#or knowingly

[ribbittrobbit]

It’s absolutely baffling to me how many artists and people who are enjoyers of art and design and creativity in its myriad of expressions are willing to just let AI run rampant. They know on an intellectual level all the arguments: copyright infringement, intellectual property, environmental impact, the unseen and often exploitative labor that goes into training these algorithms, but when it’s just for a cheap laugh or a cheap thrill all of that goes out the window.

The point of rejecting these tools is to hold the line, to keep the people who are fanning the flames of the “AI race” and the push to integrate this technology into pretty much every aspect of our lives at bay. The moment something becomes an acceptable, mainstream use of AI like something as seemingly harmless as writing an email, they see an opening that they’ll start pressing to its most extreme iteration. They’ll push the boundaries of what is deemed acceptable data for them to use to train their models, privacy and copyright be damned.

I know many people who are resigned to use chatgpt for work, who feel they have no choice but to use AI to keep up with the insane fast pace of the work place. But the more you clear the way for the steamroller that is the fully automated corporate machine, the closer you get to being steamrolled yourself. How much longer until they think you are an obstacle to efficiency?

And efficiency is not accessibility. Anyone who claims that AI lowers the barrier of entry for art, writing, labor of any form, is absolutely deluding themselves. The fact that it’s an “access” that’s entirely reliant on a program made by a private corporation makes that point immediately moot. Art is accessible because anyone can make art. The people who argue for AI "art" want to consume art for cheap. They don’t value it enough to see the human behind it or simply want recognition for art they can’t be bothered to make. Accessibility in art or any field doesn’t bypass the process of acquiring skill and anyone who loves art loves the process.

Even outside of its full context, Miyazaki calling this technology an insult to life itself is absolutely applicable to many of these popular uses of AI. What is the point of anything if everything gets replaced by the pre-masticated slop cooked up by a bunch of techbros?

The only art worth anything is the art someone could be bothered to actually make.

[numbuh]

constantly coming to terms with the fact i invented my favorite character ever. what do i do about this

[warden-anders]

the way that irving and helly's body language INSTANTLY switched from conflict to comfort as soon as helena switched out was INSANE. he cradled her so fiercely AND SHE CLUNG BACK. irving knew he wasnt going to come back from that, but helly was worth more to him than his life was at that point. all she knows is that she's cold and wet and that irving was there, and of course irving wouldnt hurt her, so she embraces him back! anyway they love each other theyre family and i need to bite something

[softwaring]

oh the girls are fighting....

[sourscratched]

quick comix of the little creatures

[queenofshenanigans]

Steve: from now on we'll be using code names. You can address me as Eagle One.

Nancy, code name Been There Done That (he dodges the book she throws at him).

Eddie is Currently Doing That (they high five).

Argyle is It Happened Once In A Dream. (Argyle gives him a knowing nod)

Jonathan code name: If I Had To Pick A Different Nerd (Jon looks equal parts touched and confused).

Robin is - Eagle Two

Robin: Thank God

[lunar-beauty]

post-war effie with one of haymitch’s geese <3

[shorthaltsjester]

when people think delilah just completely takes over and laudna has no control. when people think jester is just an uwu child who has been manipulated by every man she’s met. when people think vex is an empty husk of daddy issues without her brother by her side. when people think fjord is an arrogant asshole who doesn’t pay attention to the party around him. when people think scanlan saying that vox machina doesn’t care about him is an accurate assessment.

[firestorm09890]

here's the best part of my intervallo liveblog from last night

[evulbad]

capcom, free my boy from torture hell. you are stepping on him like the bug.

[unreliable-narratoe]

I find it funny how jiang cheng experiences misogyny despite NOT being a woman??

Like he is emphatically not a woman, alright, but he's an 'ex' in the narrative sense. The bitchy love rival between the BL couple fandom would have hated on a couple of years ago before we accepted it was cringe to hate on the rival, she deserved better etc etc except. He's neither a woman OR technically, a romantic rival. Most of the subtext is sibling subtext.

