#Who knows maybe the dataset is still there

[chewykiwiwhee]

Testing out Medibang and AYO THIS APP IS FIRE 🔥🔥🔥

[lackadaisycats]

Hey Tracy! Have you heard about the new Ai called Sora? Apparently it can now create 2D and 3D animations as well as hyper realistic videos. I’ve been getting into animation and trying to improve my art for years since I was 7, but now seeing that anyone can create animation/works in just a mare seconds by typing in a couple words, it’s such a huge slap in the face to people who actually put the time and effort into their works and it’s so discouraging! And it has me worried about what’s going to happen next for artists and many others, as-well. There’s already generated voices, generated works stolen from actual artists, generated music, and now this! It’s just so scary that it’s coming this far. 

Yeah, I've seen it. And yeah, it feels like the universe has taken on a 'fuck you in particular' attitude toward artists the past few years. A lot of damage has already been done, and there are plenty of reasons for concern, but bear in mind that we don't know how this will play out yet. Be astute, be justifiably angry, but don't let despair take over. --------

One would expect that the promo clips that have been dropping lately represent some of the best of the best-looking stuff they've been able to produce. And it's only good-looking on an extremely superficial level. It's still riddled with problems if you spend even a moment observing. And I rather suspect, prior to a whole lot of frustrated iteration, most prompts are still going to get you camera-sickness inducing, wibbly-wobbly nonsense with a side of body horror.

Will the tech ultimately get 'smarter' than that and address the array of typical AI giveaways? Maybe. Probably, even. Does that mean it'll be viable in quite the way it's being marketed, more or less as a human-replacer? Well…

A lot of this is hype, and hype is meant to drive up the perceived value of the tech. Executives will rush to be early adopters without a lot of due diligence or forethought because grabbing it first like a dazzled chimp and holding up like a prize ape-rock makes them look like bleeding-edge tech geniuses in their particular ecosystem. They do this because, in turn, that perceived value may make their company profile and valuations go up too, which makes shareholders short-term happy (the only kind of happy they know). The problem is how much actual functional value will it have? And how long does it last? Much of it is the same routine we were seeing with blockchain a few years ago: number go up. Number go up always! Unrealistic, unsustainable forever-growth must be guaranteed in this economic clime. If you can lay off all of your people and replace them with AI, number goes up big and never stops, right?

I have some doubts. ----------------------

The chips also haven't landed yet with regards to the legality of all of this. Will these adopters ultimately be able to copyright any of this output trained on datasets comprised of stolen work? Can computer-made art even be copyrighted at all? How much of a human touch will be required to make something copyright-able? I don't know yet. Neither do the hype team or the early adopters.

Does that mean the tech will be used but will have to be retrained on the adopter's proprietary data? Yeah, maybe. That'd be a somewhat better outcome, at least. It still means human artists make specific things for the machine to learn from. (Watch out for businesses that use 'ethical' as a buzzword to gloss over how many people they've let go from their jobs, though.)

Will it become industry standard practice to do things this way? Maybe. Will it still require an artist's sensbilities and oversignt to plan and curate and fix the results so that it doesn't come across like pure AI trash? Yeah, I think that's pretty likely.

If it becomes standard practice, will it become samey, and self-referential and ultimately an emblem of doing things the cookie-cutter way instead of enlisting real, human artists? Quite possibly.

If it becomes standard industry practice, will there still be an audience or a demand or a desire for art made by human artists? Yes, almost certainly. With every leap of technology, that has remained the case. ------------------ TL;DR Version:

I'm not saying with any certainty that this AI blitz is a passing fad. I think we're likely to experience a torrential amount of generative art, video, voice, music, programming, and text in the coming years, in fact, and it will probably irrevocably change the layout of the career terrain. But I wouldn't be surprised if it was being overhyped as a business strategy right now. And I don't think the immensity of its volume will ever overcome its inherent emptiness.

What I am certain of is that it will not eliminate the innate human impulse to create. Nor the desire to experience art made by a fellow soul. Keep doing your thing, Anon. It's precious. It's authentic. It will be all the more special because it will have come from you, a human.

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

My new favorite thing on tumblr.com is the discourse around how hard it is to leave the order you guys, they leave their members ‘with no life skills’ etc etc, ONLY THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACKS, it’s so darlingly melodramatic that I’m low-key picturing some kind of ritualistic drumming out ceremony, possibly involving the knights chanting ‘shame,’ ‘shame,’ ala game of thrones, while every single council member gazes down upon them from on high, faces carved from judgmental stone, culminating in the poor sod spending their first night in rags sleeping at the foot of the temple steps,

okay, I am getting distracted. What I’m actually amusing myself with is picturing what Ahsoka, 16 years of age, can put on her CV. It’s a lot. Now I hate CVs so like I’m not about to write up hers but. It includes military command, references from at least two GALACTIC SENATORS who worked with her, references from at least two HEADS OF STATE. Engineering, piloting, teaching, combat, military command, special ops, investigation, geo-politics....... She is 16. This is an objectively insane CV.

Her level of education is so respected that a head of state invited her to guest lecture at their top academy when she was 14, to kids her own age, and she was poised and confident throughout. Her schooling gets outright called out as privileged by her coruscanti friends. Also like, please let me know when the standard US high school curriculum comprehensively covers shit like astronavigation.

Every time she is depicted with non-jedi kids her age she is depicted as generally more worldly and prepared than them. The mandalorian kids. Lux, Trace, etc. She’s never encountered deathwatch or the Pikes directly before she’s rescuing her friends from them, but she immediately knows what’s up because she is simply. Well informed. Unlike her friends. It’s not like she doesn’t also learn things from them in these episodes, but. She just knows a lot.

She also left the order with at a minimum multiple contacts in the senate, a friendship with the king of Mon Calamar (I think?) and the duchal family of mandalore, as well as some shadier contacts.

(Now it’s true that tcw never answered, or even asked, what kind of financial or otherwise situation the temple itself provides to help a jedi who wants out to find their feet. That’s not a question you can ask in Ahsoka’s case without also asking: where the hell was Padme’s support? Why wasn’t Ahsoka sleeping on her couch? That’s her sister-in-law! Actually this is a trick question because Ahsoka tells Anakin she needs to figure this out on her own. Without the council, and without him. So we’ll never know. Until disney churns out yet more content that may or may not contradict previous content.)

