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Looking at some of your work, it is stunning but it is very similar in style to AI artwork, do you have any recommendations for how to tell apart photography like yours from AI.

I've been thinking about this. And this may sound controversial at first, but I'm hoping people will hear me out.

We should stop trying so hard to detect AI art.

I think we should all lift that burden from our brains.

I have often talked about "woke goggles." Where conservatives have lost the ability to enjoy anything because they are hypervigilant about detecting anything woke. They've cursed themselves into just hating everything. All they have left is the "God's Not Dead" Cinematic Universe.

And I worry people are getting AI goggles now. They are so concerned about accidentally enjoying robot art and hurting artists that they have overcorrected to the point where they are hurting artists.

One cannot say "AI is all soulless slop that always looks bad" and then accuse a real artist of making something that looks like AI and not hurt them. By doing so, it includes the baggage of all of the "slop" comments along with it. This crusade is having collateral damage to the very artists we are trying to protect.

Yes, we need to be cautious about malicious AI images. Misinformation and deepfakes are going to be a big problem. People using AI imagery for profit is already a mess. But if you are cruising your feed and like a cool sci-fi robot gal or a photo of a waterfall and it turns out to be AI... that's fine.

It was trained by real artists and AI is going to create some cool shit because of that.

Honestly, I think a lot of the worst slop is because the dipshits creating the prompts have no artistic taste. People keep blaming the AI for how bad it looks and often don't consider it is a product of the loser who published it.

There is plenty of non-slop out there that has fooled me. And, like it or not, it is going to get harder and harder to tell what is AI. Until there are better tools or better regulations, I don't think there is much we can do to avoid enjoying AI art every once in a while. If only by accident.

Current "AI detectors" are mostly a scam. Even the best forensic-level AI image detectors struggle to stay above 70–80% accuracy across a wide range of models and image types. And that's in controlled lab conditions.

Free online tools often drop to near coin-flip accuracy (50–60%), especially with newer image generators and post-processing applied.

The best way to avoid AI imagery is to look at an artist's body of work. It's much harder to create consistent, non-obvious fake images in a large sample size. That is usually enough to have confidence in authenticity. Plus, if they have posted similar art before 2022, you can pretty much rule out any shenanigans.

Otis literally died before genAI was available.

But images you see in the wild, just let yourself enjoy them if that is what your brain wants to do. It'll be okay.

I just think we are attacking this backwards. If we want to protect artists, we need to support them.

Calling out random AI art does not support them.

It does not put money in their pockets.

It does not grow their audience.

Over a decade ago I tried to lead a fight to create better systems of attribution on websites like Reddit and Imgur. I even spoke to the Imgur team after an article was written about me.

I asked them to allow sources on their posts and to develop tech that would help people find where an image came from. They said they were "working on it" and it never manifested.

IMAGE SHARING SITES STEAL MORE FROM ARTISTS THAN AI.

But we just kind of accepted it. No one really joined me in my fight. The prevailing defeatist attitude was, "That's just the way it is."

I think now is the time to demand better attribution systems. We need to be vigilant about making sure as many posts as possible have good sourcing. If an image on Reddit goes viral, the top comment should be the source. And if it isn't, you should try to find it and add it.

Just to be clear, "credit to the original artist" is NOT proper attribution.

And perhaps we can lobby these image sharing sites to create better sourcing systems and tools. They could even use fucking AI to find the earliest posted version of an image.

And it would be nice if it didn't require people to go into the comments to find the source. It could just be in the headline. They could even create little badges "made by a human" for verified artists.

Good attribution helps artists grow their audience. It is one of the single most effective things you can do to help them.

I literally just got this message...

There are maybe 10 popular artists who I helped grow their audience early on. Just because I reblogged their work and added links to all of their social media. I even hired my best friend to add sourcing information to every post because I believed so much in good attribution.

Calling out AI art may feel good in the moment. You caught someone trying to trick people and it feels like justice. But, in most cases, the tangible benefits to real artists seem small. It impedes your ability to enjoy art without always being suspicious. And the risk of telling someone you think they make soulless slop doesn't seem worth it.

But putting that time and effort into attribution *would* be worth it. I have proven it time and time again.

I also think people should consider having a monthly art budget. I don't care if it is $5. But if we all commit to seeking out cool artists and being their collective patrons, we could really make a difference and keep real art alive. Just commit to finding a cool new artist every month and financially contributing to them in some way.

