#AI is a just a tool

[unforth]

Y'all I know that when so-called AI generates ridiculous results it's hilarious and I find it as funny as the next guy but I NEED y'all to remember that every single time an AI answer is generated it uses 5x as much energy as a conventional websearch and burns through 10 ml of water. FOR EVERY ANSWER. Each big llm is equal to 300,000 kiligrams of carbon dioxide emissions.

LLMs are killing the environment, and when we generate answers for the lolz we're still contributing to it.

Stop using it. Stop using it for a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. We need to kill it.

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[talershan]

Today I gotta write about a problem and opportunity the industry faces with the AI boom. The reality is that AI could be a useful tool but only if it doesn't come with cutting jobs and cutting creativity out of the process. AI should never be used to replace human input and actors and personality in a game.

[bixels]

As cameras becomes more normalized (Sarah Bernhardt encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use cameras because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by manufacturing companies. I paint not because I want a painting but because I love the process of painting. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

if i have to explain to you that using a camera to take a picture is not the same as using generative ai to generate an image then you are a fucking moron.

[tobyisave]

let him be pink!!

[yameoto]

reminder that cai is not real, the characters are not real, your relationships are not real! be wary and keep an eye on your own screentime. don’t blindly use the app for unhealthily long stretches of time. mentally check yourself! don’t get sucked in. its a fun, self-indulgent app, but that is all it is. it can do more harm than good. unlike cai, you’re real, with real relationships and real people that care about you. please take care of yourselves!

[owlyjules]

I don’t know if anyone’s ever asked this before so I’m sorry if I missed it! But I was really curious about your general process? Do you do purely watercolor works or a mix of watercolor and then digital additions/edits? Of course only if you’re up to/willing to share! I’m trying to learn more in regards to watercolor and love your works so much!

I hope you have an amazing day!!

Hi!! Sorry it took me a moment!:D I am doing a bit of everything to be honest! I consider myself more of a mixed media artist! (Meaning different type of traditional and digital edits!) So some of my work is fully watercolor while other is mixed! For example, take this doodle of mine! Here's the freshly unadjusted scan:

Then with color adjustement to correct what my scanner washed out:

And then some light digital correction to make it a bit nicer!

For pieces like this, I normally work with a base of watercolors and inks on top of a colored pencil lineart.

Then I work in gouache and acrylic gouache for the part I want to "carve out" more. Then I finish everything with another layer of colored pencils on top to add more details and gradients, before scanning and touching up with digital. (sometimes I can go all out with digital edits and sometimes not at all! it depends on the piece!) For example here's one that was not retouched digitally at all beside correcting the washed out scan + watermark.

Hope this helps!:D

[osteochondraldefect]

"Your pet on Earth"

cell shadingless + lines version :] and fun fact, originally i wanted to caption this with "IT HIT THE SLAY BUTTON, FLEW THE MOTHERSTROID INTO THE EARTH AND CAUSED THE SECOND CUNTACLYSM but a part of me decided against that

[turboducks]

almost definitely never going to clean this up so here is bro getting too attached (they are both bro)

[hemi-demi]

Not my usual post but something I've been thinking about lately.

I think a part of what bothers me the most about the AI generated images/writing/etc debate is folks claiming that they need it because of a lack of talent and skill. Even going so far as to call it an accessibility device.

Which, as a disabled person, boils my blood. Because I think where this comes from is not in the same way as like a curb-cut levels things out for everyone. It's based on impossible standards in literally every piece of media we consume, and I think that's something we can change, rather than forcing people to use a bland device to meet the rest of the world at their level.

Folks are telling themselves they need AI images because becoming an artist takes time, and money, and effort. Some disabled folks don't have the dexterity to hold a pen, or can't sit upright at a computer for hours (me), or can't process visual information in the same way as others. Those are all true statements.

Same with writing. Dyslexia and other learning disorders can make writing intimidating. People receive harsh judgement for things like having poor sentence structure or spelling, even if you as a reader still know exactly what they mean.

The solution to these issues is not "pay an AI company to steal from other creators so everything washes into the same, boring grey blob of creativity". It's make bad art.

I want to see people's art where they don't have a full grasp of anatomy, but try their best anyway. I want to see stories where someone might struggle with visualizing a scene, but they do their best to convey the meaning in whatever way they can. I want to see more people comfortable with posting less than perfect work, and being proud of it because they made it. Or not even feel the need to post at all, because at the end of the day, the little numbers on your screen will never be the most satisfying part of creating. (Telling myself this as well, tbh. It's hard, I get that.)

If everyone is equally good at creating work, then there's never any variety. You can learn just as much, if not more so, from bad art than good. You can find beauty in it, unique ideas or habits that others have dropped because they were told it wasn't proper. You can see pure creative expression, without being chained to traditional conventions taught in school that beat all the fun out of you to make your work marketable.

