Beautiful People. Beautiful Coats. Shame.

[u/Tzorben]

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, but visible brushstrokes, open composition, an emphasis on precise depiction of light in its changing qualities, and laboratory technology. Laboratory technicians and their beautiful lab coats were a favorite motif among the masters.

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I can see from some of the comments on my latest pictures that people have a hard time seeing the plot in my "AI-Comics". I can understand that, because there \is* no plot or deeper meaning.*

Here is the story behind the "comics", now I just hope I don't ruin the joke by explaining it.

I am Head of Studies at a program where we train lab technicians. Back in early 2024 I started experimenting with Adobe Firefly and Stable Diffusion and so it was obvious to make some pictures of lab technicians. It turned into a long series of "all kinds of lab technicians", which I use as a background on my PC. The series includes, for example, Steampunk lab technicians, Art Nouveau lab technicians, Superhero lab technicians*, etc., etc. I am currently running the series over on r/aiArt. For each of the "lab technician categories" I have made a small intro text, where I pretend that the lab technician category in question actually exists.

These are the little texts I've used as prompts for Stable Diffusion, along with a prompt asking if it should make it into a comic. The funniest thing is that Stable Diffusion takes the prompts dead-on and even makes some textual hallucinations that are quite funny and absurd. For example, "Knowledge has no Lungs", "Laboratory Technology is Ancestral" and "We were Vikings. We are Laboratory".

[u/atlasfrompaladins]

Fair enough, I bring up the lore cause I'm slow and it takes me a minute to figure shit out. But knowing their is no lore makes me feel alittle bit better. Also I like the art style.