#AI art principles

[zentarablog]

How AI Image Generators Work: 10 Secrets to Creating Digital Art

The world of digital art has been revolutionized by Artificial Intelligence (AI) image generators, tools that can conjure stunning visuals from mere text descriptions. What once required hours of meticulous manual effort by skilled artists can now be achieved in seconds, opening up a new frontier for creativity and design. But how do these seemingly magical tools function? Beneath their…

[redfacedpalindrome]

i would not count myself necessarily as a fic author (what with my singular lestappen fic and about a dozen or so haikyuu/jjk works over the past five years) but i am someone who found a space in fic writing and fic reading that is one of the biggest joys of my life.

i don’t want to get too far into the ai in fanfiction discourse (in part because i will get too heated, fic spaces are genuinely one of the last remaining non-commodified places of leisure and creativity and true community on the internet and ai does NOT belong here) but i am always, always, ALWAYS terrified of how willing we as a society are to let something else do the process of thinking FOR us.

writing, like most processes of creation, is an active thinking process. there’s no point in writing where you truly shut your mind off and retreat into brain fog, even if you are able to do some of it on autopilot. you are making purposeful choices throughout the process, and it’s a truly slow release dopamine activity. all of these things are so important as we lose a lot of the activities that have these characteristics in an increasingly ai (and shortened attention span) leaning world.

anyway, i’m not sure how much weight an ethical argument would have here. but writing fanfiction is supposed to be a personal pursuit. it’s supposed to be borne out of passion. if you don’t want to write, don’t write. it’s not like an essay at school (though i BEG of you all to not use ai for that either, please don’t outsource the learning or the thinking i promise it’s worth it it’ll make you a better scholar help you nourish a better mind). to live a life just by cutting corners and getting to some destination as quick as possible with the least effort possible truly isn’t a life. the effort is worth it. the idealism is worth it. doing something difficult, doing something badly, all of it is worth it. learning is worth it. and being able to read genuine writing will always be more valuable to a reader than ai slop.

[clowniconography]

boggles my mind how many people on this site wanna believe that "all AI art is evil" (because it's an easy, black-and-white opinion which doesn't require a lot of actual thought) and then don't even put in the effort to learn what AI art looks like, and proceed to go around unknowingly reblogging AI images while being assholes to actual artists they accuse of using AI. great job fighting the technological blight you guys keep it up 💪

[fipindustries]

Is funny that mickey mouse came into public domain right around the time the internet is arguing about AI art discourse.

everyone is happy to celebrate and do much ado about appropriating, using and desecration the rat. But given the mainstream opinion on artists copyright I have to wonder what the fuck are they celebrating exactly.

I celebrate because I hate copyright and every time it expires it's good for me. They are presumably celebrating because their masters dropped a few crumbs of food on the tip of the boot they enjoy licking so much.

We are not the same

[annabelluh]

“in a couple of years using ai in art will be normalized”

okay well maybe let’s not do that then???

[hotdogmexicano]

How can you be so pissed about AI ripping off artists, but still regularly reblogging from accounts that repost uncredited art? And the funniest thing is that some of these uncredited art you share are clearly AI generated.

[chlorophylliccoyote]

I fucking hate AI images of IRL people, because it makes my internal thoughts sound like a eugenicist when Im looking at hot people. Like oh that nostril is suspicious, oh does the skin fold like that, or oh does a fat man have his ribs/that group of muscles be unprotected? And it's like man can I just enjoy looking at hawt people with out having to worry about supporting a practice of exploitative labor for a short glimpse of luxury. Because if you didn't know machines that have been learnt do not know what's actually in an image all they know is that the image they just made would give them a high enough score for their image to be accept as among images with a given tag. Someone has to tag each image as what it is and someone has to revise those tags, and guess what they most likely aren't being payed a decent wage and they are assuredly not being credited for their fucking grueling labor.

[queeranese]

oh its so fucking over 😭

[dayundying]

Im glad I wasnt a bad artist on twitter during the ai-art-accusation era.

[disgruntledexplainer]

AI

i think a lot of people really misunderstand what the actual threat that "AI" poses is. AI is not going to try to wipe us out for any reason intrinsic to it, because AI is not capable of having intrinsic motivation (thankfully). rather, AI is a problem because it increases the power of those already powerful, and further marginalizes anyone who isn't powerful. In other words, the problem with AI isn't AI itself, the problem is those who use it, who are altogether too human.

Two major threats come to mind, both of them incredibly obvious when you think about it.