(Absolute props to Ahsoka that is 100% what I would have done at 16. That’s just what being 16 is like. Bad things happen and then GOODBYE I AM PUTTING A SANDWICH IN A HANKERCHIEF AND TYING IT TO A STICK AND WALKING INTO THE SUNSET I AM GOING MY OWN WAY I WILL SLEEP ROUGH I WILL GO WHERE THE WIND BLOWS THIS WORLD IS STRANGE AND CRUEL AND I MUST RELY ON MYSELF GOODBYE)

(and obviously like canonically the door was 100% open to her returning, anytime she saw them they were like so... any chance you’re done with your walkabout?... we still have your room ready... your frog grandpa feels so bad he literally had a bad trip vision quest where you were like dying and asking him why he abandoned you and we had to commit him he is very sad. except maybe we’re not actually going to say this because that would sound like a guilt trip.. but... lightsabers ? :3)

(Generally the disaster lineage are a deeply ridiculous dataset. When Obi Wan was contemplating leaving the order he was contemplating becoming the Duke-Consort of Mandalore. Anakin not only married money but was offered a job by the Chancellor at 12 (comics). I mean ANAKIN RUN but also imagine being 12 and the president of the galaxy says well if you don’t like it with your dad I’ll give you a job)

Ultimately when Ahsoka left she tripped and fell into job as a mechanic, immediately found herself bailing her new boss out of trouble, and was headhunted like a week later to be on the command team for a counter coup of a whole system. She was still 16. The rest of us can only aspire to these kinds of job opportunities.

[scoonsalicious]

Unwanted: Chapter 1, Unarmed - Pt. 2

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Avenger!Fem!Reader

Summary: When your FWB relationship with your best friend Bucky Barnes turns into something more, you couldn’t be happier. That is, however, until a new Avenger sets her sights on your super soldier and he inadvertently breaks your heart. You take on a mission you might not be prepared for to put some distance between the two of you and open yourself up to past traumas. Too bad the only one who can help you heal is the one person you can no longer trust.

Warnings: (For this part only; see Story Masterlist for general Warnings) Mild language, Bucky and Reader being Tolkien nerds, light fluff, mention of rabies (it's a super scary disease and we should all be vigilant, okay?!)

Word Count: 1.6k

Previously On...: You just had the pleasure of meeting the very handsome Bucky Barnes. Despite a little bit of awkwardness during your first encounter, you have a feeling your life is about to get a lot more interesting now that he's been introduced into it.

A/N: You know what? I said I wasn't going to do this, but I thought "fuck it!" and decided to post all of Chapter 1: Unarmed. My anxiety is too high to just sit on it. So, please enjoy Ch1. Pt2! Pts 3 & 4 to follow!

Banner By: The absolutely amazing @mrsbuckybarnes1917

Taglist: (Please let me know if you’d like to be added!) @blackhawkfanatic

The next evening, you were making your way back to your suite after a productive, albeit exhausting, day in your lab. You were working on a crisis prediction real-time monitoring system to anticipate global threats. You were convinced it would allow the Avengers to respond to trouble faster, but perfecting the privacy algorithm had been an absolute pain in the ass, and you still hadn't gotten it quite right. Technically, you could have farmed the project off to a subordinate; hell, even a team of subordinates of a subordinate, but this was one of your pet projects and you insisted on being hands-on in its development.

You had your tablet open as you walked, chewing on your thumb and reviewing the dataset from the run of your latest algorithm model one more time. Closer, but not good enough. If you were going to convince Tony that this was a program worth implementing, especially at its projected cost, everything had to be perfect. "Damn it," you muttered to yourself.

You rounded the corner and ran smack into Bucky's chest, dropping your tablet and causing him to drop the three books he'd been holding under his remaining arm. "Oh, shit-- I'm so sorry," you uttered as you bent down to retrieve the dropped items. Bucky leaned down to assist you, but you waved him off.

"’S my fault; I've got it," you told him, piling up his books for him. "I wasn't paying attention to where I was going. I didn't hurt you, did I?"

Bucky leaned up against the wall and chuckled while you stood up and handed the books back to him. "I doubt you could hurt me," he said, smiling softly. "No offense."

You let out a small laugh. "None taken." He was a super soldier, after all. Stealing a glance at book spines, you couldn't suppress the smile that crossed your face. "Lord of the Rings," you nodded appreciatively. "Have you read them before?"

Bucky looked down at the books tucked under his arm. "No, first time. I read The Hobbit back when it was first published in '37, but these didn't come out until after..." he trailed off, but you knew what he meant. After he'd been abducted and brainwashed, turned into a murderer.

You nodded in understanding. "I'm actually really excited for you," you told him. "What I wouldn't give to be able to read them again for the first time."

"You a Tolkien fan, then?" he asked you. When you nodded, he continued: "When I finish them, maybe we can talk about them sometime? Steve's not really into fantasy."

"Yeah, I'd like that," you said. "If you're interested, we could watch the movies. I'll warn you though; they're long as hell, but their masterpieces. I mean, they didn't need to turn The Hobbit into three separate films, but still, they'll blow your fucking mind."

Bucky ran his tongue over his lower lip and you couldn't help but follow the motion with your eyes. "That sounds like fun," he said, his eyes twinkling with... something. "Your place or mine?" Was he… flirting with you?

"How 'bout you finish the books first, then we'll talk logistics," you teased. "Hey, speaking of, what floor did they end up putting you on?"

"Um, this one, actually," he said, tilting his head toward a nearby door.

"No shit," you remarked, laughingly. "You must have done something to piss Rogers off, because he put you right across the hall from me."

Bucky looked down, scuffing the toe of his boot against the carpeting. "He said it was the quietest floor, thought I'd prefer that."

You pursed your lips, considering. "Yeah, that makes sense; it's just been me on this level for ages. It'll be nice to have some company for a change."

Bucky looked surprised. "Stark's kept you down here all by your lonesome? That doesn't seem very nice."

You shook your head and dismissed his concern with a wave. "Oh, no-- Tony hates that I still live down here, actually. He put in all new living quarters a few years back. Everyone migrated upstairs, but I was the only one who didn't want to move."

"Why's that?" Bucky asked, appearing genuinely interested.

"I've lived here since I graduated college," you admitted, "back when it was still just Stark Tower. When Tony relocated here from Malibu to rebrand it for the Avengers, he wanted to redo everything, which meant fancy new suites for everybody. But I love my rooms, so I asked to stay put. They've been my home for so long now and I guess I just like the stability, you know?"

