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Updates: cohost - here

newgrounds - here

cara.app - here twitter is on too, but not for art, mainly contacting other folk tumblr will be there but i won't post much art anymore.

i am moving out. update on sites soon.

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stretching demon

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comparisons... tried coloring, i like it. watercolor + pen fresh art on top. old art on bottom

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this clayface panel.

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i am moving out. update on sites soon.

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NO

NO

NEIN

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I LEFT DEVIANT ART DUE TO AI

I STAY AWAY FROM INSTA, FB AND TWITTER BECAUSE OF POLITICS AND FUCKTON OF BOTS

I ENTERED TUMBLR 'CAUSE IT ALLOWED ME TO HIDE FROM BIG ALGORITHMS AND AI BROS

NOW I HAVE TO MOVE OUT AGAIN???????!!!

WHERE THE FUCK AM I GONNA GO???

FULL ON NEWGROUNDS????

SCHEISSE

What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

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Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

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never have I ever seen something so funny in the Terraria steam workshop

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I hate adobe reader. I fucking hate it so much. Why do governmental and official documents need adobe reader to work properly, god-fucking-damn it. Why can't I use my preferred software instead? Why do I have to mess with this resource-and-data-consuming bullshit of software and waste my nerves on it?

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superglued my cheek by accident.

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the first one looks really similar to metroid queen

Most lizards already have wild-looking skulls, but worm lizards elevated it to an artform

Leposternon microcephalum, Smallhead Worm Lizard

Bipes biporus, Baja Worm Lizard

Rhineura floridana, Florida Worm Lizard

Anops kingii, Keel-headed Worm Lizard

Skull images from digimorph.com

For reference, in life, most of these guys are a variation on this look: