Demon’s Aerie

Demon of the gryphon variety, CatBird, Artist, Seamstress, Crafter, Cat Mom. My illness is chronic but my menacing is iconic. She/her. Welcome to the Nest

[gryphonxxdemon]

Australia sunsets are somehow perfect. Love the view from this park

[gryphonxxdemon]

Sometimes I do cute art. Shiny version of my OC with OnePonPon/Poni

[love]

by wilderpoetry

[gryphonxxdemon]

Some more digital art practice

[gryphonxxdemon]

Making chibis

https://www.twitch.tv/gryphonxxdemon

[gryphonxxdemon]

Made a cute digital painting. I am learning but proud how it turned out.

[gryphonxxdemon]

https://www.twitch.tv/gryphonxxdemon

GryphonxxDemon - Twitch

GryphonxxDemon - Twitch

[gayvampyr]

i don’t know what else to say except that AI art is no longer simply a source of creativity or a wonder of human creation. it has become actively hostile and destructive toward the very thing it pretends to uplift and celebrate. it is void of any human element, any soul or ounce of emotion or self-expression. continuing to use AI art knowing that it comes from theft and robbing artists of their livelihood is disgusting. we need your support now more than ever. stop giving these thieves your money and admiration.

[rainboq]

We've spent the past 20-30 years enjoying a brief time where artists were able to share their art with the world for little to no cost to themselves to audiences who never would have been able to see their works before. Artistic talent and creativity have exploded thanks to the web, with people are to share techniques and tools that would have been kept behind financial and academic barriers and create audiences in entirely new ways.

And now tech bros are out to plunder that wealth of artistry we've come to enjoy through brute force statistical modelling so they can cut the artists out of the business of selling art. Why would a company bother employing rosters of artists to produce for them when they can hire a handful of people to run the models and tweak the outputs to suit their needs?

There is nothing benevolent or celebratory in this, it is purely about theft and exploitation. It's about violating the copyright of artists in order to churn out content that's Good Enough to suit the needs of capitalists. Do you think that the publishing industry will continue to pay authors for their works if they can just hand an algorithm a prompt and get a completed work in a handful of minutes or hours, and then pay someone to edit it into something coherent (if they even need to)?

This is the end result of the commodification of art. The artistry of the works do not matter, only that they can be sold and generate profit. Capitalism has always been existed in opposition to art, Capital requires steady growth of returns and regular output, art demands innovation and risky endeavours to push the boundaries. Art is of use to capital only in so far as it is able to generate direct sales and intellectual property that can then itself be turned into a commodity. The moment Capital is able to cut artistry and artists out of the equation so that it can further maximize it's profits, it will. And what's worse, the art it produces will be stale and recycled.

Brute force statistical modelling by it's very nature is recycling, it will continue reusing old ideas and old techniques in new configurations. It is an artistic ouroboros, incapable of anything but accidental innovation through sheer volume of output, that will then be re-consumed and reconstituted all over again.

[harvestheart]

Puppy in cozy, toasty warm, comfort.  Taken into the flock. 

[farmcontent]

worth pointing out that appears to be a great pyrenees dog AKA a livestock guardian dog. :)

they’re learning to cohabitate with sheep who they will then grow up to protect!

[lunasong365]

Photo is by Cat Urbigkit. It’s from her ranch in Wyoming; she says the dogs are Akbash. Here are some more of her photos of working livestock guardian dogs.

[secondlina]

New Crow Time 🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴

[stephanweaverofworlds]

@faridahmalik

[gryphonxxdemon]

Update: I have a desk and now it’s my ditto clefairy’s home.

[cassandraclare]

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[gryphonxxdemon]

Some of my cute chibi drawings I can’t wait to add more friends!!

[fredrin]

Meowy approved reccomended reading.  Picked up from a local indie bookstore yesterday.  Man, I miss bookstores.

[juliamstarr]

Instagram

[patterns-pets]

Your pets after you bring your phone out to film them doing something

[densewentz]

This is an ai “artwork” hate blog now

[densewentz]

like look you have this soulless thing that has anonymously and indiscriminately cannibalized years of hard-earned learning and discipline and struggle and creativity.

and you type in a little thing and it just. spits out some mashed up amalgam of other peoples inspiration, other peoples skills and dedication and livelihoods. and you sit there and smile and tag it “my art” like its not a horrible spit in the face of every artist who made that shitty little program possible. and now you think you have no NEED to pay an artist, you can just make it yourself. as if you’ve made anything??? fuck you and fuck ai “art”