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NFTs are toxic for our planet and steal the hard work of all aspiring artists online. Reblog this if you agree that they need to be stopped!
#nfts#boycott nfts#nfts hurt the environment#save our planet#opinions#not aesthetic#nft crypto#nftcreators#nftcollectibles#nfts are dumb#nfts are a scam#nfts corrupt people#nfts are toxic#Protect the environment#climate change#climate action
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Reblog to kill it faster
#fuck ai art#i mean its cool and fun to mess around with#but it steals art#hurts the environment#kocks off artists who need money#and it usually gets associated with nfts#btw also fuck nfts#if you like nfts get away from my blog pls
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I need y'all to understand that Bruce is not a normal billionaire. He is a billionaire because it's useful to the plot, but he is not a billionaire like our billionaires. Don't make him say or do shits billionaires do, he is not like that.
I just have enough of the posts and fics where people makes Bruce pro-capitalist, a finance bro with nfts or against leftist ideas like free housing because "the economy 😭😭". That's not him at all, and y'all are showing that you only saw the Lego Batman movie.
First, Bruce pays his taxes and hates that other rich don't. It is shown in Future State: Dark Detective, where he literally says that rich people who don't contribute to making society better kind of deserve to be killed by a vigilante. Murder is still bad, but he will not cry them AT ALL.
Second, Bruce hates how people abuse the housing markets, rising the prices, kicking out poor people, you know the drill. This is shown in Batman: White Knight, when Bruce PUNCHES his rich FRIEND at a gala after learning that the guy is buying properties in Crime Alley, kicks the poor people out and build new apartments complexes with rent way too high for the old residents. In Gotham Knights (the comics), he tests Lucius by playing the normal rich asshole and being like "we can't take money from the shareholders, these hard working folks, to help the poor", because he wants to see if it will make Lucius angry. Once it does, he is like "good, you should be" and tell him he will sign it. Not being mad at the inequalities in the world is not acceptable for Bruce.
Thirdly, Batman: The Animated Series often establishes how the real vilains are not the rogues but rich people. Bruce doesn’t disagree with Poison Ivy or Mr Freeze, but with their methods. Bruce doesn’t hate his rogues, because he knows they were pushed to a corner, but he hates the rich in charge. The owner of a company is shown to be a bad guy because he doesn't think his workers deserve to have a say in the company. Seriously, if BTAS was made today, we would be submerged with tweets and videos from people crying that they made Batman a communist.
Fourthly, while we are at it with BTAS, Bruce cares about the environment. I have seen this terrible panel of Bruce, as Batman, being mad that Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn destroyed a WE factory who was heavily polluting, which is ooc. In BTAS, Bruce is shown threatening to fire WE higher-ups because they made a partnership with a company hurting the environment. This partnership is why Poison Ivy targets him in the episode and tries to kill him, btw, which shows once again that they agree on the matter, it's the murder the problem. Outside of BTAS, must I remind everyone that Bruce was going to marry Talia Al Ghul and that Ra's Al Ghul saw a heir in him??? Like, he has to be a bit of an ecologist for ECO-TERRORISTS to love him this much. Also, Alfred said to Dick when he joined their household that Alfred wants ecological issues to be taken care of. No way would Bruce not has been raised to care about the environment, or would harm the planet knowing Alfred doesn't like it.
Finally, WE has multiple charities and organizations dedicated to help people in Gotham. WE gives jobs to ex-convicts and help them in getting rehabilitate. Bruce feeds, clothes and houses the poor, he pays for any damage done by vigilantes or rogues. He has money to give and he gives it. AND all the galas exist so he can take money from the rich to give to the poor. He even encourages Dick in Nightwing (2016) to manipulate as much as possible his guests to milk their money. Bruce wants to take from the rich to help the poor, that's always been the case.
