#VERY quickly

[a-small-writer-in-a-big-world]

When Price’s eyes are hidden underneath his hat I go just a little feral

[wolfavens]

IV. write me a song i can fall in love to

[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?

[softerhaze]

if ruthie had a penny for every time she successfully pleaded for another sim’s life, she’d have 2 pennies...which isn’t a lot...but it’s weird that it’s happened twice

[bitletsanddrabbles]

-Initial Response to Rewrites-

Oh, okay! I can do this super easy!

-Having Thought About It A Touch More-

Well, okay, no, I can't do exactly what I was thinking, but what I can do is basically just as good.

-Post First Revisions-

See? Easy peasy! Now I just need to start on the new material.

-After 24 Hours of Consideration-

... ... ... ...okay, so if I add two new volumes, plus a set of appendixes...appendices?...whatever too busy to look it up....then go on a five month quest to find the Holy Grail... ... ...

[your-friendly-neighbourh00d-fag]

stranger things fandom is this a good time to say that i respect h*rringroves more than anyone who ships any cast members together 🧍‍♀️

like- sorry, if i see filli3 fadi3 f0ah nilli3 any of the likes i'm instantly blocking you. no. not happening.

[blackkatmagic]

Some graceful ladies for you

Meet Sadie (orange) and Madame (calico)

Aw, how lovely! Give them some pats for me. 💕

[saintl-y]

I made an edit fuck you/silly

IT'S BEAUTIFUL

[hashtagcaneven]

When your silly little question about the implications of the Cars 2 having a Popemobile leads to multiple friends groups that you are not a part of arguing about how the Cars would have sex

[sugarchains]

listen it was the last period

student: gimme beso!

me: MWAH!

student: extendo!

coteacher: i carry b's like im preggo!

whole class: BOP BOP BOPBOP-

[dcwnrisen-aa]

when he's on the verge of being petty despite having a good day.

[risingsouls]

" This is why I don't play these asinine games. How absurd.... "

[wayward40k]

Does the Heiress have bionics/augments?

send me questions you have about my character!

Negative. She is, at the present moment, entirely natural.

[jewishdragon]

I wanna know in what world a man with encyclopedic zoology knowledge and the skills to come up with and test novel zoology theories on the fly is dumb enough to be a himbo?

justice for kabru. they put my man in the wrong genre. bro was meant to be playing psychological games with light yagami and instead he’s playing yaoi mind tennis with a blonde himbo

[diamondnokouzai]

"the pvp on this site is brutal" "this website's hatemail game is insane" you guys werent here from 2013-2016. they shot you if you reblogged from someone who reblogged from someone who liked kill la kill.

[the-real-pink-ninja]

Aurnia in her ZX (Zen eXtreme) gi. It's a bit big on her! XD