One thing all this has revealed is that if anyone wants to massively derail the oil industry, they only need to block this one little strait.
Sorry I'm actually just fixing a typo in a chapter you haven't gotten to yet because I can't stand the thought of you seeing something less than perfect in this not-yet-completed work I've asked you to look over 🫠
Whenever I'm in a Google Doc I shared with a beta reader, or a student's work they shared to me, I feel like I have to get out of there when I see their icon pop up. Like I'm invading their privacy and looking over their shoulder while they're working.
Have I mentioned lately how gratifying it is that this group has kept going and grown stronger since I left? I love y'all so much.
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The Bush administration pretended to be delivering “democracy” to Iraq. Trump's militarists promote depraved violence as an end in itself—declaring that the only purpose of their wars is to kill people and pillage resources.
Should you kill or die to gratify the egos of such men? No. No one should.
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I will be opening up microfic commissions for Wilmington FNB soon! We're just tidying up some stuff for the ask, but we have a pretty good idea of what we're asking for for some of our neighbors, and I'm excited to write you horrific, smutty, bizarre, cozy, etc. stuff to achieve that!
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I have a set of salmon colored sheets like this, and I always think something similar when I fold back the duvet. Like I'm skinning something (a salmon, probably, because I am often a bit too literal).
Anyway. Glad to know I'm in good company.
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Real talk one of my favorite artists, Remedios Varo, did art forgery to make money. There's a lot of artists who did. The jump from "master study in art school" to "master study except I'm going to lie about who made this and sell it to some rich dumbass" is not very far.
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* Should add here that playing a musical piece composed by someone else is also art, of course, as it requires the deep consideration of that composition and the development of the skills to perform the piece
Same with acting, dancing, reciting a poem, knitting from a pattern, or forging a painting
It's the human thinking that makes something into art.
I might even allow for the suggestion that programming a LLM can be creative and artistic, with the caveat that one has the consent of the creators whose work you use to train the model.
At best, a prompt can be compared to commissioning a piece from an artist. But even then, commissioning art is a collaborative process in which a person must communicate their ideas to someone else who then interprets those ideas via their own skills.
Some may argue that creating an AI prompt falls under that definition, but I wholly disagree. AI prompting is no different from saying you have an idea for something. But the idea alone is not enough to create art. It's the labor and struggle of turning that idea into something outside yourself.
^ This is my personal understanding of "art," though there will never be a single, true definition.
Art is any process by which a person considers ideas, problems, emotions, material reality, or some other concept, via a the creation of an image, story, dance, sculpture, musical composition, poem, or other externalization of their thoughts.
The point is the process itself, not the end product.
Excited for one I definitely have! Couldn't even think of vibes for the last couple. My setting creates a few limitations in possible concepts.
Hope everyone is doing well this Friday the 13th!
Lil dude's arm is gonna be asleep when they wake up
Also the phone appears to be a stenotype with a rotary dial and a roll of receipt paper attached to it.
I think that lamp is in fact bolted to the row of knockoff National Geographic magazines.
Had to nitpick this, sorry. I do agree with the general spirit of your statement. But I think you're doing collage artists dirty here.
As for collage–even if the artist isn't thinking about the ideas in the pieces they use, they're still sitting there, carefully cutting out pictures, arranging them in a particular, considered way, gluing them down without damaging the paper, etc. All of that requires skill. Prompting a bot does not
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There is quite a lot to be said (and quite a lot has already!) about the distinction between "art" and "craft," and what ideologies and personal biases go into determining which things belong to which.
lol I'm actually annoyed about it. I love collage. And I know it takes some real skill. I consider myself fairly alright at art, but collage is something I've never been good at, both in terms of technical skill and just having an eye for which pieces to use and how to arrange them.
Even straight up forgery is more creative and honest than AI, since it requires careful study of an artist's style, methods, and materials, and the skill to reproduce them.
Actually I think art forgery is fascinating and kind of admirable in a way, but that's a different conversation.
The point is usually not to hide the original sources of the images used in the collage, but to showcase them. Whereas AI is sticking everything into a blender and spitting out a mimicry of someone else's style, without any thought to the themes, ideas, or even just the aesthetics.
I think this person is doing a disservice to collage as an art form
