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I hate AI rant nr929482813

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anyone else been struggling lately

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Some of my favourite small brown birds :)

Instagram|inprnt|Ko-fi|Behance

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The Felidae

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HELLO EVERYONE, i'm finally opening FR COMMISSIONS!

For now i'll only be taking Bust and Halfbody commissions, but might change that in the future. Here's the link to my shop (more examples to be added) ! Though you can also message me here on tumblr if interested :3

(Shares/RBs appreciated!!!)

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At one point i thought "maybe there are too many stars" but then i naaah-ed myself and kept going.

It was supposed to be something about this random fodder i snagged on the ah because there was something spacey about her i liked.

But i also needed relax and nothing relaxes me more than drawing dragons and space💫🌌 so things escalated

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Delighted by the idea that Alastor dances the Lindy Hop in this fic I've been reading (you should totally go read it because it's awesome and it's an understatement), so I wanted him to dance it with Lucifer😔👌 Not great at drawing dinamic poses but it was so much fun, I wanted to focus on the atmosphere rather than the details so I simplified a lot the lineart to keep it light. Dunno if the final result is what I was aiming for, I struggle a lot with HH style

References for the poses here

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So, Discord has added a feature that lets other people "enhance" or "edit" your images with different AI apps. It looks like this:

Currently, you can't opt out from this at all. But here's few things you can do as a protest.

FOR SERVERS YOU ARE AN ADMIN IN

Go to Roles -> @/everyone roles -> Scroll all the way down to External Apps, and disable it. This won't delete the option, but it will make people receive a private message instead when they use it, protecting your users:

You should also make it a bannable offense to edit other user's images with AI. Here's how I worded it in my server, feel free to copypaste:

Do not modify other people's images with AI under ANY circumstances, such as with the Discord "enhancement" features, amidst others. This is a bannable offense.

COMPLAIN TO DISCORD

There's few ways to go around this. First, you can go to https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/requests/new , select Help and Support -> Feedback/New Feature Request, and write your message, as seen in the screenshot below.

For the message, here's some points you can bring up:

Concerns about harassment (such as people using this feature to bully others)

Concerns about privacy (concerns on how External Apps may break privacy or handle the data in the images, and how it may break some legislations, such as GDPR)

Concerns about how this may impact minors (these features could be used with pictures of irl minors shared in servers, for deeply nefarious purposes)

BE VERY CLEAR about "I will refuse to buy Nitro and will cancel my subscription if this feature remains as it is", since they only care about fucking money

Word them as you'd like, add onto them as you need. They sometimes filter messages that are copypasted templates, so finding ways to word them on your own is helpful.

ADDING: You WILL NEED to reply to the mail you receive afterwards for the message to get sent to an actual human! Otherwise it won't reach anyone

UNSUSCRIBE FROM NITRO

This is what they care about the most. Unsuscribe from Nitro. Tell them why you unsuscribed on the way out. DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY. They're a company. They take actions for profit. If these actions do not get them profit, they will need to backtrack. Mass-unsuscribing from WOTC's DnD beyond forced them to back down with the OGL, this works.

LEAVE A ONE-STAR REVIEW ON THE APP

This impacts their visibility on the App store. Write why are you leaving the one-star review too.

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Regardless of your stance on AI, I think we can agree that having no way for users to opt out of these pictures is deeply concerning, specially when Discord is often used to share selfies. It's also a good time to remember internet privacy and safety- Maybe don't post your photos in big open public servers, if you don't want to risk people doing edits or modifications of them with AI (or any other way). Once it's posted, it's out of your control.

Anyways, please reblog for visibility- This is a deeply concerning topic!

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It's finally starting to feel like Spring 🌷🌷

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Pretty much how I operate online. Just let me rapidly post for couple weeks, then slowly back up into my cozy cave. See you in half a year! 👋✨

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A Dark God

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i’m still learning anatomy myself so i wouldn’t use this as more than just a general tip but…. I am fascinated by speculative monster anatomy and this is something i discovered years ago and thought i would impart amongst my fellow monster enthusiasts :)

mind you, the second set of pectorals can look kind of funky so i understand aesthetically why people would prefer not to draw them but! if you are someone interested in anatomy, i think this is a thing people dont really think about when giving their OCs wings/extra limbs and i think it’s kind of neat!

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Feeling rough lately.

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Smooching notes~!

So the people on Twitter seemed to find my notes very useful, So I am sharing them to you guys as well

have fun!

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🎨color study note

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