Link to my AI efforts, if anyone would like to see them...

[U.N.Owen]

https://ideogram.ai/u/j53017129/pinned

EDIT: My AI gallery has grown a lot since I posted this thread, and it's gotten more reaction than I expected, which is gratifying.

I'm using Ideogram (you can see an example in my profile pic, featuring the Pink Dragon from my very old yet apparently not quite forgotten Yahoo group stories), which pays way more attention to prompt details than any other AI generator I've tried, but which, like all of them, resists direct physical contact between 'lee and tickling object. It still has many limitations.

NB that these are not and do not claim to be "art." They're illustrations generated by a computer based on my attempts to explain fantasy images I have in my head, with varying degrees of success.

The pinned images are the ones that I think at least worked well enough to be shared.

 

[theatergoer]

Stupendous !!!!! When people complain that it's not really "art," they are missing the point of why we're here. Fantastic job.

 

[U.N.Owen]

Stupendous !!!!! When people complain that it's not really "art," they are missing the point of why we're here. Fantastic job.

Thanks... I'm flattered. I honestly didn't think anyone would even look.

I don't think they are art, since no artistic process went into making them. But that doesn't mean there's no creative process involved. Imagining a scenario and describing it so the AI will (hopefully) come up with something that captures your idea is a creative process. Not art, but a creative process.

 

[theatergoer]

Thanks... I'm flattered. I honestly didn't think anyone would even look.

I don't think they are art, since no artistic process went into making them. But that doesn't mean there's no creative process involved. Imagining a scenario and describing it so the AI will (hopefully) come up with something that captures your idea is a creative process. Not art, but a creative process.

Prompting is a skill. I've tried to prompt a few things for work, come up with images for media purposes, and it's not easy.

 

[U.N.Owen]

Hey, direct physical contact! Occasionally that works.

 

[TKLR42]

Fascinating! Sure a lot of the generations have the tell tale sign of too many toes, but pretty darn cool!

 

[Ticklefeather00]

Very nice... thanks for sharing your artwork...

 

[U.N.Owen]

Fascinating! Sure a lot of the generations have the tell tale sign of too many toes, but pretty darn cool!

Yep, lots of weird toes - usually too many, sometimes too few (in my experience 6, 4, and 7 are the most common, in that order), some weird hands, etc. I keep the ones where those problems aren't too obvious and too distracting.

But thanks - I'm enjoying being able to visualize some crazy, impossible fantasy scenarios, even with the many flaws and limitations of AI.

 

[NHTickler41M]

Is it possible for you to add nylons to some lees as a nylon tickling fan I think others might enjoy that.

 

[U.N.Owen]

Is it possible for you to add nylons to some lees as a nylon tickling fan I think others might enjoy that.

I have actually tried, but so far the AI really seems to struggle with nylons. It understands socks, but nylons seem to disappear at the foot.

I'll keep fiddling with it. Maybe I'll stumble on a prompt that makes it work.

 

[U.N.Owen]

Another limitation of Ideogram is that it has no idea what stocks are, or at least can't combine stocks and a person in them. I've tried stocks, pillory, combinations of words, and just straight up description of what it should look like. It doesn't get the concept.

 

[NHTickler41M]

dam AI for not understanding nylons. I’m sure if you put tights or pantyhose it doesn’t make a difference.

 

[U.N.Owen]

dam AI for not understanding nylons. I’m sure if you put tights or pantyhose it doesn’t make a difference.

Socks and tights it will do. And it will do nylons on legs... but it can't figure it out around toes.

 

[U.N.Owen]

dam AI for not understanding nylons. I’m sure if you put tights or pantyhose it doesn’t make a difference.

Here's an example of what happens with nylons (or stockings, it does the same thing with either prompt). You can see them on the legs, and if the woman is seen from further away it will show them on the feet as well... but if you show feet close up, the nylons are visible on the legs and just vanish on the feet.

EDIT: Actually it seems it even screws up socks in closeup. The second picture is the same prompt but with white socks instead of stockings.

 

[U.N.Owen]

I've been playing around with a new sort-of recurring character (sort of because with AI she looks different every time), a cartoonish tickling supervillainess called "The Terrible Tickler." (The name actually comes from a Sesame Street book that fascinated and frustrated me when I was a kid - so I've given it to a tickler who picks better targets. 🤷‍♂️ )

AI is good at crazy costumes. It's much less good at actual physical contact between tickler and ticklee, which is why fantasy "tickling by magic" or sci-fi "tickling with tickle gun" often work a lot better (and have the virtue of visualizing some fantasies I had since I was a kid).