Hit 50,000 AI-generated images in 3 months and honestly it broke my brain a little

Ngl, I set up a Stable Diffusion pipeline back in January for some concept art ideas and before I knew it I had 50,000 outputs saved. Sorting through them felt like trying to find a needle in a haystack of weird hands and melted faces. Has anyone else hit a crazy high number with an AI tool and realized you need new workflow rules?

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calebc401mo ago

Whoa, 50k images sounds less like making art and more like you accidentally built a slot machine for your own brain.

ross.lily1mo ago

Ngl that slot machine comparison hit me hard because it's painfully accurate lol. That dopamine hit when you finally get something good after scrolling through hundreds of duds is real, but it's kind of messed up too. I caught myself doing this with faces once, just generating over and over until I got that perfect expression and realized I'd wasted three hours for one usable result. It's like we've trained ourselves to be okay with a 1% success rate when we could probably get better results by actually planning things out.

sage_moore371mo ago

Is that actually clicking for you where you want it to, or is it just the numbers that feel good? Because 50k images sounds like you trained your eye to spot the 5 good ones and ignore the rest. You could probably do the same thing with 500 images if you slowed down.