Obscurity

Artwork of a silly Canadian.

[whiteaier]

All I really do is doodle lately.

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Work doodles. Been a while since I drew anything. So out of practise.

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Doodle as I waited for keyholder.

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Additions on the main continent. Idk if I like the rivers. But I was asked to try them :V

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Map alterations

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Map

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Some work doodles. Been feeling listless lately and figured maybe I’m missing the whole creative expression thing.

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Friend has a succubus OC. Obviously I have to doodle them. @bitter-kitter

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Work doodle. Quick and rough. But I drew

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Doodled Lydie

[stability]

[loish]

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

[margueritesauvage]

Loish made a statement I sincerely support, please read the whole publication if this is, hopefully, of some interest to you: “Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art.”

#NoAI

[secretmellowblog]

Not to be dramatic but the whole AI art debacle has really brought home to me that mainstream audiences are so fundamentally indifferent to the ethics of how art is created. It makes me feel like people just want to shove their faces full of mindless generic content and don’t care about the ethics of where that content comes from. Sometimes it feels like—- like people really care more about fictional characters and the prettiness of cartoon anime girls than they do about the lives of the real human beings who actually labor to create the things they enjoy.

And while that’s not new to AI, I can’t believe that no one…cares? No one cares? Outside of professional artists it feels like everyone has mindlessly cheerfully embraced AI as a replacement without recognizing the horrible implications this has for art? It’s so frightening and awful and disheartening.

It’s like people simultaneously want art that captures Something about the experience of being human but aLSO don’t want human beings involved in its creation. They want to care about beautiful painted fake people but don’t want to care about the real people who created them. They want the illusion of life, but not the actuality. And while that’s hardly unique to ai it’s just…:(. :(

[whiteaier]

Wisp

[whiteaier]

Haven’t doodled in a while. Life. Gotta do what makes money. Three generations of ladies.

[bestyouuniveristy]

You are not lazy, unmotivated or stuck. After years of living your life in survival mode, you are exhausted. There’s a difference.

[catwingsthespatula]

My sister puts glasses away upside down.

Because our mother does,

Because her mother did,

Because her mother lived through the Dust Bowl.

One day my father sat me down and told me about epigenetics.

How the trauma he went through

As a child in an abusive home

Wrote itself into his DNA

And, in turn, into mine.

How he and his brothers,

In various ways,

Are all sick from it.

How I might be too, someday,

And I’m not sure I’m not.

I hear people say,

When will we get back to normal?

And I think of a woman born in the twenty-first century

Who puts her glasses away differently

Because of what her great-grandmother endured

Ninety years before.