Lover of Love.

RM Virtues. Bestselling Romance Author of Sing Me to Sleep & the Gods of Hunger Series. Pre-order LOVE ME NOW today! Releases Aug. 30th! Black Nahua. 2S (he/him). rmvirtues.com

[rmvirtues]

GOH #4: LOVE ME NOW is now available for pre-order! Releases Aug 30th!

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[just-french-me-up]

[speciesbarocus]

New “Leda and the Swan” fresco uncovered @ Pompeii. 

[rmvirtues]

Have you started the GODS OF HUNGER series yet?

Grab the first 3 books in the series in KU now!

- QBIPOC Greek Myth Reimagining

- #1: Hades & Persephone

- #2: Hephaestus & Aphrodite

- #3: Dionysos & Athena

- #4: Achilles & Patroclus also available on AMZ!

[rmvirtues]

GOH #4: LOVE ME NOW is now available for pre-order! Releases Aug 30th!

Want a signed paperback & some art prints?

Sign up for my Patreon ($12-$18 tiers) by Aug. 12!

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[galvanizedfriend]

The US Copyright Office is opening a public comment period around AI

US Copyright Office wants to hear what people think about AI and copyright

People have until October 18th to comment.

American friends! The US Copyright Office (which we know exerts huuuge influence in how these things are treated elsewhere) wants to hear opinions on copyright and AI.

"The US Copyright Office is opening a public comment period around AI and copyright issues beginning August 30th as the agency figures out how to approach the subject."

We can assume that the opposing side will definitely be using all of their lobbying power towards widespread AI use, so this is a very good chance to let them know your thoughts on AI and how art and creative content of all kinds should be protected.

[ri-writing]

One of the things they’re asking for comment on is the use of copyrighted works to train AI.  The Copyright Office really will read what you write.  If lots of people write in that they oppose allowing generative AI to train on copyrighted works, that could encourage the Copyright Office to also find that using copyrighted works to train AI engines should not be allowed.  Courts routinely look at Copyright Office publications while interpreting the Copyright Act, so this is an opportunity to actually have a say in the issue. 

You might be wondering how you should express that letting AI train on people’s copyrighted works is bad in a way that the Copyright Office will take seriously.  The simple answer is: Be polite and be honest.  If you’ve been a victim, you can share how you felt when you discovered your work had been used to train AI without your permission.  If you think authors and artists deserve not to have their work used without their permission, you can say that.  Be truthful.  Don’t present something as a fact if it is not.  Avoid hyperbole, inflammatory accusations, and foul language.  It is okay to say you are upset, concerned, and/or hurt, but do it without calling someone else a “fucker.” 

If you have no idea what to say, but want to comment, I've got some suggestions on how to write a comment under the cut.

Part One - Thank the Copyright Office for seeking public comment:

Thank you for opening these important questions up for public comment.

Or

I appreciate the Office’s interest in this topic and its request for public feedback.

Part Two - Who you are and why do you care?

I am an author/artist whose living depends on my being able to monetize my work

or

I am a supporter of authors and artists, and recognize that it is important in a democratic society to support the creation of art.

or

I am an author/artist whose work appears on my website.

Part Three - there is a strong public policy in granting authors the exclusive right to their works for a limited time (ie during the copyright period)

Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution requires Congress pass laws “ To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.”  Permitting generative AI to train on copyrighted works without fairly compensating Authors for the Right to their Writings is inconsistent with the Constitution.

Or

There is a strong policy to promote art by allowing authors exclusive rights in their creative works during a set period of time.  While a work is under copyright, therefore, it should not be used without the author’s consent to train generative AI.  To do so would violate the author’s exclusive rights to control their work while copyright applies.

Or

The Copyright Act places time limits on when an author has exclusive rights in their creative works.  This balances allowing the author to promote their work and recover for their efforts against the public’s ability to use the work.  Applying this system to generative AI is fair - generative AI may be trained on materials in the public domain, but it would be a violation of an author’s exclusive rights in their works to train generative AI on the author’s work while it is under copyright.