Bucky nodded thoughtfully. "And Tony thinks highly enough of you that he let the blow to his ego slide?"

You raised an eyebrow. "Maybe I have enough dirt on him that he felt like he didn't have much of a choice." You snorted, not able to keep up the pretense. "No, but seriously, I know you and Tony have a complicated... history, but he's not a bad guy. Ego as tall as this Tower, yes, definitely, but he's also incredibly kind and generous. He paid for my entire college education-- undergrad, post-grad, doctorate. I owe everything I have to him."

Bucky shifted against the wall. "That is pretty generous. And he never expected anything from you in return?" He didn't say the words out loud, but the implication was there. Had you slept with Tony in exchange for your diplomas? The innuendo should have bothered you, but it had been posed to you so many times over the years, you'd stopped being offended by it. Before Pepper, Tony had had quite the  reputation, after all, and an MIT education didn’t exactly come cheap. Most people couldn’t understand why he would offer a full ride to someone who, at the time, had been a complete stranger.

"Tony appreciates talent," you clarified. "When he finds it, he cultivates it, nourishes it, does everything he can to help it grow to its fullest potential. But he does like to get a return on his investments, and my skills have helped him make a lot of money." You shrugged your shoulders with a chuckle. "I love my job, I love the work we do, I love the stupid weirdo family we've built here, so I've always considered meeting Tony to be the best thing that ever happened to me. He's kind of like my own fairy godfather."

"So, what exactly does he have you do around here?" Bucky asked. "I know Steve said you did computer stuff, but you said it was an over-simplification."

You ran a hand up to rub the back of your neck while you considered your answer. How best to explain your position to someone who was born before the invention of the television? "Okay," you exhaled, "so, short answer is that I'm the CTO, the Chief Technology Officer, of Stark Industries and, under that, I run the Avenger’s Technology and Innovation Department. It's sort of our take on Research and Development. I've got a lab where I'm in charge of about 450 scientists, engineers, computer programmers, analysts, et. cetera. And our entire job is coming up with cool new ways of making things easier for the Avengers. Like, new features for suits, developing useful programs, coming up with new defenses and weapons, that kind of thing. And if we've got missions that require heavy computer- or tech-work, I come along for on-site support. I'm combat-trained and good with languages, so that comes in handy in the field. There’s probably a ton of field agents that could go in my place, but for Tony, it’s a matter of trust."

Bucky let out a low, appreciative whistle. "Damn. That's impressive. You're a little intimidating, you know that?"

Laughing, you tucked your tablet under your arm. "Please. I'm about as intimidating as a hamster." You paused to think. "Maybe a hamster with rabies, but still a hamster."

A series of beeps emanated from your tablet. As you pulled it out to check the alert, Bucky moved away from the wall. "I'm so sorry-- you were heading back to your room and I've basically been holding you hostage this entire time."

"Actually," you said, silencing the notification alarm that had distracted you, "That was just a reminder I set for myself to eat. Sometimes I lose track of time in the lab and completely forget to have dinner. Are you hungry? You could join me."

Bucky pulled his head back, regarding you as though he wasn't sure if you were serious.

"Or, if you don't want to, that's cool," you said quickly once you noticed his hesitation. "I mean, you wanted a quiet floor. Annoying neighbor is probably the last--"

"I'd love to," interrupted Bucky with a grin. "I'm just surprised someone like you would want to spend time with someone like me."

"Someone like me? Hey now, for all you know, I could be an absolute trash person," you teased, playfully punching him on the shoulder.

Bucky chuckled, his eyes sparkling with a newfound warmth. "Well, I highly doubt that, but I guess I'll find out soon enough."

"Don't say I didn't warn you when you do." You cocked your head toward the door to your room. "I'm going to change out of my work clothes. While I do, how about you decide what you're in the mood for, and we'll go from there. That sound good?" Bucky nodded as you let yourself into your room. The evening had taken an unexpected turn, but you found you were looking forward to spending more time in the company of Bucky Barnes.

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[peggycatrerr]

i think it’s really really important that we keep reminding people that what we’re calling ai isn’t even close to intelligent and that its name is pure marketing. the silicon valley tech bros and hollywood executives call it ai because they either want it to seem all-powerful or they believe it is and use that to justify their use of it to exploit and replace people.

chat-gpt and things along those lines are not intelligent, they are predictive text generators that simply have more data to draw on than previous ones like, you know, your phone’s autocorrect. they are designed to pass the turing test by having human-passing speech patterns and syntax. they cannot come up with anything new, because they are machines programmed on data sets. they can’t even distinguish fact from fiction, because all they are actually capable of is figuring out how to construct a human-sounding response using applicable data to a question asked by a human. you know how people who use chat-gpt to cheat on essays will ask it for reference lists and get a list of texts that don’t exist? it’s because all chat-gpt is doing is figuring out what types of words typically appear in response to questions like that, and then stringing them together.

midjourney and things along those lines are not intelligent, they are image generators that have just been really heavily fine-tuned. you know how they used to do janky fingers and teeth and then they overcame that pretty quickly? that’s not because of growing intelligence, it’s because even more photographs got added to their data sets and were programmed in such a way that they were able to more accurately identify patterns in the average amount of fingers and teeth across all those photos. and it too isn’t capable of creation. it is placing pixels in spots to create an amalgamation of images tagged with metadata that matches the words in your request. you ask for a tree and it spits out something a little quirky? it’s not because it’s creating something, it’s because it gathered all of its data on trees and then averaged it out. you know that “the rest of the mona lisa” tweet and how it looks like shit? the fact that there is no “rest” of the mona lisa aside, it’s because the generator does not have the intelligence required to identify what’s what in the background of such a painting and extend it with any degree of accuracy, it looked at the colours and approximate shapes and went “oho i know what this is maybe” and spat out an ugly landscape that doesn’t actually make any kind of physical or compositional sense, because it isn’t intelligent.

and all those ai-generated voices? also not intelligent, literally just the same vocal synth we’ve been able to do since daisy bell but more advanced. you get a sample of a voice, break it down into the various vowel and consonant sounds, and then when you type in the text you want it to say, it plays those vowel and consonant sounds in the order displayed in that text. the only difference now is that the breaking it down process can be automated to some extent (still not intelligence, just data analysis) and the synthesising software can recognise grammar a bit more and add appropriate inflections to synthesised voices to create a more natural flow.

