Fresh Batch Of Spiders Up For Adoption!

I Am Going To Need A Fucking Miracle, 2024

Digital acrylic on canvas

Immortalizing a lucky hunter's fateful moment versus the G Rank Hyper Plesioth hip check.

Beeg Pheonix

hey. you. monhun fan. help me decide on something for an eventual piece

(or if you don't have any personal opinion you can choose from vibes alone)

Possible kobold bard for our Wild Beyond the Witchlight campaign????

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

DO NOT DO THIS!!!

If a website has a paywall, like New York Times, DO NOT use the ctrl+A shortcut then the ctrl+c shortcut as fast as you can because then you may accidentally copy the entire article before the paywall comes up. And definitely don't do ctrl+v into the next google doc or whatever you open because then you will accidentally paste the entire article into a google doc or something!!!! I repeat DO NOT do this because it is piracy which is absolutely totally wrong!!!

Computers shouldn't have apps. Computers have applications. Short word for small phone big word for big glow box

We've lost a lot to the onslaught of enshittification but I can think of none more brazen than Discord getting rid of the send button

pov you're my cat admiring my almost-finished atlus moth cloak

heavily modified from this pattern:

cat tax^

reference v

shoutout to when i made the most stress insucing contraption ever just to automate my pokewalker