Kiran's Blog

30+/she/her/avid support player/ bi & married to a lovely nerdhusband with with a chaos child and a baby. Learning to survive and keep other people alive!

[puffychi]

starry night terrarium ☾ ﾟ｡⋆｡˚ ☁︎

This is one of the designs that will be available soon in the store as a liquid charm!

[whenfatecollides]

Xena Warrior Princess 6x6 The Abyss

[batshaped]

mausunderstanding

[chaoskirin]

To reiterate: Christopher Paolini, author of Eragon and other such books, blocked me on Twitter for calling him out about his AI-generated cover.

Tor has admitted he approved this cover and they have been consulting him every step of the way. He is complicit.

It’s honestly so fucking frustrating that this is going to go forward. That the cover to Fractal Noise is gonna be published with AI art that has ripped off other artists. And neither the author nor the publisher give one flying fuck about it.

I don’t think a lot of people really understand what this means. Book cover art is already nearly universally shitty. You go look at fantasy art covers, and they’re all photomanipulations, generally a single girl on the cover doing magic or looking into the distance. There’s no variety. But at least people get paid for them.

With AI art, artists don’t get paid. You know who does? The people who made the dataset. The people who sold the “cover.” Even though it took less than 20 minutes to make.

If this isn’t infuriating you, I don’t know what the hell else to say. Machine learning is coming for everyone’s jobs, and corporate wallets don’t care if it’s safe or not. Certain areas are already experimenting with AI Amazon deliveries, and it’s been hinted that long-haul trucking is next.

This is unacceptable. PLEASE. I’m not going to guilt you into sharing this, but it is CRITICAL that we take a stand now and STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING. If you follow me, I am asking you as a friend to share this, and to find it in your heart to put pressure on people who publish AI art without paying artists.

Tor could change the cover. They’re not, because they’re using Fractal Noise as a test run to see if they can get away with it. Don’t let them. I don’t care how much you like Paolini’s work (although I think Eragon was a boring slog, so I had no qualms about calling him out), you HAVE to do your best to make this stop.

[thatdisasterauthor]

So, fun fact, the US copyright office has specifically stated that AI art cannot be copyrighted. (Source: https://www.cbr.com/ai-comic-deemed-ineligible-copyright-protection/)

Which means that cover cannot be copyrighted.

Which means everyone else can do whatever the fuck they want to and with that cover.

[elierlick]

Your annual reminder to not donate to Salvation Army!

[jellycreamjammedart]

“be quiet” i think the f not

[eiffelart]

lunar picnic

[nevirra]

Beau tried his best

[wojit]

Gotta say, never unfollowing all those long abandoned Tumblr accounts is really suddenly starting to pay off.

[yeahiwasintheshit]

[partypuppynastja]

For any wondering: their sins (not the fun kind) are many, but most notably they are actively homophobic, transphobic, and exploit people who are homeless to do unpaid work in return for the worst lodgings possible under strict Christian rules and somehow those rules tend to end up with people's belongings being stolen "removed".

[guerrillatech]

[jv]

This is akin all those hot takes about the 2k bug being an hoax:

"Remember when they told us every computer was going to crash on 1/1/01 and there would be chaos and then nothing happened?"

Yeah, I remember. And I'm sure every programmer and sysadmin that contributed the billion person/hour global effort to prevent it also remembers.

[alarajrogers]

No one talks about acid rain anymore, either. And that's a very good thing.

[oligopspispopd-deactivated20221]

see also START and START II, which significantly reduced nuclear stockpiles

[cop-disliker69]

International cooperation is actually so effective that most people don’t even notice it happening, and then erroneously believe it can’t solve anything.

[pyrekiran]

Acid rain isn’t a thing anymore?! I just thought it was US news not covering things elsewhere.

[maddiesharafian]

Oops, I never uploaded this one to Tumblr (which I only realized when someone else did, but then was kind enough to tag me, thank you)!

This is the comic that kickstarted my obsession with telling stories with as few panels as I could (usually 10-11 haha), so it’s got a soft spot in my heart. 

[prismatic-bell]

Okay so like, imagine you create a thing. Your boss says “hey, we got that new equipment, write a program and see how it works” and you do.

The result is kinda fun, so you send it to a friend. The friend tweaks it. You tweak it more. Eventually you have a bomb-ass thing.

The government confiscates the thing.

Years later, you go to another country. People go “HOLY SHIT YOU MADE THE THING!”

“The thing? This thing?”

“Yes, that thing! It’s only the most beloved thing of all time!”

“People outside my country know about the thing?”

“Um, YEAH, aren’t you like a gazillionaire?”

“….no?”

…..anyway that is how Alexey Pajitnov, creator of Tetris, found out he had to buy the rights to his own fucking game in order ever see a single ruble as the result of its creation and success.

[the-elf-draws]

Asking for directions

[sosuperawesome]

Feefal on Instagram / Tumblr / Patreon

[spockandawe]

I'm going to get back into the swing of art or die trying! Whatever self-indulgent idea occurs to me is fair game, but i haven't done regular art since my hs days, and that's just too long to let it sit

[puffychi]

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[cyanide-chicken]

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