#batman#bruce wayne#batfam#it has nothing to do with the batfam but I need y'all to see this#dc comics#my ramblings#the economy is probably the last thing in the world Bruce cares about#the man wants to defeat crime he must be conscious that poverty and capitalism are not helping#no he would not invest in NFTs#go watch the season 1 of Batman the animated series especially the episode with Mr Freeze and Poison Ivy#like the message about rich people being assholes is not subtle#There's a trend in the last decade to paint Bruce as actually a rich brat but he dresses as Batman at night#and like no he is not#also he would not drive a tesla because those cars are not safe at all and he is anxious af#and Musk sucks Bruce would hate Musk and start beef with him
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i don’t want to hear “both sides” of the AI art debate when the vast majority of its creators don’t explicitly credit or pay the artists for their work being used to train it with their informed consent, nor do i want to hear both sides when this stolen art is “minted as original” (on part of people who call themselves artists for merely plugging in keywords into a prompt function to spit out a mishmash of other actual artists’ work) and sold as NFTs to crypto enthusiasts who don’t care if their techbro mindset drives the economy and the environment into to the ground.
AI betrays the nature of human creation. it commodifies it while simultaneously devaluing it and depriving artists of their livelihood. i don’t say this to enforce a strict dichotomy between the existence of AI art and its abolition, but until it’s been properly regulated and its mere presence doesn’t hurt artists, continuing to support AI “artists” and calling its victims “gatekeepers” or any variation that essentially means “i don’t care about your problems because admitting they are real and are caused by something i like would mean that i have to make adjustments to my behavior and beliefs and i can’t be bothered to burst my bubble of easy, blissful ignorance” does in fact make you the bad guy.
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im writing my broad opinion on AI art now that im on an autistic tangent about it. im kinda cooked from yesterday so sorry if i dont make much sense
my issue with (serious) AI art is not because of moral or ethical implications arising from the technology itself, but rather from the general userbase itself. like i believe most of us can fucking tell if something's ai generated when we see it right. Bear in mind i said serious AI art. you know i love a good seinfeld screenshot of jerry and kramer going into the void or george dressed as a cossack
anyways generally speaking the kind of people generating those serious illustrations are all either 1. recycled nftbros 2. porn freaks or 3. children. And im gonna be real i do not like that kind of AI art even if its just a harmless illustration of a pokemon or whatever. to me it feels like those ppl are either kids who i Do Not Think should be on the net, or basement dwelling deviantart incels who are like 'Computer generate sexy gardevoir vore inflation feet pics'. the kind of people who wouldve had no problem stealing others' art. just sayin.
well actually theres a fourth category and those are companies and public institutions that use AI art (often as some sort of money laundering scheme, if i may add) and those are the ones ACTUALLY hurting artists because You See you could be actually hiring someone instead of using fucking midjourney or bing. this is a very common practice here in spain even if it ends up looking like literal shit, see:
also theres this yearly art contest in either valencia or catalunya where ppl submit illustrations of snails and this year's winner was a very blatantly AI generated pic created by some turkish individual who is rumored to not even exist. its a rabbit hole but looking up bedhiran akagündüz (or, likewise, rubén lucas garcía) should set you on the right track
Now let me be clear: i vehemently hate anti-ai luddites and picrew fandomites and ive always been very vocal about this. and quite frankly im tired of the moral panic steeming from anything AI-generated as if it was the antichrist!!!!! you all just sound reactionary as fuck. AI art is certainly not stealing from you and the only exceptions to this rule are very very very blatant copies, and you almost never see those unless were talking about nft-adjacent ponzi scheme websites. would you consider collages theft? music samples? AI just draws "inspiration" (for lack of a better word) from the illustrations that it is fed because its like a tabula rasa and it needs knowledge, just like us human beings are inspired by other people's artstyles. the end product is something that doesnt even look similar to the data it is fed because it is an amalgamation of different styles that create something unique. is that theft? be for fucking real
this stupid myth about the brutal energy consumption of AI art generation as well as the whole ‘did you know that every time you generate one picture youre wasting an entire bottle of water????’ argument... im sorry to say none of that is true. ai isn't even the most water-intensive sector if we're comparing it with other industrial sectors like petroleum/coal factories or wineries or paperboard mills. training datasets IS resource-intensive but its normally a one-time process, inference (which is what you use daily) is not any less efficient than looking something up on google for example:
this whole 'carbon footprint' bullshit that has been sold to us is just a tactic to divert attention from the actual polluters which are corporations like coca-cola or exxon or bp. You know this you get your praxis from this website.
regarding the whole 'AI is theft' argument, im just going to share these tags that someone left in another post i made:
like a clear example of anti-ai panic actively hurting artists is the backlash that okame-p, a vocaloid artist, got for using AI generated illustrations as the ACCOMPANIMENT for his songs:
and to be honest this is a huge problem regarding western vocafans who often have the emotional maturity of a peanut. youre so so so hellbent on demonizing others just for using a technology that is widely available to everyone, that youre willing to throw them under the bus and delegitimize everything they do just because it hurts your feelings well im not going to fucking stay quiet about that
who do you think youre talking to you stupid fucking bitch. god this person makes me so mad.
