hekiheki
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So, Discord has added a feature that lets other people "enhance" or "edit" your images with different AI apps. It looks like this:
Currently, you can't opt out from this at all. But here's few things you can do as a protest.
FOR SERVERS YOU ARE AN ADMIN IN
Go to Roles -> @/everyone roles -> Scroll all the way down to External Apps, and disable it. This won't delete the option, but it will make people receive a private message instead when they use it, protecting your users:
You should also make it a bannable offense to edit other user's images with AI. Here's how I worded it in my server, feel free to copypaste:
Do not modify other people's images with AI under ANY circumstances, such as with the Discord "enhancement" features, amidst others. This is a bannable offense.
COMPLAIN TO DISCORD
There's few ways to go around this. First, you can go to https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/requests/new , select Help and Support -> Feedback/New Feature Request, and write your message, as seen in the screenshot below.
For the message, here's some points you can bring up:
Concerns about harassment (such as people using this feature to bully others)
Concerns about privacy (concerns on how External Apps may break privacy or handle the data in the images, and how it may break some legislations, such as GDPR)
Concerns about how this may impact minors (these features could be used with pictures of irl minors shared in servers, for deeply nefarious purposes)
BE VERY CLEAR about "I will refuse to buy Nitro and will cancel my subscription if this feature remains as it is", since they only care about fucking money
Word them as you'd like, add onto them as you need. They sometimes filter messages that are copypasted templates, so finding ways to word them on your own is helpful.
ADDING: You WILL NEED to reply to the mail you receive afterwards for the message to get sent to an actual human! Otherwise it won't reach anyone
UNSUSCRIBE FROM NITRO
This is what they care about the most. Unsuscribe from Nitro. Tell them why you unsuscribed on the way out. DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY. They're a company. They take actions for profit. If these actions do not get them profit, they will need to backtrack. Mass-unsuscribing from WOTC's DnD beyond forced them to back down with the OGL, this works.
LEAVE A ONE-STAR REVIEW ON THE APP
This impacts their visibility on the App store. Write why are you leaving the one-star review too.
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Regardless of your stance on AI, I think we can agree that having no way for users to opt out of these pictures is deeply concerning, specially when Discord is often used to share selfies. It's also a good time to remember internet privacy and safety- Maybe don't post your photos in big open public servers, if you don't want to risk people doing edits or modifications of them with AI (or any other way). Once it's posted, it's out of your control.
Anyways, please reblog for visibility- This is a deeply concerning topic!
Art dump of rat college days (ft. @valiant-portabella-pirkko's Ruju to the right with the kitty nose 😻)
Smaller segments and tiny wysma lore below!
Wys is ~15 here, running on the assumption that Asuran college = highschool years (Taimi was 13ish when she began studying)
We don't get a lot of insight into college culture, but if it's full of teenagers, it's full of teenage drama. Wysma doesn't learn how to be assertive- or confident- until much later, so he gets pushed around a bit 😌
hi, i made a new asura and i'm in love 🥰
say hi to spirro (like the dragon), a butch (he/him) canthan asura who like to tinker with amber-powered tech
👀👀👀I am looking *respectfully*
Thinking about that beginner quest where you had to disguise yourselves as a Nightmare Courtier and my sylvari ended up looking like a pink bramble while Trahearne was dressed Like That.
Why Nightmare Court outfit have boob window? Why. How not develop improper feelings for firstborn-senpai?
Fleshing out Sxorr's character a little more, have some fun poses.
Extra character tidbits below
He's a fan of Metal Legion. Initially, he listened to them to annoy his mother, but grew to genuinely enjoy their music. It's edgy! He's also upset they disbanded.
He's obsessed with crystals. Jade technology fascinates him, and he is determined to obtain more for reverse engineering to understand what makes Canthan jade such a great magi-battery. He dreams of incorporating even a sliver of Aurene's brand into his cloaking body suit, which currently runs on a rudimentary prototype of his current crystal theorems.
His current stash of jade tech is small, having been acquired through less than legal means. Legitimate import fees and scarcity due to the Canthan jade energy crisis made it unaffordable with his current bank (that, and he's heard that human trade bureaucracy is somehow worse than the Colleges').
His mother, Xiintra, is a golemancer who supplies special golem units to Rata Sum's security forces- mainly the Arcane Eye. Militaristic, uptight, and loyal to the Arcane Council, she's everything Sxorr aspires not to be. Her relationship with her son is strained, and she makes it very clear that she views Sxorr's little 'rebellion' as an ugly mark on her otherwise flawless and upstanding records. Regardless, she tries to keep in contact with him, if only to get him back under control.
Sxorr is 19ish as of SoTO. He had been a student of the College of Synergetics before he decided to drop out during the events of the Icebrood Saga. The attack on Rata Sum shook him enough to reassess his life priorities, and he took the chance to bail when his mother was too preoccupied with combating the dragons to notice.
Pink is his favourite colour. He will fight you over it.
i am ON MY KNEES. begging pleading for more brammander spindle you don't understa n d that shit fuels my soul. that last one had me on the floor. i am starved and i need sustenance. spindle do you hear me spindle-
okay this message really made me laugh so this is for you
join my prayer circle for some janthir screentime i was so happy to get an update on him (and myrun!) at dragonbash ♥♥♥
also i haven't had time to doodle for the past while but i've been posting all my game-character stuff over at @spiderfeathers —i will store this plea in my brain for later
Some doodles of Hass (Has Seen Things)
Hass accidentally ends up in Inner Nayos through one of the rifts that opened in Tyria and now terrorizes the local eyeball kryptis
I had a lotta fun sketch these
A new rat joins my lineup.
Sxorr is a master saboteur for hire. Whether you need someone to commit corporate espionage, steal inventions, or sabotage projects, Sxorr is your brat (he dropped out of college and his mom is mad about it, but he's making big money so he doesn't care).
A whole bunch of asuras this time! @floral-necromaniac‘s Peacemaker Jinn~ Aza’s Tullia Myeta~ @kiqo-gw2-corner‘s Yitu~ @krizzakrizza‘s Watt And the last of my asuras, golemancer Kligg, professor Thorrk and peacemaker Lanni!
I have been asked to post the wonderful drawing of Ithikk commissioned to @mabaki ! Look at it! He is so cute!
Now that you are reading this, you are legally obligated to commission Mabaki your asura character as well! Go throw money at the art master! This is a direct order!
Greyscale version under the cut.
Hey who wants to help me with an extremely self-indulgent quest for a voice line
Some cute rats I found at the EU art party! Thanks for brining such cuties that I can draw <3 Pëlkk belongs to @its-really-skrool Sage Ani belongs to @commander-luna Mia the Gravedigger belongs to @jack2570 Ookie belongs to me! <3 Thanks again for hosting and have a great weekend everyone <3
even more questionable rats
mini timeline for the inquest detritus. settled on a chestpiece i prefer over the aetherblade coat... my sibling described this look as "evil monk"
