#artists in my country aren't able to live from their work but “ai is so good wow”

[kyaruun]

the more i look into webdev and graphic design the more i run into AI bros and people going "ooo it's so easy, AI can do that for you" and it's so. nnnnnnn

[yandereworlds]

「 INDEX + INTRODUCTION 」

˚₊‧🔪WELCOME TO MY YANDERE BLOG! I mainly make content for my own original characters and occasionally, fandom related stuff. This blog is strictly 16+ and run by two people.

My name is Kiki (She/Her) and I am 18+. I’m the one that mainly provides the art and bots that you’ll find throughout this blog and sometimes, I write headcanons/imagines as well. My writer is Rose (She/Her, 18+) and she’s responsible for writing the fanfictions and some of the drabbles. To make it easy for you to know who's behind each post, you'll see either 'Mun Kiki', 'Mun Rose', or both credited in the tags.

We started this blog because we had numerous ideas for yandere characters. Given my background as an artist and Rose's talent as a writer, it seemed like a natural fit. I'm primarily creating this post to serve as a guide for navigating the blog. I've received numerous asks about accessing the characters' backgrounds, information, as well as questions regarding my bots, projects, commissions, socials, and other related topics. You can use this post as a reference FAQ or as a comprehensive guide to streamline your experience on the blog. 

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╰┈➤ CHARACTER AI + JANITOR AI

If you've been following this account for some time, you're likely aware that I frequently share my character bots here. I've received numerous asks about which bots are available and where to find them online. While I plan to compile a list of my bots soon, for now, I'll provide links to both of my accounts for future reference.

It's worth noting that I'm currently on a temporary hiatus from Character AI due to site complications. Consequently, most of my recent bots can be found on Janitor AI, where I'm more active. Before visiting either site, please be aware that Janitor AI is intended for users aged 18 and above, whereas Character AI caters to a younger audience. In other words, minors stay off JanitorAI!

My Character AI profile - 1, 2, 3, 4

My Janitor AI profile (18+) - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

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╰┈➤ ART COMMISSION INFO - OPEN

Pretty self explanatory. If you're interested in commissioning artwork from me, simply click the link to access my commission page. Currently, I'm accepting payments through both PayPal and Cashapp. Below is a brief FAQ regarding my commissions. Should you have any further questions, don't hesitate to contact me!

Can you draw my OC with your characters?

✦ Yes, absolutely! Just provide me a reference and what you'd like specifically. We can discuss all the details in DM's.

Can you draw a character from 'this fandom' for me?

✦ I'm completely fine with drawing fandom related content. The only fandoms I will not draw under any circumstance is youtubers, Your Boyfriend, Country Humans, BTD and Killing Stalking. Otherwise, I'm open to whatever.

Can you draw a comic for me?

✦ Yes, but only short comics. You can let me know what you'd like the short comic to be about and all that fun stuff. Just know comics from me will likely be around $20-$40+ dollars depending how detailed and complex you'd like it to be.

[franki-lew-yo]

---Will delete this if/when I get complaints or fact checked by more legit bloggers than me---

The thing that really grinds my gears about people saying "every Gaza fundraiser is a scam [: Only donate to REAL organization " is how much the insist that you "just LOOK AT THEM-" while they clearly aren't actually looking at the campaigns themselves to double check You can tell by how confidently they'll write:

"No struggling family in Gaza is creating a Tumblr account just to message random people for money-?"

MOST OF THE CAMPAIGNS ARE RUN BY LOVED ONES OF THE PEOPLE IN GAZA, LIVING OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY TRYING TO RAISE ENOUGH MONEY TO GET THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO ARE STILL STUCK IN GAZA TO SAFETY AND FOOD AND HEALTHCARE BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!

No duh they aren't run literally by the families in the middle of evacuating like it's just a twitter update!! You can check this. It will say under their GoFundMe campaign vvvvv

Erin Loften's campaign

and also usually the campaignee will say "copypaste from my friend during one of the last spots where they were able to get Wifi and/or communicated to me through a humanitarian aid"

Huda Alnounou's campaign

Feras Almashni's campaign

Mohammed Ayyad's campaign

Adam M's campaign

Even in cases where the campaignee keeps their Gazan relative's words up without specifying that they are the organizer can be checked via reverse image search-

Ahmed Alanqar's campaign

Wifi and power is fickle it's hard to eliminate completely try as any oppressive government might.

