#ai for ts

[zuzsenpai]

I'm honestly so furious right now. I work in a video and photography department for a large healthcare organization. We're a department of 9, plus an intern. We're under the "marketing" umbrella, though we do a lot more than marketing for the network (for example we also make patient and employee education videos/photos/animations).

Yesterday the social media department (also part of marketing. We supply photos and videos for them to post) posted an AI generated image on our company's instagram page. It was a photorealistic AI image of a baby, used to promote our pediatric cardiology service line. The image is so ridiculously obviously AI, it makes me want to puke. It's uncanny, too smooth with zero skin texture, the eyes are messed up, and the "baby" literally has full eyelashes on one eye and none on the other.

I'm livid because it's like... what the fuck do they need OUR department for if they're going to be using AI now?

To our knowledge, this is the first time they've done this. I get that there's an "argument" to be made that it's incredibly difficult and time consuming to set up a photoshoot with a real baby, and they wanted something fast and easy because the marketing service line directors are constantly on social media's ass to push out abhorrent amounts of marketing content on social media. This culture will never change. We've tried to explain that people don't like seeing constant mediocre ads for healthcare service lines when they are on social media. But the higher ups won't listen to that AT ALL. So... AI generated gross ass baby it is (I cannot stress enough how creepy this "baby" looks).

But it's a slippery slope. Because first it's a baby. Next it'll be a fake orthopedic surgery patient because who has time to find a real patient for our photographers to shoot? Never mind that people on social media actually DO like seeing real patient stories. Next it'll be a billboard on the highway with AI generated doctors because who cares to know what their real doctor looks like, right? This is making me so mad for the photographers in my department who work so fucking hard to shoot and edit stunning, quality images. Their jobs will be relegated to event photography until someday an unmanned robot can set up their own camera and do that too (they probably already can?).

Recently one of the service line directors in marketing asked me to use an AI voice for an animation I'm making. I had to put my foot down and say that we have three fantastic local voiceover artists who we use for these kinds of projects. One of them is a retired gentleman who went to school with my dad and is always extremely happy to get work from us. Sometimes I think these marketing people just want to use AI because it's trendy.

I understand that there are other industries and individuals who are already being massively affected by AI to a much larger and much more detrimental degree. And that my problems are largely me spinning out of control. I figured AI would hit us eventually, and there's really nothing I can do except continue to put my foot down about the voiceover thing. I can't do much for the photographers, sadly. I'm too nervous to get mad at social media, though I really wish I could at least point out how disgusting that baby looks. But I'm worried that I'm going to be some sort of pariah if I voice my opinion on it. I already get paid peanuts and there's really no way for me to advance my career here. So being the "person who shits on social media for using AI" might be detrimental to me in the long run. I really DO want to advocate for our photographers, but is it my place? Idk, it's complicated.

[fraterrisus]

Here's the other thing that bugs me about AI chatbots:

If you've been looking at all the factual inaccuracies that these things put out and thinking to yourself "Well that's just a temporary thing — clearly they're going to work on improving the engines until they stop lying / learn to distinguish fact from fiction / only say true things..."

Consider this: it is advantageous to the companies producing the bots for the bots to lie to you, and for you to learn to believe them (or at least be confused about whether or not you should believe them).

Because it's much easier to sell you things that way. And that is the entire point.

[fraterrisus]

absolutely using "cat farts" to refer to dumb-ass AI output from now on

“French is such a beautiful, romantic language.”

“Cat, I farted.”

[mhin-t]

finally, a finished piece!!! version with just the line art + ref linked under the read more

-> link to the reference here <-

also i know his nails don't actually look like that, but they do. in my heart. trust me.

[danger-bird]

Guy can't catch a break🐦

[thiefkingyall]

Now for the painstaking colouring process... pray for my hands- hand writing those notes to look like they were scrawled hastily while slipping into madness was... not something I had expected to do. Ahem... now if you'll excuse me... the Seaspring calls.

[maboroshiiro]

Ais doodle/wip~ the initial plan was to do this in watercolor, lets see how it goes...

[dawnarrii]

Doodles

I asked the deities from Instagram what their hearts desired and I drew them what they want >:DD

Some of my favorite ones I did;

Left; Vere&Ais Right; Mhin&Ais babysitting a duckling

MhinxKuras with a bonus comic(Kuras being too tall for Mhin's phone that it disconnects his earpod)

Carving and giving their heart out to Kuras or Leander

Literally just Mhin(and more Mhin)

[angeloferidia]

Hey girl, I deliver more ts textposts upon thee

[eniiart]

A small Ais and Vere fanart 👀

And also a little lame animation~

[dreamtydraw]

The shop just reopened ( yay ) ! I’m finally able to show the new designs I worked on, my favorite being this little series with the touchstarved character !

The stickers are available alongside their bigger version on my shop : Here

[mintjeru]

hot girl summer 🔥

open for better quality | no reposts

[fraterrisus]

assembled friends, I present to you your new AI powered "search engine":

It probably doesn't need saying, but this is basically the endgame for the utility of search engines. Things had been going this way for a while, but at this point you no longer have access to the actual content on the web; it is 100% filtered and repackaged for you. Not only will it be ads-first, you'll be lucky if you get any non-ad data out of it.

No, I don't have the better answer here. The fact that Google search worked as well it did for as long as it did was always a miracle / clearly a loss leader. But it does make me think of a few things.

There was a point about a decade ago at which the W3C was trying to figure out what to do about DRM standards for playing media over the internet. The big media companies (and, to some extent, the browser companies) were basically threatening to pick up their ball and go home and invent an Internet Two that they could control via their own standards. Instead, W3C caved and agreed to publish web standards for DRM, as a way of keeping all that content on the actual Internet.