He's paralleled with his mother who is also somewhat given the hysterical woman treatment by her husband. Jiang cheng says "Father doesn't like me because I'm my mother's son". Did jfm take one look at this kid and go "I hereby assign him his mother at birth"??? Even in wei wuxian's narration he subconsciously parallels Jiang cheng to his mom. They both have tempers, wield zidian, wear purple if you want to go there lmao, but that's a surface level 'woman are unreasonable and somewhat the same' reading. Like.

He is actually not his mom. He arguably breaks generational abuse cycles because jin ling is confident Jiang cheng loves him in his own way. He did not set out to have that kid, he chose to be responsible anyway because that's his sister's son. Jiang cheng doesnt spend years not-communicating in a bad marriage and taking it out on his kid. He lets wei wuxian go at the end because there's no point in dragging it out and everyone being more unhappy after he somewhat gets an explanation on WHY wei wuxian went off the deep end (aka golden core reveal).

But the easy read is to go, 'quick temper and harsh words- that's yu ziyuan's next coming'

So it's deeply funny to me that he's assigned scorned-ex-wife by narrative, if I'm making sense.

[cup-o-stars]

Last part for old GF sketches

(Actually, most of these aren't old at all, but their average is brought down by the last picture, which I drew back in August and kept forgetting to post)

[benkaben]

They're on some Death Note psychosexual wavelength

[rosekasa]

i think what i adore about ladynoir beyond high school age (18 and over) is the opportunity it leaves for some of the most DELICIOUS best friends to lovers scenarios. because, like, two people who've been fighting side by side for years? who've known each other long enough to make jokes about it, haha remember when we were fourteen and you-- we AGREED to never speak of it!!!! who've spent so long learning each other inside out, even, in chat noir's case, getting over feelings, that the idea of anything romantic between them is so far off the radar that they don't feel the need for certain boundaries, because why would it matter if they made jokes about how attractive they find each other, about getting married, about how they could totally mess with the rest of the miracle team by pretending they're hooking up because it's so far out of the realm of possibility.

but then there would be that imperceptible shift. the moment where one of them makes a joke and it feels just a bit more loaded than it should. gazes lingering where they never lingered and playful smiles turning curious. the sudden awareness that, while maybe they were cuddling on a rooftop with their best friend, they were also wrapped up in the arms of someone they trust with their lives, and is extremely attractive, and, wait, if the only reason it was platonic before was because there were no feelings, what does THIS mean?

THE TENSION. THE PINING. THE INHERENT MESS OF BEING IN YOUR TWENTIES. PLEASEEEE

[20th-century-man]

Dear Tumblr Overlords:

Okay, since you've clearly had no problem banning things in the past (nipples, semprini, etc...), please now, for the love of all that is good, ban anything AI generated.

tumblr should be for people, not machines. All other social media, and, indeed the internet, is for robots.

The "A" is for "artificial" - not existing naturally; contrived or false -which means it sucks... And not in a good way.

And there's no fucking intelligence involved. None.

True creativity is exclusively a trait of living beings not machines.

[dykedvonte]

I think depictions of Anya being cruel to Curly or drawing out his suffering are artful and chilling but completely miss the point of the story and her character.

I'm not saying she doesn't deserve to have that "I told you so" moment with him but not in something callous or cold. Even if that is how it happened, she'd immediately feel guilty cause at that point she's not tormenting her tormenter or even the person truly at fault. She's doing something cathartic, similar to how Jimmy likely hits Curly to release rage he can't against the rest of the crew. She'd see herself as no different when she'd come back from the moment and see Curly cowering at her. She wants someone to take responsibility but how does being cruel to the defenseless help? Why would she want the power Jimmy has over her over Curly?

The idea of her extending someone else's pain is just so against the struggles she already faces and how she can't even bring herself to cause someone pain even to help them. Her very desire is to release herself from her own suffering and I doubt she'd even fine some sort of guilty release in being cruel to another.