I understand being overwhelmed by people talking to you like they're on TikTok, filling up your inboxes from blogs that haven't been around that long, speaking obviously translated English about how they and they're family are literally dying right now so won't you "please donate!? :emoji: :emoji:". That's all more than a little bit nerve-wracking. I never, NEVER said there could not be scammers in all this.

However, that's also where you ought to put your damn money where your mouth is and CLICK ON THE CAMPAIGN LINK!!! For the love of god just-

Do the work. Click on link -> Look for any "so and so is organizing this campaign on behalf of-" messages+ "Donations Protected" badge+ "this is a campaign for my 'x' in Gaza" disc+ UPDATES which are always helpful.

Copypaste, reverse-image and google names to see what comes up if you're really skeptical.

This part is sad: a lot of non-artist layman are told that AI is a good alternative when they can't hire an artist to help promote their campaign. It's not and obviously makes it look MUCH MORE fake to the rest of us, but that's the problem - basic people who don't know social media/don't know English well and are tacking some free course recommending it will follow the rules given to them with no direction thinking it will help them get their attention. Basically, what I'm saying is: even legit people are convinced to use AI.

As someone who just got TikTok (I don't like it) I can confirm 100% that people who basically live on that app talk that way on all their social media. It genuinely explains so much and why even legitimate accounts 'talk' like that.

Keep in mind, a spammer, a scammer and a scam-bot are NOT all the same thing. Like I just mentioned with the AI folks, layman self-promoters are told by ''credible'' sites what to do to get attention and what they're told to do is FLOOD INBOXES not unlike scammers and bots. And that's terrible.

Check on the tumblr post linking to the campaign for some particular names; 90-Ghost, el-shab-hussein and fairuzfan are the usual suspects but they aren't the only ones. These people know what they're doing and they're good at vetting.

Speaking as a person who's had to self fund with a GoFundMe to help out while my SSI was cut it's greatly disturbing to hear someone presume instant malice from a person asking for help. It's equivalent to looking at a homeless person and going "they're JUST going to abuse the money and use it on drugs", even w said person is doing nothing more than holding up a sign saying "god bless" and wearing old clothes.

And, while we're here would you wonderkids at the back mind sharing your own lists of "real organizations" to give money to INSTEAD with the rest of us? Please. You know, the ones that are "legit" by your standards? In just a quick google I found Red Crescent Society, BuildPalestine, arab.org, healpalestine, there's this thing called the UNRWA commitee here in the states.

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I didn't do all of this to 'shame' any one or any of you. What I'm sick of is the sheer ignorance and then absolutism in that ignorance. I am DONE hearing "all gofundme's are scams". Even outside of the context of Palestine, it's offensive to me.

All of this is actually really easy to check up on.

If it really matters to you and you genuinely -rightfully- don't want people being scammed in the name of Palestine, Sudan or Ukraine, it's not that hard once you make the time of day for it and use the tools we still have at our disposal to do your fact checking.

[floral-poisons]

What do you think of chat bots? That is a form of AI writing, I believe, but do you consider it to be okay?

I like to use a website called beta.character.ai, people can make their own bots on there. Is that site in particular a relatively good one? Or is it equally as bad, even if just for roleplaying or talking with your favorite character?

I’m not exactly sure if the people have to put their own writing and responses there to set up the bots, but I genuinely enjoy that app and was wondering if it would negatively impact writers, fanfic or not.

