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Not everything has to be *for* something.

Sometimes, you just wanna do stuff.

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Tumblr is doing some stupid AI shit so go to blog settings > Visibility > Prevent third-party sharing.

This should be opt in, not opt out. They can fuck right off.

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Block these sites in your uBlock Origin so you won't see that shit in your searches

The extension in the screenshot is uBlacklist and it's quite easy to use, both manually from the control panel to add the sites with the asterisk, or when in a search results page and clicking the "block this site" option. It's how I've gotten rid of random Pinterest site results, too.

They also provide subscription lists that keep up sites such as these and others on their github:

https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/subscriptions

how much fun are we having in this timeline folks?

Time to download and run all your works through Nightshade before posting them anywhere. Poison the data sets.

Reminder to artists, webglaze is also developed by the same ppl as nightshade, and it's very useful too!

GLAZE ALL YOUR ARTS BEFORE YOU POST THEM ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET

PSA for Google Docs writers

If you (like me) use Google Doc to write fanfic, you may (like me) have been annoyed by the new "feature" they added in the past few weeks, "Smart Chips," where by default every time you open a new line it auto-inserts a "@" symbol and then prompts to add additional people into the doc for review or whatever other useless thing I immediately closed out of.

There doesn't appear to be a way to turn off this "feature" in GDocs however someone has put out an extension that nixes it:

When I was in school, one of my art teachers used to say “this world needs more creators. There’s more than enough destroyers in the world today.”

Just a reminder, if you create anything–art, writing, food, machines, ideas, equations, knits, tools, gardens–the world needs you.

This makes me happy.

Happy creating, everyone

artists! nightshade v1.0 is ready!

(remember that nightshade does not include glaze, but they're working on an integrated version of both. so if you want both, use nightshade first, then glaze!)

edit: adding this info for those who do not know what i'm talking about. nightshade poisons ai models if your images are taken without permission, and glaze protects you from ai mimicry!

now go protect your art and poison that ai!

yknow AI art has ruined an entire genre of painting to me, i saw one of those smooth anime-realism pieces and immidiately thought ''ugh, AI art'' until i noticed it was posted by an established deviantart user 6 years ago. like ive never been a huge fan of that genre but it looks like a pretty difficult style to master and i feel bad for the artists who specialized in anime-realism only to have their entire market jacked by people typing keywords into midjourney.

I have something to add to this. every single time I look up reference pictures, I get shitty ai generated bullshit. I've actually reached the point where I discovered that pasting this into google gives you a solid filter for 99% of the ai art. typing in -"word" will filter out all results with that word. I might end up making another one to filter out costumes and all that shit for better historical results when looking at outfits for my characters from various time periods.

if you don't put a space before it, it won't work so keep that in mind. if there are any I might have missed that are still coming up in your results, put them in tags. and I'll add them to the original post. if you see this and you end up using it, please reblog so more people, especially artists and charecter designers, are able to find it. Google is becoming rapidly unstable due to the influx of ai art, and it makes me incredibly sad, first of all, that my work as an artist is becoming rabidly obsolete. This is not worth it. Ai art is not worth it.

Here is the anti ai filter, note that this only works for image searches and only serves as a filter for art. due to the amount of ai writing concealed in media, I have no real way to create a filter for that. I hope this helps the art homies who are sick of this shit, and the people who just want to look at human art for a change:

-”starryAI” -”Krea” -”freepik” -”lexica” -”Midjourney” -”hayo” -”storybird.ai” -"Craiyon" -"ai art generator" -"prompt hunt" -"Opendream's ai" -"nightcafe creator" -"arthub.ai" -"open art" -"playground ai" -"PixAi.art" -"Creative fabrica" -”ai” -”Tensor.art” -”Images.Ai”

so a huge list of artists that was used to train midjourney’s model got leaked and i’m on it

literally there is no reason to support AI generators, they can’t ethically exist. my art has been used to train every single major one without consent lmfao 🤪

link to the archive

To be fair they can very much ethically exist in concept, they just need to be trained on data that is actually consensually obtained, which none of the current popular models have been. Imo the problems with generative algorithms aren't things that are inherently wrong with the tech as a concept, but more with how it's being built, trained, and used. I think there are plenty of uses for stuff like this if we can just figure out how to perfect it and source it's training data in an ethical manner.

