William Overington

Possibly! 😁 William

Possibly, in general. Yet an idea can sometimes have a Columbus Egg aspect to it. Maybe something that later on some people say is obvious, yet nobody else had thought of it before being shown how to do it by the person who put forward the idea. The blueprint that you mention could be a large item with lots of detail, or it might be quite short but causes people to realize a possibility which had not occured to them before. So such a Columbus Egg idea can lead to significant progress even if it can be stated in a short document. A parallel is with a designer who is asked to design a logo for a new product, say sportswear. The designer listens to the directors of the sportswear business as they make their ten minute presentation of their needs, then the designer takes ten minutes, using Affinity Designer, to design a finished logo for them, that logo to be iadvertisements and on thousands and thousands of the sportswear items. How much should the designer be paid? William

Well, large amounts of money have been paid for Affinity. If Affinity makes money from implementing ideas from its customers, then it seems reasonable that those who suggested the ideas are given some of that money. What other companies have done before is one thing, this question is about Affinity and the future. I should have included @Ash in the post when I asked the questions. The questions as follows. So @Ash what are the official Affinity and Canva answers to these questions please? William

@Patrick Connor Fine. I asked a question about whether work produced using Affinity Publisher is acceptable for posting in this Share your work forum. Can you make an official Affinity ruling on that question please? For example, if someone writes an original poem and typesets it on a page and adds a border so that a print on an A4 sheet of paper will look good if framed in an A4 frame that has a particular size of mount included within it, is that acceptable, or is the threshold of acceptability higher, and if so, what is that threshold of acceptability please? I opine that it reasonable to know this before considering adding one's work into the Share your Work forum so that one may avoid the situation of a post being removed because of not reaching an unknown threshold. William

At the time, it appeared that what anyone produced using Affinity products was wanted for inclusion in the Share your work forum. So, before the rules were changed, the following thread seemed perfectly acceptable, yet under the present rules it may well not be. Lady reading haiku to an elephant - Share your work - Affinity | Forum (serif.com) Some readers may enjoy the following. Compare and Contrast please (Page 1) — Art & Literature — Alfred's Serif Users' Forums (punster.me) These forums are hopefully about enjoyment. William

If you want to discuss this, please use the following thread. What is appropriate to post in the Share your work forum please? - Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows) - Affinity | Forum (serif.com) I simply asked the question in the following post and I hope that that question receives an answer please. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/2381-please-read-this-sharing-guidelines/&do=findComment&comment=1199838 William

Well, it may well be if one is a beginner. In case anyone is interested, here is a link to the image that the Artificial Intelligence produced and which was used in the post. Original art generated by Bing Chat AI (Page 1) — Art & Literature — Alfred's Serif Users' Forums (punster.me) Yes, you are correct. I regard the picture as art and beautiful but that is my subjective opinion and I am not an art expert. I now have a framed print of the picture. I never claimed that the picture was my work. My work was enlarging the picture and preparing a PDF document. At the time, I thought it a perfectly reasonable post in the Share your Work forum as something that I had done using an Affinity product. Since then, and as a result of my post, the stated rules have been changed. In retrospect many of my posts in the Share your Work forum do not conform to the now stated rules. For example, the following, as I had used Affinity Designer to produce PDF documents that included items not produced in Affinity Designer. Language-independent signs for art galleries - Share your work - Affinity | Forum (serif.com) Nevertheless, Affinity Designer was useful to me as it allowed me to produce the PDF documents and thereby have PDF documents to upload to the website of the virtual print house and obtain A3 size prints produced on a laser printer on 350 gsm paper. William

For the avoidance of doubt, I did not claim the production of the picture as my work: I had authored the prompt, so I was like a patron saying what I wanted to an artist. The patron can provide as much or as little information as the patron chooses. At the time that I made the post that was removed the stated rules were different from what they are now. I consider that my post may have been of interest to beginners, but it is not my forum. There is a whole thread on the issues. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/196910-what-is-appropriate-to-post-in-the-share-your-work-forum-please/ I am only replying about this here for the avoidance of doubt as a result of the post to which I am replying. William

No, you haven't. In fact, I had not known of your use of AI until I read your post to which I am now replying. William

Why laugh out loud? Lots of money has been paid to purchase Affinity. It is a business selling licences for software. Pledge 4 asks for ideas. I am simply asking if they will pay for ideas if they are taken up and make money. Affinity is a business. William

I know it is, but I posted my work of enlarging a beautiful picture produced using AI and placing it on an A3 canvas and producing a PDF document and it got stopped from being displayed. So I am asking whether work produced using Affinity Publisher is allowed to be posted in the Share your Work forum if it is not a picture. It seems a straightforward question and I hope that I will receive an answer so that I know the situation. William

Is work produced using Affinity Publisher allowed to be posted in the Share your Work forum or is it only pictures that are allowed? William

One does not necessarily need to DO anything. If what are called the employer's NEEDS change, then one is out. It means needing to look for another job and quite likely being told that one's specialist skills are of no interest whatsoever and people want years of experience in this, that, these and those and it must be version 6 of those. William

