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at the end of the day i think the online digital artist community has for a very long time operated on a set of like unspoken handshake rules generally enforced by social pressure which (despite being positioned on a moral & pseudolegal plane) have very little overlap with what is legal or illegal (de facto or de jure) but which have Everything to do with figuring The Artist as a universal would-be petit bourgeois auteur, reflected through these rules' emphasis on (1) the moral necessity of The Artist's unwavering & eternal power over their own art (& its reception) as articulated via informal pseudo-IP mechanisms (no reposting, dont tag as me/kin/id, dont use as your pfp, dont draw my oc), (2) the moral mandate toward Constant Self-Improvement (generally meaning adopting more of the conventional signifiers of "Good Art" eg realism) (admonition of "tracing" even for practice, artists who do things that are "not conducive to improvement" being fair game for mockery), & (3) attempting to induce in observers (often through guilt) a social pressure to further the ambitions of such artists ("you need to reblog/share, not just like", "you MUST commission 1 million artists immediately", "it's rude to express anything other than praise for any piece of art")

like these all (in tandem with SEO etc) boil down to attempting to lay the groundwork for an imagined future state of self-employment emanating out of one's (semi-)hobbyist artistry (& to obstruct anything perceived as interfering with that fantasy or its actuation). it's sort of like hiring a team of accountants on the assumption that youre going to win the lottery someday, like if it were in another context we'd effortlessly recognize it for the meritocratic grindset shit that it is. & none of this is even remotely conducive to the production of good art lmao

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hello my name is yankee internet artist and if you give me $500USD you get the rights to draw this character I made

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Happy Neurodiversity Celebration Month to my fellow autistic, schizophrenic, bipolar, ADHD, and other neurodivergent people! I made a neurodiversity snake to celebrate because I love snakes.

[image description] a snake curled into the shape of a lemniscate, colored as a rainbow spectrum, similar to the symbol for neurodivergent pride [end of image description]

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It's legit terrifying whenever I step out of my little bubble and realize the level of copyright cocksuckery that is normalized in online artist communities.

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I'm a bit confused about communists hating on artists. I understand it's posed as an exaggerated joke but where does it come from? Is it bc artists are seen as little capitalists?

because it's frankly pathetic how much people love copyright and intellectual property in a site that supposedly supports piracy. Everyone makes fun of "you wouldn't download a car" butñ apparently they wouldn't if the car was made by a "small business".

"Don't steal this color palette", "this is a closed species", "don't take inspiration from my art", "ask permission to download my art to use it as a wallpaper" <- real statements made by the most loyal soldiers of copyright law

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Also I've said this before but advertising is an industry that should be considered as pointless and harmful as fossil fuels.

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it's almost comical how essentially every argument for intellectual property falls apart immediately unless you earnestly believe in the divine right of intellectual landlordism and yet the concept of sharing a pdf turns people into temporarily embarassed publishing companies

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you should watch Star Trek: Prodigy... do it for them

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No offense and absolutely don't want to pick a fight but why is Yumi in your secret santa black?

I have nothing against race swap when it comes to caucasian people but she is already asian japanese

I know Japanese people can have olive skin but... She looks more Latina/Afro in this

Idk if you did this in purpose but next time, if you want to give Yumi a bit of tan, look at reference pictures ^^

Excuse me? "Race swap"?

I didn't "make her black," I drew her as a Japanese person with a darker skin tone, like many East Asians have. Not all Japanese people are 'fair' and pale. East Asians have all kinds of skin tones, Japanese people included. Japanese people "can have olive skin" and they can also have just plain darker skin.

You are completely overreacting to a representation of accurate East Asian skintone diversity and you really ought to be ashamed of yourself for sending an ask as ignorant as this.

And why the fuck would it be a problem if I depicted Yumi as Blasian, anyway? The only people who have problems with that kind of thing are antiblack racists.

