#Black mirror nft

[queerautism]

This is the only 'quest' that actually has something to figure out, I guess? How on earth someone is supposed to guess your password (passphrase?) based on this dogshit AI image I really don't know tbh

Any ideas?

[beeclops]

[fantasticwolfpenguin]

Can’t sleep back bruised :( so I’ll pitch a Black Mirror episode.

“A Penny for Your Thoughts”

Starts off with a guy who’s obviously using his AI to steal art off the internet and also making some NFTs from them as well

He’s making a profit and often getting messages from artists begging him to stop because they are literally losing their livelihoods and joy of making art

Taking pride in these messages and all the money he’s making, he often tells them how much he’s made and that they can’t really do anything because legally he’s creating something new. Sometimes he even asks artists before hand if he could use their art for just reposting or reference. When they say yes he’d block them and delete messages (taking advantage of how dms disappear/burner accounts with vpns). Then photoshop the conversations to fake consent for his content.

One day he’s sent a folder of art on an email or maybe even a drive and is stupid or haughty enough to put it in his computer because apparently computer safety isn’t on his mind this whole time.

What he mistakes as good scans turns out to be an ai consciousness that at first seems really helpful he has a conversation with it. It’s able to pull up really good scans of art, but secretly is recording which artists he’s taking from, etc

Turns out THIS ai is the uploaded consciousness of a dead artist that became self destructive after losing practically all their work to this guy. And the story shifts to their perspective as they’re asked to leave from art school because they school thinks they have no appreciation in creating art and might be making millions because they are unable to prove that it isn’t them making all that art money from their own work

They come home to a loving programmer partner who is experimenting with creating uploaded consciousness for their company and the artist tells the partner that they want to help with their project in a most twisted way.

I have more ideas and twists on this and thoughts on how it ends but I’ll just leave it at that for now

[trans-goddesss]

[scarefox]

Signed up to watch a 2h speech / presentation I need to attend... BUT it is online via zoom so I don't have to go outside and can sit on my couch in a blanket and drink coffe!

It's about new AI laws and legally save AI software... I need to know this as graphics designer 😔

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lol started with a AI animated avatar / deepfake of himself that totally looked AI because the hand movements didn't match what he said.

Oh no, he is a Zuckerberg fanboy.

This is going to be fun. (probably will get pissed along the way tho)

But they have some lawyers there to answer questions. Yay Christian Solmecke is there too (popular german media lawyer on yt)

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so far: unlike human made work, AI generated artwork or designs are not copyrighted (in germany) AND if the AI piece is based on an existing human made work and it's still visible in the AI piece you need to get the copyright from the original owner / creator (includes designs, logos, images, text and music)

Copyright owner can opt-out and sue if it's still gets used for AI training / generation (american laws aren't finished yet but also will go into that direction)

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They test different AI software to give out a little comic scenario. And oh boy as a graphic designer with knowledge about typography the text is triggering me so hard. It's so bad. SEE alone typography is an area that can't be made by a machine because even tho it is based on design laws it's still an intuitive human-eye based way of design. There is a difference between mathematical-centered and optical-centered.

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Man they are all so horny for AI and reduction of jobs and costs.... But no matter how good an AI could generate an image or video... it will never give you the raw files where you can do individual changes afterwards.

Besides that I still think humanity isn't ready yet for the power and options AI is giving us. (at least one of the very high quality AI builders isn't selling it atm because they are afraid that it will get misused for fake news and stuff, so they try to find a way to prevent that before they bring it on the market)

So many creative jobs and professions that will die out just for us to get 100% digital made "creative" content and advertisements :/ (so far even the most high quality AI still has some small uncanny vibe). Like even actors will be replaced in the future... all they need to do is allow companies to use their face / body.... there is literally a Black Mirror episode about that.

Reminds me of that one AI kpop idol project I have seen last year on tiktok.... absolutely creepy and wrong. I know some of us are simping over anime, game or vocaloid characters but... man idk, do yall want to simp over uncanny digital kpop idols who don't even exist nor actually work for their skills and talent? 💀 Being into an idol is not just about the visuals and songs, it's about their personality and individuality.... for me at least.... (but of course the kpop industry is one of the first trying this). I do like Taemin for example beacuse he's breaking out of the industry norms. AI dude could never be on his level.