Regarding Pledge 4, Will Affinity publish a statement of the process by which ideas and feedback are assessed please? If Affinity takes up an idea suggested by an end user and as a result Canva earns more money than it otherwise would have done, will Canva pay any money to the person who suggested the idea? William

On the matter of not knowing things, I saw this cartoon recently. xkcd: Average Familiarity It was linked from the following post. What is the ASCII table and How Do You Use It? (unicode.org) William

I had never known of that rule before now. But then again, there are lots of things that I don't know about! 😁 William

Can you explain that rule please? William

Another difference between American English and both sorts of British English is in words like traveled (US) and travelled (GB). William

There is en-gb and en-gb-oed as well as the American spellings. So ideally three dictionaries are needed. I have tried to use en-gb-oed in my writing, not always getting it correct alas. Re Pledge 4, perhaps Affinity will provide an en-gb-oed dictionary. Please note that ISO International Standards use Oxford Dictionary English. William

Or just ask it to produce an original painting. William

Up until now I have always included in the prompt some text that gives some indication, maybe very minimal indication, but nevertheless non-zero indication, of the content of the picture that I am seeking. So I am wondering what will happen if I ask it to produce an original painting in the style of Claude Monet yet include no more than that in the prompt. William

Well, @Patrick Connor generated this thread and gave it the title AI Discussion. So that seems to me to be authorization to discuss AI. So to me, including examples seems very relevant, but you are not allowing that, so I shall, of course, abide by your decision. William

Well, I included those posts as part of the relevant and courteous discussions regarding AI tools and the ethics surrounding them that are getting lots of posts and lots and lots of views in this thread. Yes, the "elsewhere" is in Alfred's forum, where there is lots of stuff about generative AI. Art & Literature (Page 1) — Alfred's Serif Users' Forums (punster.me) Please look at the way that AI generated artwork has been banned from the Share your Work forum. So when I used Affinity Designer to paste a sign made in Affinity Designer into a picture that had been generated in Bing Chat AI I posted the story and the result in Alfred's forum rather than in the Share your Work forum because of the restriction. The thing is though, other people gather photographs from internet websites that someone else has produced, and adapt them and post the results in Share your work and that is allowed. So why not allow me to post an adapted version of an image that was produced in an AI program? The modalities of using Bing Chat AI to produce art (Page 4) — Art & Literature — Alfred's Serif Users' Forums (punster.me) So, alright, you are putting a restriction on what can be included in this discussion. William

I asked Bing chat ai as follows. On the paintings of which artists have you been trained please? Here is the reply. As an AI, I don’t have specific training on individual artists’ paintings. However, I have been trained on a diverse range of data, including a broad spectrum of art-related topics. This means I can provide information on many different artists and their works, from various periods and styles, based on the information available up to my last training cut-off in 2021. If you have questions about a specific artist or painting, feel free to ask! I’m here to help. 😊 Have you been trained to paint original pictures in the style of Claude Monet? While I don’t create original artwork, I can generate images based on descriptions provided to me. However, replicating the exact style of an artist like Claude Monet is a complex task that involves understanding and mimicking the artist’s unique techniques, brush strokes, color palettes, and more. While I strive to generate images that are as close as possible to the provided descriptions, please note that they may not perfectly capture the style of specific artists. If you’d like, I can attempt to generate an image based on a description in the style of Monet’s work. Please provide me with a specific scene or subject you’d like depicted. 😊 William

I asked Bing Chat AI as follows. How exactly is an AI trained on the paintings of artists please? Here is the reply. Training an AI on the paintings of artists involves a process called Deep Learning, which is a subset of Machine Learning. Here’s a simplified explanation of the process: Data Collection: The first step is to collect a large dataset of paintings from the artist(s). These paintings are then digitized into a format that the AI can understand, typically as pixel data. Preprocessing: The images are then preprocessed. This could involve resizing the images to a uniform size, normalizing the pixel values, etc. Model Selection: A type of model called a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is often used for image-based tasks. This model is capable of recognizing patterns in the spatial structure of the image. Training: The model is then trained on the dataset. During training, the model is shown each painting and its corresponding artist. The model makes a prediction about the artist, and the difference between the model’s prediction and the actual artist is calculated. This difference is called the loss. The goal of training is to minimize this loss. Backpropagation and Optimization: The model uses a process called backpropagation to adjust its internal parameters in a way that reduces the loss. This process is repeated many times (often millions or billions) until the model’s predictions are as accurate as possible. Testing and Validation: The model is then tested on a separate set of images that it hasn’t seen before. This helps ensure that the model can generalize its predictions to new data. Fine-tuning: Based on the performance on the test data, the model might be fine-tuned further. Once the model is trained, it can then generate new paintings in the style of the artist(s) it was trained on. This is done by feeding the model a source of randomness and having it transform that randomness into a painting. Please note that this is a simplified explanation. The actual process involves a lot of complex mathematics and computer science concepts. Also, the training process requires a lot of computational resources and can take a long time, depending on the size of the dataset and the complexity of the model. William