One of my proudest moments in life is when I made up the quote "I cry the tears of a man but for I am only a boy" and everyone was so convinced I had taken the quote from somewhere when I just made it up.
me: wow, the main character of this colleen hoover book writes about her problematic personal life as fan letters to ellen degenerate, geez who would do that haha
also me: *pulls up neil gaiman’s tumblr ask box* dear neil, how are you? :) i heard a new song today and it made me think of aziraphale and crowley :)) i worry i’m unlovable—
I'm a huge fan of your work and absolutely love it, but I feel pretty conflicted over your use of AI Art. There are quite a few posts going around reminding people to not use text AI generators because it scrapes people's works, the same way we shouldn't use AI Art generators because its based on stealing people's art.
So that makes it pretty disheartening as an artist to watch an author use AI that takes advantage of us, especially during a time when companies are in the middle of trying to replace both writers and artists with AI.
I don't think it's my place to tell you what to do but I was hoping maybe you could give some insight behind your thought process behind using it, and maybe that would help me feel less bad about it? I honestly don't mean this as any kind of passive aggressive attack or anything :( I genuinely just don't know how to feel about it and was hoping maybe more info would help. If you don't want to get into it, I understand, and thank you anyway.
(The new project sounds fantastic)
I assume you mean Artbreeder? For me it was a real case of "didn't know and didn't bother to check" <- FOOLISH STATEMENT.
I've gone ahead and taken the portraits off those posts (and deleted any I made with Artbreeder). Physical representations of the ROs for both games will return once I draw all their portraits, which is what I should have done in the first place.
i was originally actually gonna send this to @gooseworx 's inbox because my boyfriend actually payed me to do it, but her inbox has been closed so now the world gets to see it