AI Art Generator

Turn imagination into art. Our text-

to-image AI empowers anyone to
create attractive paintings,
illustrations, and images. Describe
what you want, and watch Hotpot
bring it to life.

See our AI Headshot Generator to

reimagine yourself with AI.

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creations.

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Creation
Add this service anywhere with the
Hotpot API or self-hosted containers
.

API access requires payment.

Contact us for pricing.

No-code bulk creation is also

available. Contact us for details.

Creation Tips &

Custom Styles
For custom styles, be specific. For
instance, "Oil painting of water lilies
with vibrant brushstrokes using a
happy color palette" is better than
"lily flowers". See below for example
instructions and see here for
example outputs.

Custom Examples:

Oil painting of water lilies with

vibrant brushstrokes using a
happy color palette
A portrait of Taylor Swift with
harmonic colors of purple and
yellow
An underwater explosion with
vibrant colors
A painting of wine glasses with
harmonic colors and thin
brushstrokes
Happy raindrops in the style of
Vincent Van Gogh's painting,
Starry Night
The ocean at sunset in the style
of an oil painting, with smooth
gradients of purple and yellow
and bright, happy colors
Creative oil painting of the ocean
at sunset, with smooth gradients
of purple and yellow
The sunset over the desert in the
style of Claude Monet using
bright and harmonic colors
Flying fish in the style of Pablo
Picasso using smooth gradients
of yellow and blue

To modify seed images, provide

specific and realistic directions. Our
AI is good, but not God. Guide our AI
toward reasonable changes to the
seed image with simple, concrete
instructions.

Seed Image Examples:

Bad: Make our founder as

handsome as Brad Pitt
Good: Fantasy oil painting in blue
color
Bad: Make our founder look less
awkward in this prom photo
Good: Gorgeous watercolor
painting with purple and yellow
hues

See our
AI Art & Image Generator Guide for
more information about different AI
image generation techniques.

Pricing & Licensing

Buy credits for commercial use,
bigger images, and fast results.
Images created with credits are
licensed; no need to buy separate
licenses.

For free graphics, please link to and

credit [Link].

This product operates under the

RAIL-M license. In short, be
responsible. Don't harm others.
Obey the law.

For legal purposes, we store

cryptographic hashes of generated
graphics -- but not graphics
themselves. This allows us to
identify Hotpot creations.

Wait Time
Paid creations finish in 3-10
seconds. Free requests take 1-15
minutes, depending on traffic.

For faster creation, buy credits. Paid

users get faster servers, better
images, commercial usage, and
avoid daily limits. This system
subsidizes free use for the less
wealthy.

If you waited too long, claim free

credits here.

We're working hard to minimize wait

times. Thanks for your patience.

FAQ
What are the benefits of
premium?

Premium generates bigger images

in 3-10 seconds. Other benefits
include: better images for custom
sizes, commercial usage, no daily
limit, no ads, and private images.

With premium, results are private.

Free creations, however, are publicly
viewable in the AI Art Gallery.

What does "Vary" do?

"Vary" tells our AI to produce

different images even when reusing
the same text.

Can I create multiple

images at once?

Yes, the premium option allows for

creating multiple images at once.

Free creations are limited to one at a

time. Otherwise, the system will ban
you.

This allows us to support less

wealthy users.

For free creations, wait for the

image to return before creating
again. Contact us if the wait time
has been exceeded.

Can I sell graphics or use

them for NFTs?

Yes, if you buy credits or buy a

license.

Treat Hotpot as a digital helper who

augments your workflow, someone
who helps brainstorm and
automates drudgery -- but not
someone who eliminates the
creative process. We cannot
guarantee uniquess anymore than
Photoshop can. It is possible for
someone to produce something
comparable with other software,
much like any logo or graphic can be
reproduced.

Ultimately, it's your responsibility to

make unique graphics and honor
intellectual property laws. To make
this easier, use our AI Art Remixer to
uniquely style creations.

Can you guarantee unique

creations?