Part Four - what do you want?

The Copyright Office should adopt positions finding that training generative AI on copyrighted works without the consent of the authors of those works violates the Copyright Act.

or

The Copyright Office should adopt positions that copyright infringement includes training generative AI on copyrighted works when it is done without the permission of the authors whose works are being used in the training.

Part Five - Thank you again for your time.

Thank you for considering these comments.

or

Thank you for your time and consideration in this important matter.

[muffinlance]

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT! Please take a moment out of your day, on behalf of all authors, artists, and terrible bosses looking to replace human creativity with ultra-cheap good-enough alternatives to comment. And I don't generally ask for reblogs, but yeah. Do that too. But the most important part is commenting. Doesn't have to be perfect, just copy and paste from above if you want to, or write a heartfelt two-sentence "artists and writers should give consent and receive compensation to be included in a training set, and images and writing resulting from AI should not be eligible for copyright without significant further human manipulation/improvement of the generated image." Which is my own current stance on this issue.

I've seen two links floating on the reblogs for where to comment officially at, which is confusing

At regulations.gov: here

At the copyright office: here

BOTH OF THESE ULTIMATELY LINK TO THE SAME COMMENT FORM (on regulations.gov), so just to preemptively clear up that confusion, follow either link they're both fine

Edit: Someone added that non-USA residents can comment, too!

[muffinlance]

Reminder!

[garnetgh0st]

"The Lament For Icarus" - Herbert James Draper, 1898 || "I, Carrion" - Andrew Hozier-Byrne, 2023

[theurbanspaceboi]

some of you need to make your bed and have a shower with a soap that smells nice, and then sit in a chair near the window and have tea with milk and read a hardcover book and see how your creative block is after that tbh.

[theurbanspaceboi]

i'm not saying creative block isn't a real or difficult phenomenon. i'm saying creatives have a tendency to neglect themselves physically and emotionally in favor of manic bursts of productivity. a little softness and clean sheets and a bagel will go a long way. make a playlist and light the fancy candle you've been saving for a special occasion. life is a special occasion.

[rotblut]

You bled my brother. So now you bleed. You think that I am not a hunter like you. That I am not a threat. That is what makes me dangerous. You can’t see that I’m killing you. AMBER MIDTHUNDER as NARU PREY (2022) dir. Dan Trachtenberg

[she-who-fights-and-writes]

Me rn

[rmvirtues]

GODS OF HUNGER #4: LOVE ME NOW is available now!!

T4T Achilles & Patroclus

Can be read on its own

Like 6 trans guys on a quest

Partners-to-Lovers/Opposites attract

Arena fights & Rescue missions

"Touch him & you d!e" but also "Touch me or I'LL d!e"

[diioonysus]

black women + art

[lesbicosmos]

when hozier said "if im a pagan of the good times, my lover's the sunlight" and when hozier said "no grave can hold my body down, i'll crawl home to her" and when hozier said "i slithered here from eden just to sit outside your door" and when hozier said "heaven is not fit to house a love like you and i" and when hozier said-

[thewarmvoid]

It is very important to love the transmascs + men around you very genuinely + loudly simply bc it is a good thing to do but also, and forgive me for not sugarcoating it, the boys are killing themselves out here at rates that should be a lot more alarming to a lot more people

[thewarmvoid]

You won’t find much old literature about “girls who wanted to be boys” bc the ppl who would have written them were more often than not institutionalized & the books that have been written have often been recontexualized as feminist lit about “women divesting from gender norms”.

Dreaming of a world where people see transmasc erasure not as transmascs + men complaining about not being popular online and more about the deliberate and intentional burying of our history and existence as a whole.

[corrie-zodori]

Anyone: Hey (asks about a special interest of mine)? Me: Becomes an unskippable cutscene

[webbyghost]

[allmythologies]

greek mythology: thalassa

thalassa is the primoridal goddess of the sea, she produced the fish and other sea creatures.