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A brief update and apology for hiatus. More art to come.
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It has genuinely been embarrassing to see your website gain traction due to people escaping from Twitter and seeing you backwards engineer everything that everybody was running away from.

"We hear you", followed by a blatantly incorrect version of the criticism levied against you. Your goal does not matter; you are still using AI in a way your userbase does not want and did not ask for. I don't care what the output is, you are still scraping.

Y'all spread this far and wide. It's our chance to get the payment processors to fuck off with affecting the livelihood of artists.

What a great run; thanks for all the good times and here's to many good times more.

Trans rights is human rights and that’s that.

A graphic with two vertical halves. The left half, with green background and check marks, says: "A safer internet IS MADE BY Encryption, Privacy, and Open Source"; the right half, with red background and crosses, says "A safer internet is NOT MADE BY Age verification, Scanning communication, or Tracking & data collection." #saferinternetday

Reposting this with alt text.

This is not us misunderstanding them; even if only 1% of their userbase risks identity theft and compromise from leaky partners, that number is too high.
More pressure. No nitro. No compromise. Do not stop until this rollout is entirely cancelled. They "hear" us, but they must LISTEN to us.

re: the discord age verification situation

While, yes, search for alternatives, make sure you let the for-profit company know that it will be losing your usership if/when this happens. it is important we do not just resign ourselves to this invasion of privacy. "do not go quietly" and all that. 1/8

Yeah, I recommend not using the patreon apple app to join. Just go on the website, it's 1. cheaper for YOU to support your favorite creatures and 2. All the money you give goes to the creator.

Sharing again as a reminder for those leaving TikTok.

Still don't appreciate Jay's smarmy attitude and her quote isn't helping her case; I'm sure that's how most people assumed this was an LLM listing. But it's still important to have all the facts.

Thanks for taking the time to explain and for being kind about it.

I'm just tired. I hate that site rot has accelerated so much that it feels like we have to uproot and move house every six months. I'm trying to make efforts to fully inform myself instead of joining whenever I see angry reactionaries while doomscrolling but I'm still not great at it.

I'll concede I might not have done my due-diligence on this one. Hate that all this is pushed under the same word but the last thing I want to be is the kid freaking out over "AI" in my video games when it just means NPC pathfinding tech we've had since Pong.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Your audience has been built on the backs of artists attempting to escape to an AI-free space. If you want to scare your userbase away by using datasets trained on and that generates CP, guess that's your choice to bare financial drain.

Your competitor is being investigated and talks are had of banning it entirely for AI CSAM. Announcing this in the wake of that is certainly a decision.

I've got Opinions on how the movie adaptation was handled, but have you read The Ruins? Haunting story about people trapped in a place with the added dread of language barrier.

I always mean you. If you use LLMs in any capacity you are not welcome in my audience and I do not make art for you. Learn to be a better person.

Keep hearing devs say that they only use ai for "pre-concept art"

There is no pre-concept art. There is concept art. That's where the idea starts. With the concept.

You're using ai for concept art.

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.

Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Tumblr post by and-fishing-equipment reading "in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD instead ask: - Is it SINCERE - is it CATHARTIC - was it FUN TO MAKE - is it MADE BY ME and don't forget to stay silly"

I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life

Sure! It's filled with a bunch of in-jokes but I can definitely DM you the presentation.

I'm unironically making my own Game Awards to present to friends. Confident it'll be a better time.

damn, time to look up every company Disney owns and systematically boycott as much of it as possible I guess

Block accounts that use AI. Don't even give them a reason, let alone the reaction. If a business or advertiser is using AI to promote attention, even if you you agree with the message, block them.

Sincere apologies for the lack of art updates recently. The State Of Things has been pretty overwhelming as of late but I'm working up the ability to post through it.

There is no such thing as ethical generated AI.
There is no such thing as AI 'art.'
AI generated media is theft.
Enthusiasm for AI is weird and stupid and yes you should feel bad if you've used it for anything.
Give up on it, move on and do something worth time and effort.