No service can guarantee

uniqueness, but our AI Art Remixer
lets you uniquely style each
creation. Using custom seed images
also increase uniqueness.

Even if we prevent others from

reusing your identical prompt, others
may use similar prompts and
produce similar results. If another
graphic looks 90% the same, is
yours unique? The safest approach
is to treat Hotpot like a digital helper
who augments your workflow,
someone who helps brainstorm and
automates drudgery -- but not
someone who eliminates the
creative process.

Why are safe terms

considered NSFW?

Our AI unfortunately turns many

neutral words (e.g., "man", "woman",
"male", "female", "body") into naked
images. The NSFW filter is overly
cautious while we calm the AI and
teach it to disassociate sexual
content with non-sexual terms.
Thanks for your patience as we
evolve the technology.

What are the terms and

restrictions?

In short, do no harm. Don't use AI to

hurt others, incite violence, or
anything malicious. Use Hotpot for
good, and you will be good. Call it
the Hotpocratic oath of AI. :)

Users must comply with our terms

and observe responsible usage.
Violators are at risk of account
termination and are ineligible for
refunds.

General technology offers the

potential for advancement and
abuse. Ultimately, history is
resoundingly clear: from the printing
press to computers, limiting general
technology only limits humanity's
potential. Human problems must be
solved at the human layer, not the
technology layer.

Please help us ensure resopnsible

usage; use Hotpot to benefit society.

Is this art?

Art is not defined by means of

production. This is why handcrafted
paintings from 1st graders are not
considered art while professional
illustrators made with Adobe
software are. In our
founder's opinion, art is an opinion
that stirs the soul while elevated art
is an opinion that stirs the mind.

What matters is the opinion, not the

means.

Imagine you hired an art student and

dicated every stroke, every color,
detail of a painting. Make this angle
sharper. Make that line thicker. Add
purple. The student robotically
executes the commands. Who is the
artist: you or the student?

AI cannot offer this degree of

precision today, but it can spark
creativity and spawn compelling
ideas for refinement, much as a
junior employee generates
suggestions for an experienced
supervisor.

In short, perhaps raw output from AI

may not qualify as art -- someone
please consult the spirit of Supreme
Court Justice Potter Stewart -- but
there is no reason why the
collaborative output between you
and AI cannot.

Fine. But is this AI

intelligent?

As our founder asserts, debates

about intelligence are semantic
quicksand because the concept is
undefinable. (Try to define
intelligence algorithmically.)

These futile discussions distract

from the two most critical
questions: (1) can humans benefit
from AI? (2) can humans control AI?

Intelligence is uncorrelated with

impact. Viruses are not alive (well
...), let alone intelligent, yet even the
Devil envies how these pathogens
devastate countries and polarize
society. Farm tractors are incredibly
dumb, but they enabled humanity to
avert Malthusian predictions of
doom and feed billions of people.
(Malthus must have been super fun.
Friend: "Thomas, good morning!"
Thomas: "Bad morning! May be our
last. Bah! Bad, morning, bad!" Wife:
"Boobear, fancy a walk? The moon is
ever so brilliantly romantic tonight."
Thomas: "Bah, madam, bah. I must
conserve calories for the Great
Famine." Wife: "Boobear, the winter
air is frightfully cold. Hold me. Keep
me warm." Thomas: "Bah. Shivering
makes you stronger.")

Please don't get sucked into the

hysteria over AI sentience. The
Google model is no more sentient
than the Magic 8 ball (which is
awesome and predicted you would
read this). Shockingly, in the age of
clickbait articles and outrage artists,
shallow attempts to grab the
spotlight . . . grabbed the spotlight
with scary, but patently false, claims.

Will AI replace humans?

If you believe this, please use Siri.

(No, Siri, no! I said check the
Warriors score. I did NOT say call
my mother-in-law.)

On a serious note, we see AI more

as "augmented intelligence" than
"artificial intelligence" -- technology
that augments people. Someday,
researchers may invent general
intelligence and displace humans,
but that day is neither today nor
tomorow.

