Moros

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

This must be a spectacular place to relax inside on a rainy day.

Villa Chameleon by Valentina Audrito

Haru and Makoto!!

Fursona appreciation post

the bird's name is Haru and the cat's name is Makoto if you wanted to know!

Spiedies at the firing range! (a commission for Raarden [@compulsivecurios] and Fiskpinne over on twitter)

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

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.

_______ KIDS DESERVE BETTER - transmonstera

Doodled some dragon clothing! Recently read through a spyro webcomic with really good looking clothing articles for dragons, so i wanted to do something similar for wof dragons. Comics called destiny intertwined, and i had a lot of fun reading it.

Comm for RiotoneX 💚🌿