Anyways my point is: ai is like acupuncture; just like the latter can be used to treat or alleviate different ailments but it cant completely treat cancer like modern medicine would; AI can be complimentary, but it can NEVER replace actual labor. its merely a worktool! its merely meant to automatize daily tasks!!! its not your enemy i promise. Ok im tired of writing goo buh buh
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Sato / 18 / she/her. I have moved on past an MS paint icon to a photo of myself.
Owner of an enterprise originating from New Jersey trying to get said company settled into where the Nameless City used to be, now called Gotham.
First thing that greeted me was some ugly Gothic tower from a big-shot company planted right where I died.
Rude.
Anyway, it's been an utter pain in the butt.
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Sato finally gets her own Tunglr blog. Only took the timeline to break to do so. This is the "A Lilium At the End of the World " timeline!
She's the only one that remembers the "Dream's Descent" timeline, given her identity as < Myriad Lights >.
The Dream doesn't exist here because in their first confrontation / the Dream's betrayal, Sato sacrifices her Spark of Godhood to banish it for good. She dies afterwards but not before she manages to set up contingences.
As a result, there's quite a few changes in the new timeline.
No gods, no masters.
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Common decency applies. Don’t do something that you wouldn’t appreciate being done to yourself. We’re all here to have fun.
No sexual NSFW things here or any of my other blogs. Not really my thing.
Multi-fandom and crossover friendly. OC Friendly.
I am Hika / Lilac. I am an adult!
If you need things tagged, please tell me so I can do so. I will try to preemptively tag for common triggers, but I can’t account for everything.
Given this is an in-character blog, most posts will be short. However, face-to-face will likely be multi-para length.
As I'm double-downing on the Gotham setting, Sato will not know Bruce Wayne is Batman and in fact will be highly resistant to the idea. To her, it's like hearing Elon Musk declaring he's Batman (not to mention other rich people claiming to know or assist the superhero). She doesn't particularly care about supervillainry and superheroism beyond it hurting her bottom line as she's a mostly normal person now.
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Name: Sato
Moniker: koi, Myriad Lights
Age: 18
Pronouns: She/her
Personality: Determined, she's always been determined. Sure, she's a bit of a ditz and a blabbermouth - okay, more than a bit, but she's always been sincere. Her desires, her dealings with people, her affection.
She still thinks people can be better and be happy, so long as they have the environment to do so.
Problem is she's living in a world in late-stage capitalism, where companies, now giant insatiable organisms of their own, try and grow uncontrollably with no one to check and balance them out. It was like that in the prior world too, but it was so much worse here.
Of course, she already has a lot going on like trying to find her friend who is off god knows where, not to mention the others who are probably living very different lives in this new timeline. And now she has to tackle an enormous societal problem that encompasses the world?
Well, she'd know Levant would want her to do it. And the other factor is that she maaaaay have accidentally blown herself up in a fit of fury against the Dream, so she isn't really a Goddess anymore. But she could still accumulate Faith - and with it, she'll be able to do something to help save Levant when the opportunity reveals itself.
Furthermore, she needs to find the rest of the Nameless Church somehow. Find Lillian - or is it Chi again - especially - Lev would want that. She suspects Mirielle and Sasha escaped the timeline. Well, she knows. She had to literally push Mirielle out of the timeline before she strained it further trying to save her.
In any case, the best way to achieve her goals was to make a massive company on her own - money and resources to find the Nameless Church and Faith to gain the power to find Levant. She knows what major stocks will get big - she also knows all the market trends like Crypto and NFTs - and knows what to avoid too like Mt. Gox and Enron. And while she's at it, she'll be doing something about that rampant capitalism destroying people's lives thing.
