#ai bros hate tumblr artists. they dont want their art to look like ours. they don't use “tumblr” as a prompt they use “artstation.” etc

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as much as it sucks on sheer principle that tumblr is dipping into the AI kool-aid, i feel like it'll impact the aesthetic blog side of the site wayyy more than folks who draw. and aesthetic bloggers already treat photography like an infinite resource of stealable content, so idk how much of a difference it'll make in the grand scheme of things. i think we'll witness a dystopian development where aesthetic photosets get increasingly ungrounded from reality. generating totally unreal slop that vaguely resembles "cottagecore" or "dark academia" or "vaporwave," but the longer you squint at it, the more you realize you can't fully grasp any object in the image, and it becomes just sludge emulating sludge emulating sludge