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AI-Generated Touhou

AI-Generated Touhou

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Updated Dec 16, 2021 at 04:25PM EST by Adam.

Added Dec 12, 2021 at 11:48AM EST by Bilbo Swaggins.

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AI-Generated Touhou is a series of images resembling character art of the Touhou series and the style of its creator, ZUN. Since their first appearance, they had intense popularity in the form of fanart and cosplay.

Origin

The AI used to create the girls is named Looking Glass. It was created by Twitter user @ai_curio, who would post various images generated by the AI. Alongside this, ai_curio posted public releases of the AI.[2]


AI Generated Art (TODAY'S THEME: N/A) - Whole ... @ai_curio colab.research.google.com/drive/11vdS9dp... Have fun. Looking Glass v1.1, with resizing, multiple-image tuning, and more. Future versions will be released exclusively to patrons, unless they include bugfixes, which will be backported to prior versions. #LookingGlassAI CO colab.research.google.com Looking Glass v1.1 Colaboratory notebook Font

On December 7th, 2021, Twitter user @CRUORMOR[1] was inspired by the AI and used it to generate various anime-styled girls. That day, they posted images of girls inspired by Touhou, gaining over 1,100 retweets and 3,800 likes (shown below, right).


mors O ... @CRUORMOR alright guys ive decided to stop doing art and let an ai do it for me see ya around (generated via @ai_curio's looking glass ai) Chin Cartoon Hairstyle Mouth Photograph Eyebrow Facial expression White Product Human Jaw Mammal Happy Font Eyelash Gesture Pink Art Smile Line Cool Bangs People Magenta Illustration Beauty Sharing mors O ... @CRUORMOR how are we feeling about ai generated touhou girls (generated with @/ai_curio's looking glass ai)

Spread

Over the following days, other users began posting their own fan art and cosplay of AI-generated Touhou girls. For example, on December 10th, 2021, user @idk_rn01[3] posted art of an AI-generated Touhou, gaining over 70 retweets and 330 likes (shown below, left). On December 12th, user @punderfullll[4] posted cosplay of a Touhou, gaining over 120 retweets and 740 likes (shown below, right).


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External References

[1] Twitter – origin

[2] Twitter – ai origin

[3] Twitter – @idk_rn01

[4] Twitter – @punderfulllll

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