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oh no i've forgotten how to use this site but yes it's sath!!! check out my carrd at sath.carrd.co for more current links and i'm still primarily on twitter as sathindetection there as well but trying to figure out how to best transition lmao!!!
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stuff i'll tend to reblog: albether (ofc), cytham, zhongven, beiguang, xiaoaether, allxaether pairings in general lol
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It's a miracle I finished at least one sketch from one of my Genshin ships. I'M OBSSESED with that post thatsaid that as Kaveh is a claymore user, he can easily lift AlHaitham, AND I'M LIVING, thank you for that internet user
kavetham brainrot and I haven’t even done the archon quest yet
honestly it is so incredibly funny of the genshin writers to introduce kaveh at the literal last minute and he not only has no idea what just happened but al haitham refuses to explain anything and locks him out of their house
unless you literally want to crack open your rib cage and have me crawl inside do NOT flirt with me.
Long before internet memes, there was Morris the Cat, the advertising mascot for 9Lives brand cat food, appearing on its packaging and in many of its television commercials since the 1970s. This particular appearance was on a 1986 calendar titled “Morris, A Cat For Our Times” that featured several pieces of technology. Find out more here…
So here's the thing about AI art, and why it seems to be connected to a bunch of unethical scumbags despite being an ethically neutral technology on its own:
The problem is competition. More generally, the problem is capitalism.
So the kind of AI art we're seeing these days is based on something called "deep learning", a type of machine learning based on neural networks. How they work exactly isn't important, but one aspect in general is: they have to be trained.
The way it works is that if you want your AI to be able to generate X, you have to be able to train it on a lot of X. The more, the better. It gets better and better at generating something the more it has seen it. Too small a training dataset and it will do a bad job of generating it.
So you need to feed your hungry AI as much as you can. Now, say you've got two AI projects starting up:
Project A wants to do this ethically. They generate their own content to train the AI on, and they seek out datasets that allow them to be used in AI training systems. They avoid misusing any public data that doesn't explicitly give consent for the data to be used for AI training.
Meanwhile, Project B has no interest in the ethics of what they're doing, so long as it makes them money. So they don't shy away from scraping entire websites of user-submitted content and stuffing it into their AI. DeviantArt, Flickr, Tumblr? It's all the same to them. Shove it in!
Now let's fast forward a couple months of these two projects doing this. They both go to demo their project to potential investors and the public art large.
Which one do you think has a better-trained AI? the one with the smaller, ethically-obtained dataset? Or the one with the much larger dataset that they "found" somewhere after it fell off a truck?
It's gonna be the second one, every time. So they get the money, they get the attention, they get to keep growing as more and more data gets stuffed into it.
And this has a follow-on effect: we've just pre-selected AI projects for being run by amoral bastards, remember. So when someone is like "hey can we use this AI to make NFTs?" or "Hey can your AI help us detect illegal immigrants by scanning Facebook selfies?", of course they're gonna say "yeah, if you pay us enough".
So while the technology is not, in itself, immoral or unethical, the situations around how it gets used in capitalism definitely are. That external influence heavily affects how it gets used, and who "wins" in this field. And it won't be the good guys.
An important follow-up: this is focusing on the production side of AI, but obviously even if you had an AI art generator trained on entirely ethically sourced data, it could still be used unethically: it could put artists out of work, by replacing their labor with cheaper machine labor. Again, this is not a problem of the technology itself: it's a problem of capitalism. If artists weren't competing to survive, the existence of cheap AI art would not be a threat.
I just feel it's important to point this out, because I sometimes see people defending the existence of AI Art from a sort of abstract perspective. Yes, if you separate it completely from the society we live in, it's a neutral or even good technology. Unfortunately, we still live in a world ruled by capitalism, and it only makes sense to analyze AI Art from a perspective of having to continue to live in capitalism alongside it.
If you want ideologically pure AI Art, feel free to rise up, lose your chains, overthrow the bourgeoisie, and all that. But it's naive to defend it as just a neutral technology like any other when it's being wielded in capitalism; ie overwhelmingly negatively in impact.
military recruiter: so what got you guys interested in the marine corps
enormous horde of hagfish, ispods and bottom-feeding crustaceans: oh. uh. is that how you pronounce it
I love it when anons/guests find my works and kudo/leave reviews, but given the new revelation that Elon Musk is using bots to mine AO3 fanfiction for a writing AI without writer’s permission, my works are now archive-locked and only available for people with an AO3 account.
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what the fuck.
Tested the website (sudowrite.com) and put in a suggestive but not explicit fanfic excerpt of mine. Sudowrite spit back out an explicit sex scene as a continuation of what I'd written.
For people unfamiliar with my new cat Claudia, here she is!
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Hello I want you to know that I had a conversation with a library kid about genshin impact and they were super excited that I knew some of the characters but I could say N O T H I N G about how I knew about them bc it was just from reading snippets of your aether/albedo stuff on twitter so. Thank you.
Oh my god the cackle I just did yes yes I feel like while my Twitter certainly makes someone aware of Aether and Albedo's characters, it is perhaps not always the best source to cite. At least it's helping you to connect with the Youth!
can't believe we're about to enter albedo season without an albedo event this is bullshit
drawn post 1.2 event!
