Church in Mexico, Prisma, 2016

People have gotten upset in the past when I posted style transfer artwork made with models I trained, and code that I modified. A lot of people think that neural network art is easy because of apps like Prisma, but Prisma is only a fast style transfer system. The regular style transfer algorithm performs a lot better, and I've seen people post artwork created with the normal algorithm on here while claiming it was hand made in the medium that it looks like. I recognized the styles because I also experiment with a lot of style images. But users on the subreddit here were fooled.

I've also seen people get upset in a pretty similar fashion on digital art posts.

You literally can't win with some people, as they seem to hate anything that used a computer in some way or another. But unlike what some elitist individuals on here might say, what matters is the end result and not how it was made. Computers and style transfer algorithms are tools, and still require your creativity to create good looking art.

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