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Reach AI Artwork

@reachartwork

Physically disabled artist - I use AI to make art, and write my own code. I also run AWAY (Are We Art Yet?), a collective of AI artists and traditional artists looking to advance the field of AI-generated art as ethically as possible. DM for inquiries or to request a CW. If you are weird to me in my reblogs or replies I will block you.

hello everyone my patreon has been reorganized so i'm making this my new pinned. i am a physically disabled queer artist and developer, and unfortunately i do require currency to eat, pay rent, buy medical equipment and medicine, and handle the same for my boyfriend. i also need to pay infrastructure and token costs for my surprisingly popular DGGBot (and any future AI agents I make), and that stuff adds up quick. If you'd like to support me, please consider joining my Patreon @ https://patreon.com/bearsharktopus.

If you'd like to support me in other ways, please consider purchasing an art commission from me or commissioning a bot/AI chat agent (no standard prices on this one, chat me for a quote).

Thank you!

Hello, everyone! Here are my "Notes from The Alexandrian", a (currently 69-page, nice) living document that compiles basically what I consider the "best of" from various TTRPG sites into an ADHD-friendly, outline-laden resource that compresses and summarizes everything into its bare essentials, bullet-point style.

Inside you will find a plethora of easy-to-digest ways to improve your DMing and GMing that are relatively system agnostic. If you find this document useful, please feel free to reblog it and share it with friends. If you have thoughts to add, comments are open, feel free to leave some.

Thanks!

okay here's the ACTUAL reason why i was back on perchance. as part of a brain training exercise i made a power generator (sort of) for the setting of my superhero story that I'm working on. please feel free to reblog with your results and if you give me a little more information with them, maybe some creative thoughts on what your actual powers are, i might just Plonk You Into My Story as a bit character.

Hey I fundamentally disagree with you about the ethicality of ai art. But like whatever I’m not changing your mind and you’re not changing mine

I do think, however, that the phrase “you're never too old to make homestuck fanart” is INCREDIBLY misleading. Someone who is anti ai art but isn’t the best at deciphering what is and isn’t ai would 100% believe that this is human made based on that line and I don’t think that is fair. I don’t think you should be captioning ai art with something that sounds like you made the art by hand without also saying it’s ai in the body of the post (not just the tags). I don’t know. It bothered me to see that caption please just be more mindful about people who do not want to interact with ai art at all like myself

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a bit of my addendum to my previous ask: I’m sure this is not your intention based on the rest of the blog but that phrase REALLY comes off like you’re trying to pass off ai art as traditional art which is not fair to traditional artists. There is a difference there and you know it. I am an artist and I do not appreciate that difference being minimized in a deceptive way. I honestly believe you have good intentions but this was not it.

respectfully: no.

a: that post is over a year old at this point, i tagged it as ai art, my blog mentions ai art in the bio, when you link the post (or my blog) from elsewhere it says that this is an ai art account. if you are getting "fooled" at this point you really only have yourself to blame.

b: i don't see what medium has to do with making homestuck fanart. would you get this pissy if i made a collage instead.

c: nothing in the post implies that i made it by hand. even if we're getting really pedantic almost none of the art on tumblr is "handmade", it's digital, but also assuming that me saying "you're never too old to make homsetuck fanart" implies that i handmade said fan art is kind of insane.

d: you said yourself that the art was tagged ai art. why haven't you blacklisted or blocked it yet. this is a solvable problem, and instead of solving it you're going out of your way to ask me to put a big fat "THIS IS BADWRONG AI ART, DON'T LET YOURSELF GET TRICKED BY THE AESTHETIC APPEAL OF IT" disclaimer on all my posts. do you not understand not only how juvenile but also how insulting this is to me?

e: moving onto your second ask, i need to point out here that you're literally inventing a problem and then getting mad at it. nowhere in my entire blog have i EVER, EVER passed off ai art as traditional art. any "deception" is, i am so sorry because i'm about to sound gaslighty here, something you are making up in your head. i have been straightforward from the absolute beginning, DAY ONE of this blog about what i do and how i do it. i have claimed many times that I am an artist, which is true, but i have never claimed a single time that i am an illustrator, photographer, painter, or traditional artist. nothing in what i said implied this equivalency that you are, and i repeat, inventing in your head. of course there's a difference between traditional art and ai art, dude! i'm literally dating a traditional artist.

this whole two-ask combo is honestly one of the most ridiculous things i've ever read. certainly not as offensive as that one dude from the other day who told me to kill myself but it's definitely up there in sheer absurdity. this is definitionally "making up a guy to get mad at in your head". all of the problems you are DEMANDING i fix are either problems with existing solutions that you have refused to implement or non-issues that you invented out of whole cloth by inserting nonexistent read-between-the-lines implications into my otherwise straightforward and blunt statements.

you are an unserious person. please do not return to my inbox.

cheers, -reach

i really don't mean to single you out dawg but. i do not think you understand how this works at a fundamental level

i would be making more art but i am literally too sweaty to function because the humidity in my boyfriend's sister's house (they live on The Shore) is making my arthritis flare up and my brain overheat and i'm Dying. i dont need pity comments im just kvetching about it like an old man.

We’ve been shouting at the anti ai people for months if not a year or two at this point that the end goal is for Adobe to have their perfectly functional “ethically copyrighted” AI, all other big companies get theirs, and then they use the copyright system to delete the idea of fanart and transformative works from society. They never needed your art! They had their own in great big vaults all legally bought and owned.

I fucking told you guys. If this passes and you act surprised and were also anti ai art I’m hitting you with a brick. This is the entirely foreseeable outcome of the company you keep and the policies you espoused. Now that Adobe is saying we need to copyright art styles maybe you should step back and take a look at what side you’re on, since every big company seems to be chomping at the bit to enshrine your stated ideology into law. Do you really think this is a broken clock right twice a day moment? It’s ADOBE “we will make you pay for photoshop five times a month” the company.

Fuck. God damnit. Fuck. I’m so mad. WE TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN. SEVERAL TIMES.

Fuck.

Y'all. I don't know who needs to hear this but copyright holders are already perfectly equipped to take down fanart under existing laws. They just actively choose not to, because fanart generally benefits them. A lot. This is a complete red herring Adobe is throwing at us, and you're falling right in their trap by buying this. Adobe is not our ally, we're well aware. This is NOT about fandom and fanart. Never was. This is about preserving our livelihoods and making sure a 'professional artist' continues to exist. It's a very serious discussion and an existential threat to a lot of us. Please keep that in mind.

Fanart is NOT in danger. Come on.

i don't even really know how to respond to this. "they're just bluffing by saying they want to copyright art styles. fanart is already illegal and they let it exist which means they will never try to remove your ability to do it. trust corporate daddy! just because they choose now not to go after every artist who draws mario, this means we are safe forever if they expand their copyright regime to include art styles".

are you serious?

like, for real, are you serious? i can't fathom being as optimistic as this.