Then again none of that solves the biggest concern, that under a capitalist system automation and reduction of required labor to create a product just means more people getting fired and higher profits for business owners, while the people that remain work harder for less pay. Though that's hardly an issue with generative algorithms in and of themselves, and more an issue with our economic system.

"To be fair" you don't "just need to be trained on consensual data" to make generative AI ethical, there are myriad ethical issues with gen-AI that this doesn't fix.

The fundamental underpinnings of the technology were still developed through mTurk. This is an ethical issue.

The investment and interest in this technology from a corporate level comes entirely from a desire to "save money" by firing people. This is an ethical issue.

There are thousands of "artists" on deviant art, and other artistic platforms selling commission work that's not tagged as AI for very cheap prices, devaluing the labour and skills of real artists. This is an ethical issue.

The overwhelming flood of Gen-AI artwork (a single user can produce thousands of images in a month) makes discoverability of real artists very difficult. Artist resources are being flooded with AI works to the extent that it's hard to find "real" art at all on these resources any more. This separates artists from their audiences, as well as making artistic platforms unusable for people to study and learn from. The devaluation of these resources is an ethical issue.

Right now, the output of Generative AI isn't really as "good" as skilled humans. It's extremely hard to tailor the output to the subject matter well, and it's extremely difficult to create a unique style for your show or videogame that really stands out and is memorable. Early implementations of gen-AI into published media have generally had an uncanny valley feeling, and audiences tend to think it "looks bad". It's probably an individual choice whether you think there's an ethical imperative to "make the best art you can" for an audience (especially for a paying audience, or for long-term fans of an IP, or for people paying up front to consume media sight-unseen (e.g. a film)) - Devaluing the artistic integrity of the work to save money might be an ethical issue, depending on your views here.

We also have some socioeconomic issues to address. Modern western culture currently is built around the idea that everyone, or nearly everyone MUST spend most of their lives working in order to make a living to survive - and in such a model we need to decide which jobs we want people to have, and which jobs we want to automate. Replacing satisfying and fulfilling and creative jobs with automation makes us worse off as a society. This is an ethical issue.

In order to have "good data" to train on, these models need human produced work, to bring new creative ideas into the data set. AI doesn't create "new ideas" and styles, it replicates and simulates existing ideas. If we get rid of artist jobs and replace them with AI, then we are left with a society where it's not possible for an artist to financially support themselves while developing their skills, and thus we shut off the main pathway to developing "new" art - and we're potentially left with a stagnation of creative works, a society where nobody has the support to create new works, and corporations endlessly remix old ideas for profit. This isn't an ethical issue, it's a dystopian nightmare. -----

In order to make gen-AI "totally ethical" you have to not only train it on consensual data, you have to find and compensate everyone who's already been harmed by the development of the technology. You need to ensure it remains possible for people to explore their creativity full time, either by subsidizing arts programs, or instituting something like universal basic income. You have to aggressively monitor training data to make sure it's consensual. You have to have a system for transparently flagging and filtering AI-works in online resources so that people know what they're looking at, and can use those resources effectively. You need to appropriately credit the artists when their work has been used to generate an image. You need to address issues with ownership and copyright and royalties. You need to consider who is held accountable when these systems are misused. You have to fix countless other issues I've not even thought of.

The argument "there's nothing wrong with the concept, just in how it's being built, trained, and used" is fundamentally flawed - these things are inherently entangled with the concept, and can't be separated - the concept doesn't exist in a vacuum, it exists in the context of the society around it.

"Fixing Gen-AI is not so simple as just "oh get an ethical data set" there are a huge number of problems that have to be fixed, and none of the companies propagating this stuff have any plans to address any of it.

so a huge list of artists that was used to train midjourney’s model got leaked and i’m on it

literally there is no reason to support AI generators, they can’t ethically exist. my art has been used to train every single major one without consent lmfao 🤪

link to the archive

something else i wanted to add, a lot of people like to use disabled people as scapegoats in the situation to justify it and it’s NOT OKAY.