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"Amazing. In a company in the US a CEO told us that with the use of an AI they could remove 700 jobs and save so much money!"

.... yeah cool. Maybe we should remove ALL jobs on this earth and let AI do it, so we humans don't do anything at all anymore. Oh wait, no, of course we still have to do hard repetitive labor like some work drones because it's cheaper than to build and maintain actual robots for these jobs.

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BRUH of course the event is mainly to sell an AI class from the hosting company. For the cheap price of 4900€ FOR THE LAST TIME because the next class will be over 6000€

I feel like AI bros always hype each other up to blow it all up artificially. Just like NFT and the mobile game market.

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DID HE JUST SAY that there aren't enough graphic designer and programmer on the market and that they will profit from the support of AI?? (it's actually oversaturated and therefore jobs are hard to get) AI bros really live in a secluded bubble hu? Of course none of these dudes in this event are from the creative industry but lawyers and CEOs

[supersonicart]

Ben Tolman's "Unmode."

Currently on view at Thinkspace Projects in Los Angeles, California is artist Ben Tolman's solo exhibition, "Unmode."

Originally from Washington, DC, Ben Tolman now resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For the past decade he has become known for his carefully detailed, architecture based drawings often pointing to social issues. With this exhibition Tolman has turned his focus inward to examine his creative process directly:

"I have been in the mood recently to examine and alter some of my habits. To me, culture is made by communities, and it is not a competition but a collaboration. I am pleased if someone can use or develop upon the things I have created. For this purpose, I have released the copyright to all works in this show to the public domain. You may do with them as you please, high resolution images are available. All purchased works come with their complementary digital mirror, an ERC-721 NFT. The artist’s proceeds from this exhibition will go towards establishing a decentralized art center in a former Catholic school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

With this project I wanted to look carefully at the nature of creativity and how it works. I found that the idea of complexity is closely related to creativity. Complexity can be described as a process by which two or more preexisting things are combined to create something new that could not have been previously predicted from the starting point. Creativity can be described the same way with the added element of intent or preference. 

The most creative force I can think of is nature itself. The Universe is a complexity machine. The Universe started out with nothing but hydrogen which eventually formed into all the elements, and then more complex molecules, then single celled organisms. Of course, finally, leading to all the insane diversity of life today including us and the things we create. With this project I wanted to create art that would slowly grow in complexity over time in a poetically similar manner.

So I needed a simple starting point. I chose contrasting black and white patterns with basic two-dimensional geometric shapes. I made hundreds of small drawings combining these simple elements, selecting the ones I prefer, and recombining these without knowing where the work was headed. All of the drawings in this show have come out of this process."

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[joeyclaire]

black mirror ep about nfts

[quatiumcomics]

Underground self made millionaire of urban anime label and brand and the true owner of LosttimeLLC@gmail.com flip mode the shifty tried takeover by evil people. Creates New label to keep creating continuing continuous growth and success with the comic anime books title stories such as Nambi Ichi and the Forsaken, ZERO ZOO, THE DIARY OF JET JULY

And others....

Leave losttime you see now alone. As the art is stolen and the imposters try to be me. The .o ey goes Into nothing you fans want. Expartner screwed everyone involved to investors to people who put the heart and soul into the Project.

Next time listen and do want I say it my company, I'm the one who pays everyone. Not them. None of us got paid, not even me.

Worker hard than. Before because I have less time to do this with. I can still get you guys' money back and still build something better than losttime, it grew and learned and evaluated that together as a team, we can take back what is ours and then some. Project losttime block chain members, I tried to tell you cut him out he was fired for causing chaos and stealing all kinds of money online AND real time. White ain't always right. It is just comfortable to believe in.

Now, round one, rough draft, successful but management were unprofessional and stole the company app and revenue stream of 250 million. Shut down studio, block chain, made the founder homeless, broke and paid people not to help him, and still does. May they all burn in hell....

