I know I haven't posted in a while and it looks like there's less activity here now. Is this sill an active place for AI wam?

It's the relevant place to post AI Wam. Whether it's active is more subjective. Creating good realistic AI wam images is somewhat trivial now. Personally, I just post something new of different now. I could post 100's of images a day but is there really any point to that. I don't see the point in flooding the site and creating storage issues.
My time has been limited recently and when I do, instead, I've been focusing on finishing my app. Tweaking settings, and adding some other functionality. Lighting and photography customisation, I'm also adding a clothing/outfit stylesheet generator.
One of the other things I've been working on is comic book and multi image sequencing generation. Using the api, give access to thought chains, image anchoring. This gives much greater consistency between images.

The samples are scaled down but each image generates in 4k and is stitched together automatically. I can generate 1-10 images or separate pages of 4-6 images each. It's currently pushing the limits of the model and there is some image drift which I'm slowly fixing with system prompts and anchors. If it gets good enough I'll release the app separately.

The reception here for AI was so negative that I've quit posting here much. I put together a compilation of some Val Day pictures then didn't bother. Its here now.

I think the negativaty has scared off others. When I do post I feel like I'm looking over my shoulder.

[edit add: I learned a lot here. And I check this group regularly.]

I don't even post finds in the "real" messy forum.

I think there are several reasons:

- Now the technology's been around for a few years, there isn't the novelty factor of seeing how close AI can get to being convincing.
- Since the generators are getting better at following prompts in reasonably straightforward language, there's less need to share the specific wording that generates a believable gunge tank or mud pit.
- Because of the above two, I think there's less enthusiasm for sharing imagery that might be seen as an inferior copy of what you can get for real. When this site's full of sample pictures of real models being gunged, a generated image of something that looks similar only not as realistic doesn't sound particularly enticing.
- It also becomes easier to generate images that are specific to the prompter's particular tastes, but may not appeal to a wider audience. For example, I've tried before to illustrate a mud/quicksand scene from the book 'She Died A Lady' (and attached another attempt here), but unless the viewer's read the book they probably wouldn't find it engaging. This also ties into the previous point - maybe AI-generated pictures of someone being gunged are of interest to me because she's dressed like Caroline Example, who was a hostess on Messy Gameshow X but always managed to stay out of the gunge, but to anyone who hasn't seen that show it's just another inferior synthetic gunging of a random person.
- There does seem to be a current of thought among some people that AI image generation is inherently wicked, for various reasons, but I haven't seen it show up in this group.

These days, if I post here the images tend to be scenarios which would be hard to do the old-fashioned way (such as historical or science-fictional settings, or requiring elaborate props) or where I've found the generator to exhibit some new-to-me ability (such as pastiche magazine covers / articles).