#modeling may

[harveyguillensource]

Harvey Guillén, pretty in pink in Christian Siriano at the Met Gala 2023!

[critter-of-habit]

Just a lil 'Soka sketch

[mayaisanimating]

I'm not a 3d modeler but It wont hurt to try again... right?

[ohhgingersnaps]

I'm seeing some frustration over fandom creatives expressing anger or distress over people feeding their work into ChatGPT. I'm not responding to OP directly because I don't want to derail their post (their intent was to provide perspective on how these models actually work, and reduce undue panic, which is all coming from a good place!), but reassurances that the addition of our work will have a negligible impact on the model (which is true at this point) does kind of miss the point? Speaking for myself, my distress is less about the practical ramifications of feeding my fic into ChatGPT, and more about the principle of someone taking my work and deliberately adding it to the dataset.

Like, I fully realize that my work is a drop in the bucket of ChatGPT's several-billion-token training set! It will not make a demonstrable practical difference in the output of the model! That doesn't change the fact that I do not want my work to be part of the set of data that the ChatGPT devs use for training.

According to their FAQ, ChatGPT can and will use user input to train itself. The terms and conditions explicitly state that they save your chats to help train and improve their models. (You can opt-out, but sharing is the default.) So if you're feeding a fic into ChatGPT, unless you've explicitly opted out, you are handing it to the ChatGPT team and giving them permission to use it for training, whether or not that was your intent.

Now, will one fic make a demonstrable difference in the output of the model? No! But as the person who spent a year and a handful of months laboring over my fic, it makes a difference to me whether my fic, specifically, is being used in the dataset. If authors are allowed to have a problem with the ChatGPT devs for scraping millions of fics without permission, they're also allowed to have a problem with folks handing their individual fics over via the chat interface.

I do want to add that if you've done this to a fic, please don't take this as me being upset with you personally! Folks are still learning new information and puzzling out what "good" vs. "bad" use is, from an ethical standpoint. (Heck, my own perspective on this is deeply based on my own subjective feelings!) And we certainly shouldn't act like one person feeding a fic into ChatGPT has the same practical negative impact, on a broad societal scale, as a team using a web crawler to scrape five billion pieces of artwork for Stable Diffusion.

The point is that fundamentally, an ethical dataset should be obtained with the consent of those providing the data. Just because it's normalized for our data to be scraped without consent doesn't make it ethical, and this is why ChatGPT gives users the option to not share data— there is actually a standardized way (robots.txt) for website servers to set policies for how bots/crawlers can interact with them, for exactly this reason— and I think fandom artists and authors are well within their rights to express a desire for opting out to be the socially-respected default within the fandom community.

[kratzdistel]

Modeling May 35 - 37

Here are the latest rendered images of my modeling may challenge.

[quasarden]

Went back to an old WIP and finally finished it.

Since I missed the DMC5 release anniversary, why not “Nero gets his arm ripped off day.”

[ducklooney]

Model Sheets of Donald Duck and characters from Donald Duck universe (Duckverse)

Now, starting in 2024, I will post model sheets of various characters from the Duckverse that are my favorites from comics and cartoons, from the first appearance of Donald Duck to the present day. Mostly sketches from official Disney artists, mostly from Walt Disney, Mary Blair, Al Taliaferro, Carl Barks, Romano Scarpa, Fabrizio Di Nicola, Toby Shelton, Bob McKnight and others. Mostly from classic shorts, comics, Ducktales, Darkwing Duck and The Legend of The Three Caballeros. Feel free to like and reblog and use these models in a smart way. This is how classic styles and classic beaks should be used.

This is just the first part.

[mumblo-number-five]

Tristin Mays

[heartorbit]

a mob of emus for an artstyle game on twt! ^_^

[nicotineflutter]

🧸

[harveyguillensource]

Harvey Guillén in Christian Siriano at the Met Gala 2023. 📸 by Jennifer Graylock

[splatoonusna]

Fresh Season 2024 Weapon Overview for your convenance

[breedingwhitebeauties]

[aegagrusscholarship]

HEY SO GUESS WHO LEARNED BLENDER IN A WEEK

also related note: I Fucking Hate UV Mapping It's Horrible

ALSO!!! I HAD TO EDIT THE TEXTURE FILE IN A SEPARATE PROGRAM FOR THIS

anyways. the grunt body, head, and goggles were lifted directly from project nexus files, because look this is baby's first model i needed something to work off of. everything else and all textures are mine

[kratzdistel]

Modeling May 28-34

[deltoidlover]

HALF LIFE GORDON FREEMAN HEV MK4 & SCIENTIST UNIFORM MODEL REFERENCE ALSO

he's got moles on his nape :) you're welcome.

send me a message if there's a specific model you need references of, i'd be happy to snap some pics!