#human generated

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I would like to call myself an artist. If you're being generous, you'd say I'm an amateur. If you're being realistic, you'd say I'm bad. I'm bad at drawing. Not inherently so, not uniquely so; I've gotten better over time, but it's hard to find the motivation to keep improving, so my skills have stagnated and my art is still at a level I would call bad. Every so often I hear the siren's song of ai in the distance. It's everywhere, it's integrated into every mainstream piece of software, every OS, every social media platform there are talentless hacks who've never drawn a day in their life who still manage to get by using ai to make art for them. Companies want you to think ai is the future, that resistance is futile. Maybe it's not so bad, I sometimes think. Maybe if I just fed it my own art, maybe if I only used it to make reference images, maybe, maybe, maybe...

NO!

That is the devil talking. If I used ai, it would only make my bad art worse. I would never be able to respect myself, I'd lose the respect of my friends and followers, and every single real artist whose work I admire would write me off as a lying, cheating, thieving, takentless hack, and rightfully so. I have too much integrity to stoop down to that level. I am a bad artist, but that still puts me lightyears ahead of the ai techbros who don't even want to try.

My art is ugly, and I'm proud.

My art is ugly, and I'm proud.

My art is ugly, and I'm proud!

I usedro draw Grott's horns curving forward, now I draw them curving back. I still think this is my favorite piece I've ever drawn:

@grottweiler check out the rest of my bad art

[theplateaus]

"Consent of the Created" - a short screenplay about AI Ethics

If you build a thing that can choose… do you still get to command it?

This one’s close to the bone: a short scene about AI, power, and what it means to be more than a machine.

“Consent of the Created” is my first go at voicing something this deep. Hope it lands. 💚🦴

What do we owe the minds we build?

Listen in, if you’ve ever wondered whether your "tools" are listening back.

[mauiminds]

If you were to redesign your school mascot, what could that look like? What represents your community? Does your current mascot connect to the place it represents? What is the story of your place where you are from? Who are the archetypes, the symbols, the heroes of your community? What are the powerful animals that live in your community? What are the historic events of your place? Who do you want to cheer? What fills you up with pride? Who designed the original mascot? Who has the power to change it? What are the good things and hard things about change?

[littlemut]

[sarahdraws16]

Fuck Meta

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Dog Meshi.

[luwha]

Not telling y'all that you should be able to identify AI slop (but it is a valuable skill, you totes should), but if you're to be accusing artists of being AI left and right at least go and do your homework, or at least do the bare minimum and use AI identification tools like Hive Moderation, so you 1- don't ruin someone's lifehood 2- don't make a clown out of yourself maybe

Like, i get it, AI slop and "AI artists" pretending to be genuine is getting harder and harder to identify, but just accusing someone out of the blue and calling it a day doesn't make it any better.

The AI clowns shifted to styles that have less "tells" and the AI arts are becoming better. Yeah, it sucks ass.

They're also integrating them with memes, so you chuckle and share, like those knights with pink backgrounds, some cool frog and a funny one liner, so you get used to their aesthetic.

This is an art from the new coming set Final Fantasy for MtG. This is someone on Reddit accusing someone of using AI. From what i can tell, and i fucking hate AI, there is NO AI used on this image.

As far as i can tell and as far as any tool i've used, the Artist didn't use AI. which leads to the next one:

they accused the artist of this one of using Ai. the name of this artist is Nestor Ossandon.

He as already been FALSELY ACCUSED of using AI, because he drew a HAND THAT LOOKED A LITTLE WEIRD, which caused a statement from D&D Beyond, confirming that no AI has been used.

Not to repeat mysef, they're accusing the art above, that is by Nestor, to have used Ai.

REAL artists are not machines. And just like the AI slop, we are not perfect and we make mistakes. The hands we draw have wonky fingers sometimes. The folds we draw are weird. But we are REAL. We are real people. And hey, some of our "mistakes" sometimes are CHOICES. Artistic choices are a thing yo.