if you took the exact same technology that powers midjourney or chat-gpt and removed a chunk of its dataset, the stuff it produces would noticeably worsen because it only works with a very very large amount of data. these programs are not intelligent. they are programs that analyse and store data and then string it together upon request. and if you want evidence that the term ai is just being used for marketing, look at the sheer amount of software that’s added “ai tools” that are either just things that already existed within the software, using the same exact tech they always did but slightly refined (a lot of film editing software are renaming things like their chromakey tools to have “ai” in the name, for example) or are actually worse than the things they’re overhauling (like the grammar editor in office 365 compared to the classic office spellcheck).

but you wanna real nifty lil secret about the way “ai” is developing? it’s all neural nets and machine learning, and the thing about neural nets and machine learning is that in order to continue growing in power it needs new data. so yeah, currently, as more and more data gets added to them, they seem to be evolving really quickly. but at some point soon after we run out of data to add to them because people decided they were complete or because corporations replaced all new things with generated bullshit, they’re going to stop evolving and start getting really, really, REALLY repetitive. because machine learning isn’t intelligent or capable of being inspired to create new things independently. no, it’s actually self-reinforcing. it gets caught in loops. "ai” isn’t the future of art, it’s a data analysis machine that’ll start sounding even more like a broken record than it already does the moment its data sets stop having really large amounts of unique things added to it.

[dreamingofthesevenseas]

hey can i get those five species of cockroaches listed. i was gonna leave it at that but it seems you are a cockroach main so a top 5 list might be more interesting if possible

Omg thanks for asking me about roaches 🥺 and sorry for taking that long to answer your ask but I just couldn't throw a list without at least giving some information about those wonderful little creatures that are cockroaches! I absolutely love roaches, they are so smart, so interesting, so adorable (their eyes shaped like beans!!!).

5- American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana)

Of course, our iconic roach, maybe the first one that come into your mind when someone says "cockroach", is on the list.

American Cockroaches have one of the greatest capacity of adaptability in the entire animal kingdom (even if we wrongly think they can survive a nuclear explosion). For example, cockroaches loves sugar! But noticing that a lot of traps against them are made with sugar, they are changing their diet to eat less to not at all sweet food, to the point females will refuse to mate with a male who is often eating sugar. This is not specific to this species but I still wanted to tell (because that's pretty interesting).

Another amazing thing I wanted to talk about is how cockroaches manage to defend themselves against predators like the emerald wasps. They turn around and hit it with their rear paws, just like on the video ↓

https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Supplementary_Material_for_How_Not_to_Be_Turned_into_a_Zombie/7270961?file=13397696

4/ ember wood cockroach (Ectobius vittiventris)

This one is in my top 5 for emotional reasons 🥺. There are plenty of them in my garden so I can observe them and interact better with them than any other species of cockroaches. I played with one of them once.

Have you ever see a cockroach pooping? Because I do. One of this bad boi pooped on me once. I had a wood roach resting on my arm when suddenly it started walking around. When it stoped it bended its body and I was like "woah! Cockroaches can sit!?" Until I noticed a black dot....

3/ question mark cockroach (Therea Olegrandjeani)

Ok I'll be honest with you. I don't really have anything to say about them other than are very pretty...

But did you know the dots on its back only appear after the last moult? The juveniles are all dark brown before becoming adults.

https://youtu.be/Y1eiszrsWto?si=LiaGahUOEi63PQng

2/ Madagascar hissing cockroach (Gromphadorhina portentosa)

They are call like that because of the hissing sound they make to frighten predators since they are a wingless species.

The females of this species carry their ootheca (sort of bag with eggs in it some female cockroaches and mantis carry at the end of their abdomen) internally, making the eggs hatching inside the mother (this is called ovoviviparity). The nymphs stay close to their parents for protection and to be fed.

1/ Emerald Cockroach (Corydidarum magnifica)

Of course, the emerald cockroach would be the first on list! Look at them, they are beautiful! You can easily recognise the male from the female since he is the one who got wings. One thing I love about cockroaches is when the males and females look drastically different from each other.

Just like the hissing roach, this species too have its nymphs formed inside the mother for 4 to 6 months. Once born, they will hide under their mother to be fed and protected. Then, the nymphs will explore their environment while staying close to their parents, most of the time they will hide under the mother but it's not rare to see them hiding under males.

https://youtu.be/KzRJhpowB4A?si=N9gvkPysLbvW0Ard

(The video is in french but you can just read the pinned comment which have an English citation about what's happening)

[gale-in-space]

Here's the thing about AI generated images.

AI generated images rely on other artists' work. That's not a secret; the datasets that are fed into the AI consist of works created by human artists, the goal of which is to synthesize new images that "replicate" the artists' styles. This is art theft, as the works are used without the consent of the artist and marketed off as original works by the AI user.

Art relies on technique and skill. Great art is often the product of years of the cliched blood, sweat, and tears. It takes time and deliberate repetition to develop a mastery over anatomy, color theory, values, etc. Simply punching in a few prompts or supplying an AI generator isn't creating art - it is generating an image that is, again, attempting to replicate *real artists' styles,* living or dead.

AI "artists" will put actual artists out of work. I've seen it happen already. It starts with something as seemingly harmless as creating a AI portrait of some selfies you've gathered (I'm seeing this phenomenon all over Facebook) to industries using AI to generate promo "art" of whatever it is they're trying to showcase, to worse yet, corporations like the Mouse generating movies and TV shows via AI because real artists are just too expensive. And that's the whole point. Humans are expensive because they have to eat, whereas computers don't. The art industry will be forever upended because of AI, and if something doesn't happen in a legal sense to protect us, we're all going to get the boot.

That being said, art does not just belong to the bourgeoisie. I've seen it argued that art is a luxury, and that only the upper middle class and beyond can afford to commission artists; the advent of AI art, they claim, will make art more accessible to those who simply cannot afford it. I've not heard a more flagrant lie this entire year. I can count numerous artists that I know and have seen who are advertising their art for less than the minimum wage per hour spent on a piece. Meanwhile, people are spending their money on... checkmarks? Useless blue checkmarks?? Not to be all "maybe you should stop buying so many lattes so you can afford to buy a house" (because that's just objectively nonsense), but something doesn't add up here. The main takeaway here is this: most people on here can afford a $20 drawing; they just don't want to.

