BE GONE BOTS!!!

He brought his own snack

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(Please god I had to block like 15 of them today)

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

When your work decides to sell ai art...

I work at a craft store. Wtf.

Have Phobetor (fear) by man, or Icelos (like?) by Gods. He takes the form of beasts, He's also the embodiment of nightmares? again Greek Mythology is fucking wild. Morpheus brother. one more to go, or 1,001?

I had to do baby Leona too.

A sleepy cuddly cub.

I need to draw him and Mailo again.

Working from home struggles 

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Real big mess that keeps getting bigger over here.

Hello, I'm still kicking just very exhausted and trying to figure things out.

In a nutshell, still have a hole in our roof and ceiling, insurance people dragging ass so who knows if this will be covered, staying at a friends with their gremlin and feeling weirdly healthier?, relationship miscommunication, got job?, and I haven't drawn anything and it feels like years. Also, nose piercing.

So a lot is happening.

I know it's only been a week or two since my last post, but it honestly feels like months due to the stress (I have a gray streak now, in a week got a streak), and I just want things to go back to a normal state.

Dear Tumblr

Just trash the app, you’re banning so many tags, some of which people use to connect to other individuals for help ie. TW suicide prevention stuff??? Womens health???

Just trash it. Jesus.

Also you block girl but not boy?

PS. Learn to moderate your shit

...Have my baby Arana...

Just a lil elf, with a whole backstory I did not expect to make.