Author explains: too expensive to train my own model, so I open-sourced 1.4M sprites
Angaisb_ · x · 2026-11-09
Responding to criticism about unreviewed "slop" data, Angais — author of the 1.4M-sprite pixel-art-atlas dataset — explains the original goal was training his own pixel-art model, but training proved too expensive. Since generating the images was the costly part, releasing the dataset publicly seemed worth it. He acknowledges the data isn't curated but argues it fills a void, as decent public pixel-art datasets previously didn't exist.
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