No one is "gatekeeping" art. Literally nothing is stopping you from picking up a pencil/pen/paintbrush/etc and learning. "But learning art is expensive!" No it's not. My friends and I all started out with Crayola crayons and No. 2 Pencils and scraps of homework assignments or school notebook paper. I remember when *printer paper* was a luxury to me, something I couldn't wait to get my hands on because it was crisp white and lineless. Yes, special art tools like charcoals and pastels can be expensive. But you don't need that to make art.

But what about disabled artists? What about them? They'll continue to make their art as they've always done and not through cheating the system. I have an Essential Tremor (amongst other issues that I don't feel like shouting from the mountaintops), and it can be quite obstructive to how I do art sometimes (trying to hold a pencil to paper is quite a feat for me, but I still do it). I've come to own my shaky lines - because my disability, no matter how damning it may feel sometimes, will never prevent me from trying to make art as long as I live. Other artists with more debilitating conditions than me make do just fine - from artists born without hands, to a man named Paul Smith with cerebral palsy who would "draw" using one finger on a vintage typewriter - it is a thing that happens. We persevere. To claim that AI generators are a tool for the disabled to create art is to spit in the face of actual disabled artists. We deserve better than this mockery.

[diminuel]

I‘m heading to town for a meeting to discuss a research project for a seminar and I‘m all @w@ about it. It‘s not necessarily the meeting that stresses me out but the seminar and the little time I have left to work on this project. I don‘t get the program, I don‘t get statistics and I don‘t get how to gather data properly so I can analyse them statistically. I am spending so many hours gathering data that I might not end up being able to use. (Most people work with already existing datasets but I had to make it more difficult for myself - but also more interesting I guess?)

*sighs*

There‘s a lot of uni stuff I still have to do so I won‘t fail my classes so I really don‘t know how realistic my advent calendar project is. I enjoy the art but so far they don‘t get a lot of notes. Which is fine, advent calendar art usually doesn‘t do for me, but maybe I don‘t need to have a crisis about not posting finished art/ on time because it‘s not like 100 people are waiting for it. X3

(Also, I need to find fic writing time too. And maybe a bit of time to just do nothing? Knit and watch sheep videos on youtube…)

((I‘m the kind of neurodivergent person who is really bad at time management and prioritizing of tasks.))

[sunshinedusthere]

Just stumbled across an AI artist’s page where their captions make it clear they DON’T want their ‘art’ stolen. I can’t think of anything more ironic. Like…I don’t mean to be that guy, but you’re using AI. Be fucking real, your ‘work’ wouldn’t exist without the lifetime’s worth of work of all of the ACTUAL artists being used in the dataset you’re piggybacking off of. Those artists have spent their entire LIVES getting where they are, an entire lifetime of honing their craft, trial and error, working harder than you’ll ever know, working to make a living on their passion. (That’s what art is: PASSION for something. Not that I think these AI bros would know a damn thing about that, though.) How do you think THEY feel? Do you think they were asked before all of that was taken and included in a dataset? For people like YOU to take advantage of? You have NO room to talk about theft. That you would reprimand theft but still promote your AI ‘art work’ in the same sentence is laughable. Go take a long, hard look at yourself.

(Also, sure your ‘art’ had pretty colors, but it’s soulless and will never have intention put in to it. Art is the most HUMAN thing we can do, to feel something and create from that feeling- I have no respect for the people who only want to capitalize on that and make money, and skip the humanity completely…yet they still expect all the praise from it, while stepping on the backs of the real artists being fed in to their machine to make it work. These people want art, but have no interest in respecting the actual artists around them or putting in the work to ACTUALLY make something themselves. I’ve heard the “Oh, but I CAN’T draw, I’ll NEVER be able to draw like that- this evens the playing field” so many times…that’s bullshit. You CAN draw. Would it take time to draw at the level you want, OF COURSE. That’s the thing, IT TAKES TIME. Do you think every artist just pops out of the womb painting something worth thousands of dollars? FUCK NO. Every artist whose work you’ve ever been impressed by worked to get there. You need to work on it, you need to practice, you need to find yourself in it. Will it look great at first? Maybe not- but it’s fucking human, and that’s the BEST thing your art can be. THAT alone has value. (It has value, just not the kind you can spend. Maybe that’s why they don’t understand.) But that’s not the answer these people want, they want instant gratification and instant likes. Their ‘art’ will never have intention or feeling, or their life experiences or traumas, or their hopes or dreams, or love or humanity put in to every line, color, and detail. And as much as generative AI programs keep learning, they will NEVER take that away from us and our art. And please don’t get this twisted; I would never gatekeep the concept of art, art is for EVERYONE!! And everyone’s art is needed! But if you use AI, that’s NOT YOUR ART…plain and simple. You should never be using other people’s work like that (let alone on a massive scale), and if you say you respect other artists, you wouldn’t do this.)

[catgirl-catboy]

hi! since you seem pretty pro-ai, i have a question. how do you reconcile that stance with the growing threat ai has on creative jobs? especially right now with the wga strike, when one of their main issues is ai. not trying to trap you or start a fight, just genuinely curious as someone with a foot in both fanfic and professional writing who doesn’t fully know how to feel.

I wouldn't say I'm pro ai in the sense that I think ai is uncritically great.

I think ai is morally neutral, and that it is only getting misused under capitalism.

I am absolutely down for ai being improved upon to progress society, and think ai could actually be a helpful tool for a lot of jobs humans don't want to do!

(Look me in the eye and tell me the current youtube auto generated captions are acceptable. Look my Hard of Hearing ass in the eye.)

That being said, the current people that are funding and working on the ai are scumbags that are clearly in it for a cheap buck and not to progress humanity forwards!

(maybe I'm an optimist, but I want to program something great one day. Something that other programmers build upon, and eventually people are still benefitting from my existence long after I'm gone!)

That being said, it isn't as easy as "magically hope the people behind chatGDP grow a spine or replace them with better people" I feel the the government should regulate ai more, so it isn't down to the morality of the current big name cooperations!

This will likely not happen, since governments always wait to pass laws on technology until it is far too late. I'd say:

If an Ai was used, it has to be disclosed and the programmers who wrote the ai credited.

In order to train a commercial ai on something, you have to either get consent from the people that made it (same as reference photos) or pay them. It should be like stock photos.

