Kasper

Kasper ⋆｡°✩ 21 ⋆｡°✩He/They

[sugarghostss]

I deleted my old pinned a while ago cause it was cringe but I need a new one temporarily @sugarghostss is my main blog @ghostsreblogs is my spam/reblog blog (basically the only one I use anymore) @ghostsfandoms is my dead fandom blog

[flowersnax]

im gettin real sick of people he/him-ing kris (id in alt)

[sugarghostss]

Was feeling nostalgic and went looking through my old discord account, mistake. The amount of bullshit drama in there from literally 5-6 years ago.. Ew. I do still miss some of my old buddies though, would be nice to reconnect at some point but idk where most of them are at anymore.

[vistavamp]

Headshots

@sugarghostss @little-angelbun

[fresnelprism]

hi! tonight while i was having dinner with a friend, someone smashed my windshield. while it's stable enough to drive for now, i don't think it will stay that way for long, and it's going to cost at least $800 to fix. please consider commissioning me to help bridge some of the cost.

i won't do nsfw or complex backgrounds and i reserve the right to reject any commission

i require payment up front, and i can take payment via paypal, venmo, or ko-fi

please dm me here on tumblr if you're interested !!

[fresnelprism]

photos of my car :(

please consider commissioning me so i can put some funds towards the cost of repair. it's going to be at least 800 dollars which is more than i can comfortably spend right now.

[oh-munda-kukkad-kamaal-da]

Reblog if its ok to spam you with boops

[lilithphase]

I don't think I ever posted this one

[mspaintaday]

Prompt ideas: Creature under the bed Favorite food What are you eating Favorite plushie/Comfort item A Fandom you are in/were in Draw your pet(s) Recent game you played

good ones thank you

daily prompt #2

draw your FAVORITE ITEM

here's mine, my Hammond plush that sits on my desk

[sugarghostss]

lamb plush that lives in my bed, I love you. I used default colours for true ms paint vibes (it is 4am I did not think to change the brush size enjoy chunky lines)

here they are all tucked in and cosy with my other fav, cinnamoroll:

[wordstome]

how c.ai works and why it's unethical

Okay, since the AI discourse is happening again, I want to make this very clear, because a few weeks ago I had to explain to a (well meaning) person in the community how AI works. I'm going to be addressing people who are maybe younger or aren't familiar with the latest type of "AI", not people who purposely devalue the work of creatives and/or are shills.

The name "Artificial Intelligence" is a bit misleading when it comes to things like AI chatbots. When you think of AI, you think of a robot, and you might think that by making a chatbot you're simply programming a robot to talk about something you want them to talk about, and it's similar to an rp partner. But with current technology, that's not how AI works. For a breakdown on how AI is programmed, CGP grey made a great video about this several years ago (he updated the title and thumbnail recently)

I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend you watch this because CGP Grey is good at explaining, but the tl;dr for this post is this: bots are made with a metric shit-ton of data. In C.AI's case, the data is writing. Stolen writing, usually scraped fanfiction.

How do we know chatbots are stealing from fanfiction writers? It knows what omegaverse is [SOURCE] (it's a Wired article, put it in incognito mode if it won't let you read it), and when a Reddit user asked a chatbot to write a story about "Steve", it automatically wrote about characters named "Bucky" and "Tony" [SOURCE].

I also said this in the tags of a previous reblog, but when you're talking to C.AI bots, it's also taking your writing and using it in its algorithm: which seems fine until you realize 1. They're using your work uncredited 2. It's not staying private, they're using your work to make their service better, a service they're trying to make money off of.

"But Bucca," you might say. "Human writers work like that too. We read books and other fanfictions and that's how we come up with material for roleplay or fanfiction."

Well, what's the difference between plagiarism and original writing? The answer is that plagiarism is taking what someone else has made and simply editing it or mixing it up to look original. You didn't do any thinking yourself. C.AI doesn't "think" because it's not a brain, it takes all the fanfiction it was taught on, mixes it up with whatever topic you've given it, and generates a response like in old-timey mysteries where somebody cuts a bunch of letters out of magazines and pastes them together to write a letter.

(And might I remind you, people can't monetize their fanfiction the way C.AI is trying to monetize itself. Authors are very lax about fanfiction nowadays: we've come a long way since the Anne Rice days of terror. But this issue is cropping back up again with BookTok complaining that they can't pay someone else for bound copies of fanfiction. Don't do that either.)

