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Invasive Diffusion: How one unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model - Waxy.org

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How does it feel to be turned into an AI image model? To find out, I opened a door to the multiverse and interviewed the creator and unwilling subject of a controversial DreamBooth model.

Last weekend, Hollie Mengert woke up to an email pointing her to a Reddit thread , the first of several messages from friends and fans, informing the Los Angeles-based illustrator and character designer that she was now an AI model. The day before, a Redditor named MysteryInc152 posted on the Stable Diffusion subreddit, “2D illustration Styles are scarce on Stable Diffusion, so I created a DreamBooth model inspired by Hollie Mengert’s work.” Using 32 of her illustrations , MysteryInc152 fine-tuned Stable Diffusion to recreate Hollie Mengert’s style. He then released the

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