Amiel Capinpin

She's fighting demons

Asians in Animation is going to the 2025 LightBox Expo! We’re hosting a panel called DIY Dreams: Building a Career Through Indie Animation. Hear insights from the crew leads of the award-winning short Be Hong.

Purchase tickets at www.lightboxexpo.com. We hope to see you there!

Just realized I never posted this comic on here.

Check it: we're looking to highlight the amazing independent comic artists in the Bay Area with a free digital zine that will be hosted on CAM's website for all to read and enjoy. If you're interested and would like to submit your work for consideration, please visit forms.gle/gJLBvU8i7Toq...

Megan Chen - personal

If you're still looking for someone who can do fun logos, here's someone who has some great design examples in their Visual Development portfolio: artsydino.myportfolio.com/personal-vis...

If you don't let us scrape copyrighted content, we will lose out to China says OpenAI as it tries to influence US government The company also tries to frame its scraping as covered by the 'fair use doctrine'.

GenAi companies know where all the court cases are headed, and how badly it’s going to go for them.

Their only resort? Entirely destroy legal systems that are in our constitution in order to get away with their theft of creative works.

But they wont succeed. We wont let them.

OpenAl democratic Al. Ultimately, access to more data from the widest possible range of sources will ensure more access to more powerful innovations that deliver even more knowledge. We propose that the US government take steps to ensure that our copyright system continues to support American Al leadership and American economic and national security, including by: • Shaping international policy discussions around copyright and Al, and working to prevent less innovative countries from imposing their legal regimes on American Al firms and slowing our rate of progress. • Actively assessing the overall level of data available to American Al firms and determining whether other countries are restricting American companies' access to data and other critical inputs. • Encouraging more access to government-held or government-supported data. This would boost Al development in any case, but would be particularly important if shifting copyright rules restrict American companies' access to training data. • Monitoring domestic policy debates and ongoing litigation, and weighing in where fundamental, pro-innovation principles are at risk. Generative Al models represent the next frontier of innovation, poised to revolutionize the private and public sectors, improving healthcare, education, scientific research, and so much more. If Al innovation remains protected under longstanding copyright principles, America will maintain and strengthen its role as the world leader in cutting-edge technologies and remain positioned to continue championing Al based on democratic principles with countries around the world.

It gets more dystopian. Open AI knows its gonna lose their lawsuits so not only do they want the US government to destroy legal systems (copyright) in the constitution in order to get away with theft, they want to oversee and seemingly control all ongoing legal cases.

An outrageous overreach.

To celebrate the release of Art of Amphibia we are having a fanart contest and give-away!!! To enter just hashtag your art with #Amphibia_Contest!!! Additional rules below in the comments!! Please have fun and I can't wait to see who takes it!!

Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana Transgender Reps Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell delivered powerful speeches on the Montana House floor on Thursday. Republicans defected en masse to join them in voting against anti-trans bills.

1. Today, powerful speeches from trans representatives in Montana SJ Howell and Zooey Zephyr flipped 29 Republicans, killing anti-trans bills.

While some Dems like Newsom abandon trans people, these reps show the power of representation.

Watch their speech.

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everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky

Eat the rich.
#cat #art #artist

Slightly buried the lede but: if you're a queer couple and you want to get married ASAP in a state with strong protections before Obergefell inevitably gets overturned by fascists I will do an officiate for you for free (if you drop by the shop when I'm here just call/email ahead to make sure I am).

Sorry folks, this is not an AI friendly space. I routinely block AI dedicated accounts, so if you’re a prompt engineer and you start following me because you “like my work” - don’t.

and even if someone thinks "well I don't like/look at porn so why should it be a priority for me?" it's important to remember that when christofascists say "porn" they also mean age-appropriate comprehensive sex education, media with queer/trans people in it, and picture books about gay penguins.

This is solidarity!

It's really weird (it's not really weird) how states that ban abortions are also states where women can't get leave to take care of their children.

any company incorporating AI graphics signals "we don't value or care about what we're making, and neither should you."

Illustration by Pa-Luis

KEEPING YOU AND YOUR ART SAFE FROM SCAMMERS

"Because artists are often in a vulnerable economic position, we are particularly targeted by scams of all kinds."

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Congrats!

Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images Company promotes its tool as safe from content scraped from the internet.

There are NO ethically-gathered datasets to train AI.

After months of artists’ questioning Adobe about “supplementary data sources”, here’s the answer.

Firefly isn’t ethical either.
#CreateDontScrape

Finally sat down to finish the rough sketch for this one. 🐲

A tweet by Jess Owen which reads: Al didn't democratize art. Artists did. Free YouTube tutorials, sketch pages, advice blogs, works-in-progress, mentorship, AMAs, process videos. Sharing materials, stock references, resources, and technique. These are freely available to anyone who wants to learn.

This is very true. Everything you want to learn about any art or craft is freely available on YouTube. The problem is, you then have to do the work, which is the sticking point for many.

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