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#colezo #yeehan #yeehan au

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bearotonin-international

but have you seen

Oh my goshhhhh you couldn't have possibly known this but I started rereading Lucid Dream a week ago after finding it again. Last time I looked I couldn't find it and feared it deleted but that may have been the change of the cowboy's name or the privatization to keep it from being scraped for AI so I was sooooo excited to find it again and reread it. I like to read with the entire work button since I work at a horse rescue and we have terrible reception so I didn't even know about your update from two days ago now until I got to the end of the 2025 posted chapter and decided to click on your Tumblr so that I could tell you just how amazing it was when I saw you had literally just posted a new chapter. Serendipity at its finest! Truly I am so happy and grateful that you have been continuing this work, I have thought and think of it often. I hope you are well and that your year goes spectacularly! You've certainly made mine better.

ʕ ິᵒ̴̶̷̤́ᴥᵒ̴̶̷̤̀人ʔ💕 thank you for your message, anonymous horse rescuer!

I did privatize my fic briefly when it became known that AI models were scrapping the internet, so that's likely what made it invisible to a lot of folks. I made it public again after a while, because I'd rather let people read this story than keeping it hidden when it's likely too late.

Sorry for the belated answer, take care ✍️ʕ ⁎ᵕᴥᵕ⁎ ʔ

#chromatocloo talks

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

About time I updated this series, it’s been almost 4 years ʕᅌᴗᅌ* ʔ

Description of the fic below, mind the tags!

#colezo #yeehan #yeehan au

I remembered I have a Tumblr ʕ⚆ ᴥ ⚆ ʔ

New chapter is out, and this monster is now 300k words 💪ʕ╹ヮ╹💪ʔ

(fic description beneath!)

#yeehan #Colezo

brownfrogs

vampcass and wolfzo

#yeehan #hanzo shimada #cole cassidy

elizabug

tendermiasma

I always avoided using references, but couldn't point out what exactly made me avoid it. I have finally realized that due to being unfortunate enough to be surrounded by people boldly claiming "real artists draw everything from imagination without any references" [now i know it's bullshit] in my early years of artistic journey, I developed fear of being too dependent on references and fear of being completely unable to draw anything good without "copying". Any ideas how to overcome that fear?

It's not something I hear at all in professional spaces. We've straight up traced weird angles of our arms before. I use lots of references. You will naturally get better at drawing intuitively with the more references you use since we learn by example. I draw intuitively much more accurately than I did many years ago, but I still use references because my idea of a polished drawing is a moving goalpost.

Jason Rainville is one of the best of the best, paints MTG cards and he often posts his references. You can see how closely they mirror the final image:

If you want to get good at art, you have to look at things and that's all it boils down to. Those who say it's bad to use references are either 1) never getting good at art, or 2) are insecure and are posturing in front of other artists. Hope this helps!

rebouks

click this..

then click your blog(s)

scroll all the way down and click this..

profit?

plaidparadise77

On mobile it’s under visibility

ao3cassandraic

This is better than the how-to I was about to write.

So yeah. Do this.

And let's see if we can get "fuck ai" trending, shall we?

ayeforscotland

Tumblr is doing some stupid AI shit so go to blog settings > Visibility > Prevent third-party sharing.

jondoe297

also use Nightshade and Glaze to protect your artwork and images!!!!

here's a link to Nightshade

here's a link to Glaze

best combination is usin Nightshade then Glaze on your images. Glaze creates a protective layer and Nightshade poisons the A.I. software.

lynayru

@staff

OUR CONTENT SHOULD BE OPTED OUT OF AI TRAINING BY DEFAULT!

#there is a chance it is off by default if you are in Europe #but check your blog settings anyway just to be sure

alwek

Remember all you. THIS is the post that triggered Rita's ban.

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This is the #2 trending post sitewide right now, just below an outline of the ways tumblr staff has historically targeted trans women. Keep it up.

nira-mirror

Happy late Valentine everyone!

I bring you Mchanzo/Yeehan as my first artwork of the years

#yeehan #cole cassidy #hanzo shimada

sashayed

ah yes. han solo. han solo, so suave

so cool under pressure

so calm in a crisis

great at handling difficult situations, for example, can get his own gloves off WHILE talking to a cute girl AT the same time no problem thanks for asking

so great at witty comebacks

definitely has slept with MANY a lady because, again, Han Solo is a cool guy, and not a grumpy hermit who, were he a person in the world, would spend all his weekends alone in his apartment with his phone turned off watching Ice Road Truckers

definitely not a weirdo with a shitty haircut who talks to his car

no. mister cool guy. always looks so cool. so cool in a fight

so cool. never panics about everything all the time constantly.

people trust him cause he’s got that cool guy charisma

always knows what he’s doing. han solo. an expert.

in conclusion: han solo, a cool space scoundrel, not a nerd. maybe you’re the nerd around here. hmm. looks like it. check and mate

maruti-bitamin

Leafy boby

I ran out of bookmark tab stickers for journalling. So am making some. Leaf edition 🌱

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ex0skeletal-undead

Begging people to stop reblogging this AI trash from “The Phantom Painter” on Instagram (instagram.com/phantom.painting). I’ve been seeing it on my dash more and more often from people who are otherwise anti-AI and either can’t tell it’s AI or don’t care because it looks cool.

