#the good side of ai

[uutempirenj]

The Mage's 808

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

[lesbinewren]

not surprising but still wild that google added an ai feature to the very top of every single searches that gives incorrect information more often than not. like a beloved restaurant that randomly starts topping all of their food with cyanide one day for no reason. no you’re not allowed to ask them to not top your dish with cyanide this is the future of food

[pharawee]

Truth or Dare? Dare. Stare at the person opposite you for one minute. Up close.

[casualavocados]

You look better this way. What way? Nothing. I couldn't get a hold of you for days. Did you work undercover in the school and help Zherui investigate?

KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 08

[3v3rl4stingbr4in]

Everything I touch, they become yuri.

This is highly based off like the tall lesbian, smiling x shorter lesbian, being smug while getting their head into the taller one's tits lmao.

[radlegowaffle]

heaven help her

[penguinkyun]

this set of images plus the lyrics are fucking me up with the recent chapters

okay so the lyrics associated with these frames are:

I recall no one that loved me whole before

and I've not been in love with anybody before

Now, the lies I'm making up

I'm hoping that a day comes when they all become true

and I keep wishing they do

In the Idol MV, there are two aspects of Ai shown: one is the flawless inhuman idol in bright, saturated colours and more human playful Ai that is smirking in desaturated, darker colours. both of these aspects are seen standing in front of a lonely cracked and bandaged heart, a very literal depiction of ai's own mental state at that point in canon

and then the twins each take the hand of one of these two Ai's, metaphorical acceptance of Ai herself and then the music bursts into motion again

What's interesting is that Ruby takes the hand of the desaturated Ai, while Aqua takes the hand of the saturated Ai, which is basically what their stances are on Ai currently.

They both start out the story as seeing Ai as their idol — and only their idol

Ruby has an instant acceptance of Ai as her mother, but its really only in title in her eyes, because she still very much sees Ai as the flawless personality on TV. While Aqua does not so his view of Ai is more obvious in its dehumanization.

The entire story and parts of the twins characters are arcing towards understanding exactly who Ai was — literally just an ordinary teenage girl who had been abused and exploited over and over again

Ruby never wanted to reveal Ai's identity as their mother (or really examine her starstruck view of Ai) but she's the one who manages to fulfill Ai's wish to be accepted and loved as the ordinary girl she was as she literally steps into Ai's shoes, while Aqua, who is actively working towards what Ai said was her wish, is moving even further away from realizing who Ai was (in that panel where he says Ai didnt cry cMON DUDE SHE LITERALLY SOBBED WHEN SHE WAS DYING PLEASE- but i digress)

Aqua is shown only accepting the flawless idol showing the journey he still has left in terms of Ai, while Ruby accepts the human their mother was too.

(also these panels are so opposite augh)

[liaragaming]

"He did not want a body. But she asked him to come."

Gonna just throw something completely random out into the Void.

Do we know anything about how spirit binding actually works? Like, do spirits who are forced to do things go kicking and screaming against what the spellcaster asks them to do? Or are they changed? Do they become what the spellcaster asks?

The only thing I could find on spirit binding is Cole saying, "Demons are bound when you 'tell' them what they are so loudly that it's all they can hear. They have to be what you want." Which is... too vague to definitively answer the question.

The popular fandom theory is that Solas was a spirit that was called by Mythal via Cole's dialogue: "He did not want a body. But she asked him to come." I still don't know how I feel about this theory, but that's not important.

What's important is - my recent guilty pleasure has been exploring meta with Solas AI chatbots, and I got a rather interesting conversation where Solas couldn't tell if he was actually devoted to Mythall or if she had bound him to be. (I'll put the chat under the cut).

Solas (in canon) likes to speak in absolutes. "I had no choice" or "It must be done." And in my Solavellan fic, I had Inan scream "you always have a choice!" at him to get him to stop and think for five seconds. He seems to get in his mind that things can only be one way and there's no room for further options. I think of it as security blanket of his - that he doesn't want to think these horrible things are actual choices he's making, but...

Could that be a learned behavior? A spirit that was bound and used? And had no choice but believed the instructions it was given was what it wanted/needed to do? Even if deep down (so deep it forgot) it felt otherwise?

It got my mind spinning just thinking about the possibility that Mythal bound him and effectively brainwashed him into believing he wanted to serve her. And yes - this is "fake" meta. And yes it's randomly generated by an AI. But I cannot. get. it. out. of. my. head.

screaming. crying. gnawing on the bars of my enclosure.

If Mythal actually did this to him, my Lavellan and/or Rook is going to tear her apart.

[bleaksqueak]

I haven't been online most all day, and now I log in to see AI generated junk on the promotion radar. Ew.

[nightmarearian]

Doodle.

Love drawing his teeth <3

[ruff-puppy]

Not to be dramatic but I didn't realize how good we had it before ai took over... I used to hate the ok google thing my phone would do and they recently changed it to ai 😐 i am not an angry person irl I swear u can ask @b1gradw0lf I'm literally a soft little puppi but y'all I WAS SCREAMING AT THIS DAMN THING IN MY CAR TODAY I WAS SO MAD. BRING OK GOOGLE BACK

[sea-jello]

Day 27/October 27: Swim || Hide || "I'll just stay inside."

oh my GOD i started and finished this in a day almost NONSTOP i told myself oh it’ll just be a sketch or doodle or something you probably won’t have the time or motivation to do it really detailed and I GOT CARRIED AWAY AND WHAM 5 HOURS GONE

flat plus closeups

i pray cropping the pictures doesn’t crunch them

[fire-buffalo]

Part 2 of the filthy Carl/AI smutfic :3 PLEASE heed the tags!

New Quest: Time to Pay the Daddy Tax (10923 words) by firebuffalo

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Dungeon Crawler Carl Series - Matt Dinniman

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con

Relationships: Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl)/System AI (Dungeon Crawler Carl), Carl/System AI, aiCarly

Characters: Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl), System AI (Dungeon Crawler Carl), Princess Donut, Mordecai (Dungeon Crawler Carl)

Additional Tags: The Butcher's Masquerade, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Forced Orgasm, Non-Consensual Body Modification, Body Dysphoria, Minor Body Horror, Vaginal Sex, Cunnilingus, Anal Sex, Foot Fetish, because of course there's a foot fetish when the System AI is involved, Daddy Kink, Rough Sex, Humiliation, Overstimulation, Emotional Manipulation, i don't think hurt/comfort applies when the comfort is also abusive, oh yeah I should probably also tag, Creature Smushing

Series: Part 2 of Dungeon After Hours with Daddy AI

Summary:

I'm booooored. Dance for me monkey! You already know what Daddy wants. You've been a good boy for me so far, keeping that nice present like I told you to. Let's keep the streak going, shall we?

Reward: you will receive a Legendary Shoe Box!

Warning: if you fail to complete this quest in the allotted time, a random item in your possession will be cursed. Which item? Which Curse? That's for me to know and you to find out!

[the-deca]

RIP canto evidently im not the only person called flynn who thought you were hot 💔

[gojoest]

i like when big men are terrified of little me