If she can't kill it from the outside (without inciting mass deaths anyway), she could try to do it from the inside instead. No, she doesn't have a plan. She doesn't even know how to run a company, but she can learn.
What better way to gather Faith is to have a whole bunch of people grateful to you for providing a decent livelihood in this world?
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#my only picture of sato is a sketch of her in Levant's jacket asffaf#Visibly Lawful Good#More Chaotic Neutral with a side of breaking society and watching it go out in a controlled burn.
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Just to be clear, absolutely no one was scammed. It was obvious to everyone, including the people creating and promoting NFTs.
The difference is, we saw it as a scam and knew scams hurt people.
The scammers knew it was a scam, and saw it as an opportunity to hurt people for their benefit.
The scammers thought they were much smarter than everyone else. They thought oh, this is believable, and I'm a genius, so clearly there will be enough people to fall for it. I can trick people into buying worthless junk. It'll hurt them (and the environment) but that's okay, I'll be rich!
So just remember this when your beloved companies and artists and individuals start backpedalling, when they insist they were fooled or unlucky or just going along with everyone else:
Every single person who jumped on the NFT train was wanting to hurt you for profit.
95% of NFTs are worthless, and most of the most expensive ones are priced between $5-100 where they were once drawing millions US$ apiece
Not a moment too soon, and fully deserved 😎
In conclusion-
#nfts#i like to think I'm an incredibly forgiving person#but I'm not forgiving this#NFTs weren't just a single or even a few moments of weakness or mistake#it was a continuous conscious effort for YEARS
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4.2 Codex
Bill Gates buying da Vinci’s Codex of Leicester brings up many relevant topics surrounding art. The concept itself of purchasing works of art does not necessarily sit well with me. Additionally, the mere thought that Gates could disassemble the manuscript for future individual sale is haunting. There is an inherent irreverence to such an act that no piece of art, by any artist is deserving of. Gate’s purchase calls into question the struggles of ownership and autonomy as well as how influential money is to art.
It is not a new concept that art and money are linked; some of the earliest works of great or higher art were commission based, but to buy an artwork and claim ownership is trickier. Does ownership of a work of art with the caliber of da Vinci’s Codex of Leicester entitle the owner (in this case Gates) to full autonomy over the piece? Would Gates be within his buyers rights to dismember the manuscript for sale? Personally, I would argue against this. Art should not belong to the bidder with the most money. How did this bidder get their money? How deserving of their fortune are they? It is an unfortunate side effect of our society that the most money seemingly entitles people to ownership of cultural assets. This purchase can potentially hurt the future of arts by proliferating the commodification and consumerism of art; furthering the notion that art’s purpose is to acquire monetary value over all else. Up and coming artists may witness this sale and turn toward avenues of art that will make the most money with disregard for the consequences of those works, for instance AI and NFT sale for money that harms the planet with pollution through greenhouse gasses (Garnett, 2024). By inflating and increasing the monetary values of famous works, it sends the message that art is only “worth it” if exorbitant amounts of money are behind it.
References
Garnett, A. (2024). NFTs and the Environment: What You Need to Know. Investopedia. https://www.investopedia.com/nfts-and-the-environment-5220221
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Those of you that compare nfts to closed species clearly have no idea why people, and especially artists, were so mad at nfts, lmao. Closed species are extremely gatekeep-y and the hierarchy in every community sucks and makes more than enough people feel unwelcome, and of course monetization is a common denominator. But the things that come out of them are still just designs and ocs merely connected by a community. Nft’s were a market that was expected to take off and make people rich by trading and pouring money into “token” avatars for a cryptocurrency, which was supposed to be worth something later as demand increased. For a lot of people, the pictures didn’t actually matter, it was the worth of the “ownership”. It was one big scam that led to people dropping cash on worthless ugly art instead of commissioning real artists for something a lot more personal and beneficial to both parties. (Pretty on par with the AI art issue) And, nfts we’re super unfriendly to the environment. Closed species are closer to what CS and flight rising is, just on a more specific creative scale that turns participants into stingy hoarders. They don’t hurt anything but people’s feelings. So yes, both suck, but they’re not the same thing.
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Hi! Another program that is working to be opposite NFTs is the Extremely Fungible Token program! A bunch of artists have gotten together and released NFT-like profile pictures that are totally free to use and screenshot. They are all in the Creative Commons, and there’s an optional donate link for you to donate to the artist if you love their work. (That’s where my profile pic comes from!)