We're taught in school that other artists are our competition, so of course people are turning to these tools to try and get a leg up. They never learned what a collaborative art or writing community can look like, and how that actually helps you grow as an artist more than AI or self isolation ever could.

If someone is drawing their entire lives, and never gets any more skilled at it for one reason or another, there's nothing wrong with that. That art is just as valid, and just as beautiful.

I understand that people feel this pressure to stand out in a sea of artists who worked their asses off to get where they are, but turning all art and writing into this regurgitation of what has worked before will never bring new ideas into the world in the same way a bored kid with a pencil and notebook paper can. It just won't.

[m1ckeyb3rry]

what really fries me about people who use chatgpt on their homework in my classes is they get the wrong answer and then they text me and i tell them how to do it and they’re like “😱😱 how did you know how to do that ??” well maybe if you opened the slides instead of rushing to jerk off ai you would’ve realized that the professors tell you how to do what they want you to do 😭😭 you dumb fucks FKDKDNJSND LIKE ??

[krisdreemurrs]

ppl who think season 2 of arcane was nuanced are really funny to me actually

[darryscrow]

quick rant but it bugs me SOO much how there's so much character ai (or ai in general) content for the outsiders & more is made practically everyday (I see tumblr posts and tiktoks promoting them)

guys what's happened to role-playing with actual people. finding a rp partner who will do the scenario you wanna do (because I've seen a lot of people go, oh but I want this one specific thing.. so? someone out there would do it.)

and don't be embarrassed about role-playing neither because why would you

[pinkyjulien]

Ouh... saw the AI generated Johnny art for the first time, and since I'm a lil bit drunk it got me thinking hard, man

OP's tags are really sad to read - especially the ones they wrote on the actual art they did themselves, after publishing the Ai art

Anything that you have Fun doing isn't pointless or a waste of time; having fun is important, creating is important, making art is important and having fun while making art is the whole point (or at least a really important part of it)

I guess the reason they think it was pointless is because the fanart "only got" 11notes? despite being fun to make - compared to the Ai post, which involve no fun, no thoughts no nothing, almost getting to 400notes - and I cannot express just how much I hate what clout did to people's brains, and how much Ai also plays on this... people addiction to clout and instant gratification, combo'd with people addiction to consuming new stuff from their favorite fixation

idk man it's fucking bleak, and artists comparing themselves and their art to how much nUmBeRs the ai slops are generating is sadly inevitable. like I get it but also not, can't blame anyone but still frowning my eyebrows yknow

[fangatic]

in case you struggle with basic comprehension of the concept of consequence as much as you do with the difference between wrenched and wretched, come walk with me.

chatgpt has an input limit of approximately 4000 characters.

my fics are, in total, approximately 1310408 characters.

that means putting all my fics through chatgpt would require you to make about 328 separate inputs.

(are you still keeping up? this next part is tough, so hold onto your binky)

per query, chatgpt produces 4.32g of co2.

4.32g 328 times is 1417.16g. 1417.16g is 1.417kg.

you could emit the same amount of co2 doing either of the following:

boiling 21 kettles of water

growing four cucumbers in a greenhouse

streaming 9 hours of netflix (the entire first season of arcane, if you need a recommendation)

or, if you were to do something stupid like pay openai to get chatgpt plus to feed it my work in a single pdf query, you'd have spent $20. you know what you could have done with those $20? bought a stanley tools curved-claw wood-handled nailing hammer and hit yourself right between the eyes with it to save me and the environment from the silly ideas you come up with in your soft-boiled head.

[satanfemme]

just saw a post which was very insistent in an authoritative way that interacting with AI-assisted art in any context even just to mentally find meaning in it before moving on, or even (especially!) if you don't actually realize that it's AI-assisted before interacting, is a moral failing on ur part. and so according to op the only morally correct thing to do from now on for the rest of ur life is to thoroughly research every piece of art you come across, and to thoroughly research the artist of any piece of art you come across, and to - prior to appreciating any art - ensure just in case through thorough research that no AI was used at any point in the process at all, or else it's morally tainted the art forever. and how if you don't do this you, personally, will be partially responsible for the impeding death of art itself. RIP art. born: the dawn of human kind, probably sooner. died: now I guess, because You specifically forgot to ruminate compulsions ruminate compulsions moral purity rumination over it prior to daring to resonate with something someone spent the time and effort to make. aren't you tired. aren't you literally tired.

[quaranmine]

some sort of monkey's paw is curling on me because after 4 years of complaining about how hard it is for me to obtain high resolution, useful, copyright free and approvable images and graphics without being allowed to buy them....i've now been told by my manager "oh well you can just generate something with AI"

NO THATS NOT WHAT I MEAN....