Ghostcup

Kris - they/them - 30s - fanart 🌝 Don't use/reupload my art without permission Art - Tags/fandoms

[ghostcupdraws]

I saw some amazing on set photos of Nimoy with a lollipop and I -

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Here you go: Link

[the-uss-premise]

i have this really cool tos blooper reel on vinyl that features lollipop nimoy!!!

there’s also a zoetrope spock around the center so when the record spins he does the vulcan salute :)

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Whattt, this is so cool?? And on vinyl, I’m genuinely so jealous.

[last-smoke]

“i hope you know we had everything” 🩸

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That sassy little scientist and the disaster he chose as his partner

[angelsdean]

like i'm sorry but we as a fandom have to stay firm on our anti-AI values. we cannot suddenly start giving AI a pass when it's something we "want to see" like destiel kisses. it's not suddenly fine. we're not going to start using AI to make fanfic scenes come to life or audio AI to make characters "say" stuff we want to hear. you have GOT to be firm on your anti-AI stance. if you start making exceptions then suddenly anything will fly. fandom is for real art and creations made by real people. no AI fanfics. no AI art. no AI rendered "bonus" scenes. no AI audio. none of it has a place here.

[teaandcrowns]

preserving @freedom-of-fanfic's tags

[freedom-of-fanfic]

Thank you for preserving these!

Coming back to say: here’s some reasons to hold out against using generative AI as much as you can*.

On the ethics side:

The ‘free’ AI programs available to the general public are unethically trained on stolen data

(Said stolen data has been found to include CSAM/CSEM)

AI generation requires lots of electricity & is bad for the environment

AI is heavily supplemented by underpaid human labor that’s hidden on purpose

On the labor side:

AI has only one real value for companies who look to incorporate it: reducing its reliance on human labor. If it’s not doing that, then why spend money on it? It needs to be a cheaper replacement for something else, and that something is human labor. That’s its selling point.

And thus: generative AI is being sold to your boss/potential commissioner as your cheaper competitor.

Although the actual potential for generative AI’s output is doubtful, companies are eager to use AI to cut creative labor out of the production process and thus the profit structure. artists are noticing.

For example: Companies refusing to include anti-AI language in contracts, prompting strikes

AI is replacing people … but mostly making jobs for those who remain even harder than before

That last point is important to me bc if you won’t try to avoid using generative AI for the sake of the people whose work was stolen to train it, or for the environment, or for creatives getting financially squeezed by it … you should avoid it because it’s not going to be around forever.

On the economic side:

Generative AI as it stands … really can’t replace humans no matter how hard AI companies try to sell it as a replacement. If it turns out to be a useless expense, then why buy it?

If it turns out nobody will buy it … why keep selling it? & in fact that’s the problem: not nearly enough people are buying use of generative AI services/models to make it profitable.

If it’s not profitable (bc ppl actively don’t like it & it doesn’t work well), the companies selling generative AI will stop selling it, will close their doors, will stop offering generative AI for free …

And all we’ll have is a bunch of collapsed AI startups & lost creative jobs for no reason.

The AI bubble will crash, & when it does, all that will happen is a lot of wealth will have transferred to already-wealthy people who were willing to throw massive amounts of money down the drain just to make everyone else a little poorer

Outside of fandom, AI is getting rammed down our throats bc it’s all about profit. Generative AI is meant to steal what little profit artists still make commercially. Let’s not let it take up space in fandom, too!

I can’t force anyone to not use AI, of course, & I don’t expect ppl who already use it to respect any of my reasons to not use it. But i hope this post gives you some reasons to not use it.

(You know who’s actually profiting heavily from AI? Scammers.)

*a lot of things are labeled ‘AI’ but aren’t really generative AI, & sometimes you can’t avoid using AI bc of work or something. But do your best, even if only for yourself.

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Blissful silence (he’s taking a yapping break)

[teaboot]

Fifteen year old me, deeply in denial: Im sure all girls wanna look like that

That:

[herssian]

stop drawing for others. don't draw for yourself either. play video games

[juneiper-art]

[bronzetomatoes]

If you want earnestness in art then sometimes it's going to be cringe and sometimes it's going to be pretentious

[bronzetomatoes]

Thinking about this, still. You don't have to like everything out there, but if people aren't allowed to be cringe they'll never let themselves be overly authentic. If people are afraid of coming across as pretentious, they'll be afraid to take themselves seriously. And once you take that away, what's left are irony-poisoned works that don't really have anything to say

[nullcanary]

[eeveestoneson]

So this is what would happen if I could click kudos more than once

[scurvioli]

[teacupsandcyanide]

[dekariosclan]

The entire Galemancer community right now

[lizluzz]

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My Durge, Tav and half-orc paladin babe that I totally didn't just create because I'm feral for the idea of big strong female orc knights, anyway her name is Ruccola

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And to think I did all of this for some extra Bhaal lines because he’s voiced by game Geralt of Rivia and I’m Not Immune.

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Me wearing my most expensive clown costume looking forward to chatting with my companions in the epilogue party, but my PT has been a Bhaal’s chosen Durge run

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I’m in such desperate need of drawing something wholesome after having made life a living hell for Every character in this game (except Minthara, bless her). Gotta renew my efforts to finish the BG3 wips I have lying around