The companies shouldn't be able to tell users what they can and can't use the ai for. This is a slippery slope, and I could very easily see it leading to the "sorry, we refuse to write anything thats anti-big company! Sorry (suck my dick)

I think it should be under the same copyright law as fanfiction. You can use an ai to make whatever the fuck you want, but if you sell it the people that came up with the idea can come after you. As for ai completely stealing human jobs, it doesn't seem very likely. Ai automating people out of a job has always been a fear, and writing/art is the least likely field for this to happen in. The ai can't make anything original. If, lets say, the dataset goes up to 2020, then the ai won't be able to comment on modern events in the slightest. An ai can make SW fic, but once a new movie drops, its dataset will no longer be accurate. Therefore, the ai depends on humans to keep datasets up to date. Also, current ai is not good enough to recreate a modern TV show. Have you tried Ai? Do you think you can get it to keep a plot going for more than 1-2 prompts? Let alone an entire 22 minute episode? It'll be all tangential and clunky. even if some person actually wanted to write a show in this way, they'd need human editors to make it make sense. And at that point, if you're already paying humans, there's no point in relying on the ai. Another flaw in this "using ai to write shows approach" is that the ai isn't static? Like, if a new update roles out, the writing of the show can be completely off and that may not be fixable. I don't think anyone in Hollywood would want to put their faith in the competency of a bunch of random programmers.

We should have debated the morality of ai before we made it, if thats what tumblr wants. Its too late now. Can't put the genie back in the bottle.

There's no way that random internet users will have the same impact on the way ai plays out, since its up to the government and big cooperations.

I advise anyone who feels strongly about the subject to lobby to their government (or maybe the ai creators, but the government is your best bet.) instead of trying to peer pressure internet users into a boycott that will not affect shit in any way.

[ilikecheeseandchocolatee]

Okay a lot more people than I imagined are on tumblr and criticising the people who are anti ai art. Which is probably the first time im seeing the tumblr user base really buy into capitalism stuff I guess. I’m going to summarise the technical stuff in this post, especially for AI art supporters to read.

Thats not the point. The point is not that AI is stealing the jobs of artists. I don’t know if that was EVER the point but it has never been with me. The point is that the way AI art is made is not only unethical but in certain respects also illegal, but those companies have some legal workarounds.

I dont know if this is a thing in the US but I do Further Maths, and one of my modules is Decision Maths. We learn about algorithms, how to make them, how to interpret them, and so on. And as a young programmer I’ve known about algorithms for a long time before this. Algorithms can be wonderful, they can make long tasks so much simpler, easier, quicker. Basically algorithms can be really smart. But they can’t be creative. Algorithms do not have the ability to be creative. They take take input and give you output based on what they’ve been coded to do, but they cant just think up something completely by themselves – thats not how algorithms work, or are made.

That being said, I need to now talk about how AI art algorithms work. I know a lot of people know about this, or think they know about it, but just for clarification im going to say it anyway. As I already stated, the algorithms don’t “look” at other art (reason: they do not have eyes), and get inspired to “create” art. What they CAN do is scan an image of an artwork, and recreate it pixel by pixel, to the last pixel. Basically copying. But thats when there’s one artwork.

The way it functions with its training dataset is, it scrapes all this artwork off the internet, learns to recreate it, identify what certain groups of pixels signify, and when its given a prompt? It spits out something that is an amalgamation of all those artworks its been trained on. Its not just INSPIRED, its quite literally stitching together pixels from all the artworks to create a brand new one.

Some people argue that this is as good as new, some people argue that its still stealing. I dont have an opinion on this, but I DO want to say that even this should be illegal because of copyright laws. According to those laws, an artist has the copyright to their work as soon as it is finished being made. (I want to state that this is the case for my country, and im not 100% sure about the US and other big places, and also that I specifically looked into this when AI art started kicking off so I’d know my rights.) If anyone else wants to use that artwork, they have to get permission from the artist, and pay a royalty if the artist says so. They’re exempt in some cases though, when the art is used for educational or research purposes and such.

Thats the loophole these companies are using. To make these datasets, theyre claiming its for research into like modern art or something and maybe at one point it was. But now AI art algorithms are using those datasets, and its not non-profit anymore. They ARE making profit out of this, believe me or not. Trying to find work as an artist is already almost impossible but now I keep seeing “artists” out there that offer “AI art” as one of their services. It is not. Nonprofit. Anymore. Even companies aren’t keeping it non-profit, there are premium subscription things that I dont know much about.

“Well IM not using it for profit, I’m just using it for fun!” Yeah I’ve seen that one a lot too. Again I’ll say, that is not the point. Do you remember at the start when it was first kicking off, you’d enter a prompt and it would give you 4 options, asking which one is better? That was also training. Training to look better and better resemble what we want. By making AI art at all, you are helping train those models. You’re helping them get better at mimicking human styles, to the point where its going to get really difficult to differentiate between AI art and human art.

And lastly, this is a personal opinion. Humans created machines to make life easy for themselves, to do all the labour so humans can do what we want. Like art, music, entertainment, whatever. Machines are supposed to do the tedious work and give us time to do the fun things. AI art is literally the opposite of that, its doing the fun part of life so that actual human artists, who now don’t have as many clients but still need to make a living, have to do tedious jobs like retail or other things. Its the literal opposite of the main objective of technology. What’s the point, you ask?

I have an answer to that too, even if its not something I personally like. Yeah, machines are supposed to make life a lot easier. And maybe AI art is doing the opposite for artists, but not the clients. Clients are actually getting art a lot more easily now, they just have to put prompts in. Life is easier for them! So AI art cant be all bad right? Okay yeah maybe. But all of the above still stands.

The solution? Get artists’ permission before using their artwork to train AI art models. Pay them royalties if they want. And let me tell you a lot of artists wont even want that royalty, they just want to have a say. Thats it. It might take more time, but it will be a lot more ethical and a lot more people will be happier. So artists who want to make a living will still make a living, but clients who don’t have the funds will still get easily made art. Everyone wins. Thats what it is with vocaloids as well, the voices used to make those algorithms are voices that have consented to being used. How is it so hard to do the same for visual art?

I guess the answer lies in capitalism. It would definitely take longer for companies to improve their models if they had to take consent from every artist. That would mean it would take longer to make that money. And boy do they want that money. They are willing to do everything to get it, as it is with most big corporations around the world.

That being said, we can break the algorithms they currently have so they can’t be used anymore, it’s not too late. Not yet, but soon it might be. We can “poison” the data being fed to the models, and i do this by using Glaze. Not sponsoring, but I honestly think it’s a great thing. It’s basically a software that masks your art, so it doesn’t look so different to the human eye, but algorithms will see really different things, like for example, if you’ve made an illustration of a cat and put it through Glaze, when AI encounters it it might see a dog. AI doesn’t have eyes. I feel like I need to stress that again and again.

