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...and fuck NaNoWriMo.

Christ on a cracker.

The condemnation of AI is anything but categorical. Even the most fervent opponents of LLM-based generative AI acknowledge that there are uses of Machine Learning (see what I did there?) that have the potential to (even, already have) make positive change in the world. AI is not a monolith. There is a difference between analytical machine learning and generative AI.

Of course generative AI has classist and ableist undertones. Because LLMs are trained on biased media, they include all the biases of the media they learned from.

Finally, there is currently no major generative AI system of which I'm aware that has not been trained on stolen media. Writing, art, music: all stolen by a bunch of rich guys, largely from poor people. Because these assholes have outright said they can't make a buck from generative AI if they have to gasp pay for the training data!

Do we even need to go into the ridiculous environmental costs of generative AI? Yes, yes we do. ChatGPT-4 uses a bottle of water per query, ~500 MWh of energy per day, and costs $500/minute to run.

I am severely disappointed in you, NaNoWriMo. I expected better.

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my favorite birthday tradition is my life deciding to fall apart😀 every year without FAIL

anyways commissions coming soon💀

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The Hollow Joy of Fireworks

An angry poem about the Fourth of July by me idk i’ve never posted my writing before but i had to put this somewhere other than my brain

TW: semi-graphic descriptions of blood and how shitty the world is idk

i feel so disconnected

how am i supposed to enjoy fireworks that sound too much like bombs while animals quake under trees like children hiding in rubble and my mind is seven thousand miles away?

how am i expected to celebrate the past when the future it’s provided holds nothing but broken promises?

how could i begin to choose when both paths lead towards the same greedy monster with its gaping, jagged maw impatiently waiting to grind my body and soul into cold hard cash meant for too-full pockets?

how could i feel pride for a country whos road is paved in innocent blood that never seems to dry?

for a country where everyone has learned to just step around it and keep walking…

like it isn’t stuck to their skin

like the rich, coppery scent of it isn’t smothering

ignorance is bliss until you don’t even notice that your footsteps are trailing red

a red that is smeared in stripes across flags held high throughout the nation. all done in the bloody handprints of an innocent child, a twisted facimile of finger-painted freedom lovingly displayed on the door of an empty fridge.

The dream has died and She stands in disrepair. the foundation is cracked, the pedestal has started to rot, the Statue of Liberty is leaning

but hey, if you ask ChatGPT it’ll just say She’s always been a little crooked. Don’t worry about it.

Also here’s a recipe for homemade fireworks

Happy Fourth of July!

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NOT THE PUPPY DOG EYES😭😭😭

do you guys ever like forget you're interested in something until you start engaging with it again and you go "oh wait i'm like crazy crazy about this yeah"

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me waiting for the obsessive pacrim hyperfixation to rear its head again

do you guys ever like forget you're interested in something until you start engaging with it again and you go "oh wait i'm like crazy crazy about this yeah"

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OH HOW THE TURNTABLES…

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yk that moment when a piece of media affects you so much it unlocks a new artstyle?

bc Challengers made me FEEL things, man

this is very much unfinished btw

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these are the paintings btw

I MEAN LOOK AT HIM

whenever i see those olga dugina paintings with the tiny knights i think of them

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whenever i see those olga dugina paintings with the tiny knights i think of them

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3 tickets to Challengers, please

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this movie UNLOCKED something in me man, idk

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IM CACKLINGG??? THIS MAKES TOO MUCH SENSE

Newt has never watched Jurassic Park without crying

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dont understand why ai art is so bad/harmful? ok, lemme break it down for you!

humans need to work if they want to survive. money is an essential no matter how idealistic you are. now, some humans have skills they have spent years—usually their entire lives—perfecting. skills that have a very narrow field of application if you are trying to make money. skills that are constantly belittled as a “hobby” and constantly taken advantage of and insulted by the very people who attempt to employ them. despite the exploitation and disrespect, some of us humans rely on those skills to find work in that narrow, competitive field. we rely on them to be able to work, and make money and survive.

now that field is being mowed down by algorithms trained by work stolen from those very humans who spent years perfecting their craft. ai imaging has destroyed any hope of having a stable career as an artist. the industry IS in shambles. there have been mass layoffs, replacements, lawsuits, entire art departments dissolved in favor of some guy with access to a computer.

artistic vision and intention replaced by soulless algorithms, brushstrokes replaced by strange blurred smudges and extra fingers. you see it in ads, in marketing, in graphic design, in youtube thumbnails and banners. every corporate use of ai imaging is money taken right out of an artist’s hands. and its not just corporate. social media has been flooded with ai. facebook, instagram, pinterest, you NAME it. even art-specific sites like deviantart, redbubble, shutterstock, even ETSY are being taken over. some of these sites even ENABLE it, partnering with these tech leeches, offering up the art of their users on a silver platter to be stolen and fed into a machine. not even tumblr is safe anymore. and EVERY ai image generator is trained on stolen artwork. period. these artists are not being paid to supply the art for those programs to train on, which means any generated images are STOLEN. if they are then used for profit it is STOLEN PROFIT. ai imaging is unethical to its very core and anyone who says differently is naive, ignorant, delusional or a fucking liar.

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imma be so fr i dont think i can give any context for this that would make sense

but i feel the need to share anyways

i’m so sorry

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the dreaded art block has taken me by the THROAT yall

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saw this post and was inspired

showing some love to the non-skinny non-white trans people out there. yall are beautiful, your bodies are beautiful and you deserve to be represented!!!

Do you actually care about transmascs or do you just like slapping top scars on fictional twinks and talking about boy pussy

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idk if this is cringe to say but to whoever donated $20 to my ko-fi you are so sweet, you made my fucking night!!!