One of the creators here -- gathering the Danbooru data in one place was definitely a big help! Anime's been a pretty nice space (both personally and research-wise) especially due to the abundance of data online, and it's great that we no longer have to manually scrape image hosts (which I've spent many hours doing in the past @ https://github.com/kvfrans/deepcolor, https://canvasdrawer.autodeskresearch.com/ etc).

Yeah the two batteries we lugged down to AX ended up saving the day a couple of times!

One of the creators here, the team at Sizigi and I are glad to answer any questions!

Great work! Do you have any thoughts to share on the future of this area? Anything specific with this project, future projects you might work on, or just the idea of profiting from AI-generated art to begin with?

Nothing specific so far. We did this because we thought it would be very cool :)

Thanks for making this, it's awesome.

How much of a plagiarist I am if I make my characters using this and pretend they are original?

Haha, not a plagiarist at all :) Please do! That's exactly what this is for: turning data into an extra bit of inspiration.

:)