TrinitySilph

A lot of my friends are visual artists and they're struggling/are concerned about protecting their work from #genAI.
This is a good overview of the things they can/cannot do in this area.
@digelsrud.bsky.social

Well, it took something like 8 months, but she's done! I don't think I hit the mark on some of these suggestions, but screw it, she's cute and I love her. =)

Happy International Cat Day, have some super cute Chinese cat paw rope knots. 🐾

Honestly, I was kinda glad mine suddenly vanished... both of them were pretty bad. That said, it really did suck for the people who were putting so much good work into their projects. So many lost stories...

Hey, remember when I started that "make a dragon" meme like... months ago? I'm almost done! Ngl, it's pretty cute. I'll have another couple designs to show off soon, too. >w>

Myrna Loy photographed by American photographer Elmer Fryer, who was the principal portraitist for Warner Bros from 1929 to 1941.
#MyrnaLoy #BOTD

So it turns out the bear video is AI. Gross.

some more helpful reminders from 2016 me who knew more than i do now #reruns

Technically MS Paint, but only briefly, and I was trying to wrangle it into doing photomanipulations a lot of the time. Lol I switched to Photoshop Elements 3.0 almost immediately, and now I use CSP.

Birthdaaay! May your cake be delicious and your games neverending!

This clip aged like fine wine.

Ughhh that sucks, I'm sorry! Same thing happened to me a couple years ago. 2 years of work gone in a blink... bleh.

Fancyy

GitHub - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist: A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

github.com/laylavish/uB...

Massive Ai blocklist for Ublock Origin. So your image result on several browsers can be 90%, or so, Ai-free. (Block also tons of Ai generated crap blogs and "websites").

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

Me, watching all these cool art fight pieces roll in: you're busy. You're exhausted. You don't have the time or the energy or the patience. Don't you do it, girl...! (Swats own hand reaching for login page)

Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner's roadblock to art isn't even technical skill it's frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach's capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That's how you build on the technical skill. Throw that "won't even start because I'm afraid it won't be perfect" shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck.

Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish!

You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧‪

A puffed up cat with its back arched looking with intensity at a paper cut out of a cat

People freaking out when chat gpt says it’s alive

Firefox extension for those who are interested.

I did! I checked in recently and I was surprised how many new types there are! I think the last one I got was... a banescale? I don't have lair space anymore, though, and no patience to gather gravel or whatever to get more.

You have so much more patience than me, damn... I don't even play FR anymore because of the grinding. 🤣
I kinda miss it, though.

Or maybe Jirachi...?

Gigantic aurora Pokemon in a nostalgic nighttime dreamscape of ice and sparkling stars. There are 12 kinds of creatures in this illustration - some obvious, others well hidden. Can you find 'em all?

Only on the darkest arctic nights can you encounter this Primordial Pokémon. It manifests as aurora and ice, gently towering over the pole's frigid denizens...

✨❄️🧊

(There are 12 kinds of Pokémon in this #art! Can you find 'em all? Some are well hidden. Have fun & don't give away answers! 💕)

Oh, this is incredible! Really nicely done!
I've found 11... haha you are not kidding - that 12th is really hard to see! Trying to say this without spoiling where I'm looking, but... Is the last one Zorua, by chance...?

‘we live forever.
we are as old as the sky,
old as the moon.’

#junicorn day 01

Single panel cartoon in the style of Gary Larson Far side. Hacker T. Dog, a dog puppet in a flashy shirt, pulls a goofy smile behind a table of 4 crudely made tools as his co-host, Lauren, puts her thumb and forefinger to her nose trying to stifle laughter. Caption reads "just normal tools."

what do you mean 'normal tools'?

As someone with long hair, the answer is always "sassy ponytail." >3

artist tip.

it is *harder* to recover from burnout than it is to *avoid it* in the first place. if you're prioritizing and managing your own healthy work habits, it will mean *dodging* that burnout.

Aww, thanks very much! ^^