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[some-pers0n]

interesting ideas about AI art and by no means am I trying to send hate but I believe majority of people hate AI art is because it's truly just the byproduct of a giant plinko board bouncing through pieces of art made by artists who put love and care and SOUL into their work. A visual product of a math formula. While it's "art" in the most litteral sense, not having a true human behind it putting though and effort into its every detail, for many people (myself included) devalues it from a tradition artists work.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that AI art is inherently unequal to non Ai art, specifically for this reason. (Hope this made sense sorry if it's incoherent)

I agree in that sense there. I personally do not find myself wanting to engage in a work when I purposefully know the creator had used AI to create the entire product. Something something,,,I cannot find myself getting invested in something that is little more than a product. I don't wanna read a fic about my blorbos when it was written by Chat-GPT

I also agree with the idea that a lot of people hate AI art because of this heavily emotional, debatably reactionary mindset that stems from one thing: fairness. It's the same sort of emotion I find one gets if all of the work on a group project gets shafted onto them whilst their fellow peers sit idly by. It feels unfair to sink hours into your craft, spending all this time fighting to develop your skills and flourish as an artist, only to see someone type half a paragraph and have a machine spit back something that looks not half bad. Let's be honest with ourselves here and say that AI art, at least in a visual regard, has progressed quite a bit to the point where most of the mistakes people find can be dismissed as wonky perspective and the line art being a bit fucky, which is something a ton of artists struggle with too

People develop a sort of a superiority complex over it. I can't blame them honestly. A number of times I've felt it too when people tell me they're using Chat-GPT as though it were Google and when I see my family members and friends playing around with AI art. I gotta bite my tongue and choke back a chortle, both because it's kind of a dick move and also because I don't want to relish in this feeling. It's infectious though to feel as though you have an edge over another person just because you abstain from using Chat-GPT or whatever. Not to be all "grrgrgrr you should LOVE Chat-GPT and if you dare to say anything bad then you are EVILL!!" of course though. It's emotions. They're messy, intense, and oftentimes you don't really realize when you're feeling since you get locked into your perspective. Yet, I think it's important to realize a lot of hatred of this generative AI stems from emotions. Reactionary ideals and claims stem from emotions after all

I think ultimately what the conversation about generative AI should revolve around is about the concerns of labour. The several strikes from a while back from VFX artists and scriptwriters come to mind. They are most at stake from generative AI as tools like Chat-GPT are cheaper and more cost-effective than paying an actual employee for their time and effort. I would also mention the environmental issues, but if we were to talk about that we would also have to acknowledge the fact that so, so much water is being used up daily to generate power for servers. Hell, this post alone will probably contribute to drying up some marsh in the greater scheme of things

Anywho yada yada TL;DR: I agree yes but I also think it's important to recognize that a good chunk of your hatred to Chat-GPT stems from feeling cheated and a sense of pride and superiority over others for simply not using it. There is no quality to Chat-GPT that makes it inherently evil. I can't get upset at my grandma for sending me a photo of her and her dog that went through an AI anime filter. I can feel maybe some exhaustion when seeing a fellow classmate using Chat-GPT to write their essay, but ultimately I write my own work for the love of the game. I can get upset however at those in higher power who use it to push artists out of jobs. Chat-GPT is a tool that has its pros and cons and I think it's reductive to just basically sit there and hiss like a vampire when presented with a cross when faced with the mere word "AI", especially when your only big argument for disliking it is based purely in feeling cheated when someone types a prompt into a program and art that would've taken you seven hours to draw gets spit out in about a minute or two

[labyrinthlike]

A Member of the Angel's Labyrinth

⟢ about the maze rescue

.⠠no name — titles used instead

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.⠠in a c-did system's 2nd layer

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[butchniqabi]

i know for legal reasons black student unions cant prevent nonblack people from joining, but why would you as a nb person want to join a bsu in the first place? reminds me of the nonblack people who kept asking to join my black writers server so they could "observe" or "better understand black experiences" like um. time and place!!

[laurellala-comics]

there are two wolves inside of you. One of them is fretting that you went through all the effort of making a new art account just to pigeonhole yourself once more into a specific fandom, which holds you back from exploring original art concepts that you care about. The other one came up with three separate ace attorney comic ideas in the last hour alone and isn't stopping anytime soon

[burtlancster]

Archie Moore teaches Burt Lancaster how to throw a quick jab backstage at "The Fight of the Century", Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali, 1971. Both men were color commentators for the fight on closed circuit television.