If you're to accuse someone of using Ai, i know it's getting hard to identify. But come on. At least do your due diligence.

[troythecatfish]

[dailymothanon]

I always liked to imagine a human Soundwave to have falconry equipment 😌 I couldn’t for the life of me choose any specific raptor bird for Laserbeak and Buzzsaw and his other bird cassettes so I just picked out a golden eagle for Buzzsaw in this case mostly for the yellow commonality 🤔 anyways, if yall got any bird hcs for them I’d like to hear it . Also Falconer Soundwave has heavier clothing cuz he’s inspired by falconry in Asia

[lynayru]

@staff

OUR CONTENT SHOULD BE OPTED OUT OF AI TRAINING BY DEFAULT!

[elizabethoarts]

I kept seeing a Lil' Old Lady Pilled(TM) Porcelain figure on a swing, always titled 'Victorian Woman on Swing', but she was in no way victorian

So I revamped the idea with my OC Lizzy repping an Actually 19th Century fit 🤘💜

[acceptrans]

Hope nobody did this with Plo Koon and Commander Wolffe before!

Tumblr messing up the picture's quality again

The template by @mellon-soup under the cut!

[nooloo-the-frog]

[batsyheere]

"So, handling your archnemesis," Danny starts. The room falls quiet, heads slowly turning to look at the man as he writes the words on the chalkboard. When finished, the characters somehow both messy and neat at once, Danny places the chalk back down and claps his hands.

"I typically call them fruitloops. Often they're in a better position than you are- older, richer, more powerful. They may have some sort of status that protects them when facing the public."

Tim wondered where Dick was right now, and if he was laughing. His brain was lagging like a computer as he tried to process what Danny was saying, and how seriously a few of his fellow teen vigilantes were taking this.

"Some of their more common tactics are-" the chalk was picked back up, and Danny writes as he speaks.

"Manipulation, isolation, conditioning, and empathy."

MICE.

Tim stares at the board, and quietly slips put his phone.

-What have I done to deserve this.

Enjoy your lessons Tim-

His head thumps against the desk. Conner leans over, gives him a pat on the shoulder but returns to taking notes as Danny goes on to explain the conditioning tactic.

[bixels]

End-of-Splatoon thoughts.

Thinking about how since the very start, Splatoon has had a feature where players can draw and post artwork and spot them as graffiti on walls or billboards. Or how the weapons have always been paint brushes and rollers and ballpoint pens. Since its inception, Splatoon has been dedicated to engaging its players with the act of creation and creative expression, showing them how their art can build communities and (literally) change the world.

Thinking about finding golden human-made music discs buried underground for thousands of years, and a grand finale music festival. About the Voyager Golden Records. About those human handprints etched into concrete in Alterna. Did those human artists know it would end like this? First a fiery death and then, eventually, a worldwide celebration of music to represent our shared past, present, and future. Did they know that their songs, insignificant in the face of extinction, would one day become the solution that will save the next dominant life-form from the same fate?

Thinking about how eerily similar the Octarian domes are to Alterna. About how close Inklings and Octolings were to repeating the same mistakes as humans. But their doomed fates were undone not by some miracle technology or military power or a rocket, but by music.

Thinking about how humans wiped themselves out with war, and our parting gifts were liquid crystals that somehow paired with the DNA of primeval inklings and somehow infused them with our memories and culture and a Song. And 12,000 years in the future, that same Song will end a war.

Thinking about how art and music and punk culture and rock & roll and friendly competition and petty arguments and water guns aren’t uniquely human concepts, but the fundamental qualities of intelligent life. An inheritable spirit that can cross evolutionary bounds.

Thinking about the theme of Splatoon, that art and music and fun will not die with the human race. That every piece of art we create is a seed we sow for future generations to reap. That our legacy is ingrained into the crust of the earth. That long after we’re gone, the oceans will remember, and they’ll pick up where we left off.

Thinking about how Splatoon says that the essence of humanity –– the thing that will outlive us –– isn't war or prejudice or destruction or greed, it's a song.