The idea of dragons in modern times is so fun because imagine a hot summer day on your vacay and go to use the hotel pool and staff is like "valued guests we regret to inform you that the pool area is out of service at the moment, we apologize for the inconvenience"
And people like "wtf why" looking out their hotel room window and there's this. This dragon just curled up in the pool chilling, literally, cooling itself down
Some of the staff are trying to gently shoo him away and the dragon does a soft little "rrrrrr" like a grumpy cat and a warning puff of smoke and they're like "fuck it i don't get paid nearly enough for this" and no ones using the pool today sorry!
These guys are beautiful. Every time I see pictures of them I have to wonder if they’ve been touched up in some way; the colour variation is so unusual.
(Atheris squamigera) variable bush viper
_______ KIDS DESERVE BETTER - transmonstera
another day volunteering at the dragon aerie. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the guardian dragon. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it
Art by Skvor
the darling Glaze “anti-ai” watermarking system is a grift that stole code/violated GPL license (that the creator admits to). It uses the same exact technology as Stable Diffusion. It’s not going to protect you from LORAs (smaller models that imitate a certain style, character, or concept)
An invisible watermark is never going to work. “De-glazing” training images is as easy as running it through a denoising upscaler. If someone really wanted to make a LORA of your art, Glaze and Nightshade are not going to stop them.
If you really want to protect your art from being used as positive training data, use a proper, obnoxious watermark, with your username/website, with “do not use” plastered everywhere. Then, at the very least, it’ll be used as a negative training image instead (telling the model “don’t imitate this”).
There is never a guarantee your art hasn’t been scraped and used to train a model. Training sets aren’t commonly public. Once you share your art online, you don’t know every person who has seen it, saved it, or drawn inspiration from it. Similarly, you can’t name every influence and inspiration that has affected your art.
I suggest that anti-AI art people get used to the fact that sharing art means letting go of the fear of being copied. Nothing is truly original. Artists have always copied each other, and now programmers copy artists.
Capitalists, meanwhile, are excited that they can pay less for “less labor”. Automation and technology is an excuse to undermine and cheapen human labor—if you work in the entertainment industry, it’s adapt AI, quicken your workflow, or lose your job because you’re less productive. This is not a new phenomenon.
You should be mad at management. You should unionize and demand that your labor is compensated fairly.
I love her 'ware and I love her enthusiasm.
This whole concept rocks, though. I have no idea what "full contact" paintball entails but I'm fascinated. Does the league accept drakes, competing in drake form? Because my drake Northstar would *leap* at the opportunity to get involved in that if so. (and probably get the snot beaten out of her in the process; she's fast, lucky, and stubborn but far from the sturdiest of runners)
She'll fence your loot, but will also try to sign you up to her unlicensed full contact paintball league.
This must be a spectacular place to relax inside on a rainy day.
Concepted this character, named the species a 'Zurg' and ended up 3d modeling it for vrchat
Random character having a ciggy and tea break
Large cushions and comfortable rugs adorn the hardwood floor before the roaring hearth. Steam drifts from a freshly filled pot of tea. Stay a while, perhaps. [Mostly reblogs of art and other things I think are neat.]
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