tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3058415924232091761.post7663044492266282872..comments2024-03-28T22:00:11.073+00:00Comments on Many-Eyed Hydra's Succubus Bordello: Changes with M.E. Hydra booksM.E. Hydrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01344522516345219776noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3058415924232091761.post-25566304336945556632021-12-30T04:05:57.933+00:002021-12-30T04:05:57.933+00:00Finally an author not afraid to write demons being...Finally an author not afraid to write demons being demons. I get tired of works where monsters are so humanized they are practically humans that just so happened to have red skin, fangs, and horns.<br /><br />Glad you made it very clear the succubi have alien morality and doesn't think like a human.<br /><br />It would be boring if your succubi are just horny human women that just so happened to have a energy draining pussy as their "super power".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3058415924232091761.post-44597698727936508412021-12-30T01:55:16.137+00:002021-12-30T01:55:16.137+00:00Those pics you created MEH do look great for your ...Those pics you created MEH do look great for your kind of world. I own two of your books, Succubus for Remembrance and Saint Patrick's Day. The cover art looks good but I have noticed that you use a lot of the shadow image of a random succubi.<br /><br />Those Wombo images you made works really well because the succubi in your stories are mysterious, eldtrich, and bizarre. I vote you go for the rebrand man.Najeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272390520799651309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3058415924232091761.post-25180588982275177872021-12-29T18:47:56.536+00:002021-12-29T18:47:56.536+00:00Hmmm. The festive style seems to be the best fit f...Hmmm. The festive style seems to be the best fit for Christmas pics, but it did seem difficult to get scarier / more menacing pics.<br /><br />Hmmm. I just got an interesting pic from “Krampus visits children” in the festive style, so scarier pics are possible in that style, might just need the right keywords. “Killer Succubus for Christmas” got a halfway decent result, not sure if it’s quite the kind of thing you’re looking for though.Duraikenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09311771000079391241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3058415924232091761.post-73257041586079602622021-12-29T18:39:30.627+00:002021-12-29T18:39:30.627+00:00Yeah, Google wasn’t giving me much more than the R...Yeah, Google wasn’t giving me much more than the Reddit post, and that was only helpful in a limited sense. The WOMBO response is certainly better than that, but there does seem to be some wriggle room still. I have to wonder if that sort of wording is something that corporate lawyers would insist on for their clients to cover their rears just in case.Duraikenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09311771000079391241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3058415924232091761.post-42229244843530868322021-12-28T23:37:46.759+00:002021-12-28T23:37:46.759+00:00Yep. That's why I pulled those out. They'...Yep. That's why I pulled those out. They're very abstract, but are probably fine for a book or album cover, where a lot already use abstract art anyway.<br /><br />Those seemed to convey the themes pretty well.<br /><br />Christmas and Saint Patrick's Day have proven a little more troublesome to find something that isn't an abomination. :DM.E. Hydrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01344522516345219776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3058415924232091761.post-56289246747677772262021-12-28T23:29:47.341+00:002021-12-28T23:29:47.341+00:00Copyright on this feels like it would be very mess...Copyright on this feels like it would be very messy. Is it a tool, and the person is the creator because of the words they give it? If it's an AI neural network, presumably it's been fed a ton of artwork to train it, therefore do all of the original artists have a claim to anything produced by it? I don't really blame them for taking a "have fun with it, but don't try to pass the work off as something you painted yourself" approach.<br /><br />I did email the link from the discord and got this back:<br /><br />"Creators have full freedom over their artwork and are free to distribute or share them for personal, entertainment or educational reasons. For commercial use, please credit WOMBO Dream for the generation in some prominent way (we recommend using the trading card output if possible)"<br /><br />I'm going to cautiously take that as an okay for now and put the appropriate credits on the copyright page. Hopefully the creators will continue with a common sense open source approach and nobody takes the piss.<br /><br />Technology, always asking fascinating questions. :)M.E. Hydrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01344522516345219776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3058415924232091761.post-49782070358762084942021-12-28T22:49:12.272+00:002021-12-28T22:49:12.272+00:00Ah, wait, just found something. Hearing that M E H...Ah, wait, just found something. Hearing that M E Hydra was looking at using Dream by Wombo pics as covers got me curious, so I looked up copyright and wombo on google. Reddit has an article about this with someone asking the same question, and one of the responses links to a Wombo Terms of Use Agreement page.<br /><br />https://www.reddit.com/r/COPYRIGHT/comments/r5wgo8/appwomboart_not_the_music/<br /><br />https://www.wombo.ai/terms<br /><br />Ugh. I think I remember M E Hydra commenting on the copyright before, and now I get why. It is a confusing mess to make any sense of. I don't think I see anything that clearly outright says you can't use the images, just the service.<br /><br />One Redditor found a section that comments on Intellectual Property Use and interpreted that to mean that any art created by the Dream by Wombo app / service belongs to Wombo, but I think an argument could be made that that section is talking about the service itself and not its creations. The wording is pretty muddy and unclear.Duraikenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09311771000079391241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3058415924232091761.post-38759750849191242002021-12-28T22:36:50.564+00:002021-12-28T22:36:50.564+00:00Pretty good covers, and each feel appropriate for ...Pretty good covers, and each feel appropriate for their intended purpose. It's kind of strange, but a quick glance at each book in their unzoomed forms (looking at them on the blog but not clicking the pictures,) gives the overall impression of what the pics are for.<br /><br />But click on the pics, look at them up close, and it becomes apparent how the images are mashed together and eldricth-ish, rather than clearly defined forms. Ups the eerie factor pretty good.<br /><br />The first cover gives off a very Jack-O-Lantern vibe, with only the Jack-O-Lantern underneath Succubus as a recognizable if blurry Jack-O-Lantern. And am I off or does the Succubus have a bkack-horned Jack-O-Lantern as a head?<br /><br />The second cover seems to be a Succubus figure in a confined space, possibly a prison. Suitably ironic considering the name of the collection / book and the theme behind it.<br /><br />And the last cover seems to have its Succubus kneeling in what appears to be a graveyard, gazing at what look like distorted gravestones. <br /><br />Just what I;m getting from it, mind you.Duraikenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09311771000079391241noreply@blogger.com