[thingsmethinks]

Talking to [leftist/socialist/progressive/whatever] white people as a brown girl is always an experience

[whentherewerebicycles]

a bunch of people have already registered for my mentoring workshop! unfortunately this means i have to plan and host a workshop aaaaaa

[kydoesthings1]

assorted thoughts on gjallarhorn and fascism

a bit of serious analysis for once in my life:

recently read victor klemperer's lingua tertii imperii (language of the third reich) for a class and he had a chapter on how the romanticization of war and martyrdom and loyalty was key to fascist rhetoric. so naturally i had to relate this to IBO.

gjallarhorn is already pretty fashy in aesthetics (using wagner's valkyries for the valkyrie frames instead of the names in actual norse mythology) and ideology (humans should be pure and natural, a certain group of people is superior while some are inferior etc etc) but this is a new perspective (at least to me) regarding gjallarhorn's emphasis on honor and loyalty and sacrifice

also the medieval-aristocracy-knight aesthetic, other than looking dope as fuck, is also reminiscent of those marble statue pfp RETVRN accounts on twitter formerly known as x, and the whole return to a "better" past thing is of course deeply reactionary. fascism is an ideology that relies heavily on aestheticism, it is very important to look cool, or that things are pretty (think designing uniforms to be as attractive as possible so that young people would sign up)

note: of course you could argue sunrise used wagner's valkyries because it's better known and not to make a reference to him being a massive nazi, and i don't really have a counterargument other than i like to believe artistic/writing choices are intentional until proven otherwise

i'm aware romanticizing falling in battle etc etc is a concept that predates fascism and is also present in other ideologies. however gjallarhorn is already pretty fash-coded and i like to think that the romanticization part also serves towards that purpose

[feinstone]

Congratulations on graduating! That must be an amazing feeling.

thank youuuu <3

technically i won't be graduating until the end of the year because i finished past the cut off date for my uni's mid-year graduation ceremonies, but i'm happy to have finished regardless.

it's been a really difficult and long process, and i had to delay finishing my degree by 2 years due to a long string of Life Events (Not Fun) that got in the way of me completing the last 2 courses i had left in my degree as of mid-2022, so i'm glad i finally managed to get to the end of a semester without some random bullshit stopping me for the first time in several years lmao.

i dropped out of high school after i got sick, and i thought i was gonna have to drop out of uni too, despite all the work i've put in to pull my life together. it really means a lot to me that i managed to make it through to the end this time, even though it was tough to keep my head above water sometimes.

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[kiera-raelyn]

This sounds like perfection to me. I always say I wish someone would pay me to be a student, so I could just learn all the things, all the time. I genuinely enjoy college classes and would love to take more, just because.

Alternate universe where I literally just to go to school forever (for free) so I can just learn about art and literature and history and languages for 100 years. No job skills. No credit requirements. No student loans. Just learning.

[shadesofmauve]

I want to step away from the art-vs-artist side of the Gaiman issue for a bit, and talk about, well, the rest of it. Because those emotions you're feeling would be the same without the art; the art just adds another layer.

Source: I worked with a guy who turned out to be heavily involved in an international, multi-state sex-slavery/trafficking ring.

He was really nice.

Yeah.

It hits like a dumptruck of shit. You don't feel stable in your world anymore. How could someone you interacted with, liked, also be a truly horrible person? How could your judgement be that bad? How can real people, not stylized cartoon bogeymen, be actually doing this shit?

You have to sit with the fact that you couldn't, or probably couldn't, have known. You should have no guilt as part of this horror — but guilt is almost certainly part of that mess you're feeling, because our brains do this associative thing, and somehow "I liked [the version of] the guy [that I knew]", or his creations, becomes "I made a horrible mistake and should feel guilty."

You didn't, loves, you didn't.

We're human, and we can only go by the information we have. And the information we have is only the smallest glimpse into someone else's life.

I didn't work closely with the guy I knew at work, but we chatted. He wasn't just nice; he was one of the only people outside my tiny department who seemed genuinely nice in a workplace that was rapidly becoming incredibly toxic. He loaned me a bike trainer. Occasionally he'd see me at the bus stop and give me a lift home.

Yup. I was a young woman in my twenties and rode in this guy's car. More than once.

When I tell this story that part usually makes people gasp. "You must feel so scared about what could have happened to you!" "You're so lucky nothing happened!"

No, that's not how it worked. I was never in danger. This guy targeted Korean women with little-to-no English who were coerced and powerless. A white, fluent, US citizen coworker wasn't a potential victim. I got to be a person, not prey.

Y'know that little warning bell that goes off, when you're around someone who might be a danger to you? That animal sense that says "Something is off here, watch out"?

Yeah, that doesn't ping if the preferred prey isn't around.

That's what rattled me the most about this. I liked to think of myself as willing to stand up for people with less power than me. I worked with Japanese exchange students in college and put myself bodily between them and creeps, and I sure as hell got that little alarm when some asian-schoolgirl fetishist schmoozed on them. But we were all there.

I had to learn that the alarm won't go off when the hunter isn't hunting. That it's not the solid indicator I might've thought it was. That sometimes this is what the privilege of not being prey does; it completely masks your ability to detect the horrors that are going on.

A lot of people point out that 'people like that' have amazing charisma and ability to lie and manipulate, and that's true. Anyone who's gotten away with this shit for decades is going to be way smoother than the pathetic little hangers-on I dealt with in university. But it's not just that. I seriously, deeply believe that he saw me as a person, and he did not extend personhood to his victims. We didn't have a fake coworker relationship. We had a real one. And just like I don't know the ins-and-outs of most of my coworkers lives, I had no idea that what he did on his down time was perpetrate horrors.

