Here at Layer, we believe in the creative and transformative benefit offered by generative AI but we also believe it should be used ethically and responsibly, in a manner that is fair and respects the rights of others (read more about our principles here).

Layer’s mission is to accelerate and unlock human creativity. We do that by offering a private, secure and simple interface for our users to train custom AI models who can help create art in their unique style whether it is gaming, art, or design. This allows creators to leverage AI to create faster and with more variety while staying consistent with their art style. While there several issues and ongoing discussions about how foundational AI models were trained and served to users, we have established some best practices for our users to follow to avoid any potential infringement (read more about them here) until a better way is established.

The Crucial Role of Copyright in the Digital Age

In the digital age, the internet has become a central hub for information and resources, enabling individuals and organizations to enhance their knowledge and skills. The vast array of publicly available resources on the internet can be instrumental in achieving various goals. However, it’s important to exercise caution when utilizing these resources, especially in a business context. Every platform and company operates under its own set of rights and policies, highlighting the importance of unique and compliant content.

At Layer, we strongly encourage our users to develop their own distinctive assets using their personalized styles. This approach not only fosters creativity and originality but also ensures adherence to copyright laws and respects the intellectual property rights of others. Creating more from their own work, artists can take advantage of AI.

Balancing AI and Human Creativity at Layer

The advancement of AI technology has ignited a vision of a future where AI is integrated into every facet of work, streamlining tasks through automation. While the possibilities of emerging technologies remain vast and somewhat unpredictable, at Layer, we prioritize maintaining a user-friendly platform and AI interface.

At Layer, our philosophy extends beyond merely automating tasks with a simple click. We aim to develop AI as a collaborative tool that assists and enhances the creative processes of artists and all creators. We understand that genuine creativity cannot be fully automated. Therefore, our platform empowers users to take the helm of their creative endeavors. By allowing users to control their actions on our platform, they not only engage responsibly but also foster the creation of original content. Layer is committed to being a space where technology augments creativity, ensuring that the human element remains at the core of all artistic and creative achievements.

Making it easy to train custom styles

Installing Stable Diffusion and finding the right parameters is non-trivial if you are just getting started. After you have uploaded your own assets (We urge our users to build up their own library before doing that), you start training the AI in your personalized style.

By leveraging modern technology, we aim to minimize the time required for our users to train their own styles. In a world where time is more valuable than ever, we work to reduce style training time. Our users don’t have to sit behind a desk and wait for the style to train, when the AI finishes the training, it will notify you via email. Here is a quick video showing how style training process works on Layer Platform.

Tutorials and Guidance

Making Layer easy to learn and master is one of our key goals. Given our small team size, we are able to offer best-in-class customer support for our top tier plan users for their teams to create professional game art faster. If you are looking for such close support for your team and facing tight deadlines, you can reach us on sales@layer.ai and consider upgrading to this plan especially as you’re getting started. Meanwhile we are doing our best in content to help any game creator to bring their projects to life. We’re mainly active on our Youtube channel and regularly updating our Help Center articles. We also offer chat support via Intercom Messenger on Layer App. Finally, we try to be as available as possible for users who prefer Discord.

Conclusion

As AI evolves, day by day our mission is to remain the top productivity tool for game creators building off of our early success in accelerating large teams of world’s top mobile gaming companies. While doing that, we believe in staying human, using AI as a powerful tool which scales with your creativity. Any feedback and suggestions are always welcome, we’re a small, hungry, ambitious team who is always open for feedback. We see it as a gift and feel free to send them our way via support@layer.ai.