i would have played pretend on the playground with all of u btw
funniest thing about the “reddit migration” is that I haven’t seen a single post shitting on anyone coming from Reddit. when twitter started bleeding users everyone was firing rent-lowering posts but with redditors skittering about we’ve left the doors open and put out food bowls
we can make them weirder
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#im team actinopterigia#bc even tho it'd be good to include sharks and that like. theyre different. they aint fish#the same way dolphins aint fish#but idk what name to call them yet so cartilagenous fishes works i guess#but im a ray-finned splitter I suppose
Call them sharks. Rays are literally flat sharks.
Proof:
THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN SAYING
CHONDRICHTHYES = SHARK
A chordate is a fish and everything else is a bug!
Tunicates are fish:
Sea sponges are bugs
perfect, 10/10, no notes
Piraputanga jumps out of water to pick fruit off a overhanging tree in the jungle rivers of Brazil
an exception has occurred - tapestry weaving w/ embroidery mounted in a crt monitor - february 2023
reblog to bonk the person you reblogged it from with a hollow cardboard tube
all the frothing-at-the-mouth posts about how "don't you dare put a fic writer's work into chatGPT or an artist's work into stable diffusion" are. frustrating
that isn't how big models are made. it takes an absurd amount of compute power and coordination between many GPUs to re-train a model with billions of parameters. they are not dynamically crunching up anything you put into a web interface.
chances are, if you have something published on a fanfic site, or your art is on deviantart or any publicly available repository, it's already in the enormous datasets that they are using to train. and if it isn't in now, it will be in future: the increases in performance from GPT 2 to 3 to 4 were not gained through novel machine-learning architectures or anything but by ramping up the amount of data they used to train by orders of magnitude. if it can be scraped, just assume it will be. you can prevent your stuff from being used with Glaze, if you're an artist, but for the written word there's nothing you can do.
not to be cynical but the genie is already far more out of the bottle than most anti-AI people realize, i think. there is nothing you can do to stop these models from being made and getting more powerful. only the organizing power of labor has a shot at mitigating some of the effects we're all worried about
this post had over 10k notes and lots of people in replies getting very angry and panicky and threatening imaginary bad actors and begging people not to put their fics into chatgpt. the reply is authoritatively saying "anything that is given to AI it can use it later to draw from." no source! like - i don't know if they save your prompts. they probably do for some other nefarious purposes. but:
these are the size of the training sets used to train gpt-3. as a rule of thumb in natural language processing, one word is on average two tokens. the common crawl dataset alone is around 205 billion words; for gpt-3 they don't even manage to use all of it. this is the scale of the data they need. they are not re-training their model with the little prompts you put in, and even if they did, it's like... a drop of water in the ocean. it's not gonna have an effect on how the model behaves. i think people are, on a gut level, still understanding these models as "collage machines." they're not. they are not borg-assimilating all your best ideas from your fics to frankenstein them back together. they are statistical models. they are compressing gargantuan amounts of data down into smaller (still huge, but much smaller) models of that data by looking at trends and likelihoods and repetitions. i'm not saying you're a great person if you use gpt to autocomplete old fics but even if they were for some reason adding your prompts to their datasets, it's not gonna have an effect. the culture on here about anti-ai stuff has approached, like, mythology - making up shit about what they can do, talking about how scary they are, ghost stories, moral panic. this wild overstatement about what they can do only benefits the companies selling them, and those trying to use them as pretense to undermine labor.
DID YOU ALL KNOW THAT YOU CAN DO WHATEVER UOU WANT WHEN YOURW MAKING ART ISNT THAT WILD
i have no defense against this. you've got me
One of the best letterheads I’ve ever seen. (From 1919 Massachusetts dept. of marine fisheries)
Honestly can't recommend being obsessed with an extremely common and mundane animal enough.
I love pigeons, squirrels, crows, and red winged blackbirds soooo much and my life is full of joy for this. Literally every time I step outside I experience the same glee and wonder people get when they get to see big cats and such at the zoo.
hm, I'm a little hungry... time to start a three hour recipe I guess
🔸Allosaurus fragilis🔸
cone 6 ceramic stoneware, underglaze, glaze, gold lustre
video id: A ceramic sculpture of an allosaurus, head turned to face the viewer and mouth slightly ajar with a flash of teeth. It’s body is striped in all manners of colours like the layers of sediment in the earth. Illustrated floral accents decorate it’s body and juramaia are illustrated against it’s flank. It stands on a dome shaped base with a sculpted tree between it’s arms and ribs, serving as a support, 3D branches tapering into 2D linework. Gold lustre accents it’s pupils and dots across it’s body.
Packstone Excavation
2023, 51x44 inches, hand dyed cotton with textile discharge painting and cotton thread (hand quilted)
i was thinking about my fossil soup stones I collected in michigan last summer and naturally had to make a quilt. all the fossil shapes were hand painted with decolorant instead of appliqué as I was thinking about the process of excavation and removal.
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Turns out Lost Carcosa had a revolution in the early 20th century, so what you've actually summoned is the Democratically Elected Committee In Yellow
Dead tree (gouache) This will be my June print for my postcard club on patreon! Be sure to check the link to my patreon in my pinned post if you'd like an a6 print of this painting :D
Image description: a gouache painting of a gnarled dead tree in the middle of a dark forest. Moss grows on and underneath the tree. The background is turquoise. End ID
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