Krane | Stained Karbon

These guys know what's up. @mohoanimation.bsky.social

I've been staring at the edge of the water... 23x54

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#art #ttrpg #dnd #battlemap

Mmmmm, orb piiiiie

Linkedin Post from a Pinterest designer reading: "Yesterday I was impacted by the Pinterest layoffs. I was Pinterest's only icon designer and product illustrator. In his email to the company, the CEO said "we’re doubling down on an AI-forward approach – prioritizing AI-focused roles, teams, and ways of working". I WAS working on AI projects including the Pinterest Assistant that soft-launched in October. If you haven't heard about that feature launch, you can find it on Pinterest's own newsroom or with a Google search. I was vocal internally about how our users don't want AI slop or features on the platform, how we as employees are feeling uncomfortable and discouraged about AI, and what I wanted from leadership. Last year, I told my manager I was worried about AI-based layoffs. I was told not to worry. At an onsite, we were told that "in the future", we would all be "managers of AIs". That I would be expected to manage some sort of AI employees, rather than craft and design my own work. Human-made art and design matter. I am never going to stop creating, even if the "home of inspiration" decides that creators are secondary to profits. If you want to support me, you can follow me on threads or instagram @bonniekatewolf where I post my hand-knit sweaters and oil paintings. If you want to hire a human illustrator, designer, or iconographer, my email and DMs are open for freelance, contract, or FTE roles."

Pinterest CEO says in layoff email: "We’re doubling down on an AI-forward approach – prioritizing AI-focused roles, teams, and ways of working"

So it's time for me to move to another platform to save images

Ok this is going to be very niche but wow Roleplayers… your stance on GenAi in some of your servers is seriously appalling. It’s extra painful because yall were some of the first people to hire me for my art and now look at where I am. I really hope you reconsider your stances
#warcraft

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Hey friends, I need your help. If just 30 of my 3000+ followers picked up a $1 monthly Ko-fi membership, I could cover two of my #epilepsy medications each month.

You could be one of those 30 cool kids that help give me some peace of mind. #mutualaid

You come across a strange orb in a feywild forest... 25x43

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#art #ttrpg #battlemap

Don't like the meteor desert? Have some water (?) instead!
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#art #ttrpg #battlemap

Desert but also meteor 32x56

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#art #ttrpg #battlemap

As someone who is a small business that had a 90k+ follower account that DID convert to sales...it's time to let Twitter go.

It'd a child porn generator. There's no coming back from it.

Aw thank you!

maps yo
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#ttrpg #art #battlemap

Another favor to ask on a research project. We're wrapping up a large project on AI music. We need folks to participate in a short 10 min quiz to test your ability to distinguish between AI music & human music. Especially looking for help from musicians!
uchicago.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Hell yea!

Our hard work, our creative innovations are not tech’s gold mine.

The tech industry standard of exploitation and theft is not “progress”.

Our rights are to be respected and tech must to adapt to US!

Lets stand together! Learn more via link below👇

#StealingIsntInnovation

Comic-Con did not respond to 404 Media’s request for comment, but Oreglia said she did hear back from art show organizer Glen Wooten. “He basically told me that they put those AI stipulations in when AI was just starting to come around and that the inability to sell AI-generated works was meant to curtail people from submitting genAI works,” she said. “He seems to be very against genAI but wasn't really able to change the current policy until artists voiced their opinions loudly which pressured the office into banning AI completely.”

great point by bestie @teastainss.bsky.social in this article on banning AI at comic-con: with corporations, politicians, institutions: ALWAYS BE ANNOYING. At best they gravitate towards doing nothing and continue to do nothing until a fire is lit under their asses

www.404media.co/comic-con-ba...

The tabletop RPG encounter map showing the Fae interior ballroom. It is filled with water ponds full of lilypads, tables and a grand throne at the top.

This map has been done years ago. Still very proud of it <3 Love the color palette.

#TTRPG #battlemaps #encountermap #fae #feywild #DnDart

Hey if you're a Canva user could you take a second to ask Canva to implement tools to 1) filter out all AI-generated content and 2) disable all AI tools? I volunteer for an org that uses Canva and it's getting so hard to avoid AI these days. Please boost! www.canva.com/help/get-in-...

Are you YES AI or NO AI? Vote now. Big Tech doesn't care if you want AI or not. They should.

duckduckgo.com/vote (duckduckgo has created a survey for yes/no ai)

a reminder, again, that AltNPS is a grifter account run by people who have no affiliation with the National Park Service and indeed who never did have any affiliation with the National Park Service. They have no sources, they have no information, they are purely there to scam you.

Portfolio Tips for Illustrators by Nala J. Wu Portfolio tips for Illustrators Written by Nala J. Wu (@naladraws) | they/them As an art director (AD) and longtime professional illustrator— I’ve probably looked at nearly a thousand art portfolios. ...

PORTFOLIO TIPS FOR ILLUSTRATORS

I am an art director who has probably seen close to 1000 portfolios, many great, but many...not 😔

This is a doc I wrote featuring tips and tricks for how to make a better art portfolio site. Feel free to share with anyone who may find this useful <3 #art

Yup

Adult creators and sex workers are going to continue to be picked off, one by one, unless people stand up for them.

please call your representatives. demand they oppose censorship bills like the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and demand protections for Section 230

Amber Glenn wearing her gold medal after winning the US National Championship Women’s Singles Competition. She is dressed in a black short sequined gown and proudly holding a progress pride flag behind her. There is a gaggle of photographers in front of her.

Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.

Fey queen 'castle' of some sort probably, I don't tend to inject specific stories into my maps since I make them for other people to do that :D

Big heart <3

human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you!!

Aaand done. If you have a minute or two, please let know to Discord how AI is garbage :)

So while this is an improvement, the 2nd point is kind of impossible because the LLM and GenAI models around right now are built on mountains of stolen data, so the follow up to this story in a year is either that they gave up on using their own data or it didn't work at all so they quit.

Not sure dude knows how this stuff works.