Kelly Hallman and Stephen Joshua Nix do not have permission to sell, use, manipulate, make deals, sign contracts, or Anyway shape or format represents Adrian C. EUGENE, Adrian Eugene, LosttimeLLC, LOSTTIME COMICS NFT APP, LOSTTIME ENTERTAINMENT, LOSTTIME INC, OR ANY FUTURE ARTWORK ,PROJECTS , BUSINESS VENTURES, I WILL SUE ALL THOSE THAT CONTINE TO SELL MY STOLE ARTWORK SINCE 2020 AS VIOLATION OF US COPYRIGHT LAWS.

I lost that round, but not the fight... moving forward. Thanks goes out to GOD, ME, and my awesome earth angels of tiktok

LoL, Now with this behind me I can truly let go and show shine like I'm supposed too.

I need some sponsorship to stabilize and speed up the come back process,

This includes a equipment list...

1. A computer tower master with a awesome strong fast motherboard graphic,sound card with monster process and mega load of memory. All in one scanner and printer with. high resolution, 2 big hard drives to store data.

2. 8x11 card stork bright white paper case, 8x11 regular bright white typing paper case, mirror pens from size 000.1 - 0.8 bamboo brush pen black different sized, iwata dual trigger airbrush gun 3 of them. Sharpie BLACK MARKERS ALL SIZES

3. Adobe Photoshop Cs5 on Disk or any Adobe Photoshop software 3 and up on disk. Why? Because without the internet, I can still work on projects without being online. Light oars and drawing tablet to draw on the computer with pen with different tips.

Toon Boom Harmony system and a computer tower to be able to run the software completely different data base from the master co.puter system. This one would be the master for the work stations for colorist and aniamtion section.

A adim tower with Microsoft Word, pdf, and other CPA software and printer

A building type warehouse that can be modified into what I need it to be. Plus spe I'll seprate ethernet system firewall from the heavens to block everyone. Lol.

Now you are up to date....

[tumblblabber]

The Simpsons: Treehouse Of Horror XXXIV Details Emerge

Courtesy: FOX The 34th rendition of The Simpsons’ epic yearly anthology tradition for Halloween, Treehouse of Horror, is readying the premiere of its newest entry on November 5th @ 8 pm ET/PT, only on FOX. In the first part, Marge takes a NFT attack against the cartoon characters trap set by Mr. Teeny.in a parody of Black Mirror Bandersnatch. Meanwhile, the second part is a parody of The Silence…

[andythecorsair]

"Prompt Engineering" is the same as "Googling"

Yeah, I just discovered the term in response to the above article. I'll tell you now: plugging in some key words to a search engine (AI or no) is not creative. It's not art. And it's certainly not "engineering". By the same token, this post makes me an internationally-published journalist. Fuck off. AI "art" is the new NFT monkey scam.

[1nm2]

is there new black mirror?

before watching anything, i want earthworms that live in kennel holes their size, waking up every day to stare at mini computer screens of nft prices

[queerautism]

'quests' for the black mirror NFT 'experience' are finally up, after much hype... And most of them are basically transparent attempts to get more engagement on twitter. Honestly kinda pathetic

[colouritlater]

Ooh, NFTs gonna change gaming you will see. The biggest accomplishments so far seem to be a pyramid scheme exploiting people in poor countries black mirror style, and a toilet themed generic endless runner that does not look better than anything you could download from the app store on your mobile. The future of gaming it is not.

[unoriginaldotdotdot]

First Crypto's, then NFT's and now it's AI generated arts. Digital age is looking like a Black Mirror episode every single day. Humanity always have to prove how much more terrifying they can be with technology.

And don't get me even started about the dark side of social media.

[falselyprofound]

The Neopets NFT Debacle: A Summary Somehow Not The First Time This Has Happened!

So. Neopets recently announced its latest merchandising venture: Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Without getting into the nitty-gritty technical details, these tokens are a digital collector’s item - a randomly-generated string of letters and numbers (’token’), with a unique picture of a customized Neopet that represents it. Kind of like a digital trading card.

