#we hate ai here

[were--ralph]

[artschoolglasses]

I think I’ll just start being that annoying person who comments “This is AI” in every AI post I see. A, because I know people are reblogging it without meaning to share AI images. B, because the original post should absolutely be clearly called out as such (you’re not a real artist). And C, I just think it would be fun if we all did this, repeatedly, on every AI post, and annoyed the AI bros on here. ☺️

[mademoisellesarcasme]

actually i'm still mad about the chairs and i'm going to scream about it

I was drawn in by the caption "recycled plastic" because the colour clarity on them was so lovely, I thought maybe the artist had figured out some way to reclaim and recycle plastic without losing the integrity of hue, but the purple slightly tipped me off: there's not a lot on the market in that shade. I know this because I love it.

So I went on a search for an artist with a deep material and chemical understanding and instead I found a FUCKING MACHINE

and I'm STILL MAD

[transformers-earthspark]

Apologies for my recent radio silence. I've had a lot on my mind lately.

This post isn't Earthspark-related at all, but please read it.

I need to take a second on this blog to acknowledge some things going on in the world. I should not have stayed silent on this blog before, but I'm trying to fix that now.

Genocide in Palestine + how you can help Palestinians

You can buy e-sims for people in Gaza here. Anything helps.

Click here daily to help generate funds for Palestine. It's free and takes less than a minute.

Here's a list of where you can donate to help Palestine.

(If there's anything I should add to this section, please let me know.)

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The KOSA bill, what it's going to do if passed, and how you can help prevent it from taking effect

KOSA will essentially erase anonymity from the internet by requiring people to upload their government ID or other form of identification to any social media site, as well as restricting resources and information on LGBT rights, history, racism, and more. This bill will censor the entire internet and destroy privacy while violating First Amendment rights and potentially putting minors in danger.

This also could very well mean the end of Tumblr, and I'm not exaggerating here.

Tomorrow KOSA could be passed in Senate, and from there it will need to pass in the House of Representatives before being signed into law by the president. It's not doomsday yet, but it is a dangerous situation-- and here's what you can do.

StopKOSA.org provides you with a template email to send to your representatives. You can leave it how it is or edit it to say what you want, and then send it from their website.

The website also allows you to call your representatives and gives you a template of what to say.

BadInternetBills.org, run by the same people, takes action against KOSA as well as other bills like EARN IT. At the time of posting this, over 356,000 people have signed this petition.

Additionally there are several petitions on change.org to help stop KOSA. Here are a few of them.

STOP KOSA

STOP THE KOSA

Stop Kosa

Save Humanity, Oppose KOSA

STOP THE KOSA ACT

(Again, please let me know if there's anything I should add.)

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One last thing-- The evolution of AI images and video.

I don't really have anything good to say. AI is evolving fast and changing the world as we know it. We are adapting, but nobody knows how this really is going to end up.

A few quick points:

AI images are not art. That's all. AI "artists" who genuinely claim to have made something of their own just by typing a prompt into a generator will be blocked. (Which has been in my rules for a while, but I still think it needs to be said.)

I recommend Glaze for artists who don't want their art being scraped and used for data training. Especially with the recent rumors of an upcoming deal between Tumblr and Midjourney. There's also a similar program called Nightshade (haha, earthspark reference? anyone?🦉) that I haven't tested myself but have heard good things about.

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That's all, I suppose. Reblogs are good, if you don't mind.

Spread the word about KOSA. Contact your representatives. Sign the petitions.

Support Palestine if possible. Donate if you can. If you are unable to donate, make sure to do your daily clicks.

Stay safe and take care of yourselves. ❤️

[cocolacola]

me watching hellsing fandom reblog obvious AI art thinking it's real i??%€%€#£%£#^

[22degreehalo]

Something I see a lot in talks about AI art is something I've seen about a lot of different kinds of art: a desire to have the product reflect skill and/or talent.

Like, it reminds me so very much of how some (usually older) people react to music software. It used to be that you'd have to go the long way and spend years learning the guitar; now just anybody can simulate that sound for you and clean it all up and make it perfect!

Of course, there are many provisos to that; not anybody can open up that sort of program and put together a great-sounding song. The people who make e.g. really classic Vocaloid songs are very skilled with the program and very talented r.e. music. (And perhaps that is or will be true for AI, too: that anybody can just create a picture, but someone very skilled with a particular program can make something very specific and good!)

But it's that initial impulse that just... bothers me, a little. Because, yes, of course I understand the fear that you devoted years of your life to a subject and now it can be generated by just anyone. But why turn it around and treat it as some sort of principled, purist stance? Why does someone HAVE to devote years of their life to something to make art?