This is the kind of shit that is VERY CLEARLY trained on the works of existing talented artists’ with distinct styles and this asshole is selling prints and making a profit off of stealing other people’s hard work.

Don’t give people like this money or attention and they will go away.

Please, if you’re going to buy art prints, buy them from an actual artist.

ex0skeletal-undead

@thegnat That’s the problem, it’s getting really hard to tell what’s AI and what isn’t. This phantom painter person at least says on each post on Instagram that it was created with AI, but when people re-post it on tumblr, it isn’t specified, and people end up reblogging it.

It’s not reasonable to think everyone should be vetting every single art they reblog to make sure it isn’t AI, which is why I made this post to let people know this artist specifically is AI, and I see it reblogged a ton.

ex0skeletal-undead

While we’re at it

and so is everything by that person, xis.lanyx on Instagram. They also sell prints of their “original images”

ex0skeletal-undead

That last one is for the people saying “you can always tell by the hands.” You cannot. The whole point is that it’s getting better and better at it. That’s what it does.

As an art curator on tumblr I now have to spend a considerable amount of time trying to decipher whether or not the art I want to share is AI or not and I still sometimes get it wrong.

shithowdy

To actually answer the question of how one can determine something is AI, particularly as it grows more sophisticated with anatomy: you have to train yourself to recognize artifacts.

There is no one single unifying giveaway beyond a strange sense of uncanny that you will eventually begin to recognize the better you attune yourself, and certain models have their own unique “styles” you can begin to recognize (midjourney and stablediffusion produce very different looks, for example). There are however a few things on which one can tend to focus.

Edges: AI, as of this post, still struggles with distinct edges of objects and figures and has a tendency to blend details together. Look for hair, ribbons, and other flowy details if present. Do they fade into other details? Look at how the hair fuses with the smoke:

Edges 2: Sometimes they will also have the edges completely avoid each other, with a foreground figure slightly warping along the edges in a way that matches the background edges, like repelling magnets:

Patterns: AI, as of this post, still struggles with patterns. Filigrees, mandalas, brickwork, scales, anything that involves a high level of intricate detail tends to get blurred together. This can be a tricky one, because a lot of artists will also fudge pattern details in looser renders, but usually in a way that makes sense as an impression and not…. this:

Architecture: Are there buildings present in the image? AI has a tendency to make Escher-esque nonsense structures, with pillars in places they don’t belong, arches that go nowhere, bricks that don’t align, and support beams that start on one plane and connect to another. It also struggles with perspective, but, so do many humans so I would not consider it evidence alone. Check out the placement of this pillar, and also the detail on the… window? Candle cage?? Thing?

Resolution and quality: AI cannot make high-resolution images. It just cannot. While most artists aren’t posting their full resolutions, generative images can’t be enhanced, and the “artist” will not be able to provide proof of work. You should be able to zoom into work by an artist and admire their strokes, relate to their errors, and appreciate their process at every skill level– zooming into generative images somehow makes them even less clear, a mess of pixels that are somehow both blurry and also look like they have been run through a sharpen filter:

Text and signatures: AI struggles with legible characters in any language, and the result is a simlish-looking approximation of characters at worst, and hilariously misspelled words at best. Since these models are trained off real artists, they will also often have artifacts of a signature that oopsed its way into the image. These signatures are always illegible or, if “legible”, are not actually the names of real accounts.

Things like this can be tough to spot at a glance if you’re not actively keyed into looking for them, but they’re the type of uncanny stuff that once you see it will start gnawing at the back of your mind. You’ll be scrolling your feed and suddenly take -1 psychic damage and you have to scroll back up to see why. Stuff that goes beyond inconsistent lightsources and bad anatomy.

chromatocloo

This uncanny feeling is such a good helper! Just the other day, I saw an AI generated pic on Instagram. Looked nice at the 1st microsecond, then something at the back of my brain went 'hang on a sec this is fishy'. Scrolled into the tags; the post was literally tagged as AI made. The person was not trying to hide it at all.

Looking back at this peculiar piece with this helpful list, I can see what gave me this feeling: nonsense folds in clothing, one arm vanishing into undefined ""stroke"" splotches, hair mixing in with other edges, nonsense patterns (in lightening of all things), and an ersatz of signature almost cut out from the frame.

Another thing that helps is checking through the OP's posts. If the art style radically changes or is full-on inconsistent, that is also a good clue that doesn't require eye training:

#Anti AI PSA #fuck ai “”“art”“”#ai is not art

persephinae

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#in this house we despise generative AI

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