#puts on youtube

[koobiie]

i feel strongly about this

[cheddar-baby]

heres my advice to any followers i have who are young. Don't delete things when you think you've outgrown them or they're cringy. If you make youtube videos just private them don't delete them. Save your files, you can bury them in multiple sub-folders if you think they're cringe now but DON'T DELETE THEM! It doesn't feel like it now but years in the future you will look back fondly at who you were and wish you still had those things.

[frenchonionsoop]

HUZZAH almost 10 months in the making I present my biggest project so far!! My new bsd stormbringer animatic is UP NOW GO WATCH IT

[justabiii]

youtube glitching is a gift from the gods

[marlinspirkhall]

*this isn't written in any specific order, it was just written in the order they occured to me

[turtletoria]

i wanted to try drawing older Mabel and Dipper !

[bigfatbreak]

The Charity Ball Part One // Part Two // Part Three // Part Four // Part Five

Goliath Viceroy's powerups:

aaaand a play by play down below if the animatic doesn't slap for ye. it's been heavily cut because there are CLEARLY more than 30 frames in this animatic, so its just the main meat of the matter

[wordstome]

how c.ai works and why it's unethical

Okay, since the AI discourse is happening again, I want to make this very clear, because a few weeks ago I had to explain to a (well meaning) person in the community how AI works. I'm going to be addressing people who are maybe younger or aren't familiar with the latest type of "AI", not people who purposely devalue the work of creatives and/or are shills.

The name "Artificial Intelligence" is a bit misleading when it comes to things like AI chatbots. When you think of AI, you think of a robot, and you might think that by making a chatbot you're simply programming a robot to talk about something you want them to talk about, and it's similar to an rp partner. But with current technology, that's not how AI works. For a breakdown on how AI is programmed, CGP grey made a great video about this several years ago (he updated the title and thumbnail recently)

I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend you watch this because CGP Grey is good at explaining, but the tl;dr for this post is this: bots are made with a metric shit-ton of data. In C.AI's case, the data is writing. Stolen writing, usually scraped fanfiction.

How do we know chatbots are stealing from fanfiction writers? It knows what omegaverse is [SOURCE] (it's a Wired article, put it in incognito mode if it won't let you read it), and when a Reddit user asked a chatbot to write a story about "Steve", it automatically wrote about characters named "Bucky" and "Tony" [SOURCE].

I also said this in the tags of a previous reblog, but when you're talking to C.AI bots, it's also taking your writing and using it in its algorithm: which seems fine until you realize 1. They're using your work uncredited 2. It's not staying private, they're using your work to make their service better, a service they're trying to make money off of.

"But Bucca," you might say. "Human writers work like that too. We read books and other fanfictions and that's how we come up with material for roleplay or fanfiction."

Well, what's the difference between plagiarism and original writing? The answer is that plagiarism is taking what someone else has made and simply editing it or mixing it up to look original. You didn't do any thinking yourself. C.AI doesn't "think" because it's not a brain, it takes all the fanfiction it was taught on, mixes it up with whatever topic you've given it, and generates a response like in old-timey mysteries where somebody cuts a bunch of letters out of magazines and pastes them together to write a letter.

(And might I remind you, people can't monetize their fanfiction the way C.AI is trying to monetize itself. Authors are very lax about fanfiction nowadays: we've come a long way since the Anne Rice days of terror. But this issue is cropping back up again with BookTok complaining that they can't pay someone else for bound copies of fanfiction. Don't do that either.)

Bottom line, here are the problems with using things like C.AI:

It is using material it doesn't have permission to use and doesn't credit anybody. Not only is it ethically wrong, but AI is already beginning to contend with copyright issues.

C.AI sucks at its job anyway. It's not good at basic story structure like building tension, and can't even remember things you've told it. I've also seen many instances of bots saying triggering or disgusting things that deeply upset the user. You don't get that with properly trigger tagged fanworks.

Your work and your time put into the app can be taken away from you at any moment and used to make money for someone else. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people who use AI panic about accidentally deleting a bot that they spent hours conversing with. Your time and effort is so much more stable and well-preserved if you wrote a fanfiction or roleplayed with someone and saved the chatlogs. The company that owns and runs C.AI can not only use whatever you've written as they see fit, they can take your shit away on a whim, either on purpose or by accident due to the nature of the Internet.

DON'T USE C.AI, OR AT THE VERY BARE MINIMUM DO NOT DO THE AI'S WORK FOR IT BY STEALING OTHER PEOPLES' WORK TO PUT INTO IT. Writing fanfiction is a communal labor of love. We share it with each other for free for the love of the original work and ideas we share. Not only can AI not replicate this, but it shouldn't.

(also, this goes without saying, but this entire post also applies to ai art)

[damian-lil-babybat]

They're judging their sibling's life decisions, and they are not impressed.

(And to think Jason and Dami have pit-madness in their system)

[importantandunavoidable]

legally obligated to post this every time i use it

[manchesterau]

31 festive days of dnp [27/31]

❄︎ 15 years of Interactive Christmas Adventure ❄︎

[mankindsbadhabitz]

WHY ISNT ANYONE TLAKIGJ ABOUT THIS IM GOING INSANE?

LOOK. LOOK AT IT.

I’m seeing like NOBODY talk about it and I’ve literally been FREAKING the FREAK out about it for HOURS. I’M SO EXCITED FOR THE RELEASE OF PART ONE!

[old-type-40]

There's been something I've been meaning to gif for a really long time and I figured the 32nd anniversary of the DS9 premiere was an appropriate time to finally do it. 30 years ago, there was a short TV series called Movie Magic that detailed how FX were done for both movies and TV. And one of the episodes focused on the model work for the first DS9 episode Emissary.

In the BTS, they showed the moment when Sisko and Jake get their first view of the station. And I had noticed the way in which Avery Brooks had to step over something on the floor. Whether it was the track for the camera or the wiring I don't know. But whenever I rewatch Emissary I notice the way Brooks moves in this scene as he steps over something.

IIRC, this episode of Movie Magic talked about how expensive it was to make Emissary because of all the motion control work necessary to shoot the battle with the Borg. And they were really anxious not to screw things up when they filmed the explosion of the Saratoga as there wouldn't be a second chance.

And speaking of filming models of spaceships exploding, Trek at least always did it right with the cameras pointing straight up at the model as it exploded so that as debris fell towards the floor it would be falling towards the camera. When you watch an exploding spaceship in classic Who, you see debris tumbling downwards after the explosion as they didn't bother to do this.

[galactic-rhea]

quick sketch before going to sleep

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[allthingslinguistic]

please i need you to watch this deadpan german linguistics professor making an incredibly catchy nerd pop song and dancing it's been stuck in my head all day

[a-canceled-stamp]

Arthur’s Hard-Knock Life

Anyway go listen to Malevolent, it has lots more Arthur Pain Noises to offer