#but mostly at twitter

[chromegnomes]

the most frustrating thing about AI Art from a Discourse perspective is that the actual violation involved is pretty nebulous

like, the guys "laundering" specific artists' styles through AI models to mimic them for profit know exactly what they're doing, and it's extremely gross

but we cannot establish "my work was scraped from the public internet and used as part of a dataset for teaching a program what a painting of a tree looks like, without anyone asking or paying me" as, legally, Theft with a capital T. not only is this DMCA Logic which would be a nightmare for 99% of artists if enforced to its conclusion, it's not the right word for what's happening

the actual Violation here is that previously, "I can post my artwork to share with others for free, with minimal risk" was a safe assumption, which created a pretty generous culture of sharing artwork online. most (noteworthy) potential abuses of this digital commons were straightforwardly plagiarism in a way anyone could understand

but the way that generative AI uses its training data is significantly more complicated - there is a clear violation of trust involved, and often malicious intent, but most of the common arguments used to describe this fall short and end up in worse territory

by which I mean, it's hard to put forward an actual moral/legal solution unless you're willing to argue:

Potential sales "lost" count as Theft (so you should in fact stop sharing your Netflix password)

No amount of alteration makes it acceptable to use someone else's art in the production of other art without permission and/or compensation (this would kill entire artistic mediums and benefit nobody but Disney)

Art Styles should be considered Intellectual Property in an enforceable way (impossibly bad, are you kidding me)

it's extremely annoying to talk about, because you'll see people straight up gloating about their Intent To Plagiarize, but it's hard to stick them with any specific crime beyond Generally Scummy Behavior unless you want to create some truly horrible precedents and usher in The Thousand Year Reign of Intellectual Property Law

[vulgarkatt]

2024 is gonna be the year I just start blocking people who either annoy me, post things that make me uncomfy, or post things I don’t agree with tbfh

[clouvu]

Father-Son bonding moment ✨

[a-frog-in-a-bog]

article here

[dasnercaret]

siffrin moment

[despazito]

I understand the stereotype of rich horse people but it's kind of gotten insane that anyone with a horse is now automatically seen as a landed gentry bourgeois so much so that people are straight up calling horses bourgeois creatures and calling for their ABOLISHMENT and even extinction like wtf is wrong with you. Don't let the era of the automobile erase the horses history as a beast of burden for the working class and farmers. Horses belong to the proletariat just as much if not more than the role of rich person's plaything.

[kelocitta]

Twitter Joke

[eldrtchmn]

Blade of Miquella 🗡️

[meltedmush]

This is definitely the largest bulk post I’ve ever done,,,,

[twizzlerr]

bunch of stuffs

[nyancrimew]

"this website is free" no it isn't, it comes at the cost of immeasurable amounts of trauma

[sangled]

No matter what it is... thank you!

[outworldgay]

Reptile: I was BANISHED from my home because of my ability to take this FREAKISH form *transforms into a hot guy*

[xfreischutz]

Please show me your dog

we call this the bivalve/clam position

[dragoncrocs]

There is a dream and it sleeps in me

[nitedo06]

karkat vs