does your main character collect anything? Maybe they should. Describe their collection and why they started it.

Write a really cheesy love song that your main character will sing to their love interest.

Describe the worst thing your main character ever did.

Write a scene in which your main character and the villain have to work together, and explain why.

Send your protagonist to a psychic. What do they find out?

Write a description of your setting in the style of a travel brochure.

Deprive a character of sleep for three days and write about how it affects them.

Read "Today's Featured Article" on Wikipedia and integrate something you learn into your novel.

Your main character finds a genie in a bottle. What three wishes do they make?

Place a few characters in a karaoke bar. Describe the scene and what songs they choose to sing.

Have a character win a huge prize out of the blue. How do they react when they get the news?

Your villain houses a dinner party. What's on the menu? Who is invited?

Write a 200-word newspaper obituary for your villain.

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