Look, I know it’s controversial. AI needed reference material, so the people that trained ChatGPT ripped off unlicensed published literature, and people creating generative art programs are ripping off the unique styles of living artists who still need income. And now places like Google, WordPress, and Tumblr are betraying the trust of their constituency by exploiting their users’ data and files to train Bard, ChatGPT, and Midjourney.

And sure, you can complain about how much energy it costs to run and develop AI programs, but it also costs unsustainable amounts of world-burning energy to mine Bitcoin or even to stream movies, podcasts, and music, and none of you—not one of you—have cut yourselves off from those services. This is just like why the Democrats find it so difficult to prosecute Trump: because they’ve also repeatedly violated many of the same laws and would therefore be culpable.

GODDAMN IT, why do I keep going off on these tangents. All I wanted to say was (hand-waving) yeah, all of the above, but I’m also having fun playing with AI. And really, my cause is noble: if you want to compromise the substance of AI resources, then all of us Size fetishists should be writing stories and generating artwork, pushing the boundaries of Acceptable Use Policies and getting away with shit to make it really unusable (except for us).

And all of that was just supposed to be an intro to show you the rinky-dink bullshit I’m doing with AI art. One thing I like to do is prompt ChatGPT to write increasingly lurid stories, and then have Perchance create character portraits for the stories, embedding these right into the Google Doc. I don’t think anyone would ever be interested in reading these, but it’s really fun to do.

I’ve been experimenting with collage work within AI, too. I don’t have my own art generator, so I can’t create some of the really gorgeous Size Fantasy work I’ve seen going up on DeviantArt (RedFireD0g) and Pixiv (AIBishoujo) and Instagram (elegantlyenlargedai, boneheader19). Instead, I have to accrue enough credits with Starry AI to hammer away at it and learn how to get around its ever-increasing safeguards against adult content, or run through the paces with Perchance, which is free but has no option for high-resolution images. OTOH, Pixlr does offer an AI-assisted image enlargement feature, so more options should be emerging in the near future.

It’s not high-quality, but it doesn’t have to be. It’s fun to make. I just wanted to see what these programs were capable of. In Perchance, you can generate some attractive women in the “painted anime” or “waifu” filters, and anything will make a nice landscape. After that, it’s a matter of skillful erasing and burning some shadows here and there.

These were images I generated and collaged for a story I was having ChatGPT generate. While I can sometimes trick AI art programs into creating giant women through forced POV or low-angle shots, I absolutely cannot get them to insert tiny people into a scene. Instead, I have to create these collages.

And this is the kind of thing that anyone could do for themselves, for free. If you can’t draw, you can screw around for an hour and come up with reasonable images to collage together. Unless you’re lazy, in which case you can grunt at me in private messages on Instagram to create something for you, then by way of thanks speak inappropriately about my wife until I block you, and block you again when your account gets suspended and you think it’s a good idea to grunt at me again. True story.

This one used the “Warriors” filter in Starry AI, though I had to put “weapons, armor” in negative prompts before I could begin producing scantily clad women. This one happened to come with a handy ledge for a tiny person to stand on, and I wasted too many credits in trying to get a reasonable image of a man in the same filter, in order to shrink him down for the scene. Not perfect, but again, all it cost was brainpower and time.

There are also a bunch of nude images that I probably shouldn’t post here, and while they don’t look fantastic they still look pretty good. My point is that if you really, really want to create giantess/tinyman fetish images, you can do so with free, publicly available tools. It may not turn out as great as if you’d actually learned photography and Photoshop or practiced drawing for 20 years, but if you lower your expectations, there are shortcuts.

PS: It’s difficult to render strictly accurate nudes in most AI art programs, but if you ever need a gaping orifice for some reason, the “Furry” filters on Perchance obediently produce this stock without a fight. I’m guessing the filter has been educated on some very, very specific online resources.

Starry AI had a beautiful filter, “SubUrbanE,” that produced striking expressionist work, somewhere between watercolors and acrylics with a warm ’60s atmosphere to it, but they retracted it. Probably because it was prone to producing women stretched out on a couch or the ground with their thighs spread, like artwork for an old issue of Playboy. It was very disappointing to see that one disappear, yet it should not be impossible to figure out how it was built.