Bottom line, here are the problems with using things like C.AI:

It is using material it doesn't have permission to use and doesn't credit anybody. Not only is it ethically wrong, but AI is already beginning to contend with copyright issues.

C.AI sucks at its job anyway. It's not good at basic story structure like building tension, and can't even remember things you've told it. I've also seen many instances of bots saying triggering or disgusting things that deeply upset the user. You don't get that with properly trigger tagged fanworks.

Your work and your time put into the app can be taken away from you at any moment and used to make money for someone else. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people who use AI panic about accidentally deleting a bot that they spent hours conversing with. Your time and effort is so much more stable and well-preserved if you wrote a fanfiction or roleplayed with someone and saved the chatlogs. The company that owns and runs C.AI can not only use whatever you've written as they see fit, they can take your shit away on a whim, either on purpose or by accident due to the nature of the Internet.

DON'T USE C.AI, OR AT THE VERY BARE MINIMUM DO NOT DO THE AI'S WORK FOR IT BY STEALING OTHER PEOPLES' WORK TO PUT INTO IT. Writing fanfiction is a communal labor of love. We share it with each other for free for the love of the original work and ideas we share. Not only can AI not replicate this, but it shouldn't.

(also, this goes without saying, but this entire post also applies to ai art)

[sugarghostss]

this is really important to me so I'm reblogging on my main

AI is unethical and always will be regarding how much content it needs. There is no way as things stand to make ethical AI.

[ad-wills]

[sugarghostss]

why I never post

[my-delightful-friends]

Got a Long Furby for my waterbottle! The art is by @neptunescribble (via their RedBubble store ~Cupofmil0)

I want many more so if you're a Furb artist and you sell stickers pls comment!

[sugarghostss]

oh my gosh this is so sweet

[sugarghostss]

Today's attacks for artfight! First is for Enoyreve, second is Mayfeather and the last is for Cloudeon! All on Artfight.

[sugarghostss]

I will be honest I forgot about posting here but hey seeing people move here from Twitter is neat I'll try be active!!

Here are some Artfight attacks, first is Sprout owned by Dandiilion on Artfight and ToyHouse, second is Ame owned by Raincoat on ToyHouse and Raiincoat on Artfight!

[meteor-showerz]

icon payment for NeptuneScribble on TH (click for higher quality!)

[sugarghostss]

LOOK AT THIS, I DEMAND IT

[sugarghostss]

I swear once a month I realise something new about my queer identity. Surely one day it'll stop but for now I will hoard all my labels like a dragon. There are a lot of labels that fit me so I'll just take them all. Mine. I get ALL the gender fuck you.

[wizard-laundry]

This is relevant once again. I apologize if you are a real human getting blocked/reported.

[ghostsfandoms]

Officially a multifandom blog!!

I'll try to tag my posts for each fandom so you can at least find things easier but hey I suck at Tumblr and suck at remembering things so wish me luck lol.

And if you ask:

"Why change from a Bugsnax blog to a multifandom blog if you still like Bugsnax as a main/special interest?"

I am a diagnosed autistic, and my special interests mean a lot to me but I also have STRONG hyper-fixations that take over my entire life. Special interests are things that stick with me all the time, sure, but hyper-fixations can be all-consuming for me.

Sometimes they're more casual like just listening to a song or video or something over and over for days straight. Other times they are me researching a lot about the hyper-fixation or just talking about it a lot. But many times, it will take up all the space in my brain. I will get mad when I see other content on things I am NOT hyper-fixated on (special interests are an exception, thankfully).

These ones I tend to get right into the fandom for a while, maybe do some writing that's more than my usual jumbled thoughts, maybe if we're very lucky there will be an OC! Either inspired by the hyper-fixation or made to be a part of it and there will be a few artworks.

Sound familiar?

That WAS Bugsnax for me and I wanted to actually get my work out there. I felt it would last a while and I'd actually have motivation with somewhere for my things to go, that I'd actually make more art.

It didn't happen, with my not-so-busy life that still manages to overwhelm and exhaust me every single day and my silly brain that just cannot DO things, it just wasn't really possible.

So the hyper-fixation ended and while I still REALLY enjoyed Bugsnax and still have so many in-depth thoughts about it and constantly keep up with what I can, I didn't really DO anything.

So please understand, THIS BLOG WILL NOT BE CONSISTENT IN THE SLIGHTEST.

My current interest is The Stanley Parable and I hope to make SOME fandom content before it moves on but hey, what happens, happens.

If you're prepared for that and are willing to follow along regardless, I welcome you on this chaotic adventure.