Next time you want to send a racist ask like this, don't. 🙂

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glazing your art doesnt do anything a 1% blur gets rid of the effect + all your shit was already stolen 3 years ago

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the darling Glaze “anti-ai” watermarking system is a grift that stole code/violated GPL license (that the creator admits to). It uses the same exact technology as Stable Diffusion. It’s not going to protect you from LORAs (smaller models that imitate a certain style, character, or concept)

An invisible watermark is never going to work. “De-glazing” training images is as easy as running it through a denoising upscaler. If someone really wanted to make a LORA of your art, Glaze and Nightshade are not going to stop them.

If you really want to protect your art from being used as positive training data, use a proper, obnoxious watermark, with your username/website, with “do not use” plastered everywhere. Then, at the very least, it’ll be used as a negative training image instead (telling the model “don’t imitate this”).

There is never a guarantee your art hasn’t been scraped and used to train a model. Training sets aren’t commonly public. Once you share your art online, you don’t know every person who has seen it, saved it, or drawn inspiration from it. Similarly, you can’t name every influence and inspiration that has affected your art.

I suggest that anti-AI art people get used to the fact that sharing art means letting go of the fear of being copied. Nothing is truly original. Artists have always copied each other, and now programmers copy artists.

Capitalists, meanwhile, are excited that they can pay less for “less labor”. Automation and technology is an excuse to undermine and cheapen human labor—if you work in the entertainment industry, it’s adapt AI, quicken your workflow, or lose your job because you’re less productive. This is not a new phenomenon.

You should be mad at management. You should unionize and demand that your labor is compensated fairly.

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i agree that it’s shitty to give people’s data to “AI” companies without their explicit consent, but also i feel like people are blowing the consequences of it out of proportion, or at least focusing on the wrong problem. posting any kind of art online has always opened you up to the possibility of real people stealing your shit, and that’s a hundred times more damaging to you, personally, than whatever slop a machine could algorithmically generate using data combed from countless different sources. the actual dangers of “AI” — such as creative jobs being replaced by machines — are highly systemic and tied into the capitalist hellscape we live under, and flattening that into individualist struggles concerning “plagiarism” is counterproductive and distracts from addressing the real issues in an actual material way.

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Ppl: “Glaze and nightshade all your art!!”

Also ppl: * does not mention that you need to have a fucking NVIDIA GPU and running nightshade on one image takes at best 20 minutes*

Like the online version of glaze/nightshade requires an account. And last time i checked they arent accepting new accounts because of the high pressure.

Like i make my art on my ipad. My MacBook is from 2014. If i tried to download and run nightshade on my decade old macbook and go throufg 10+ years of artworks i might as well just set it on fire.

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Do you think they take requests?

Happy holidays, @the-writing-artist! I was your @codesecretsanta this year! I thought Aelita and Yumi could enjoy some jam time.

[image description] a colored digital illustration of Aelita and Yumi from Code Lyoko; Aelita is crouched, sitting on the floor in her pajamas, programming a digital mixer while Yumi stands beside her holding an electric guitar that is held aloft by a shoulder strap; both of them are smiling [end of image description]

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hello! with queer pride month ending and disability pride month beginning, i recently re-listed my print-it-yourself edition of the queer flowers zine i made prior to the pandemic. if anyone wants to buy and download it, you can print as many as you like. it really helps me out as a queer, physically disabled person to get a little bit of money for the monthly bus pass i use to get to/from work and being able to do my laundry these days... and you can get it on my etsy!

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Parts of a commission I fulfilled for a fellow Colossus-enjoyer 💾

[image description] a full-color bust portrait of a humanoid person, resembling a fare-skinned man with short, dark hair and blue eyes; he wears a light-colored button-down shirt, undone at the top, and has a neutral expression on his face, eyes looking off to the left of the frame of the image, as if thinking; illuminating him against a dark blue background is a warm-colored spotlight that is yellow and orange in hue [end of image description]

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Happy mathematical birthday, Finn and Fern!