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Hey artists,
Here's how you can make sure your work is not being used to train AI. A hearing for proposed bill AB-412 would require AI companies to be transparent and provide you with a list of your works that were used to train AI.
Info here: www.paperdemon.com/app/g/pdarpg...
#noai

Everyone who wants sensible regulation regarding AI training on copyrighted works: we're asking you to actually show up IN PERSON to support CA bill AB412 on:

Monday Dec 8 @ 10am
Stanford University - Paul Brest Hall
555 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford, CA 94305

if you can. RSVP here: bit.ly/44lRMsX

SHOW UP TO TESTIFY MONDAY!
(12/08/2025) Stanford
Paul Brest Hall - 10am
Join us here:
March2Testify.org

#CreateDontScrape #SupportHumanArtists
#AB412
#March2Testify #CAAB412

Stock price chart showing the 64% decline over the last six months for duolingo

Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.

A sorceress astounded by her freshly sculpted homunculus. A single shaft of light illuminates her creation. Bounce lighting reflects upon the sorceress. The homunculus has a flaccid butt. The maker's hands are covered in fresh clay. They are the only body parts of the sorceress that are directly lit. Faint, residual purple smoke wisps from her fingertips: the homunculus stands in an awkward pose, that of a creature freshly adjusting to its body. The homunculus has thin limbs and a hefty torso, though it is faced against the viewer. The sorceress's workshop is littered in sculpting tools, brushes, an open tome of transmutation, ceramic bowls and a pitcher of dirty clay water in which lie a few of these tools. Clay shavings are scattered about the floor. A red, runic circle surrounds the humonculus. In the dark background it is possible to catch a few failed prototypes on a shelf.

"Birth of the Homunculus"

A sorceress astounded by her creation.

This painting has been floating around in my head for months now, and I only found the right time to bring it to fruition yesterday!

(see thread for details + process shot-by-shot)

Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their datasets - this bill would force them. If you're pro AI regulation (esp if you're in Bay Area), please show up and offer your support for this bill! If you can't make it, help spread the word!

RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇

Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption

Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy

Reality Check: EU Council Chat Control Vote is Not a Retreat, But a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has "backed away" from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close split vote paves the way for a permanent infrastructure...

#SaveSpeech

The European Council has agreed on a version of Chat Control that it wishes to push forward in 2026.

This version contains "voluntary" mass scanning, mandatory universal age checks, and isolating minors from apps.

Chat Control still needs to be fought.

CALL YOUR MPs/MEPs!

A picture taken from a ship looking down into the water. A shape, appearing human at first glance, is thrashing like a drowning person, splashing around it to disguise its form.

A picture taken from a ship looking down into the water. Something jumps out of the disturbed foam. An alligator, with a marking on its throat resembling a screaming human face, is now visible among the splashing chaos.

Siren Alligators might be the most specialized human predators. These pack hunters have two distinct ways of mimicking our species.
Juveniles thrash in the water near ships, using their face-like throat markings to appear like a drowning person. The pack attacks when someone attempts a rescue.

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

CA 12/8 HEARING The Al Copyright Transparency Act URGENT! BE THERE !! SHOW UP to support Artists & Creators NOW !!! 12/8/2025 - 10:00 AM Stanford University - Paul Brest Hall 555 Salvatierra Walk Stanford, CA 93405 Entrance faces Nathan Abbott Way Parking: Parking Structure 6 (Cash/ Credit) We want the sea of human creativity that is CA to be in the room! Help us get a head count ... RSVP: https://bit.ly/44IRMsX

1/3 Massive efforts are being done to ensure states do not regulate GenAI.

Regulations like CA’s AB-412. A transparency bill that terrifies Big Tech!

On Dec. 8th, there is a major hearing on this bill.

We need as many folks to show up! Come join in support of creatives!

Rsvp link in thread!

A Twitter account called Ivanka News tweets an AI image of a young woman wearing Muslim garb. The woman is holding a sign that says "I came here illegally. Should I be deported?" Ivanka News writes: What is your response to this person ?? In the "About this account" tab, it appears the account is based in Nigeria

An account called MAGA scope writes: Who, in your view is the great enemy of the United States? Communism, Islam, Democratic Party, or Satan? The account is based in Nigeria.

An account called MAGA Nadine writes: You go to work and find this. What would you do? The attached pic is an AI image that shows a microwave. The microwave has a sign that says "For religious reasons, this microwave is now making halal food only." The account is based in Morocco.

An account called America First posts an AI image of Tulsi Gabbard. They wrote: How would you rate your trust in Tulsi Gabbard on a scale of 1-10?

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.

My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Predatory Opt-Out Scheme ClaimsHero Targets Anthropic Settlement Participants: What Authors Need to Know - The Authors Guild In recent weeks, a third-party law firm, ClaimsHero, has launched an aggressive online campaign urging authors to opt out of the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement. ClaimsHero—which has no litiga...

Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.

Incredibly Cool™️ that Arc Raiders is sparking this mindset across the internet so much.

Really Awesome™️ that people now think already underpaid voice actors deserve even less! Super great job!

🫩

A single human skull lies on the overgrown floor. It has many faces, eyes, noses, repeating in a fractal pattern. From the cracks in the bone, a small fractal flower emerges. The water behind swirls in shimmering patterns.

A picture taken from the floor of a hospital room. In the foreground, a person lies on the floor. Behind its head, their spinal cord, brain and eyes tumble outside, appearing to slither like a snake.

In the far distance, way behind the mountains, a face that is too large to comprehend looks back at you, eyes wide open.

A large 747 aircraft flies low close to a runway on a foggy day. The plane is completely dilapidated, with a missing cockpit area, several large holes in the fuselage and destroyed motors. It is surrounded by a coat of black smoke.

Today is my birthday! 🎂
If you like my work and want to make my day, I only ask that you share my art and stories with someone who might enjoy them :)
Or trick your gullible friend for a minute. That's also a good one.

🚨 Yet again Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise are trying to sneak in a moratorium on state GenAi legislation.

If passed states can no longer enact laws for transparency, child safety, privacy, environmental protection etc.

We got 3 days to stop this. Call now!

www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

Republicans are looking for a way to bring back the AI moratorium Congress’ last attempt to pause state AI regulations failed.

Guess it’s time to call the senators again, but ughhh can these jerks just…stop? 💀

www.theverge.com/policy/82365...

New key art for the game Hytale featuring 3 adventurers approaching an ominous, cursed-looking portal.

Hytale is saved.
New Blog Post LIVE -> hytale.com/news/2025/11...

Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Digital drawing of Frankenstein's monster from GDT's new film.

The creature's design lives rent-free in my brain, so I drew it out. 🖤
#drawing #Frankenstein #Illustration

Snake Miku 🐍

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:

“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.

Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy

The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.

The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.

Just gonna leave this here...

what are we DOING here lmfaoooo like physiognomy?? this paper is telling job recruiters to resort to physiognomy??? the racist, eugenicist quack science that was debunked in the 19TH CENTURY????

Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 | VGC The publisher is researching “Game QA Automation Technology” with the University of Tokyo…

So they're going to do this for one, maybe two games. It'll be full speed ahead until it's 6 months from release and the game is falling apart, at which point they'll pay an insane overtime rate for a QA studio to do it last minute which won't be enough.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-...

For those who don’t know, Lina Khan gave tech bros hell AND her ass to kiss when she was FTC chair. She was busting monopolies left and right. Gave Amazon and Meta the finger too.

This is an EXCELLENT addition to his team.

Untamed skies