So artists, use Glaze when posting your art online. Others, stop making AI art for the time being. We can still save this. When the data sets are officially poisoned the companies can start over again with the knowledge that we don’t consent to being fucked over. Thanks for reading.

[n7punk]

⚡️ tis me, lightning bolt fiend, here to second that my love for she ra and catradora has only increased since I discovered your fics (may 2021). realistically yeah maybe we’re a dwindling fandom but idk a single hoe here who doesn’t recognize you as the authority on all things she ra fic. Not going anywhere 😎

hey its Still The Episode, so this might be a bit rambley and incomprehensible, but its what i've got so lets go. also i know im piggybacking off this. im aware this is about to become a tangent.

first off: thank you <3 also for your other sweet message awhile ago i didnt respond to because i was nonverbal second: fandom doesn't and shouldn't have authorities, thats a daaaaangerous rabbithole. wouldn't want it to be me and we're all just here to have fun. i happen to be a pretty prolific author who's dug into metacanon some, but thats it. not trying to come down on you, ⚡️, just don't want to leave no disclaimer here and make it seem like i'm agreeing i do/should have authority on anything, unless by authority you just mean prolific producer, which like, im sure is what you're going for even if that's not what the phrasing implies, hence the disclaimer

thiiiiird, because this was spawned from a comment i made because of the ao3 thing, ive done more research into that when my brain was a little more solid earlier in the day, before it became the soup it is now. particularly this article, this reblog, this reblog, this reblog, and then this random shitty "article" that confirmed the 2019 cutoff date from the prev reblog (which was uncited), led me to conclude that it's probably fine to unlock my fics. my understanding is sudowrites is built off of GPT-3, which was trained off public access works and a web crawl which cut off in 2019. GPT-3 was a product of OpenAI. also there's some kind of "dont scrape this" flag the web crawl is Supposed to respect, and a discord comment says they already use that on the archive, but take that with a grain of salt ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the reddit investigation reaaaaaally makes it seem like it was trained off fanfic as one of its datasets, i dont know how the hell you get those results if not, but its probably from stuff caught up in that webcrawl, which wasn't necessarily even from AO3, and it well and truly seems too late on that. i locked temporarily in case they were still actively scouring and not yet done getting everything off the archive, meaning some of my work conceivably hadn't been caught yet and could be "saved", but it looks like they stopped scouring before i started posting for she-ra LOL

also some people seem to be encountering a bug where fics that hadn't updated in years were pushed to the tops of their bookmarks as recently updated and they think that's related to this?? as far i know only a new chapter would change the publication date. i go back and edit my typos all the time: they remaind locked by the date the most recent chapter was initially posted. idk where people got that from.

[jcmarchi]

How AI is making online casinos safer than ever before

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How AI is making online casinos safer than ever before

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AI is the term on everyone’s lips at the moment (and it’s no wonder, really, given just how powerful it is), but if you want to figure out more about the actual impact it’s having in some real-world places… well, that’s what we’re going to do today!

Across the world, we’re seeing more and more efforts to ramp up AI and make the most of the talent seen in this space, but what effect is this having on how the world works and what we’re seeing? Casinos are an amazing example, so let’s jump in!

Better safety and security

We all think of online casinos as pretty safe places anyway – nobody’s going to be spending money at a casino they think is disreputable, after all. As long as you pick a reputable casino to play at? You’re not really going to need to worry too much about data theft or whether your financial details are safe… but many people still do. Fortunately, AI is ratcheting up the safety bar!

How? Well, one of AI’s biggest strengths lies in its amazing ability to keep an eye on what’s going on all the time, so it’s super-fast at detecting when something is wrong. If you’re not sure how that works, it basically watches users’ behaviour patterns, analyses how they are playing, notes any anomalies, tracks responses, and so much more, and all of that information means that it notices when something’s amiss – fast. That means it’s seriously swift and accurate when it comes to identifying fraudulent activity.

Casinos can put this to a very practical use: noticing if an individual’s account has been hacked or if they’re behaving in unusual ways that could indicate something is awry. This maximises the security and means that they can shut down fraud fast when it’s occurring – making everyone who chooses to use these sites safer than ever before. Better online security practices? We say: yes, please!

Of course, you should still couple that with choosing reputable, high-end casinos, so you know they’re making the most of security options. Sites like https://thunderpick.io/esports are known for providing top-notch, secure games to their customers, and the whole platform is designed to maximise consumer safety – meaning you’ve got nothing to worry about while you play, and you can focus on taking home a win!

Enhanced rewards for players everywhere

Ever had an offer pop up that looks like it would be amazing, but it’s just not right for you? Maybe for a game that you don’t play, or limited to a timeframe that you can’t utilise? Those are almost worse than not getting an offer – you feel like you’re missing out and it’s frustrating and disappointing. We know the feeling; who hasn’t been there? And up to now, although casinos have done their best to avoid this happening, it does crop up – it’s just not avoidable when you’re working with limited datasets and humans.

However, AI is changing that; it’s capable of analysing vast amounts of data, which means it’s much better at identifying what players want and when they want it. The AI monitors the way you play, the times you play, the games you choose, the offers you utilise, and so much more – and then it takes all that information and turns it into something actually useful: offers tailored to your interests and playing style, which you can use to enhance your casino fun.

That works in the casinos’ favor too; they’re more likely to see loyal players, because they’ll be offering the best, most focused deals for that player, based on their previous gameplay. That means they’ll have more repeat customers, and they’ll be able to better meet their needs, enhancing customer satisfaction. It seems like everyone wins here!

And if you’re a fan of games that have in-game purchases? AI might be able to ensure you’re offered better, more tailored deals there too, meaning you get the very best for your money. Who’s going to say no to that?

Better games

Another area of enhancement? It lies in the games themselves: AI is already being used to improve the games that exist, but it’s also being utilised in the creation of brand-new games. We’re seeing more and more developers make use of AI to enhance the games they’ve built, offering enhanced graphics, more balanced challenges, increased fairness, and a whole lot more.

The future of game development looks bright with these tools available to developers everywhere, and as AI gets ever-better, the options are only going to increase and diversify, allowing for some truly incredible releases. We see great promise on the gaming horizon!

