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This machine kills AI

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Please consider some of the stupider appearances of the Thanator

thank you

#avatar #james cameron avatar #thanator #palulukan #na’vi #afop #atwow #frontiers of pandora

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#doodle

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#cat #doodle

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All I can do lately is shitty ass sketches so here’s Sindri

#art #elf #elves #oc:sindri #fantasy #black desert online #bdo #sketch

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Dun and Alyx fall portraits~ Started these a year ago fdsgfg Bonus Dun (because his hair is fun to draw):

#OC:Dunvall #orc #bdo #black desert online #wow #world of warcraft #orcs #fall #autumn #digitalart #painting

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Here’s Dunvall doing a Good Sit~ I swore I was gonna finish this someday but it’s already been over a year and I just can’t really draw anymore, so here’s the lineart I guess

Bonus gray tones below:

#OC:Dunvall #orc #world of warcraft #wow #warcraft #orcs #art #digital art

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It’s as simple as that

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the rise of AI art isn't surprising to us. for our entire lives, the attitude towards our skills has always been - that's not a real thing. it has been consistently, repeatedly devalued.

people treat art - all forms of it - as if it could exist by accident, by rote. they don't understand how much art is in the world. someone designed your home. someone designed the sign inside of your local grocery store. when you quote a character or line from something in media, that's a line a real person wrote.

"i could do that." sure, but you didn't. there's this joke where a plumber comes over to a house and twists a single knob. charges the guy 10k. the guy, furious, asks how the hell the bill is so high. the plumber says - "turning the knob was a dollar. the knowledge is the rest of the money."

the trouble is that nobody believes artists have knowledge. that we actively study. that we work hard, beyond doing our scales and occasionally writing a poem. the trouble is that unless you are already framed in a museum or have a book on a shelf or some kind of product, you aren't really an artist. hell, because of where i post my work, i'll never be considered a poet.

the thing that makes you an artist is choice. the thing that makes all art is choice. AI art is the fetid belief that art is instead an equation. that it must answer a specific question. Even with machine learning, AI cannot make a choice the way we can - because the choices we make have always been personal, complicated. our skills cannot be confined to "prompt and execution." what we are "solving" isn't just a system of numbers - it is how we process our entire existence. it isn't just "2 and 2 is 4", it's staring hard at the numbers and making the four into an alligator. it's rearranging the letters to say ow and it is the ugly drawing we make in the margin.

at some point, you will be able to write something by feeding my work into a machine. it will be perfectly legible and even might sound like me. but a machine doesn't understand why i do these things. it can be taught preferences, habits, statistical probability. it doesn't know why certain vowels sound good to me. it doesn't know the private rules i keep. it doesn't know how to keep evolving.

"but i want something to exist that doesn't exist yet." great. i'm glad you feel creative. go ahead and pay a fucking artist for it.

this is all saying something we all already knew. the sad fucking truth: we have to die to remind you. only when we're gone do we suddenly finally fucking mean something to you. artists are not replicable. we each genuinely have a skill, talent, and process that makes us unique. and there's actual quiet power in everything we do.

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is your comfort character also a sad pretty boy with trauma and questionable morals or are you normal

#OC:Dunvall #Dunvall Goldtusk everyone

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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. 

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pop quiz tumblr who big ol bonkhonagahoogs are these

vote now on ur phones

#wip

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While the world burns around him, Tef is shown grappling with the reminder of someone toxic who still haunts him. Their clawed grasp alludes to the harm they can still cause despite no longer being present. My cover art submission for Teflon Sega’s next single! Wish me luck fam!

#teflon sega #digital art #metaborn #broken heart gang #portrait

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Real Picture of a Digital Artist at Their Desk (100% REAL)

#i home cooked this picture #i even drew the egg #its me at my desk #why does my back hurt so bad #the world may never know #meme #funny #artist #art #drawing #lol #back pain #joke

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The real problem when it comes to understanding the wow story is the fact that the story expands so often every video that explain the story becomes obsolete in no time what so ever. I’m still trying to wrap my head around it.

Oh yup. Or they'll retcon stuff. It's right on par with Kingdom Hearts in terms of being difficult to follow. And this is why I don't bother to play the game anymore, and I jus draw pretty pictures!

#ask #wow #world of warcraft