valorrath:

Things you’re not:

1. Qualified to decide whether or not someone is faking a disability.

Things you don’t have:

1. The right to interrogate or harass someone because they don’t look disabled to you

schizotist:

sqweegee:

sqweegee:

does ANYONE know where that one dni is that had like every piece of media under the sun on it. with a pic ofgreg universe in the background

my best recreation. looked exactly like this except there was even more text

sorry for the bad quality but is this it

Anonymous asked:

you’re canadian right? what’s the deal with quebec? why are they like that?

imlizy:

various environmental and socio-historical factors play into the formation of cultures and societies

Anonymous asked:

Can you please just tell us what is wrong with ai and why, I can't find anything from actual industry artists ect online through Google just tech bro type articles. All the tech articles are saying it's a good thing, and every pro I follow refuses to explain how or why it's bad. How am I supposed to know something if nobody will teach me and I can't find it myself

venomous-qwille:

I’ll start by saying that the reason pro artists are refusing to answer questions about this is because they are tired. Like, I dont know if anyone actually understands just how exhausting it is to have to justify over and over again why the tech companies that are stealing your work and actively seeking to destroy your craft are ’bad, actually’.

I originally wrote a very longform reply to this ask, but in classic tumblr style the whole thing got eaten, so. I do not have the spoons to rewrite all that shit. Here are some of the sources I linked, I particularly recommend stable diffusion litigation for a thorough breakdown of exactly how generative tools work and why that is theft.

Stable Diffusion litigation · Joseph Saveri Law Firm & Matthew Butterick

Stable Diffusion litigation

stablediffusionlitigation.com

Is A.I. Art Stealing from Artists?

According to the lawyer behind a new class-action suit, every image that a generative tool produces “is an infringing, derivative work.”

The New Yorker

"It's terrifying" - Greg Rutkowski is the most prompted artist on Stable Diffusion

The reality of using an artist's name as an AI art prompt.

Creative Bloq

AI Is Coming For Commercial Art Jobs. Can It Be Stopped?

Art professionals are increasingly concerned that text-to-image platforms will render hundreds of thousands of well-paid creative jobs obsol

Forbes

Google Will Use All Your Publicly Accessible Data to Train Its AIs

Google's Bard and Cloud AI can now be trained using your public information, as per the company's updated privacy policy.

80.lv

or this video if you are feeling lazy and only want the art-side opening statements:

User Clip: Karla Ortiz Opening Statement

Karla Ortiz Opening Statement

C-SPAN.org

Stability AI Boss Admits to Using 'Billions' of Images Without Consent

It was awkward.

PetaPixel

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Reid Southen on Twitter

“"AI won't take your job, you can still find human made art, there will always be a market for that!" Well, let me show you...”

Twitter

Everytime you feed someone’s work- their art, their writing, their likeness- into Midjourney or Dall-E or Chat GPT you are feeding this monster.

Go forth and educate yourself.

krudman:

Every website and service inevitably gets worse over time. I really want society to come together and refer to that process, or a generic verb meaning to do something ineptly, as getting musked.

• “this site used to be good before it got musked.”
• “blizzard keeps musking overwatch”
• “You sure musked that one up.”

That’d be the cherry on top.

were–ralph:

i dont even know what to say

will humanity ever learn anything

taxi-boi:

piss-in-boots:

The amount of experience as Spider-Man/Woman in order

lotad:

marisatomay:

twitter is hell but i really hope it doesn’t actually die because this is in contention for the funniest thing i’ve ever read in my life

this post fails to show the original tweet that this was in reply to, which is not as jarring but certainly should be included:

new-november-moons:

it’s been a tough week! please take a fruit, and pass some on :)

grapes 🍇

kiwi 🥝

watermelon 🍉

blueberries 🫐

orange 🍊

strawberry 🍓

pineapple 🍍

cherries 🍒

mango 🥭

apple 🍏

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catchymemes:

songsofwaterandnight:

hatingongodot:

kryptonians:

kryptonians:

hatingongodot:

hatingongodot:

hatingongodot:

It’s feminist for me to fantasize about a beefy country boy to lift things for me and introduce me to his goats, because it turns me on and is therefore empowering!!! Fuck you!!!!!!!

Are there weird gender role issues here if he has a big appetite and I make a lot of food for him? NO, because I am also PEGGING HIM in this scenario!! I am the FARM DOMME

I’m going back in time to cancel this post because I’ve been told this is categorized as horny on main. Frankly I don’t see how it is horny to want someone in scuffed jeans blush while letting you pet their sheep but I’ve been overruled and I have a career to consider so [REDACTED]

Julia I’m reporting you

Julia I’m just worried about the goats

God okay you don’t understand, the goats initially are somewhat skittish but end up liking me right away, leading the farmboy to go “I’ve never seen them warm up to anyone so quickly before!” And we share a shy but tender glance as the sun sets, until a goat does something silly that makes us both break into laughter. The GOATS are ESSENTIAL in getting him to NUT IN ME

They would have called this female hysteria and given you opium for this back in the day

soracities:

soracities:

i think as a society we should go back to designing furniture w little feet. it would heal us.

please look me in the eye and tell me this doesn’t spark joy

chuckwinchester:

Just sos you knows, AO3 is down under a DDOS attack right now. They’ve been coming back in little blips and then disappearing again. It’s been several hours. (For reference, it’s currently 3 p.m. eastern, July 10, 2023.)

https://twitter.com/AO3_Status/status/1678468065070030856

The culprit (as with a few other DDOS attacks recently) is Anonymous Sudan, a group that is likely Russian, not Sudanese. The ‘reason’ they gave–that AO3 is “full of disgusting smuts and other LGBTQ+ and NSFW things,” is thin and probably not completely legit, though still legitimately concerning.

The AS claim: https://twitter.com/FalconFeedsio/status/1678397195039526912

Reporting on AS: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-28/anonymous-sudan-does-group-behind-microsoft-cyberattack-have-ties-to-russia (you can use archive.ph to get this one, 12ft doesn’t seem to work)

As noted here, https://twitter.com/honeyskeleton/status/1678449598703050769:

DDOS protection is expensive especially for a high traffic site like ao3. And it’s uniquely vulnerable as an independent site without ads or other corporate support. SPECIFICALLY targeted bc of its queer works and yet ppl will still complain every time they ask for donations lmao 

So, again, when AO3 comes back online, please don’t go hard with refreshing all your tabs. Please do remember to download fics you love early and often as  you continue in your whole ~reading journey~. And please do support AO3 through a dono or becoming a donating member, if it is possible for you to do so.

pinene:

google you gotta relax