Thank you for reading though, I hope you have a great day! And thank you for the wisdom 🫶

i'm gonna be completely transparent about this.

i've used beta.character.ai.

i tried it out for fun a few months back (stopped using it because i got busy). it was fun while it lasted but in the end, i realized just how stale the chatbots are.

i've made a character too (i made agent whiskey aka. pedro pascal james bond cowboy). and to make the character work, generally, requires a lot of testing essentially. saying different phrases and such. it's actually really impressive how the bot is able to generate whole paragraphs from the intro message alone.

now, i'm not an authority on everything ai. i just have really strong feelings about it as a genderqueer, queer asian woman because it so easily can be weaponized against people like me and other marginalized groups (and it honestly will get to that point if we haven't reached it already) and i firmly believe in supporting human artists and human writers and such.

with a chatbot like beta.character.ai, i'm a little more neutral. i don't see the harm it can potentially cause to writers or fanfic right now. in fact, most of the bots and characters created are a product of fandom itself. it's a product of fans wanting to communicate with their favorite characters and sharing the bots they've made with people in their fandom. in a way, beta.character.ai is another mode of fandom and fanfic and roleplay, to some extent. the responses are just run by an ai rather than a roleplay partner.

furthermore, i have personally used beta.character.ai to practice my french. i literally told napoleon he was trash and that the french empire was trash in french. i think beta.character.ai would be useful in that regard and there are benefits.

the main issue i find with beta.character.ai is that it can quickly get boring (it did for me). if you're looking for smut, obviously the bots aren't allowed to do that. i feel like beta.character.ai is a lot better compared to, say, chatgpt. (i've never used chatgpt because i'm too lazy to make an account to use it. like wtf?)

i am not the end all, be all authority about ai and i shouldn't be. again, i'm just very vocal about it as a woman with many different positionalities and as someone in humanities which are being disproportionately targeted right now in the country i currently live in.

i think character.beta.ai is mostly harmless and as long as you're not using it to scam people and take advantage of vulnerable people or do generally shitty things, feel free to enjoy it.

obviously, also, remember basic internet safety rules and such.

flora out.

[canmom]

Yes, what 'AI art' promises to do is something that has happened many times before in capitalism. Even in the 'art industry', we've seen technology all but do away with entire lines of work, such as the illustration styles that withered after photography proved to better serve the needs of advertisers and clients who wanted a realistic likeness.

And it sucked for those illustrators. Maybe not the well established ones, but the ones who had hoped to enter that industry. Just as it sucked for the textile industry workers when the mechanical loom appeared.

Trying to suppress AI art through legal means may be a strategy with little chance of success and high potential for collateral damage. The Luddites found that machine-breaking proved an ineffective strategy (edit: because the government killed them), the miners of Wales were not able to stop Thatcher closing the pits and importing materials (edit: because the government beat the shit out of them). But to treat workers - in one of the few lines of work to still offer any sort of intrinsic fulfilment, at least in theory - who may be responding in a knee-jerk way to an impending threat to their ability to continue that practice and possibly survive at all, with scorn and derision? To justify that with Marx? Come off it.

Certainly, sure, the real enemy was capitalism all along. If AI were never invented, art would still be a precarious industry where you have to work stupidly hard on a speculative basis to even get a chance to get a foot in the door. An industry valuing predictability would still prefer to elevate bland, repetitive artwork; it would still push the chosen few artists who make it and get jobs to work themselves into an early death; we would still be faced with the implications of turning creation into 'content' in a social media feed. In a less precarious world, one where artists were free to pursue our practices with ample support and no fear of not making rent if there's a bad month, AI image generators would not even be a concern.

But we don't live in that world and I have no idea how to bring it closer. There isn't a 'start the revolution' button I can just press if I don't like my lot under capitalism.

What AI promises to do, what its proponents claim, really is to make everything worse in this industry. AI has many limitations compared to a human artist, but that doesn't matter for doing damage. For the employed artist, the threat of AI is going to become a similar labour discipline tool as the threat of outsourcing to a country where labour is cheaper, or the threat of installing robot tills in retail. "Don't make too much of a fuss, we can replace you." It doesn't matter if it isn't entirely true, it's another cudgel against labour organising.