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I’m GENUINELY curious. I’ve kinda picked up that a lot of us have at least 1 part of the drawing process that we just fuckin,, hate. I know a lot of us have strong opinions on lineart. Mine is doing the flat colours, that shit is so boring. Rant about what you hate and why in the tags. This is a safe space to be a whiny bitch

what they don’t tell you about being an artist is that sometimes you will sit down and suddenly know how to draw something that youve never gotten right before

something else they don’t tell you is that sometimes you will sit down and suddenly have no idea how to draw something you’ve drawn numerous times before

another thing they don't tell you is that you will try to draw a thing 1000000 times and finally draw it right ONCE... and never have it come out right again

thats not a “zine” that is an “art book” and you are scaring the hoes (discouraging people from zinemaking by associating it with hefty sleek professionalism instead of extremely diy no resources low cost artistic communication) by mixing up these words

let's get back to making this shit by hand, I've been meaning to do some of these for my comics characters but my brain was always like 'but you haven't actually made the comic no one's gonna know these fuckers' u know what too bad I'm gonna make em anyway

-> here's how to fold an 8 page zine from 1 paper with instructions that didn't make me feel like I was back in a trigonometry lecture [LINK]

-> here's a neat accordion type 16 pager [LINK]

go nuts. and let's all collectively stop calling those fucking art books zines please it sucks

New anti-AI tool from the team developing Glaze that looks to poison prompts and ruin data sets entirely.

The tool can go so far as to trick AI into generating things it didn't ask for. 50 "poisoned" images of dogs into a data set yield typical errors companies have been working to get rid of: weird proportions, extra limbs, etc. When they added 300 samples, it was drastic enough to make a data set that was trained to generate "dogs" into "cats" making the tool basically useless.

It's not out yet, but they're adding it to Glaze and they intend on making it open source.

Welcome to the age of the AI arms race.

WAIT GENUINE QUESTION FOR ARTISTS, DO YOU GUYS NOT USE THE SAME CANVAS FOR MULTIPLE DRAWINGS???? YOU JUST MAKE A NEW ONE EVERYTIME??

@transgender-scout WHAT DO YOU MEAAAN I'M THE WEIRD ONE HERE?? DO YOU GUYS NOT DO THAT??? ONG??

I THOUGHT THE LAGGING WAS JUST PART OF THE UNPAID IBIS PAINT X EXPERIENCE, WDYM.

I thought.... it was just.. Ibis paint being Ibis paint.. when my lines wouldn't follow my pen.. and when the app just stopped and crashed sometimes........

bask in the horror of my usual photoshop document size. i use these things like sketchbooks 1 layer 1 page

weep

THOUSANDS OF LAYERS??? THOUSANDS?????

I GET ANNOYED WHEN I HAVE TO MAKE A FILE WITH MORE THAN 5 LAYERS

discord as a filehost will no longer be possible by the end of the year

EDIT: AS IN LINKING TO STUFF ISN'T GOING TO WORK. YOU CAN'T USE IT TO PERMANENTLY EMBED IMAGES IN AO3 OR TOYHOUSE OR WHAT HAVE YOU. THE LINKS THEMSELVES WILL EXPIRE AFTER 24 HOURS, BUT YOUR FILES AREN'T GOING TO BE DELETED FROM YOUR SERVERS

if you haven't noticed, copying a link for a file now appends special parameters to the end. these are a request signature, which indicates a specific request for that file. this request will expires after a few hours, so files will no longer be permanently available through a specific url.

while they are not currently necessary to view the file, they will be by the end of the year, assuming nothing changes.

please check that any websites you rely on are not hosting files through cdn.discordapp.com, and if they are, please archive those files through the IA using web.archive.org/save

thank you for your time

The fact that people have been using Discord of all things to host their images is just so wild to me, especially when stuff like OP mentioned is inevitable.

Some alternatives include the following:

EZGif also provides temporary links to images if you plan on just sharing.

"ai is making it so everyone can make art" Everyone can make art dipshit it came free with your fucking humanity