No, you don’t get to choose what species of pet. No, you don’t get to choose what it’s wearing. No, you don’t get the pet on the main website. And no, you don’t even really own the artwork. Just the token.

Given that Neopets has continued to advertise itself as a children’s petsite, players have understandably been confused by the very non-kiddy merch move. And - more importantly - pissed.

It’s been a mess of a month so here’s a (not-so) quick recap of both the details and drama.

September 22nd:

Neopets Metaverse tweets for the first time, announcing that it will be creating a new line of official, Neopets-themed Non-Fungible Tokens.

A member of the Neopets Nation Facebook fan page notes that the twitter account is not being followed by the official Neopets twitter, nor has it received any public endorsement from the company. (x)

A Neopets Nation member sends a direct message to the Neopets twitter account, asking about the partnership. The staff member in charge of social media responds ���I believe that is a scam.” (x)

Some hours later, the official Neopets twitter retweets the announcement, clarifying that it is indeed an official partnership. (x)

People are pissed.

September 23rd:

The Neopets team posts the announcement on the site’s New Features page, spreading the news to the playerbase at large. (x)

Users start voicing their concerns on the site’s forums (NeoBoards). Among the complaints are environmental concerns, the lack of site integration, the ugly RNG artwork, and Neopets’s long history of not delivering on merchandise. (Remind me to make a separate post on that last part because it’s a whole thing.)

Neopets responds by reassuring players that the partnership is legitimate and not a scam. ...That’s it. (x)

Fansite JellyNeo echoes the announcement to their homepage, with an added warning; “As a reminder, the last foray into Neopet crypto collectibles ended with the cards being largely worthless and unsellable. (The marketplace to sell/trade the cards was also shut down.)” (x)

The official NeopetsMeta discord server is reportedly a complete mess.

“...ever since this went up all I've seen in NFT spaces is talk of literally buying [Neopets] accounts on the black market to get a 'head start on the competition', so it's good to see that the rules of the website only apply to the long-time users and not the people wanting to pump and dump this community." (comment in ”love the new audience the NFTs are attracting!!”, 24 Sep 2021 - 5:09 am) “I don't know what NFT chats you mean but in the one specifically for Neopets Metaverse people are being overt about their motives.” (herdygerdy, JellyNeo staff, confirming the above)

No sign of any Neopets staff members. (x)

Also, one of the lead admins is called Jizz. Family friendly. (x)

September 24th:

A Neopets user does some digging into the partnership company, taking screenshots and documenting results on a petpage (originally NetDragon69, currently NFTurd. Mirror here). They note the following:

Moonvault, the company behind the NFTs, has existed for roughly a month. It's a shell company with little-to-no information on its homepage. A homepage which is mostly stock assets, anyhow.

Moonvault’s partner companies are both owned by NetDragon (which owns Neopets) and are most likely money laundering schemes.

One of said partner companies will write positive news articles about your company if you pay them. Hmm.

A disgruntled player posts the full names of JumpStart’s upper management to the boards. Players track down their LinkedIn profiles and start sending messages directly to the CEO, en masse. While this is public information and not considered doxxing, it is against site policy. Curiously, the thread remained up for at least twelve hours. Mods asleep, post their boss’s contact details.

Solana, the crypto-company powering the technology used for the NFTs, claims to be better for the environment than other methods of making crypto-merch. Heated arguments over whether or not NFTs can be environmentally friendly ensue. 2am rolls around, and I bail on the conversation after a crypto-bro unironically calls me sheeple.

At least one Neopets user is accused of being JumpStart staff in disguise, as their account is less than a month old and they seem to be the one (1) person on the boards defending the NFTs. This is likely untrue but it was very, very funny to read.

