Dan Marriott

Get more from Alex Jay Brady on Patreon creating Art and videos

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My pro career has died a death lately, i cant find paid work anymore, but if you like my artwork and can support me making more in my slow chaotic way heres my patreon, thanks! patreon.com/c/AlexDuneBr...

Good, now can I get a grant to teach people to do digital art without AI please?

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

The UK paid £4.1 million for a bookmarks site Or, as they like to call it, the 'AI Skills Hub'. Which was built by PwC because of course it was

mahadk.com/posts/ai-ski...

This is the biggest targeted training programme since Harold Wilson started the Open University (note).

Open to all UK adults online, taking as little as under 20 minutes, the courses will give

founding partners - Accenture, Amazon, Barclays, BT, Google, IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, Sage, SAS and Salesforce to take the Al Skills Boost programme to the next level and upskill 10 million workers with Al skills by 2030.

The government’s suggestion that rolling out 20 minute courses on writing “AI“ prompts, sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, is somehow comparable to the founding of the Open University (the Wilson government‘s, & Jennie Lee’s, proudest achievement), is an insult to our human intelligence.

No, thanks. How about spending the dosh on some free health screening to catch various conditions early, or going back to teaching creative arts and music in schools, or even financial savviness to kids. Anything but forcing more AI down our gobs.

Counterpoint.

Instead, offer free media literacy and critical thinking training to every adult in the UK.

I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life

collage of 4 of my art pieces, 2 of which are unfinished. Sorry. My face is in the middle in a circular frame. Hello, nice to meet you. Thanks for checking out my work. There's a link to my Artstation in the post too, wow!

Just moved from the UK back to the Netherlands to a temporary place. Really in big need of permanent type job, even non-gamedev related. Open to links to jobs, contacts, reposts, suggestions for what kind of non-gamedev corners to look in. Anything :)

www.artstation.com/owltruism

Thanks Craig I appreciate it! 👍

Thanks Brent , yeah you're right. That bubble can't pop soon enough 🙂

Thanks Mike , I appreciate it

Was hoping for more support for this post, both here and on Linkedin, Thanks Brent for the like and repost. Fighting against AI feels like a lonely uphill struggle. If you don't stand up, or stand with those against it, digital art as a career will be over soon. I'm feeling like it already is. 😢

Reply or quote if you are anti-AI, anti-generative-AI and pro-human made art.

I am a 3D artist, I don't use AI, here's why and how you can retain quality and efficiency. GenAI causes choice paralysis: I already have lots of ideas, and its my knowledge and experience that filters them out. I don't need to see them when I can think them and narrow them down.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-3d-a...

i have a PhD, i made an 18 page list of resources about why AI sucks: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

cancel all your streaming services and tell them why.

buy one independently produced album, book, comic book, piece of art, ticket to a local play every month.

support your local library.

I'm deadly serious. This is becoming a moral imperative.

Thanks!

I'd like to be added please 👋

San Diego Comic-Con will no longer allow AI 'art' to be displayed at their event

"Material created by AI either partially or wholly, is not allowed in the art show"

This follows backlash from artists after SDCC initially indicated AI-generated work would be permitted

None if this trash is ever inevitable and you can help crush this surveillance creep tech by calling it surveillance creep tech.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Speckled plate that looks like it has badly unwrapped UV's

Any other 3D artists triggered by this plate?
#UVMapping

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.

GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.

But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

To quote @lukeplunkett.com :

A comic called Animals with Misleading Names. There's an electric eel labeled "not an eel". There's a mountain goat labeled "not a goat." There's a maned wolf labeled "not a wolf." There's a king cobra labeled "not a cobra. Also, snakes are typically self-governing." There's a peacock mantis shrimp labeled "Not a peacock. Not a mantis. Also, not a shrimp." There's a horny toad labeled "Not a toad. Only thinks of you as a friend." There's a mayfly labeled "active through the spring and summer." There's an eastern kingbird labeled "found in the west. Many birds do not recognize its authority."

Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.

showing a trailer at the Game Awards costs anywhere from $450,000 to a cool $1 million.. here's my old-ass Tiny Tires trailer for free ❤️ #indiegames

Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS.

Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape