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#ArtFight2025 Attack #3: Zena for Aelum (www.tumblr.com/aelulu or malmal.io/u/aelum)

#ArtFight2025 Attack #2: Sulien for @purrichi.bsky.social

#ArtFight2025 Attack #1: Marya for Pizza-Hats (pizza-hats-of-the-world-1882.tumblr.com)

Love in Shadows: 900+ Couple Poses on Cubebrush.co Introducing "Love in Shadows: 900+ Couple Poses" – a hauntingly beautiful collection of 900+ photos of female and male models in poses inspired by the myster...

Based on this photo set: cubebrush.co/obscura_29/p...

Mortimer and Bella for my fellow simheads. Happy (belated) 25th anniversary! #fanart #TheSims

Valas for @martastick.bsky.social

It's less about the speed and more about the tediousness of typing nearly the same thing many times over. Maybe it's my desktop frontend bias. You end up writing so many POCOs, factories and mappers that all function nearly the same VS suggesting autocompletions feels like a godsent.

We used to be able to just talk to humans about it, but now we're so brainwashed by the internet that you just don't know what manner of aggravating bullshit you can expect. In that way speaking to a people-pleaser machine feels safe and it doesn't charge 100€/h like a therapist.

(The original by Lauren Montgomery - thebestlaurenmontgomery.tumblr.com/post/1062820...)

Exorcising the desire to redraw my favorite #MonsterHigh box art.

Aarno for @kriskukko.bsky.social
Originally meant to draw him for Art Fight, but didn't have enough time. Kris has been the kindest and most encouraging person I've met in a while and you absolutely should check out his awesome work.💖

After over a year of sabotaging the red cowls from within, the time has come for the final act. Eneíthio has conspired with the rebels to grant them access to strategic points in the city to mount an armed revolt. Once he hands over the keys his fate is sealed and the punishment for treason is death

Diving back into the well of Eneíthio's backstory - The point of no return. #art #oc

I guess it's another facet of the ephemeral reality we now live in. You don't get to own things anymore, so everything can be taken away and the few things you do buy to keep don't last as long as they should. The ideal is a meaningless life without attachments, optimized to benefit the corporate.

Yeah, seems much smarter to train models on mocap footage for microanimations if you wanna go that route.

You reckon Elon would be memester enough to organize a purge event on a private island only to get purged first because he's actually bad at tech and his expensive purge protection gets hacked immediately? (Nevermind me, just spinning entertaining scenarios here.)

Well I guess we're already at the dead internet speedrun of this fad then, thought we had a little more time.

Desperation terrorism is really gonna be a thing now, I suppose.

An illustration of Baldur's Gate 3 companion Karlach armwrestling with Pillars of Eternity companion Maneha.

Before Baldur’s Gate 3 had a big buff red barbarian lady Pillars of Eternity had a big buff blue barbarian lady. And I think they would actually really get along, this is a friendly match. #art #fanart #baldursgate3 #karlach #pillarsofeternity #maneha

What do you mean this year - they always had synthesized audio?! I think they used the Google one when I tried it before the pandemic.

Are we just headed in a direction where this "content" is made by AI for AI purely for the sake of "revenue" because humans can no longer actually afford entertainment (or anything really) after they've eliminated our jobs?

The desperation to get ROI there is painful to watch.

This. The publishers will usually let the author ok the cover, but pick it in the first place. Unfortunately there have already been situations where the author didn't realize the cover was AI-generated until it was too late to change it.

If all this stuff is worthless, mind if we just take it? How 21st Century tech is doing the old colonial grift all over again.

The AI industry’s seizure of other people’s property, declaring it to be worthless, then pricing it at a premium once “processed” through them, has a historical precedent, and it’s not a good look. Yup. It’s good old colonialism.

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Can you imagine how much actual profit we could gain if we diverted all this genAI funding and resources into healthcare and education? All those less messed up people operating with more hope and life satisfaction instead of turning to bots because they can't/don't know how to talk to people... 😢

GRIFT

It depends on what you're asking and why you're asking. If the problem is broad like "I want to understand how sth works" asking a chat bot to spit you out an answer and then verifying individual things it mentioned now that you were given the vocabulary to make a better search is a decent strat.

Boycotting Funko requires having previously been buying their crap though.