So yeah, check out EFTs!
I really hate that pixel art is becoming associated with NFTs, pixel art rules
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CHECK OUT EFTs!!!!
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yo. newbies. need some way to let other blobbers know you're legit? here's a collection of profile pictures. go wild.
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RTFTK
Benoit Pagotto, Chris Le and Steven Vasilev launched RTFTK in January 2020. Prior to offering their digital products to the wider public, the studio was an undefined collective that produced designs and concepts for gaming companies and a few select fashion brands, according to it's website.
Since the brand has been around for just over 2 years now, it's fair to say the company has attracted a lot of attention. Bringing AR into the real world through our own eyes surprisingly draws a lot of people in, especially the younger generations. In February the studio released a series of rainbow-colored virtual sneakers as NFTs with the artist Fewocious. The studio sold 621 pairs through cryptocurrency purchases, bringing in a total of $3.1 million. The brand then soon moved onto selling in the secondary market where the digital sneakers were selling double the price of their original launch just a few weeks later!
A lot and mostly what RTFTK is based around is video games in real life. Being able to see these designs and cool accessories on real people, linking the actual world to the gaming world and creating a fun environment for everyone. However in my own opinion, I feel living in a false reality can actually be quite dangerous in the long run. If people get mad over video games on a screen, it's concerning how dangerous and how many people could potentially get hurt or seriously injured from it actually being right in front of their face in person, even if its not technically real. It's a very good way to make money, looking at original video games, these companies that make them, make millions, even hundreds of millions in such short spaces of time. However if everyone played nice, it could potentially be a good idea linking two realities together.
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example :
“ai art is bad because it damages the environment / hurts the artist they steal from to fuel their databases / puts people out of jobs” vs “ai art is bad because it’s fucking ugly”
“hating on furries is bad because a grand majority of the fandom is queer / autistic” vs “hating on furries is bad bc it’s literally just people having fun”
“hating on queer people is bad because blah blah blah whatever” vs “hating on queer people is bad because i went to a pride parade and none of them even knew you :\ so”
“i want to defend xyz because [insert 20 paragraph essay]” vs literally just don’t it’s not worth it i promise just go on with your day
there is literally no point in fighting someone who’s entire life mantra is to get a reaction out of you and probably doesn’t even care / know anything about the thing they’re fighting over. the best way to fight a battle is to match your opponents tactics i.e Being Blunt. your not gonna get anywhere with “facts and logic” if your opponents only respond is gonna be “i didn’t ask” it’s like the no. 1 thing people tell you to do in response to bullies is to just make it not worth their time. by responding to them your only giving fuel to the fire and the best way to put out that fire is to STOP STOKING IT. nip it in the bud. stop it before it starts. IGNORE IT.
by giving things your time your only serving to bring attention to and make it trendy to KEEP doing the thing that you hate. it’s basic meme culture if something is popular - doesn’t matter if it’s for a good or bad reason - people are gonna hop on the bandwagon for that smidgen of clout. by ignoring it, it’ll slowly die out and if anyone tries to bring it up everyone’s only going to see it as old news and move on. it’s what happened to crypto and nfts and all that other dumb shit. people memed it, and when that meme died out no one cared anymore be like big corpa and learn how to manipulate the search query or something idfk anymore
like. hold on i believe i have a simple infographic that i’m sure everyone can understand somewhere around here. hmmm - oh here it is !
tl ; dr who give a shit
lukewarm take but i think people should stop overcomplicating their defenses for something because face it, if your reason isn’t already why they’re hating it then your probably just giving haters fuel to hate it even more
#ignore me i just woke up it’s too early for this shit#mmmm eepy time gn. or well . gm.#snnznzzz#:0
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Would any mutuals be into a text ran tabletop game on like telegram or something
Just like, a normal tabletop but I dont have to make weird voices
I've been meaning to do a test run of the one I've been making
#i say telegram because theres a discord boycott rn#they're into nfts#and thats really hurting the environment#plus general bad memories on there
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When huggy wuggy used to be your comfort character but now you feel like you can't like him anymore because the stupid ass company that made him began to sell NFTS :(
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