#art is human

[sassinake]

'negatively impacts your ability to function'

You mean if I start refusing to work/overtime, or to take care of the nearest man-child.

We have GOT to stop pathologizing the joy out of life.

Saw someone claim that if you read a lot as a child, you were disassociating. No, you were reading. Because reading is fun.

"I have a problem with maladaptive daydreaming." It's only maladaptive if it negatively impacts your ability to function in the real world. Laughing at a joke you made in your head isn't doing that.

"You seem to do a lot if creative projects. What are you escaping?" I'm escaping this conversation.

Like what is the end goal? Because so far, all this has done has made it harder to enjoy my hobbies because you're turning a mindless process into something I gotta think about.

[enbycrip]

[artists-deserve-better]

If anyone feels like giving up on art because of ai just remember it's more important than ever to make original and human made art. You matter more than you know, you are valuable. Every human made art piece is a treasure and that includes your art no matter what the art form it is... If you leave that leaves room for ai to take up. Art is human, your human, keep doing the thing that humans have been doing since the beginning, keep making art the human way without ai... It's the most precious thing in the world.

[crooked-wasteland]

Art is a study of the soul and a way to share that knowledge with others. Writing essays here has been a great joy so far in just the number of people who have reached out and said how my writing has affected them. It means so much more than anyone could imagine. I just think of how, maybe, my silly little essays on some silly little web show can help other souls grow as well. That they push the limits of their understanding, question everything with empathy, challenge themselves to try on a whole new perspective.

It has been a pleasure and I hope to deliver more soon.

[lovertaylorforever]

I need to be quick about this because i really shouldn't be on my phone (I'm actually concussed....)

But with this whole ai photos thing. It's horrible but it's not anything new. Taylor is not the first nor the only person this has happened to. Go look online and you can find such things of any female artist. It's nothing new.

[crysdrawsthings]

arrrrrrrrrttttttt

ahem

it's good

[Came as a response to "please reblog this if it is okay to anonymously confess something to you" post, accepting more!]

Art is damn good tho, can attest to this! So yeah, can drink to this, Anon!

[fridayverse]

daily reminder that it’s not the sag and wga’s “fault” that your fav shows aren’t being worked on, it’s the companies who refuse to come to an agreement where they get livable wages :)

[yourethehero]

The entire AI Generated Images / Art debate reminds me of this tweet. More thoughts in tags tho.

[sassinake]

these guys saw a chance to walk the path least trodden.

We know many of you have seen NaNoWriMo's recent statements on generative AI...

Well, we have too—and that's why we've made the decision to retract our sponsorship of NaNo.

Your support and belief in human creativity, transparency and collaboration mean everything to us, and we're committed to staying true to that. Thank you all! 💙

You can read our full statement here.

The Ellipsus team xo

[yeepof]

I understand that tall men are our POV characters, but surely being like a foot taller than everyone around them would have some occasional consequences

[emerald-dragonflame]

I had a vision

[enbycrip]

Please, please consider putting the time you are spending playing about using AI image generators into learning how to make art yourself.

If you want to work digitally, there are free programmes; if you don’t want to spend money on Procreate, start on Medibang and try their anime tutorials. Buy a cheap stylus to get started.

Or try watercolour. There’s *so* many tutorials out there for free to give you tips and basic paints and brushes available very cheaply. Or pastels; again, very cheap to get started with and so many tutorials out there. Pencil or charcoal sketching. Pen and ink. Clay sculpting. Pyrography. Embroidery.

You can learn *so* much with such remarkably little work. I am disabled. I have a fatigue disorder and my hands do not work incredibly well, and even though it is *beyond* exhausting to do, my dexterity has improved so much with the work I have managed to do, even when it is basically simply messing about trying things. You start learning a whole new way of seeing the world around you when you start learning how to depict it.

Start by tracing, if you like; it absolutely teaches you about perspective and shapes. Do a paint-by-numbers; you are learning about brushwork and colouration and how to handle and use pigments. Copy a photo you really like. Make a little pot out of cheap clay and keep stuff in it. Mess around making leaf prints with watercolour and see the cool effects when you sprinkle salt on it. Mend a hole in your jumper with contrasting thread and see how it has suddenly become a whole new garment. Create a little dude and feel his soul enter the universe through your fingertips when you poke eyeholes in him and suddenly he has an expression.

With the time you spent using a prompt machine to mash stolen pieces of other people’s work into an image, you could have been learning to create your own. Please don’t waste that time again.

What you create and communicate will have thousands of times the value, even if you think it is “terrible” because it will be genuine, unique creation and communication of *your* unique perspective on the world.

And if you keep doing it, it will not continue being terrible. It will start being good, because people get good at things by doing them.

Art isn’t a gift. It’s a skill; or rather, thousands of skills. Learning any of them gives you transferable skills that will make other ones easier to gain too.

[sarahthecoat]

humans have made art for as long as there have been humans, maybe even before. it's part of the package.

I had a tattoo client ask if I ever used AI to design tattoos for me. Man I spent the better part of a decade doing shitty bit work as a graphic designer and now that I have the space to do whatever I want, I'm gonna let the computer generate random garbage for me? What next should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?

[artists-deserve-better]

#boycottHarperCollins they are trying to use AI voices instead of actual human beings voice actors and pretend it's for us, so we have more product to have but it's not. It's nothing but greed on their end, I want a world full of artists and real human voices not this.

I know it can seem hopeless but remember "in a capitalistic society, it is the consumer who decides what gets made and who gets to make it merely by giving or withholding their support" AI and greedy dystopian companies can't make money if we don't give them money, hit them where it hurts and boycott and tell them why your boycotting

[cancatsdraw]

yeah i'm mad