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Art is illusion, storytelling, but in their most sublime form, these images form a path to truth.

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Tome my beloved

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Jack Faragasso's 1963 paperback cover art for Double Star, by Robert A. Heinlein

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by @beetlemoses

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🪴🐈‍⬛

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id (rolling star)

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I think they'd be friends.

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As AI art gets harder to clock, I feel like we are going to need to have a discussion about attribution and it's probably going to bum some people out.

Because the surest way to avoid platforming, reblogging, or encouraging AI art posting is to know where every image you share originated and that's 1) boring, tedious research and 2) extremely limiting in what you feel you can reblog. But if unattributed images never gets traction, people will start attributing their images.

I've been guilty of this in the past, but for a while now it's been my policy that if I can't verify the origin, I don't share the image. That goes for stuff like screen grabs of headlines too -- more than once I've avoided spreading misinformation by saving a post to research before I reblog, then seeing the post refuted before I've been able to verify it.

And I usually try to attribute photos I take -- case in point, the "woman with shrimp" post gets a lot of attention but not one comment about it being AI, despite it being pretty similar to something you'd get from an AI. That's because I clearly state it's in a museum and link to its catalogue page.

I'm not saying this to scold anyone -- I think yelling at the Internet to cite its sources is very much a losing game -- but because I don't see this discussed much. We're such fertile ground to be fooled by AI art because we've grown accustomed to not questioning the origins of any given image. And of course I also want to encourage both OPs to attribute their images and rebloggers to verify unattributed ones.

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there are parallels in here somewhere but i can't quite put my finger on it…

(inspired ofc by this wonderful illustration)

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Two Women Asleep in a Punt under the Willows (1887) by John Singer Sargent

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You were raised by wolves and voices

Every night I hear them howling deep beneath your bed

They said it all comes down to you

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A Woman’s Lot

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Un cuervo con tenis 🐦‍⬛👟

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the old cistern beneath the flood control system

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katamari!! 🍊🎈🌷⭐

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Rot! Rot! Rot! (gouache) Old wood and fungi, wonderful things to paint. This will be my postcard print for March. Join my postcard club on Patreon if you'd like this mini print in the mail - link in my pinned post!!

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Like mother like son