First, corporations will naturally favor any innovation which cuts costs or gives them an edge over their competition, regardless of the consequences to both their workers and their customers. Those in charge of the corporation will always seek to automate any part of the company that isn't them to cut costs, even if it is significantly less efficient or more infuriating to work with. This means that, as with the agricultural revolution and the various periods of automation during the industrial revolution, we are on the cusp of a massive loss of employment across all sectors as humans are replaced with machines.

however, this will be worse than previous periods, because while in previous centuries the removal of some jobs would introduce new jobs to replace them, such will likely not be the case for jobs replaced by AI. Further, certain occupations which we had assumed would be safe have turned out to not be safe from automation at all. Nobody seemed to care about how automation will destroy jobs until "AI art" became a thing, and do you know why? because everyone assumed that creative work was safe. and while algorithms cannot truly match an actual gifted artist in skill and creativity, it doesn't need to, because it's just more convenient, and much more cost-efficient to generate an image procedurally rather than commission it.

maybe next time the art community will take the threats posed to the working class by automation more seriously smh. But i guess it's too late now.

And when I say that corporations will replace humans regardless as to it's efficiency, I mean it. Have you noticed that almost no major company has an actually useful customer support system any more? it's all automated, and it's all useless. Some companies are flat out just not hiring humans for customer support any more, instead relying on a series of generic automated response trees that do nothing to solve the problem and just make the customer angry. What's to stop them from doing the same thing, but with everything from marketing to janitorial work?

AI will continue to replace jobs over and over again until the only jobs left will be the ones that are actually doing the replacement themselves. In other words, at a certain point we will reach a point where the only jobs are government jobs, high-level corporate jobs, and the engineers who are designing the AIs. And if any engineer is stupid enough to design an AI that can design other AIs, that job may be gone too.

the other major problem with AI is what happens when it gets into the hands of government agencies. Which it already has, to an extent. We have been using simple, dumb AI in drone targeting systems for quite awhile now. Despite the fact that it doesn't really work and gets civilians killed more often than not, governments still use this software because it doesn't put their own men at risk. Likewise, the government will almost certainly begin employing robotic soldiers as soon as they become available, even if they don't work very well, because it means they aren't putting their own people at risk. But often in war you need people to be there, in order to make judgement calls. What if a lazy commander tells the machines to "kill everyone in that bunker", but the bunker turns out to be a civilian residence and now dozens of civilians have been killed? The issue here is that AI WILL obey whoever orders it to do something, regardless as to if the order makes any sense or has been negated by unforeseen circumstances.

all this to say that if AI destroys civilization as we know it, it will be because humans told it to. in order to survive, we must restructure society, remove the focus from profit and place it on human dignity. We must deliberately employ people even if it would be cheaper not to do so, because not doing so will have horrific repercussions. Also because it's the right thing to do.

while we're at it, it would probably be best to decentralize government and corporations so they don't get the chance to do something like this. *cough distributism cough principle of subsidiarity cough*

[ladysnowfaerie]

I rarely draw anything, but for some reason I felt like doing a Mermay thing this year, so here you go, random internet people.

[orange-frog]

ppl up in arms about “sentence mixing being way better than AI voice generators” be so for real. theyre different things. joe biden Pills. Now. Please. and ben shapiro Im Not Gonna Get Old on the Beach are both landmark videos and pretending the second one isnt because it was made by the “scary AI” is like. come on. be serious.

[invisiblerambling]

i really just want to live in a way that feels true to myself, its sad that even such a simple wish is so difficult to attain...sigh

[aeternumoccult]

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[justadandak]

#74 March 2025 | Monthly Digital Breadcrumbs

Merlin as a harpist at the court of Arthur, Suite Vulgate du Merlin, BnF, fr. 749 f. 319 (c.1285) via Uni of Cambridge A bunch of things (which I added to my Tumblr) for your eyes and ears plus brain to spend time on (as no longer on Twitter). READ “Amazon has previously mismanaged Alexa voice recordings. In 2023, Amazon agreed to pay $25 million in civil penalties over the revelation that it…

[disappearedsock]

It's so sO SO funny when someone makes a post that has a good point only to make a reply chain where they bury that point under a pile of the absolute Worst Takes Imaginable

Because then if anyone questions or refutes those bad takes, they can hide behind their one good point as a shield by either arguing that people are missing the point of the post, or by trying to spin it like the people discussing the bad takes are actually against the one good point they made (no matter how much said people express that they agree with that one point)