Until then, AI can empower

individuals by sparking creativity
and automating drudgery. Those
who dismiss machine learning
overlook how much reptition mars
the creative process and human
jobs, including art and
programming.

Analyze your work activities. How

many of them are boring? If your
company hired a junior person to
perform those tasks, even 30% of
them, freeing you to focus on more
meaningful tasks, would you want
this? Welcome to AI's dazzling
promise.

Even if general intelligence never

materializes, AI dangles the
tantalizing prospect of automating
tasks for knowledge workers in the
same way machines automated
tasks for farm workers. These
machines were not intelligent and
did not eliminate farmers, but they
did augment abilities and unlock
historic levels of societal gains.
Without technology, it would be
impossible to feed the 8 billion
people alive today and somewhere
in outrage heaven, Thomas Malthus
would be shoving his finger in
everyone's face exclaiming, "I told
you! I told you! I totally
tooooooooooooooooold you!"

Frankly, this scenario of augmented

intelligence feels more feasible and
appealing. A world where AI
functions independently of humans
could usher in an era of unthinkable
risk. But a world in which AI
maximizes the potential of each and
every person could introduce
unprecedented levels of joy, health,
and prosperity.

Is Web3 useful technology

or a massive scam?

TBD. Longer answer here.

Why are AI Art Generators

controversial?

AI Art Generators are controversial

due to forces familiar to any
historian: disruptive tech threatens
jobs, which naturally incites
resentment and fear.

From daguerreotype cameras to

Photoshop to smartphone cameras,
technology changes society in
profound ways. Joseph Schumpeter
describes this as "creative
destruction," but it is more
accurately referred to as "destructive
creation." Ultimately, disruptive
technology like an AI Art Generator
births a healthier, more prosperous
society by bringing automation and
skill equality to more people. In
doing so, some people naturally feel
threatened and lash out in fear. This
cycle repeats itself consistently over
time.

Public training of artists has led to

progress for millennia. Each
generation of art learns and draws
inspiration from preceding ones.
Think artists who learn to create by
studying private buildings, favorite
cartoons, popular characters, and
other sources of art knowledge.
Public training of machines has
occurred for decades, and modern
marvels like the iPhone or Google
would be severely handicapped
without such knowledge sharing, or
perhaps not even feasible.

Ultimately, society lurches forward --

clumsily and jarringly, but forward --
with the development and
proliferation of disruptive
technology. Imagine progress as a
river that starts narrow and widens,
where currents sweep up skills and
amenities available only to the elite
at the narrow mouth, and magically
carry them to everyone along the
riverbank. Decades ago, only the
elite could write, read, and enjoy
running water. Years ago, only the
wealthy could use computers.
Technology cured these crippling
inequalities, each time transforming
elite lifestyles into normal ones. Art
is an incredible skill and requires
immense talent, but the ability to
draw is only accessible to a precious
few. Expression is a core human
value. AI promises to bring
expression to all.

Burger or fries first?

Fries, always fries. Duh.

If you wondered, "Why is this FAQ

suddenly discussing fries," dear
reader, you lose. You have been
outed as non-human, likely an AI
robot sent from the future (or maybe
a Magic 8 ball in human form).
Expect the FBI to come knocking
any moment.

This question by the distinguished

German professor, Albee Esse, is
regarded as the quintessential
method for testing if someone is
human or non-human: people
instinctively scream "Fries!" then go
eat some, which leads to guilty
moments in the gym, which spawns
fantasies about fries, renewing the
endless cycle. Illogical behavior
defines the human species.

Read the research yourself:

the conclusions are shocking and
almost impossible to believe.

French fries or ice cream?

You can only pick one.

Do not ask mere mortals to do the

impossible. This can break people.
Aligning ambition and ability is one
of the keys to happiness, and this is
beyond our ability.

Unknown historical fact: the

inspiration for Rodin's famous
"Thinker" sculpture was to capture
the angst in pondering this question.