#ai replaced

[cyclopsarts]

Able thought removing caine from the game would delete him and he was very wrong

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

[fixing-bad-posts]

I don't care. I don't care. AI entertainment without anything in it. could it hurt? yes. By using AI the investors make money on theft.

[ot3]

ten years from now when we look back at the initial hysteria around ai image generation we will understand that what actually ends up protecting people will be talking realistically about the positives and negatives of generative ai as a tool, developing standards within artist communities about what respectful and productive ai use looks like in commercial pipelines, pushing for transparency about these processes, and developing strong communities with fellow artists to try and leverage what little power we have against the job insecurity that has been plaguing creative fields for decades.

regardless of whether or not you agree with them about the nature of Real Art and the idea of art style theft, the fact of the matter is the hardline no ai purists are going to fail. there is not any version of reality where generative AI is banned or canned and if that is your goal you are not going to get it. all you do by dogpiling random independent creators for the crime of expressing positive opinions about AI is show that your priorities don't lie with bettering conditions for artists as a collective, you're exclusively interested in punishing anyone who steps out of line.

[ganondoodle]

there goes my favorite drawing software ...

i defended their plans for the version2 and all, bc i didnt see much wrong with it and liked csp alot, but i guess i should have become a hater back then already

after that one big mistake that sparked so much outrage they really said but how can we actually lose EVERYONE, they saw deviantart doing it and thought BET I CAN DO IT FASTER

(they say they dont use user data but are basing it on stable diffusion of all things, they literally only ask people to think morally/ethically when using it to not use stolen stuff like thats ever worked with anything ever, plus "we cant guarantee that there will be no copyright infringement" OH YOU DONT SAY)

[iamespecter]

Some idiot said that my colorblind Caine art was, and I quote, "it's got an AI feel to it" and I've never felt the need to obliterate a random ass stranger with a concentrated energy cannon blast from outer space

if anyone wants visible proof that it's not AI for some reason, here's proof of the sketch and unrendered state (because I keep backups in case I want to overhaul)

[gothamite-rambler]

Don't ever say to an artist, we don't hold back

Damian: Sorry. Damian hits Jason Todd in the head with a plate. Damian: Whoops sorry. Damian grabs another plate and hits Jason in the head again. Damian: I am so sorry, mister. These uncontrolling ARTIST hands. Jason: I didn't mean it like that- Damian hits him with a metal tray five times. Damian: Why are you twitching? Bruce: All he said was that if an artist doesn't get the job over AI, they might suck at drawing. Damian: Father, I will make myself an orphan if you say that again. Bruce: Okay, sorry, but stop hitting him. I think he got the message. Damian: Jason, have you 'gotten' the message? Jason: I'll never insult real art again. Damian: Thank you. Damian leaves with the tray and humming happily. Bruce: I'm proud he takes art seriously. Jason: I can't see in my left eye.

[risaparadise]

[spinjitsuburst]

love coming back online to see this shit

[beaft]

i wish AI art was more of a toy - something weird and silly to just play around with, as opposed to... what it's turned into. i remember the early days when people were just using it to generate horrifying-looking dogs, or laugh at what a computer thinks a flower looks like. the more advanced it becomes the less interesting i find it.

[santaclaushohoho1]

"oh hey i wonder what's going on with Duolingo, the tag is trending, i bet its more funny twee-"

[cyclopsarts]

[floweypilled]

i love you artists FOREVER

[simlicious]

After seeing this beautiful (infamous?) Vrg Grl crochet dress with strong 70's vibes that everyone seemed to want to crochet for themselves after Taylor Swift wore it recently, I wanted to turn the fabric into a pattern. And voilà! It's perfect as a beach cover-up dress, right? The outfit is from the Ambitions EP if memory serves me right. Doesn't look too shabby, does it?

[horce-divorce]

2 disabled trans guys need help with our meds & our phone bill 🖤 $40 would cover the phone for a month, another $50 is meds for both of us for two weeks. i share my writing & photography over on my ko-fi page, but as of right now we have been homeless for over a year & currently have no income, so absolutely anything helps!

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[miyrumiyru]

They just love utility poles so much!

Oriental magpie (Pica serica)