Infinite Worlds

 I've been playing a couple of choose your own adventure games on the Infinite Worlds site. It has the problems one should expect from an AI-driven design, but I've been enjoying it anyway.

So I set up my own game on it based within the Ranma 1/2 universe. In it one plays a side character who inherited a magical camera which can be used to influence the people of whom one takes photographs. The plan is to take one of the female cast on a trip where she thinks she will be working as a model, to justify taking lots of photographs of her.

If interested, here is a link to it:
https://infiniteworlds.app/shared/xc9gYF

Ranma Avatar

If you've read some of this blog, then you've probably read my rants on the use of AI in erotic artwork. Mind, if you've read carefully, then you know that I'm not completely opposed. The biggest problem is that for cartoons, one needs to put in some real effort with the prompts in order to get a result which is interesting. Bland, generic art, no matter how good or bad the drawing itself, remains bland and generic. But one does occasionally come across someone who has made a better effort.

Now, on the other hand, there are some things for which I think AI-generated images are reasonably well suited. For example, the production of avatars. It's perfectly okay, usually, for an avatar to be relatively generic. I was experimenting with doing that sort of thing recently, intentionally mildly erotic. Now, I don't claim any particular degree of skill at creating AI artwork, and in fact I feel that most of the results I produced rightly belonged in the trash bin. But I rather liked the Ranma avatar that came out, and which I have copied here.

AI Storytelling

Wow, more than a year since I last posted, aside from comments.
I've been doing some experimenting lately with using AI tools to write bits of stories. As I rather expected, the results are not something I would ever publish anywhere, at least not with my name attached, as I just don't feel that it's up to my standards. And the AI, no matter how carefully constructed my prompts, will insist on taking scenes in directions I would not have gone.

On the other hand - the AI does come up with an interesting idea from time to time, which may vary from my plans, but in a way which is occasionally worthwhile. And even when following my plan, it will occasionally come up with an idea or a twist which elicits a, "Huh. Yeah that's not a bad way to do it."

Of course, I do insist on giving the AI very detailed prompts. Because I generally cannot stand it when the AI goes off on its own into entirely unexpected territory, based solely on its extraction of patterns from other people's generic ideas of pornography. The few times I tried giving the AI some more freedom, I found the results to be quite disappointing.

So from my point of view, there does seem to be some worth to using an AI where I give it a fairly detailed outline of where I think the story should go next, and then let the AI give me its version of how that would work. The result won't be fully acceptable (and definitely not publishable), but it can provide additional plot points, paths, and twists which are worth considering for incorporation. Not that I'm actually expecting to write anything these days (my health is pretty poor), but I still like to plot out stories, and imagine the stories that I would write. And some of them do make good fantasy material.

More Thoughts on AI Art

A considerable amount of time has passed since I last voiced my opinions about erotic fan-art produced using AI tools. In that time, while looking over sites for erotic fan-art which appeals to me, I have necessarily been subjected to viewing a lot of such art produced with such AI tools. So, do I have anything more to add to what I've said previously?

Firstly, I still hold by the opinions which I have expressed before. The bulk of AI-generated erotic fan-art is boring and generally worthless for stimulating one's libido, or at least for stimulating my libido. Nonetheless, someone who is sufficiently imaginative is capable of using AI tools to produce erotic fan-art which is interesting, exciting, stimulating, or to which other positive adjectives may be applied. Such sadly doesn't happen often, but it does happen occasionally.

However, one new comment which I would like to add is that most such art suffers from the fact that the central female character is rendered sufficiently well, or even very well, but the male characters included in the image are virtually always generic rather than being taken from the male characters of the universe in question. This is something which is considerably more rare in art created by a human.

If I see a cartoon in which Akane Tendo and some guy are getting it on, then I like it when the guy is Ranma, or Ryoga, or Kuno (father or son), or Happosai, or her own father Soun, etc. I don't mind the occasional cartoon where Akane is sucking the cock of some random student at Furinkan High School, or getting gang banged by some unknown group of men who have abducted her. But I like it when the bulk of cartoons I am looking over featuring Akane (when she is not solo) also feature boys/men from the Ranma 1/2 universe.

Pink-haired Ranma

I was thinking of making some post wondering how long it would take for hentai images of female-Ranma to appear sporting pink hair, as she has in the reboot. But then I remembered that RanmaBooks had already made such a post back on Thursday, Oct 3.

Ranma 1/2 Reboot Starts

I saw the first episode of the Ranma 1/2 reboot tonight. Okay so far. I do feel cheated by one thing — we got to see female-Ranma nude, but not Akane. Or to be more specific, Akane was nude in a couple of scenes, but there was always stuff blocking the view of the most important bits. Perhaps the silliest part was when we saw female-Ranma nude. Apparently female-Ranma's breasts do not have nipples — we saw the entire curve of her breasts, but they were entirely featureless. I mean, if you're going to do that, then you might as well do the same as you did with Akane.

Other than that, no complaints about the single episode. I do wonder if they're going to follow the manga faithfully, or if they're going to include some of the filler which was in the original anime. And especially, whether they're going to be faithful to the characterizations in the manga. And most especially, whether they will show us the Akane from the manga, or the more violent and bad-tempered Akane of the original anime.

P.S. I'm hoping that this reboot will lead to a surge of new hentai art involving the Ranma 1/2 characters. Fingers crossed.

AI Rant

God, I wish we could ban all of the AI-generated garbage from our erotic cartoon sites! 99.99% of it is so bland and uninspiring that I can't imagine it producing an erection in a horny teenager. (Or the equivalent for teenagers of the female persuasion.) And it seems like every time someone inflicts more of this crap on us, they can't resist the urge to post a few dozen highly similar images, each one as worthless as the next. And the steaming piles of such so bury the remaining enticing posts by actual artists, that those few gems can slip by unnoticed as one's eyes skim through as quickly as possible in self defense of one's libido. I know it is theoretically possible to use sufficiently creative prompts to produce something with AI which can grab one's proper interest, but that accounts for the 0.01% leftover in the above figure, which to no degree makes me feel more forgiving toward the rest of the fecal matter.