A text image of a small part of the transcript of a conversation between Ari Shapiro and David Simon (Creater of 'The Wire') on a segment on NPR during the wirter's strike of 2023: Shapiro: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without AI, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had that tool to solve those thorny problems... Simon: What? Shapiro: ...Or saying... Simon: You imagine that? Shapiro: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. Simon: I don't think AI can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. Shapiro: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into AI and say, give. me 10 ideas for how to transition this. Simon: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

And if you think this is just some BS meme image, you can listen to the man himself: www.npr.org/transcripts/...

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"You aren't making art, you're making hope."

Had to share this here, too.

Can't believe people are advertising Patreons for images they prompted from an AI. The audacity of charging for images you stole from actual artists? Wild. Not surprising from AI bros, but still wild.

My summary of ST:SNW S1:

Broke: Pike is hot
Woke: Pike is team dad
Bespoke: Pike is hot because he is team dad

That was my second choice not gonna lie

No (negative)

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fake movie poster illustration featuring Tom Paris and Captain Janeway from Star Trek Voyager. The teaser text says "She thought about having children. She never considered having them with him." The title is called "Threshold." A mutant salamander baby crawls across the title. Below is a quote "Not My shining moment" ~ Brannon Braga

She's... or He's...? having a... something!

What a great way to find out you are on bluesky 🤣

Oh, so *now* it’s a problem when someone scrapes up artwork and shits it out in a slightly modified form.

The act of eating AI art is more authentically a work of art than the AI product that was eaten.

Underrated comment

Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest.

Look for the helpers

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We need some new email sign offs: "yours sincerely," and "best wishes," and all those are done. So I'm thinking

- clement tidings,
- supposedly,
- in accordance with the law,
- with buyers remorse,
- questing after justice,
- in the hope of more hooplah,
- guessing,
- with gentle reminders,

Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:

You're goddamn right

Come play in rarepair hell with meeeeeeeeee

#startrek #voyager #strangenewworlds

archiveofourown.org/series/5131426

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Two corvids on twisted bare branch silhouetted against pale blue sky.

Corvid wings, outstretched silhouetted against blue sky. Cockle shell in its beak.

Corvids and a cockle.
Isle of Bute.
💚

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Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Come play in rarepair hell with meeeeeeeeee

#startrek #voyager #strangenewworlds

archiveofourown.org/series/5131426

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No one is encouraging you and you're not making art, clanker.

Honestly yeah, starting to think this is their best 🫠

... creepy.