#how views and notes and instant gratification are intoxicating

[ninamodaffari]

the sheer disappointment i felt yesterday when I saw another artist i used to talk to and try and help with their portfolio and resume turn around and become a ai slop creator, turning their entire instagram, linkedin, bluesky, etc into a neverending stream of ai products and seo nightmare optimization was heartbreaking, ESPECIALLY since their art before they fell into the ai rabbithole was GOOD.

genuinely, it was so bad that my friend's and i thought it had been hacked. thats how automated and 'fake' it felt. like when someone's blog is hacked and turned into a endless stream of reblogging fake products.

they were a good 3d artist, and if they had simply honed their skill and worked on building their portfolio, I think they would have eventually found themselves a job.

on top of that, they'd also done the thing on linkedin that you see sometimes where they say they 'worked' at twitter simply by having a twitter account. they had over FIFTY entries spanning more years than they've been alive. what solidified it for me is that they were linking videos on how to make 100k a year 'get rich quick' schemes and its just...

its so disappointing to see someone fall of the wagon that hard for literally no reason.