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just got some absolutely devastating news this morning

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Eula centaur request from @staticeyedstars that I ended up enjoying a lot

Just a sketch for now since I’m still coming back from a serious burnout ;;

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trigun… dinosaurs??? …Tri-Saurs???

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im hopping on that orca ww train so fast im accidentally leaving my baggage behind

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“Warning: entering ecological dead zone, adding report to data bank.”

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dropping a trigun subnautica au and disappearing back into the void (i’ll draw more)

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evidently, it's my 8 year anniversary on Tumblr... I can't believe it's been that long ;;

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“pull me under, don’t be shy”

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soooo fucking happy how well this turned out

(…yes this is a sonic the hedgehog oc)

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drawing them is my therapy

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hmm artists what feature do you draw on the face first. this is for science btw.

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There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

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sketches of the gang!

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hey y’all, I started writing a fic revolving around my brainworms for merfolk Jayers

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blubber boi

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wanted to get something done for his bday, even tho I’m late ;;

happy birthday big bastard

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Digital artists reblog and put in the tags if you're the kind of person who uses a shit ton of layers or can't have too many layers (or draws everything on one layer)