#I'm going to try ai stuff

[wc-m0ch4]

Working on a 2012 tmnt x reader (Slightly Leo x reader) multi-chapter fic that's like 8 kinds of fucked up so don't be expecting that anytime soon LMAO

Also I've been getting out of my funk and getting back to work on requests (It's been like half a year sorry 💀)

Anyways, hope y'all are doing good, I'm not dead, just lazy and trying to do 20 things at once cuz I can't commit to SHIT

[asleepinawell]

i cancelled my subscription to ad free tumblr due to the absurd price hike. i'd originally subscribed because i grew up in a time before the proliferation of advertising-driven websites (we had sketchy porn ad banners that gave you malware but that was about it) and i just. fucking. hate. seeing ads. and everything they stand for in terms of privacy and capitalism. before i was using a combo of pcap and personalDNS to zap the ads in the app which mostly worked but required constant maintenence. i just don't have the energy for it so when my subscription runs out next month i'll probably be switching to the very buggy and slow mobile browser which ultimately means using tumblr less

i don't think driving people off the app is what the decision makers at tumblr expected to happen with the price hike, but here we are. having been an early adopter both because i hate ads and because i believe a site beholden to its users' money rather than advertisers' is a better site (we are currently the product and not the customer), the additional fee feels slimey. tumblr said that they hadn't gotten enough subscribers to make a difference. i'm unclear how trying to squeeze more money from the people who do subscribe will change this (the "features" it's adding are not one i need or want and as of today 01/26 there aren't multiple tiers available)

unfortunately due to the low adoption of the ad free subscribers we don't have much leverage (since people on this site look for the worst interpretation of every sentence let me state that this is not an admonishment of those who didn't subscribe. okay? okay. moving on), but companies tend to cry and scream at even small profit losses these days, and, more accurately, at a failure to endlessly increase profits, an unrealistic and severally damaging goal

so basically what I'm saying is cancel that shit. don't buy shit on their store. and then tell them why in feedback (i have already done this and will again soon). we have very little leverage, but we should use every bit of it

tumblr has been a great community for fandom (due to the users, not the owners), and, as I've frequently stated, one of the best posting formats for it. both the fandom and the online queer community I've found here have been lifesaving at times, no exaggeration. certain other social media companies we all know are currently embracing a fascist government here in the US and i wouldn't be shocked if automattic follows suit (see: the ongoing mistreatment of trans women here). even if it doesn't, the general decline in community in favor of "content" consumption and AI bullshit (yes this includes char ai. stop that shit. i faced wildfire evacuations recently due to the global warming the ai servers are accelerating. i have fucking had it with you selfish assholes. you are actively endangering people with this bullshit no matter how you try to justify it) has hurt everyone and made posting things less appealing (there at other factors here, like censorship culture, but i digress)

basically there are a lot of reasons for me to use this platform less now. which sucks. I'm not going to vanish or stop posting completely, but my motivation to use this platform is at an all time low. being forced to see ads on top of all the other shit is just the latest enraging bullshit and i'm putting my money (or withholding thereof) where my typing finger is

[yuseirra]

**oshi no ko spoilers**

the more I look into it, the more I'm convinced that they understood each other very well. Ai knew exactly what words she could use that'd prove effective for Hikaru and let her achieve her desired results. Hikaru is one of the two people who suggests Ai is a normal girl with fantasies forced on her... That backfired in a really tragic way

[lesbiancarat]

want to give my two cents on the AI usage in the maestro trailer--

i think seventeen doing a whole concept that is anti-AI is very cool, especially as creatives themselves i think it's good that they're speaking up against it and i hope it gets more ppl talking about the issue. i also understand on a surface level the artistic choice (whether it was made by the members, the mv director, or whoever else), to directly use AI in contrast to real, human-made visuals and music in order to criticize it. i also appreciate that they clearly stated the intention of the use of AI at the beginning of the video

however, although i understand it to an extent, i do not agree with the choice to use AI to critique AI. one of the main ethical concerns with generative AI is that it is trained on other artists' work without their knowledge, consent, or compensation. and even when AI generated images are being used to critique AI, it still does not negate this particular ethical concern

the use of AI to critique also does not negate the fact that this is work that could have been done by an actual artist. i have seen some people argue that it's okay in this context because it's a critique specifically about AI, and it is content that never would have been done by a real artist anyway because it doesn't make sense for the story they're trying to tell. but i disagree. i think you can still tell the exact same story without using AI

and in fact, i would argue that it would make the anti-AI message stronger if they HAD paid an artist to draw/animate the scenes that are supposed to represent AI generated images. wouldn't it just be proof that humans can create images that are just as bad and nonsensical and soulless as AI, but that AI can't replicate the creativity and beauty and basic fucking anatomy that's in human-made art?

it feels very obvious this was not just a way to cut corners and costs like a lot of scummy people are using AI for. ultimately it was a very intentional creative decision, i just personally think it was a very poor one. and even if some ethical considerations were taken into account before this decision, i certainly don't think all of them were. at the very least i feel like the decision undermines the message they want to convey

i would also like to recognize that i myself am not an artist, and i have seen some artists that are totally on board with the use of AI in this specific context, so clearly this is not a topic that is cut and dry. but generative AI is still new, and i think it's important to keep having these conversations

[tiny-tf-faces]

I hope this blog is great AI dataset poison. Of course I have 3rd party sharing turned off, but it's not like an AI company is actually gonna listen to that stuff

The majority of generated transformers imagery I've seen is already just blobs of color. Ironically, robots are hard for AI to understand. And here am I, with hundreds of scruched up little (though maybe even too little to be included in a dataset) images, selected specifically for looking weird, all tagged various transformers characters. Just imagine what all those croissant Arcees could do to an image generator!