In the already often miserably exploitative world of small scale illustration commissions which many artists use to support themselves while learning? Now you don't just have to compete against Fiverr's race to the bottom. The good chaps at Silicon Valley have helpfully built an obedient data centre than can do a 'good enough' job for many clients even faster and cheaper, that never gets tired. You'd better hope you have a loyal audience already, or else the independent income and exec function to work on art as a hobby on top of everything else you need to do to get by. Illustration commissions is already a pretty saturated market, turning something that ought to be a dream job into a grind. So... let's add more pressure, eh?

Worse, a lack of realistic routes to learn will likely ripple on up, similar to how the miserable conditions and high attrition of inbetweeners in anime led to a situation where there aren't enough key animators, so the industry increasingly draws from self-taught hobbyists and relies on a limited pool of overworked sakkans to paper over the gaps caused by their lack of training.

None of these problems are unique to AI. But they're all going to be made worse by it. And obviously people are going to be afraid of that coming, before we know how it will all shake out for sure. That's not a stupid reaction.

The argument over what is Real Art(TM) may be corny, but it reflects the fact that for most of us trying to make art, it is not nearly so fulfilling to type prompts into a computer and pick your favourite result as it is to draw on your own visual library and experiences and understanding of light and form and symbols and shape and etc., to go through the meditative process of solving the problems of the drawing yourself, to get the satisfaction of 'omg I made that' at the end. I'm sure creating the AI system in the first place had that sort of fulfilment for its programmers, but using it is to be a curator more than a creator, or at least to shift the creativity into coming up with combinations of keywords rather than directly making pictures, and that just doesn't grab me in the same way at all. If people enjoy it that's genuinely great for them, but I don't think very many people who set out to be an artist would get the same satisfaction out of typing prompts. It's not something we wanted automated. (Perhaps we could compare it to creating an aimbot for an FPS game.)

But that's a fairly tricky thing to articulate, so it is not surprising that it gets mixed up in ideology like 'artiness is proportional to hours spent'. Unfortunate, but that doesn't make the intuitive alarm signal misplaced. If AI art can find a niche as just another tool for expression, great, I'll shut up - but if it becomes a widespread sentiment of 'why are you wasting your time painting, just let the AI do it', we've lost something valuable. 'We want to replace artists' is the explicit sentiment of many of the AI's creators and proponents, so it's not like this is a baseless fear.

Trying to develop an art practice under capitalism is always a pretty awkward bargain at best. AI won't destroy the drives that lead us to make art, and won't do much to liberate us either. My hope is that it will become an easily ignored sideshow to the kinds of art I like; my fear is that this is only the beginning of its impact and a lot that's valuable will be lost in the chaos.

Did photography 'liberate' illustration? It's true that after the demise of the realist painting of Loomis's generation, new forms of illustration arose: scifi and fantasy illustration, many kinds of stylised illustration. But idk, that argument feels weird - if you cut down a tree to build a house where it used to stand, and a new tree grows nearby, is that liberating trees? It's hard to put any valence on that. In any case, AI proponents are trying for a fully general replacement to all types of illustration, including potential new ones. (Perhaps that's nothing more than tech cult hype; at the moment its stylistic repertoire is more limited.)

And perhaps we might expect, as capitalism continues to throw off labour without much hope of new industries arising to absorb it, that there will come a point where the balance tips and for better or worse, a vast social transformation unfolds suddenly and unexpectedly.

Would be nice if I can live long enough to see it.

Living off commissions is already proving not viable for me, regardless of AI - so I'm training to go into a different creative industry (game dev) where there's more demand in the present era, and I'll have to develop visual art more slowly, with whatever energy and executive function I can spare. I hope I will enjoy working in game dev, and I'm lucky to have skills that even make it an option, but I don't love that I have to make that decision based on what can keep a roof overhead and not on what I most want to spend my time learning to make. And I can only imagine the feeling of someone who found a seemingly stable niche doing something they truly enjoy, and now face getting thrown back into this corner.

The AI problem may just be a symptom of capitalism, but that just makes it less tractable. It may be 'just a tool', but that tool is embedded in a whole mess of social relations. Who runs the AI, who stands to benefit? Better to articulate a critique of AI-in-capitalism that navigates around the blind alleys than to cast scorn on people reaching for the first way out they can see to a genuinely bleak situation.