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Probably kind of a hot take, but I wish tumblr people would maybe make the nuance between "data scraping and companies doing whatever morally bankrupt corner cutting to maximize their profits are bad" and "the very concept of AI is evil, I hope Disney sues and makes artstyles copywritable, stuff you tell to chat GPT will be known to all AIs ever!!"

#nonsims #text #random #like im sorry but some rando using stable diffusion to generate generic waifu images is not morally equal to a corpo wanting to own people'#likenesses #also ffs if you want to criticize something intelligently #actually inform yourself instead of repeated obviously false shit #+ maybe don't completely disregard the “corpos being terrible” part of “corpos used an AI to be terrible”#if a true crime girlie deepfakes the victim of a crime for a video #maybe the problem isn't just “oh they used AI”

“My music is for Phoenix. Only she can sing it. Anyone else who tries… dies!”

#Digital Sculpting #Nomad Sculpt #Likenesses #Phantom of the Paradise

Hi! I was wondering what the best likeness of Hamilton was? Is it the one by Sharples in Allan’s bio & are there any other good likenesses?

The Sharples profile of Hamilton does seem to have been the best according to Hamilton’s family, but the marble bust by Giuseppe Ceracchiwas also a very good likeness. In fact, when John Trumbull was commissioned to paint a posthumous portrait of Hamilton, Eliza lent him the bust to use as a reference for Hamilton’s face. That 1806 John Trumbull portrait went on to be the basis for the $10 bill.

How Hamilton ended up with the bust is actually kind of a funny story–Ceracchi was a sculptor from Rome who had proposed to Congress a memorial to the American Revolution. Congress ultimately rejected his proposal, but not before he’d sculpted several prominent figures, including Washington, Jefferson, and, of course, Hamilton. Ceracchi sent the completed busts to each of his models once it was clear the memorial wouldn’t happen; more problematically, he also sent them each a bill. Where Washington determined to return the bust rather than pay, Hamilton recorded in his cash book $620 “for this sum through delicacy paid upon cherachi’s draft for making my bust on his own importunity & as a favour to him.”(See Ceracchi to Hamilton, 16 July 1792, fn.2)