[drones-of-innocence]

ChatGPT Fanfiction in My Style

Just did a funny little exercise:

I asked ChatGPT to write a fanfiction like I would, and it lowkey startled me with how concisely it described my writing style. I know that it's AI and its literal purpose is to use all the data at its disposal to create these responses, but still, like, that's me. So at first I was a little alarmed by what it gave me.

...Like, excuse me?>?? This is absolutely something I would write??

Am I about to be outdone by a robot??

But then I kept reading:

Like it's cute, but..."Peach's Day??" Or Mario putting on his clothes "after the day's heroics?" The very juvenile cheesiness of "moments like these" that matter the most?

Granted it's very short so there isn't much wiggle room to try to make a nice point or theme like it's trying to there at the end, but I just get the sense that there's something totally absent from here that a human-written story would have effortlessly. I wish I could explain it but I can't really put my finger on it. It's disingenuous.

Maybe I'm not being fair because it's not like my singular style is providing the engine with endless amounts of data to try and really emulate my style. But I have several stories out there and I think it's interesting that it's able to define and approximate my style in some way.

I don't really have a huge takeaway here, only that I'm not really worried about AI taking over for creatives. This did a really nice job of imitating my writing in terms of the prose and how the characters interact, but it's very inorganic at the same time. The story feels blocky, almost. I'm no expert on what makes writing great, but I know it's not this, and that it's not me either. And anyway, the more these engines get refined, the less accurate they actually become, so I think us writers and artists are gonna be alright.

[disposal-blueeee]

recent sketches

hhhello been inactive for a while so have some sketches i've done recently XP

changed the way i draw the little guy

a friend had this hc that during chapter 27 edgar wasn't really taking care of himself so his hair got longer . then zarla confirmed it

thing i banged in like 30 minutes instead of going to sleep . this is from @metamorphmigus and @cherry-207's au , btw

lolol that's literally all idk why i thought i had more things

[sofastuffing]

i have a headache

[darkdragon768]

[egginfroggin]

I usually try not to get too negative on my blog, but I have to say that one thing that I'm worried about with AI art is the possible accusations that could be placed on people with certain artstyles (surrealism, hyperrealism, etc.) that are more prone to the "uncanny valley" effect, or even just artists who are in that midway point where most of a piece looks great but there's a few things that are anatomically questionable.

I think it's fine for people to have suspicions, but I'm worried that people will come to expect things such as progress videos or shots as a given, and that this will intimidate young or new artists, making them feel incredibly pressured to provide things that they shouldn't have to. And, speaking from experience, pressure does not do good things to the creative mind.

I'm worried that people will start seeing inconsistencies or awkward anatomy and immediately react with accusations of AI. It's happening on other platforms, and probably also on Tumblr, and as much as I dislike AI, I think that people need to learn to slow down and really look at something before making that accusation.

What good will stamping out AI with vigor do if innocent artists get caught in the crossfire and stop creating out of fear? What good will it do if the next generation of artists is too scared to share and inspire each other?

Genuinely, I would personally rather deal with AI images existing while still being able to freely share my actual works than I would deal with tiptoeing around very real people who would dismiss my hours of work (and musculoskeletal pain) as worthless and not real. Let artists still be free for goodness' sake.

I can be more thoroughly worded later if anyone asks, and this will probably be sorely misinterpreted, but I just need to get this out and I'm tired.

TLDR: It's fine to be against AI-generated images, but please check yourself and be careful who you accuse of using such technology before you get someone innocent caught up in it. AI-generated art isn't great, and neither is putting down someone's hard work as fake.

[spotlightstudios]

I didn't realize how much I really do need to be an English Minor until my supervisor gave me an article to summarize the other day (we didn't write it, we were using it for a newsletter) and one paragraph in I saw something that looked stupid and therefore I researched it (yes it was stupid) and the rest of the article was very much just an advert for the site it was on without much actual, y'know, *substance*??? And istg I sat there for a solid 30 seconds buffering about how easily I dissected that Thang and tore it to SHREDS in my notes as tho my 11th grade teacher asked me to write a review on it.

And then I swallowed my pride and summarized it because I'm an intern, don't get paid enough to try and find a better article for my supervisor to approve, and I'm 75% sure no one is going to actually read beyond my little blurbs so it's fine. Whatever.

[wanderingmind867]

Well, today's been stressful. I ended up with two to three meltdowns, and the visit to the school really stressed me out. Still, I plan to skip the first day tomorrow, but then psych myself up for going on Thursday. I covered all my stressors in my new pinned post (please read it, I spent like an hour writing it), and now I just have to see how my stomach is when I have to stay in a school building from 8 am to 2 pm. We'll see how I manage. I don't really see it going well, but I'm naturally pessimistic. And just as a bonus reminder: I cover all this in my big pinned post, too. So please read it, even if it's massive.

[nitro-box]

*twirls my hair (i am bald)* chat would u be mad at me if i made another ask blog 🥺

of course u wouldn't bc u love me and my delicious scrumptious art and all of my characterizations

[theoreticalli]

I will not get into arguments with my irl friends about ai I will not get into arguments with my irl friends about ai I will not get into arguments with my irl friends about ai I will not get into arguments with my irl friends about ai

[luvevee]

Idk the more bs I see about a/i the more hopeless and uninspired I get about writing anything

[astrxealis]

hozier yoo