Albin Klinth

OpenAI, one of the most prominent AI companies in the world, just released a model trained BLATANTLY on stolen IP.

It's obvious that rights are being violated, and it's also obvious that existing enforcement is not preventing these violations: they press onward.

The EU must enforce its rules

*produces massive pin*

There have been very few rights afforded to workers that have been granted without struggle.

When new technology is developed, some companies try pretending that existing legislation does not apply to that technology, to gain advantage.

So we must always be vigilant and fight for what is right.

It is not a job for artists to ensure that AI companies can exist.

They must fight to exist playing by the same rules as everyone else.

Company innovation can happen on many fronts, be it technological, legislative or licensing.

But if a business is built on theft, there is no saving it.

We asked for changes to Italy's AI bill, in defense of creatives.
Explicit consent to use artworks.
Data transparency.
Clear boundaries for scientific research exception.
No more AI vexatory clauses in contracts.
Proportionate sanctions.

Full video:
webtv.camera.it/evento/28376

#ai #regulation

WIP 250322

US friends, there's a short deadline on this request for public comment. Literally TODAY!
If you have a moment to write, PLEASE DO.

They want to "prevent unnecessarily burdensome requirements from hindering private sector innovation".

The implication here is removing Copyright protections.

Portrait of Azuka from evangelion

250313 #asuka #アスカ

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Zuckerberg Appeared to Know Meta Trained AI on Pirated Library Newly unsealed documents show how Meta used LibGen, a pirated library of ebooks, to train its Llama 3 chatbot.

To every politician/legislator worldwide deciding to give Big Tech and GenAi companies legislative wins, you are siding with thieves who are being exposed in the courts. Also training from ill gotten sources is standard operation of all GenAi

Dont bet your careers on thieves. It’s not worth it.

Labour in the UK wants to allow corporations to profit without paying creators for their labour.

This is anti worker, and makes it harder for the UK to trade and license copyrighted work with neighbours.

Copyright requires countries to respect eachothers copyright.

2025 is going to be a BIG year in the Opt-in vs. Opt-out debate for AI systems.

We at EGAIR are going to be fighting hard for the rights of creators to say NO or YES to AI training.

INFORMED and EXPLICIT consent is the name of the game.

Removing and scrubbing attribution and copyright info seems to be a common strategy for AI companies to avoid transparency and discovery of this act in their models.

Even supposedly "Open Source" orgs like EleutherAI did this when creating The Pile Books3, a collection of 197 000 pirated books.

Hello Bluesky! We are EGAIR, an organisation fighting for artists' rights and sensible AI regulation in the EU, focused on consent.

We're artist-run and have been doing this work since 2022, speaking with lawmakers both in member states and on the EU level.

Let's keep at it in the new year! 🎉

Also liked the flat version quite a lot, but think that probably speaks more about my execution

Gym leader Misty holding a pokéball

Saw a clip of misty from the pokemon origins series the other day and got inspired. I liked the more mature/gym leader look she had so tried to give her more of a swimmer build. Could maybe have pushed it a bit futher.

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Abyssus on Steam Muster your fireteam, blast through the corrupted denizens of an ancient, sunken civilization, and wield godly powers in Abyssus – a fast-paced cooperative FPS and roguelite brinepunk adventure.

We are holding play tests for Abyssus this weekend! Everyone is welcome and come and play! store.steampowered.com/app/1721110/...

But I probably need to setup a better workflow and automate some repetitive steps in blender first. Also ended up making my own material solution in unreal for a bit more control compared to the built-in material function.

I've been testing out baking vertex animation to textures. Even though its just a test mesh, the results feels pretty satisfying, and I can see the potential for dynamic element in a scene. Excited to maybe do more proper meshes some day.

Thank you!

Ref credit: @noahbradley.bsky.social

And a quick texture pass, always feel like too much of the details get lost in the final result

Testing out some sculpting in blender again

Portrait of Frieren

Here's a fun Frieren piece i've been working on this week, wanted to try and see if sculpting in blender is a viable alterative yet, but most of the time have been spent on lighting and compositing. Need to become better at keeping focus on projects. Hope some of you like it anyway!

interface for nightshade showing intensity and render quality sliders, file selection and export folder

Nightshade is out! Free, easy nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu

Good for artists, ya, but everyone: poison random web images, memes, social uploads

A small % makes the web less safe to scrape. My 2022 mac laptop did the attachment in 3 min. Noticeable on a solid color image like this--learn to like it ;)

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.

The law only ever serves capital.