NeopetsMeta retweets an advertisement for, uh... Horny Hedgehogs. It’s nothing particularly graphic but sure, link to cartoon hedgehogs humping each other from your kids site merch page, why dont’cha. (x)

China declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal. Not because of TNT, obviously, but the timing is again very, very funny. This includes NFTs. Given that NetDragon is a Chinese company, this now means they’re also in some legal deep shit. (x)

September 25th:

JellyNeo staff member Herdy recaps and further explains the above happenings on a pet page. He also notes the following:

The artwork being used for the Dimensional Kougra NFT is not the official artwork, but rather an image unique to the Neopets fansite Dress To Impress. When this mistake is pointed out, the promotional artwork that included the Kougra is replaced with a Chocolate Kougra without comment. It’s currently unknown if the stolen asset is still in the system, but it does confirm that NeopetsMeta has no access to the site’s image databases. (x) (mirror) (archive of original page)

JellyNeo publicly criticized NeopetsMeta for tweeting a link to literal horny hedgehogs. Rather than taking the tweet down, NeopetsMeta instead accused JellyNeo of spreading misinformation. ...Even though their original tweet is still up. (x) (mirror)

He also speculates from past NFT endeavors that the starting price for one Neopets NFT is somewhere in the ballpark of $450 USD.

September 26 ~ 28:

No additional statements are made by TNT, and things on the NeoBoards begin to die down in lieu of new things to discuss. Less threads being made, but the ones that remained stayed active.

(Most of the drama around this time targeted a few specific players, particularly one who works in the Crypto industry. While it was certainly a thing to read, I won’t recap it here.)

JellyNeo reports that members of the NeopetsMeta Discord server have been receiving direct messages from bot accounts, attempting to trick new NFT-buyers into scams disguised as freebie giveaways. (x)

...An issue that is somewhat magnified by the fact that the Discord server is doing a recruitment leaderboard-based giveaway around the same time. (Can you say ‘MLM’?) (x)

September 29:

Homophobic language is used in the NeopetsMeta Discord server (specifically the f-slur), and is not filtered out by its moderation bot. When this is brought to the attention of the actual human mod, he chucks a shitfit. It’s three hours before the offending message is deleted. (x) (x) Bonus points: “gay” is automatically filtered out. (x)

Side-tangent: it’s only been nine months since Neopets began allowing users to use terms such as “lesbian” and “transgender” on the site itself (”gay” is allowed by site rules, but still filtered out). Pride-themed merchandise is available in their store year-round. This is who they wanna partner with, huh. (x) (x)

September 30:

Continuing the streak of Discord drama, an admin channel on NeopetsMeta is accidentally made public. “Included in this channel was curated feedback gathered in private by mods from members of the community they valued. [...Regarding] suggestions for the future direction of Neopets Metaverse.”

The list of suggestions includes pushing TNT to release extra pet slots and release new UC (”Unconverted”/extremely rare) pets ahead of schedule, in order to “distract” players. (x) (x)

Entrants to Neopets’s weekly Beauty Contest (art competition) submit anti-NFT protest artwork. The winning entry is deleted from the listings, presumably for being a part of the protest. It is restored after users complain, but the New Features page notably does not list the winners and instead showcases the 2nd place artwork instead. (Quote 2nd place: “I'm really disappointed that they would use my art to censor the real winner. First place won fair and square.”) (x) (x) (x)

October:

The NeopetsMeta Discord moderator responsible for the aforementioned shitfit is kicked, with the staff issuing an apology... and he is replaced with a brand new discord account that definitely isn’t just him on a side account.

Neopets Metaverse releases their roadmap (plan for the future of the project). The roadmap lacks any dates or technical details and can thus be read more as a wishlist than an actual, tangible project.

Tl;dr - their ultimate intention is to fork (duplicate) the main site and make it entirely operate on blockchain items. ...So you’ll have to pay for literally everything. (x) (x)

Neopets Fansites organize a two-day blackout in protest, altering their homepages and encouraging players not to log into the main site. Participating fansites include JellyNeo, Dress To Impress, the Neopian Writer’s Forum, The Daily Neo, Reddit community r/Neopets, Lost And Pound, and more. (x)

Neopets fan artists get more subtle with their protest artwork, and a No-NFT image makes the site’s front page. (x)

@NeopetsMeta on twitter creates and posts a Soyjack meme calling people against the project “Hateooooors”. I took actual psychic damage from typing that. (x)