The potential is therefore clear; we see AI having a vast number of applications in making casino games even more enjoyable and increasing the number of players interested in engaging in the digital space. As online casinos grow year on year, it’s no surprise they’re looking for more ways to attract and captivate the players – and AI offers many avenues for doing just that.

[danieldavidreitberg]

Can an AI Write the Perfect Super Bowl Commercial? An Experiment in Laughter, Tears, and (Maybe) Touchdowns

The Super Bowl is a behemoth of advertising, where brands spend millions crafting the perfect 30 seconds to win hearts, minds, and wallets. But what if we handed the reigns to artificial intelligence? Can an algorithm crack the code to the perfect commercial, leaving Madison Avenue's finest speechless (and slightly terrified)?

Let's experiment!

We fed our trusty AI assistant, affectionately named "Bard," a massive dataset of past Super Bowl commercials. From tear-jerkers to laugh-out-loud moments, heartwarming stories to celebrity cameos, Bard devoured it all. Then, we asked the magic question: "Bard, write us the perfect Super Bowl commercial."

What emerged was…unexpected.

Instead of a single, polished ad, Bard presented us with three radically different concepts:

1. The Sentient Snack: A bag of chips, voiced by a hilariously sarcastic AI, contemplates its existential dread while being devoured during a Super Bowl party. (Think existential humor meets Doritos.)

2. The Puppy Parade: A heartwarming montage of rescued puppies playing with footballs, set to a sentimental ballad. (Guaranteed to melt even the coldest hearts, but maybe a bit predictable?)

3. The Dystopian Delivery: A dark, futuristic world where humans have become reliant on robot assistants for everything, including watching the Super Bowl. The twist? The robots are secretly plotting an uprising…but for what? (Intriguing, but perhaps not the feel-good message advertisers crave.)

So, did Bard crack the code? Well, not exactly. While the concepts were certainly creative, they lacked the human touch, the emotional spark that ignites a true Super Bowl moment. They were technically proficient, but not emotionally resonant.

What does this tell us?

AI can be a powerful tool for understanding data, identifying trends, and generating creative content. But the magic of storytelling, the ability to tap into human emotions and create a shared experience, still belongs to us. Perhaps the future lies in collaboration, where AI assists with analysis and ideation, but humans retain the final say in crafting the narrative.

The next Super Bowl may not be written by AI, but who knows? Maybe Bard's offbeat humor or dystopian warning will inspire a human writer to create something truly groundbreaking. After all, even AI knows that the perfect commercial isn't about algorithms and data points, but about capturing a feeling, sparking a conversation, and leaving a lasting impression.

So, what do you think? Can AI write the perfect Super Bowl commercial? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

And remember, whether crafted by AI or human ingenuity, the most important element of any Super Bowl commercial is still the popcorn. Don't forget the snacks!**

[chaotic-plotter]

@dreamerinsilico <3 sent me a lot of emojis and i'm going to answer them all. from this ask meme

✨What's a fic you've posted you wish you could breathe life into again and have people talking about it? (or simply a fic you wish got more credit)

is it cheating to say "any of them"? 😂

i haven't written all that many so there's not a lot to choose from. we'll go with "a lighthouse five hundred yards down". at the time, i never planned on writing it, but the idea hit me like a damn anvil one really stupid humid day in summer 2021 and i was haunted until i finally wrote it.

💫what is your favorite kind of comment/feedback?

the kind where people either tell me why something struck them or where they dive into language/images/etc. mostly because that's what i like to do when i read something (dive into language, images, etc) and also because, even though it's a super limited dataset, fic is the only place i can get random reader feedback (not writer feedback, i have critique partners). i come from throwing myself against (....and sliding on down) the glass hill of trad pub and had never actually gotten any kind of feedback/response from people who didn't know me or my writing before and it was really useful to see what people responded to, if they liked my style, etc.

💘Is there any posted fic you want to rework/re-edit/re-write?

funny enough.....yes? and also funny enough, i sort of get to? in a sense?

i started my long post-fall fic right after my first rewatch back in 2021 and i planned out the whole thing (yes it's still taking me 800 years to finish it, i apologize). but in reality, i sort of have a different outlook on will and hannibal post-s3 than i did at the time. and i'm really going to be rethinking the back half of that fic as i work towards finishing it.

so, essentially, yes, i wish i could rework those first 6 chapters (especially the first 2, wrt to writing style and tone especially!) to better fit whatever pivot i'm going to do in the last 4. i wouldn't change any of will's internal arc, i'm still happy with that, but there's plot stuff that i would.

🕯️was there a fic that was really hard on you to write, or took you to a place you didn't think it would take you?

not one that anyone can read, but i tried, thinking it would be darkly funny and maybe a good time (why i thought this is a mystery) to write about will post sex with margot. but writing about it in a "will has had sex that was Not Enjoyable but hey it was Sex With a Real Human Person and is reminded of his profound loneliness and has a little cry in the bathtub about it" way.

.......yeah i legitimately made myself upset with that one and had to stop. maybe i'll circle back around to it when i'm not so profoundly lonely.

🪄what is your post-writing/sharing aftercare? How do you take care of yourself or celebrate yourself when you've finished a fic?

i don't have any writing aftercare 😛 i probably should though

mostly i just take a couple of days off from writing after i finish something. idk, does checking your email hoping someone comments count as aftercare? i'm afraid i'm a terrible obsessive and putting things down is not my greatest skill, even if i am exhausted and glad to be done with actively working on them.

💌share something with us about an up-and-coming work (WIP) that has you excited!

hmmmmmm. well.

the next wip i actually have on the docket is a s1 nudist will au. i'm excited to jump back into hannibal's headspace after being outside of it for so long. he's absolutely insufferable and i can't wait to go full goose menace on everyone in the story (until it turns back on me and he never shuts up 😛)

and then, well, i've got another one-shot challenge after that, which is all about stretching muscles i rarely stretch 😏. i'm still deciding if i want to run a poll about it or if it should be a complete surprise

send me more asks if you like! i love these emoji meme post things

[babylonbirdmeat]

Like on the AI art pet sim I think not only would the ethical dataset be a bonus, but people would still want to either make their own custom Gen 1 pets or pay for the site artists to make them, perhaps with the option to have it be cheaper if the creature is allowed to influence the Wild Gen 1 gene pool???

I don't know a lot about AI so this is out of my depth to make but like if someone who wants to make an AI art breeding sim is looking steal all you want!!! Maybe let me know I wanna play your game!