To this day I wonder if we'd have been better off if we'd let them go. CorpNet would probably look a lot like the modern web does, all surveillance capitalism and advertising, but you'd be able to watch TV and movies there and stream music.

Would the "other" Internet have died off? I kind of doubt it. Enough current browser tech is open-source that something would still exist. Given the IndieWeb movement that's kicking up these days (examples: Mastodon/ActivityPub, the re-emergence of personal websites, RSS feeds that never actually went away) I more or less expect the Internet would have carried on as-is.

Social media, of course, would have been caught in this really interesting middle ground; see also Cat Valente's excellent rant. Maybe "we" would have figured out how to support services we cared about some other way (don't say "micropayments"), and sites like Dreamwidth (or Tumblr) would have survived just fine. Or maybe all the payment processors would have abandoned the old 'Net and we would have been forced to find another way. Like I say, I don't have the answers.

It's just that, these days, I don't have a lot of hope, either.

[touchstarvedbrainrot]

A day w/ perv! touchstarved characters

MDNI yeah? Just the LIs being dirty, needy perverts over MC; they low-key take advantage of ya- nothing too extreme but pls don't read if that makes u uncomfy. Yeah just smutty headcanons basically

Perv!Kuras who gives you such caring checkups, gliding his hands over your body.. asking you to bend over and stretch for him. Look at you, being so obedient for him, showing him all the tricks your pretty body can do. It’s all part of the checkup, of course. Even when he rubs your tummy and squeezes your thighs so, so gently… just trust him, he’s the professional, he can take care of you. He can make you so good if you’d just be his Though his bedside manner is still a bit lacking, considering the way he ushers you out so quickly… hoping against hope that you didn’t notice the precum staining through the peak in the bulge in his pants as he rushes into the backroom, fingers twitching over his cock as he undoes his clothes, almost whimpering at the pent-up need for you… with each and every throb and twitch, he becomes more desperate for you… 

Perv!Ais who’s so sweet to invite you over for tea all the time. He’s a decently good host after all, always having plushy pillows and rugs laid out for you to lounge around on while you sip your tea and chat with him. Of course, you don’t know that that exact spot where you’re sitting is where he was spilling cum into his hand for the fifth damn time just thinking of your voice… or of how cute you would be squirming and whining under him, all fucked-out. You don’t know that he barely had time to wipe up the mess before you arrived, that those are your special pillows… the ones only you use to sit, and the ones he humps while he breathes in your still-lingering scent after you leave. You don’t know that while you’re chatting, he’s only thinking of pinning you down and rutting into you until your poor little hole is all sore and sensitive from him… his sweet little sparrow.

Perv!Mhin who follows you as you walk home. Just to make sure you’re not a threat, of course. Just to do recon. Certainly not so that they can watch the sway of your hips and ass as you walk. They just love letting the little critters in the dark alleys spook you, so that they can appear at just the right time, your little guardian angel always there to make you feel good safe. And to scold you, because the way you get all pouty and huffy over it makes them wonder how you’d react to their praise. Or if eventually you’d give up that bratty attitude and take the degradation like a good fucking slut. They say goodnight to you at the entrance to the tavern, though it’s only the last you’ll be seeing of them, they’re going to be keeping an eye on you. Just to make sure you’re not a threat, of course. Certainly not because the Wet Wick’s curtains are thin enough to show your silhouette as you change- oh god you’re fucking yourself and they’re about to cum on the spot

Perv!Vere who greets you as you come downstairs from your room, giving you no time to ask what he’s doing slumming in this shithole as his eyes dilate in that unnatural way. He glares at you and storms outside, because you smell like everyone but him. And that’s the opposite of what it should be. He’s about to go and tell you to stop paying attention to those idiots (yes, even Ais… he’s better than Ais, don’t you know that??) when he realizes there’s another smell on you. Your own need… all relieved now, hm? He knows he could make you feel so much better than you could do for yourself, but he has no time to dwell on that as he slinks back inside and up the stairs to your room, finding your discarded underwear with your sticky, hot wetness all over it. You’re supposed to be the needy one, not him… but that doesn’t stop him from burying his face in the soft cloth and breathing you in until you’re the only scent he knows, his tail wagging furiously as he pockets the garment and heads back outside. 

Perv!Leander who meets you at the bar when you come downstairs, who loves that sleepy, exhausted look in your eyes. You look so so so pretty like that… and it’s so easy to slip you more and more drinks until he’s herding letting your curious hands run allllll over his body… even the parts that make him shiver and bite his lip. Maybe he should tie you up instead, hm? But he won’t do that. Not yet at least, not when your sweet touch is pressing against his most sensitive spot and your tipsy self is giggling at his blushy reaction. Do you know what you’re doing to him? Please keep doing it… please, he’ll be a good boy for you just keep doing it. He takes such good care of you, leading you back up to your room, helping you strip down to your undergarments, practically tucking you in. Wait, how did he get into your room? You were sure you locked it when you left. Oh well, he’s just being sweet, nothing to worry about.. 

[aiscapades]

TOUCHSTARVED HALLOWEEN ICONS !

i wanted to see spookier energy in our fandom so i made some icons for y'all :) i wanted to do a simple icon set like this & finally had free time so,, better late than never! absolutely free to use, no credit needed!!! 🎃

[danger-bird]

I am rooting for the underdogs again.

Patience is a virtue, dear childern☝🏼

Kuras thought Ais wanted to read the shipment lists with him - turns out that's not what he's looking for. Birthday man wants a birthday kiss!