The tweet is deleted by NeopetsMeta after considerable backlash. The Wayback Machine archive is also deleted, though QRTs responding to the original (14-tweet long) thread remain. (x) (x) (x)

NeopetsMeta issues an official apology for the tweet. (x) The response from the community boils down to “get bent”. (x) (x)

A Reddit user who works in the NFT industry makes a post on r/Neopets explaining that what the team is doing can’t even properly be called a ‘Metaverse’. I’ll be honest, I didn’t understand a word of it, but here’s the link if you’re interested. (x)

The Neopets Team posts an official apology for this ongoing PR disaster to the NeoBoards. They assert that JumpStart does not support the bigoted beliefs held by the Metaverse staff, that JumpStart will start moderating the discord server, and that protest entries will now be permitted in the Beauty Contest. There are no plans to cancel the project. (Also, not really relevant but kinda funny - TNT member Petrichor is shuffled away from working on the site. She was Neopets’ community manager for a grand total of... three weeks. Hoooly shit.) (x)

The Neopets Metaverse discord server is raided (spammed) by protestors. The moderators respond by publicly doxxing one spammer’s instagram account. The ensuing harassment forces the spammer to delete their social media accounts, and two moderators involved in the incident are later booted from the server. (x)

Crypto-merch company Quidd announces it will be releasing its own line of Neopets-themed “digital collectibles”. While not necessarily NFTs, buyers have the option to mint them into Etherium-powered NFTs. (Aka, the crypto-service that’s most garbage for the environment.)

Just to be clear, JumpStart didn’t change companies. They’re now multi-track NFT drifting. ok. (x)

Quidd retracts its announcement of the project from both its social media and discord server within 24 hours: “In the case of the new [Neopets] channel, our partners wanted to put a little more time between another project that they dropped and our project. So, it's a delay, not a cancellation.” We’ll see, Quidd. We’ll see. (x)

Another protest image wins the Beauty Contest. Normally I wouldn’t consider this noteworthy but it is, as the kids say, rather sussy. (x) (x)

November (Pre-Sale):

An official price point for Metaverse NFTs is set - or rather, prices. The more that are sold, the more expensive future ones will become, until eventually they cap out at a whopping 4 SOL (approx $1000 usd). What’s more, the number of NFTs being sold is cut in half in order to promote a fear of missing out. (x)

It’s worth noting that even NFT buyers are unhappy with this plan, as it encourages bots to buy up the cheapest ones and discourages legitimate collectors. (x)(x)

9 hours prior to the NFTs going on sale, scam twitter account @NeopetMeta (singular ‘Neopet’) posts their own version of the site. At the time of writing, the dupe account has reportedly stolen 243 SOL (approx $55066 usd). (x)(x)(x)

Launch goes as expected, by which I mean “bots buy all the cheap stuff and hobbyists decide not to bother”. (x)

Legitimate buyers report being banned from the Discord for asking which account is the real account. (x) The invite link to the Discord channel is removed from the official twitter, possibly due to the scam account swarming them with bots.

November (Post-Sale):

The sale period ends. 42% of the stock is sold (approx. 8,707.5 SOL, or $2.1 million USD). The rest are “burnt” - made permanently unavailable. (x)

Obligatory right-clicking ensues. (x)

Post-sale statistics indicate that 1,000 NFTs were apparently sold before the sale went live - meaning that only 246 could be purchased at the base price by outsiders. (x)

A good number of images were generated incorrectly - fur clips through clothing, Transparent and Eventide pets are completely opaque, Wraith pets are missing their smoke effects, some only have one piece of clothing. Also, there’s only ten species, and 50% of pets have the Sad expression. (x) (x)

Fansite Dress To Impress openly questions how the images were generated and officially revokes any permissions the Metaverse team may have had to use their (pet image-generating) service. (x)

NetDragon issues a press release that goes over the details of the sale, believing it to be a “success” that garnered “strong interest” from the community. (x) (x)

Neopets gets a new marketing employee who is Pro-NFT. She is doxxed by angry players within the week. (x)

...So yeah, that’s where we are in this on-going shitfest. Will add new developments as they come!