On a bigger scale I think advocating for universal basic income, art grants for education and creation, and government regulation of AI would all be helpful long term goals. Though I think our friends in Europe may have to take the lead on regulation at the moment.

So...

Stop worrying about enjoying or calling out AI art.

Demand better attribution from image sharing sites.

Make sure all art has a source listed.

Start an art budget.

Advocate for better regulations.

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Neither enemies to lovers nor slow burn but a secret third thing called Schrödinger's intimacy. We are in love and we are not in love do NOT open that lid I swear to God.

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"He sees Samira as somebody that is capable and is the smartest person in the room. So that moment where he's guiding her through the procedure with the pigtail catheter… He knows she's capable, so he doesn't coddle her. He throws her deep into the deep end because he knows she can swim. And that scene, he's telling her: 'You've got this.' And more than that: 'You're the future.'" — SHAWN HATOSY

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I have never been on the same page as fandom’s clear communication fetishists and I never will be. I love miscommunication, concealment, pigheadedness, and lies. I think characters should talk around what they have to say and ignore each other and impute needs and beliefs onto others that have nothing to do with those other people and everything to do with maintenance of the ego. A little clear communication is fine but it should come at the end and be earned by repeated instances of snobbery, tomfoolery, self righteousness, or blockheadedness. If you decide you hate a character just because that character isn’t communicating in the way a therapist might coach them to, well consider that people don’t actually talk like that at all and that most of us get things wrong many times before we inch our way out of the labyrinthine darkness of our own heads.

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→ THE WEST WING (1999-2006) 2.10 'Noël' (insp)

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John Shen and Jack Abbot both don't give a fuck but with opposite vibes.

John doesn't give a fuck in that he has other things to worry about like the weather and his coffee and his toilet break and what holidays he can have off and sure, he'll go and save a life whilst he's here, like it's hard.

Jack doesn't give a fuck in that he doesn't care about anything but saving lives and yes, it will probably be in some unhinged way that will give everyone around him a mini heart attack and cause a mountain of paperwork for the hospital but that's not his problem and does he look like he needs a break or water or food and sure, he'll work Christmas, didn't have plans anyway.

I need a Night Shift season or spin-off with those two, expeditiously.

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do you like mohabbot, situationship angst, run on sentences, and needless amounts of metaphors and imagery? if so, may i present the latest fic i wrote instead of studying for my exams: icarus (or, the other ways we fall) (rated e)

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this bts pic is BONKERS. the proximity?? her little smile??? i am Passing Away

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In Season 2 someone needs to give Dana, Princess and Perlah bottles of water they can spray at the men of The Pitt every time they catch them yearning/making unnecessarily intense eye contact.

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Okay. Look 👀 hear me out. Abbot x Mohan soulmate AU …

But like neither of them are particularly happy about having a soulmate because Abbot’s mark showed up after he was married and Samira’s parents were soulmates and she watched how much it fucked her mom up when her dad died. So they spend the first few years of Samira’s residency avoiding each other until the MCI …

I feel like the unhealthy coping mechanism possibilities here are strong.

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Only two ADHD tasks

1) this task will take me five minutes but I couldn’t possibly do it because I have an appointment in six hours

2) this task will take five hours but I’ll just do it first thing in the morning before I leave

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what if you were a LONER and a WORKAHOLIC and an EMPATH and you took TOO LONG for every patient and then a MASS CASUALTY INCIDENT happened at the end of your shift and THE HOT OLDER NIGHT SHIFT ATTENDING had a go bag full of CRIKE KITS and he was FLIRTING with you via DANGEROUS EXPERIMENTAL medical procedures and INTENSE STARING and BAD BAD JOKES and he said you were THE SMARTEST ONE in the room

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You're not sick of working nights yet? My therapist thinks I find comfort in the darkness.

Shawn Hatosy as Dr. Jack Abbot THE PITT • Season 1

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First hour -> Last hour The Pitt (2025 - )

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THE PITT — 01.13 - "7:00 P.M." (2025)

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PARKS AND RECREATION 2.21 94 Meetings

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the most annoying stage of burnout is when i want to write, and i have the urge to write, and somewhere in my skull are the words that want to be written, but they have to get through the cursed minotaur maze first and nobody remembered to bring string