ZIPAVIKA

Have no interest in supporting a copy paster, whether they use AI or foto as ref

My Art can be seen at Kaidan in Mainz this Weekend!✨👹👺👹
#zipavika

Tired of seeing AI on pinterest?
1) Go to your profile
2) click on "Edit Profile" to get to your settings
3) go to "Refine your recommendations"
4) go to "Gen AI interests"
5) turn everything off
ENJOY A CLEAN PINTEREST!
Spread the word among your friends to save them from generative AI pollution!

With Bluesky admitting that they are pushing a lot of content here to 3rd parties, I just send their data protection officer a GDPR information request to find out where what data actually goes. Let's see what happens.

They are going to say the same thing about water consumption and electricity costs. Prepare for subsidising it to the point of personal bankruptcy without even using it.

Because it's unsustainable, doesn't pay the people whose work it relies on properly and is used to maximise profit for the rich.

A thing of beauty

Map of Europe showing opposing countries in green: NL, DE, PL, CZ, AT, SL, SK, EE, FI

We did it: 🇩🇪Germany will OPPOSE Chat Control! 🥳

Thanks everyone for writing to the ministers. 🫶

#ChatControl will not get a majority in the EU Council - at least for now.

Got a flu right after JenaCo so can't work properly

#plantober2025 and #Kuenstlerbuchtober
Day 6
Star Anise/Net

"the human centipede of content" holy shit

Sitting in the train, working on day 5 of inktober
#zipavika

Come and find me at JenaCo in Jena, Germany!✨

#plantober2025 and #Kuenstlerbuchtober
Maple/Wolf

EA's new owners are planning an AI pivot to significantly cut operating costs

(via Financial Times)

It's spooky season time!
Dudes & Feast!
#zipavika

#plantober2025 and #Kuenstlerbuchtober
Moss/Tear

Thier- and HiroCon are done, now this Weekend of to JenaCo!✨

Look at this very closely, this is your future where your biometrics data will belong to mega corp overlords for eternity with no rest and peace in sight 🤗

Moment, du hast die leeren Flächen reingeschnitten, damit man das Bild vom Hintergrund auf der nächsten Seite sieht ?

If you are a danish citizen you can also sign this Citizen Suggestion to show that you are against this.

Although the people who made it missed to mention that it's Denmark as a state who is the primary pusher right now.

They are already past the 50K, but the more people who sign this the better.

When you run a poll and find that the public is concerned about AI, it takes crazy levels of AI boosterism to conclude that the public is wrong and the govt must educate them.

Perhaps… the public is right.

Politicians should listen to the public, not the Larry Ellison-funded Tony Blair Institute.

Yeah I could be up for a Luddite renaissance

GASPS…

My convention plan for the rest of 2025 and a little bit for the 2026. Hope to see you there!🎉
#zipavika #artistalley #conventions

Every artist I’ve ever known has this itch to create that won’t go away until they create. They have to do it.

It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.

A Reddit post titled "Wow... we've been burning money for 6 months." The post's author, u/me_z, describes how their company's OpenAI usage was costing around $1200 a month. They are using GPT-4 for simple tasks like extracting phone numbers, checking for profanity, reformatting JSON, and uppercasing text. The author ends by asking, "Am I an idiot? How much are you guys spending?"

they used AI to uppercase text? lol.

My new merch is finally Home!😍
#standee #zipavika #dudesnflowers

Ireland’s MEPs all have emails you can find with a quick Google.

And they hear so rarely from voters about EU legislation that they pay attention when they do.

It would be worthwhile.

But what would really make a difference would be contacting your Govt TDs.

Oh WHAT i just thought I had to go do them all (and spent a bunch of time doing it and still didn't get em all)