Sergaz

It's really worth pointing out here that the company tied to "techno-fascist" Peter Thiel (who is himself tied to surveillance apparatus Palantir and horrible people like Epstein and Trump) in this situation...is Persona, the very same company doing VRChat's increasingly-mandatory age verification.

Hey, if you double down on GenAI in the face of your peers, if you fall down that rabbit hole so deep you can't get back out, the isolation that results is just everyone else telling you something you refuse to hear yourself, and there's no rant you can make long enough to win those folks back.

OpenAI says China's DeepSeek trained its AI by distilling US models, memo shows OpenAI has warned U.S. lawmakers that Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is targeting the ChatGPT maker and the nation's leading AI companies to replicate models and use them for its own...

You mean the plagiarism machine is being plagiarized?

Someone call Altman a WHAAAAAAAmbulance.

"It's okay you guys, they said your info will be deleted IMMEDIATELY and it will ONLY be used for verification"

A portrait of Slush Dogg, a black, white and gray anthro husky with cyan hair, getting a hug from behind Ollie the slime monster, who is resting their head on their shoulder, their goo tendrils in the process of encircling their body.

Just some gift art for @slushdogg.bsky.social! Gotta give good friends goo'd hugs.

Whether this is wholesome or sus is entirely up to interpretation.

#art #digitalart #ocs

There’s no getting around the fact that generative AI resides on a foundation of theft and counterfeiting on a previously unimaginable scale.

Artwork of an intersection of an empty dirt road at dusk, the only thing illuminating things a red-orange light coming from just behind where the camera would be. There is nothing but trees, dry grasses, electric poles, and a white bollard at the side of the road. The lights of a far off car near the horizon line shine in the distance. Coming down from the closest electrical pole is Ollie the slime monster, slithering down the pole like a snake and staring towards the camera like a deer in the headlights.

Oh shit what's up?

#art #digitalart #ocs

A graphic with two vertical halves. The left half, with green background and check marks, says: "A safer internet IS MADE BY Encryption, Privacy, and Open Source"; the right half, with red background and crosses, says "A safer internet is NOT MADE BY Age verification, Scanning communication, or Tracking & data collection." #saferinternetday

Reposting this with alt text.

It's official !! Our little birdie has been approved for his lung transplant !! 🥺💛💛
We don't know the costs for post op stuffs, so please keep supporting his GFM !!

I am still offering a chibi for every 10$ donation done directly to the GFM !
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STRONGEST BIRB 🐣💛💛

The rule at this point with furry spaces should be
"No Politics" or Safe: choose one.

If you have an apolitical space with no minimum decency standard, you do not have a safe space for marginalized people.

And if you want a safe space, there can be no place for today's far-right fascists in it.

(WIP) The reason why I mentioned this haha

Kwipper privated his X account, but yeah, his posts there (especially the replies) were a far-right rabbit hole nightmare.

It's telling that his account here is far more sanitized and clean, while he felt comfortable using X to air his toxic MAGA views. He knows that fash shit wouldn't fly here.

Septilateral 7 sided shape

guess while i'm under the weather i'll self-promo my music for #BandcampFriday

septilateral.bandcamp.com
theblackparrot.bandcamp.com

all (original) music here is creator-friendly, i will never DMCA you unless you're like, very obviously stealing it lol.

also on other platforms if thats convenient

AI in the Olympics is fuckin' weak ass shit.

Four caps of Ollie the slime monster in VRChat. They look far more smug and sly than they deserve to be.

Was taking my model into some worlds to see how different their shaders looked between them and got caught up with how charismatic the model is with face tracking

#vrchat

That also means calling your conservative furry friends out for being dipshits

From a game I found on Steam:
Being a "SMALL INDEPENDENT TEAM" should not be an excuse we accept when it comes to using AI in game development. I would much rather see people open MS Paint and draw doodles there than see awful AI generated mascots shoved down my throat.

An announcement~

@hayzel.bsky.social's model is working as intended

#sm64coopdx #blender #lowpoly #furry #furryart #modding

Got a few more things to tweak with these clothes, but I'm getting there!

#vrchat #3dartist #blender #tokyozilla #zurg

h e l p m e

Moving forward anyone saying any gender critical shit should be met with Epstein screenshots and "ok pedophile", if you choose to engage at all. Their worldview was conjured by human trafficking kid fuckers, wear that brand for life idiot.

I am a certified Animate and general Adobe hater, but even I realize just how dependent professional industry pipelines are on Animate and the ability to use assets made explicitly in that program.

(email from me to hello@frostytools.com, subject line "I do not consent to have this bot generate AI summaries of me and my content.") me: Hi, I reached out on Twitter to Ken/Frosty a bit ago when I learned of what this bot does concerning raids and shoutouts, and I do not want this bot trying to summarize me or my content. I've already blocked the bot's Twitch account in hopes it would fail to read/learn anything about me, and it seems to still be able to see me. Please make your software ignore me. There is no option to opt-out. I'm far from the only person uncomfortable with your bot. I'd also like to have any and all data on my Twitch account deleted. My Twitch is theblackparrot, user ID 43464015. Thanks, Parrot frostytools response: Hi Parrot, Hope this finds you well, and apologies for the slow response. I’ve spoken with Ken, and we’ve taken care of this for you. Please let us know if you have any further issues. Warmest regards, ..sebastian

Screenshot of a Twitch chat overlay: "FrostyToolsDotCom: Information not available for theblackparrot"

oh yeah friendly mention
if you stream and the streamer has FrostyToolsDotCom in their chat, it's a bot that will gather information about you (to an uncomfortable level) in order to generate a "perky" about you sentence for shoutouts

you can prevent it from doing this! email hello@frostytools.com

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drakiah2YIP

Making things accessible to more people is my life's work and passion.

Right now, a big (and growing) obstacle to user access in VRChat exists in the form of their age verification system.

Please join me in putting firm pressure on the org to address these issues and enable more alternatives.

Been tired and eepy. Therefore I make an animation, something that takes a lot of time and concentration, about sleeping.

And look yes maybe it was SOLD as a dog bed but furniture that's low to the ground is just a lot EASIER for me to use.

#art #digitalart #animation #oc

A downy woodpecker sits on a spruce on a sunny winter day. "Ahh... Febuary" it says. Close up on it correcting "Febrary" then "Febberary..." then finally "Frebrury"

Ferbruary #oldknees