I know this is getting off the topic, but it's so very important. Especially as a message to cis guys: please understand that you won't recognize a creep the way you might think you will. If you're not the preferred prey, the hind-brain alarm won't go off. You have to listen to victims, not your gut feeling that the person seems perfectly nice and normal. It doesn't mean there's never a false accusation, but face the fact that it's usually real, and you don't have enough information to say otherwise.

So, yeah. It fucking sucks. Writing about this twists my insides into tense knots, and it was almost a decade ago. I was never in danger. No one I knew was hurt!

Just countless, powerless women, horrifically abused by someone who was nice to me.

You don't trust your own judgement quite the same way, after. And as utterly shitty as it is, as twisted up and unstead-in-the-world as I felt the day I found out — I don't actually think that's a bad thing.

I think we all need to question our own judgement. It makes us better people.

I don't see villains around every corner just because I knew one, once. But I do own the fact that I can't know, really know, about anyone except those closest to me. They have their own full lives. They'll go from the pinnacles of kindness to the depths of depravity — and I won't know.

It's not a failing. It's just being human. Something to remember before you slap labels on people, before you condemn them or idolize them. Think about how much you can't know, and how flawed our judgement always is.

Grieve for victims, and the feeling of betrayal. But maybe let yourself off the hook, and be a bit slower to skewer others on it.

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[disorganizedkitten]

I know I reblogged this like four hours ago but actually I'm back because I wrote three or four essays about this in Highschool and College and I have feelings. Getting into fandom areas, especially for newbies, can be terrifying - but I promise you that you don't need to be so scared.

Half apology to everyone about the be tagged but not actually because I love you guys too much to leave you faceless.

So. Let's see. My introduction to fandom was @imthepunchlord's account, (hello, sorry for the tag) and the first time I saw them active in a discord server I did freeze up a bit. I don't know that we had any really meaningful conversations - I was 13? 14? and didn't really have much to say - but they weren't nearly as scary once I calmed down for a few days. Then I could participate, and it was great.

I'm not still in any of those servers, I have no clue if punchlord is, things change, you know?

But I enjoyed being there, and I enjoyed talking to people. And everyone was older and cooler but none of were unhappy to have me bouncing around the channels talking about their fics, or fandom theories. Might've gotten a little annoyed at some of my takes, because I'll be the first to say I sure had some OpinionsTM that current me would sit me down over - but no one was ever rude about it.

The first writing server I joined was @hari-writes' server, which I am still in, and again, got me in with some really cool writers like @/remasa and @lilaflyy and @/lady_bryght and @/Yilena even @perditaalottachocolate-blog; everyone in that server was and is a big name, either to everyone or to me, and none of them are scary. Lila hangs fairylights around her room. Hari sends cat pics like, nine times a week. Bryght not only beta'd one of my published works but brings it up at random and lets me blather about it. They're all very sweet.

@secretagentspydetectiveninja wrote a fic that had me crying at 3am because suddenly there were words for the way I felt about romance and people and not only was I not alone but there were enough people that it was known. And a couple months later I joined the ml brotp server and got to gossip with them personally. It was great.

@soupinboots I don't even remember how I met but she helped me do my first ever FAFSA. I used to think she was so cool - and I think she's even cooler now. Genuinely a large part of why I passed junior year. Again, someone I know because I dared to step into a place with people I thought too cool to put up with me, and it turned out everyone there was just like me. And I have a thousand more stories like this - @boldlyanxious and @starry-bi-sky and literally so many people that I think are cool enough for medals and I get to talk to them whenever I want, because I took a leap of faith and pressed a button.

The girl I'm roommates with right now - I've known her since Google+ was a thing, and when we were kids, she was one of the people in the groupchat who everyone adored because she only rarely joined conversations and she always had something so cool to say... and now I'm living with her and she's admitted that she actually thought the rest of us were too cool and intimidating to talk to.

We all thought that. We all thought we were too much of a disaster and our friends were just putting up with us, but we adored everyone else. Once we got past that point, it was a lot more fun to hang out. I'm with her right now, actually, I can literally kick her from where I'm typing. She's still one of the coolest people I know.

When @/AnonymousMagpie opened the Hoard, it took me months to join because I was dead sure that I would be too awkward, too excitable, that everyone there would hate me. Instead, @sammialex thought the first Neville-centric thing I wrote was cool and I lived off that praise for months. Everyone was really friendly and I'm a moderator, now. I have so many friends in that server. I get to run events and people participate because they think anything I run will be fun.

How wild is that?

Every writer I know wants someone to talk to; either about their works or just to have a friend. We're still people, I promise.

Like the second poster said; maybe there are some fanfic authors who want to be left alone, who want to write into a void and never talk to another person - but there are five times that number who are just like you. Who think maybe they're a little awkward or a little too much and I promise, I promise that telling them you think they're cool and you like what they make isn't going to make them think you're pathetic.

It's gonna make them happy, actually.

Try it.

nothing scarier than being a fan of a fic and then becoming mutuals with the author. like hi shakespeare. big fan of your fake dating au