It just feels a bit. Suffering romanticisey. Either that, or making art inaccessible to ordinary people. Like 'Artists' are some inherently different kind of person.

Of course we can still value the dedication that went into specific kinds of work. Maybe that's your favourite thing about art. But doesn't it open up art to so many different kinds of people when barriers are taken away? People who can't afford to slave away for years on it? People who for some sort of physical or mental or whatever reason just can't ever really be as good with the 'traditional' process?

Again: this is not really about AI art and whether it does offer those opportunities to people. This is about the initial reaction that letting ordinary people more easily create art is somehow bad, and takes some kind of soul out of the process. But people have different capabilities; what is easy for most people is very difficult for others. Why is making art impossible for some people so important? What is so much more 'real' about art that requires very special tools, or knowledge that is barred the masses? What are we losing by letting 'untalented' people overcome certain obstacles?

[maythearo]

College of Belas Artes using AI designs in advertisement for their courses, hm interesting, eat acid please

[stiffyck]

watching a video about AI "art" and im losing braincells over some of these people oh my god

[cozylittleartblog]

to all the creatives striking in california right now: you're doing amazing sweeties 💖💖💖

[diamondsheep]

I'm seriously considering to start posting my art in Bluesky or start using Cohost as a backup in case that Tumblr explodes with the shitty ai thing sooo yeah if you wanna follow me there, here are my links and I'm adding my IG / Twitter just in case ( idk if they use ai as well but that wouldn't surprise me )

BlueSky

CoHost

Twitter

Instagram

[ducktollers]

who up feeling their spirit get crushed into dust by this ai shit 😂😂😂

[thedevilandhisbride]

how will we ever get the spark to wonder, question, and think deeply about art when someone says a prompt or two into a generator, and out comes a painting that doesnt mean anything, because nobody took the time to tell a story within it? how can anybody do that if the art has no meaning like with ai art? when it isnt meticulously crafted by the complex mind of a creative human?

you cant tell an ai to convey the hurt and betrayal of a mortal against their own hubris as they fall off of the high horse they pitched themselves upon the way that a human would, because ai isnt human. it will never be human. and to compare ai art to human art and call them equals is dehumanization, and it strips art of every power it has ever had across the whole of human history.

[djsadbean]

I'm a simple girl. I see "I made AI make this content for me" in a YouTube video title, I hit that cute lil unsubscribe button ^v^ hope this helps!

[lunapwrites]

Just had a very terrifying conversation with my partner about AI and the future of uh. Society as we know it. So naturally I'm in a bit of an anxiety spiral about it.

The short version is that the plagiarism concerns are the tippy tip of the iceberg, and if AI doesn't get regulated quickly, we could potentially be looking at some uhhhh BIG FUCKING PROBLEMS. Like I'm not trying to be alarmist or paranoid but shit is very likely to hit the fan in a big way. Keep your eyes peeled, particularly over the next 18 months. And pray that he's wrong.

Anyway, just uh. Something to think about the next time you see one of those funny AI generated vids of Obama and Biden dunking on Trump in Minecraft or something.

[tearlessrain]

RE: that reblog of the person getting shit on for "using AI". This is what rabidly hating AI publicly DOES. It enables people to wield "you are using AI" as a cudgel against everyone, whether they're guilty or innocent. It's a tool like any other. I watched one of my favorite artists get bullied offline 10+ years ago for "using references" because that was what deviantart was up in arms about at the time. I'm not trying to attack you or make you like AI but this is what posting incessantly about hating AI tools does.

.......... dude, no. acknowledging that AI is scummy and bad and wanting it to die a thousand fiery deaths doesn't cause this shit. the exhausting culture of "it's fine to attack a random stranger online because you think they might have potentially done something wrong" is what causes it. using a reference and generating an AI image aren't remotely the same thing and other people have made better posts about that than I could.

we can all agree that murder is bad and wrong but if a mob ran someone off the internet just because they decided that person looked kinda murder-y to them, the mob would still be in the wrong.

AI can go fuck itself with a cactus and I hope it consumes itself alive and renders itself unusable within the year and people start actually acknowledging the skill and effort artist put into their craft and pay them for their work accordingly, but that's an entirely different issue from "don't fucking bully strangers on the internet about shit you can't remotely prove, don't do it at all in fact."

[gojoest]

i really hope gege won’t give us “you’ve got it from here” gojo edition bc that’d be too harsh not only for me but for yuuji too