btw you youngsters who only had social media growing up, what Elon Musk is like on twitter is what every bad forum admin was like for years. That was the internet for over a decade.
To add context: the ADS-B data that Elon is whining about is transmitted from the plane itselfto anyone within line of sight, specifically for the purposes of tracking the plane.
All you need to do to see every plane around you is have a $20 RTL-SDR receiver. Once I even used it to track the specific flight I was on– setting up the WLAN on the plane was harder than using dump1090 to do this.
All Elon needs to do to make it so people can’t track him with ADS-B data is not fly on the private jet he owns. But that solution involves not flaunting his massive wealth so it’s obviously a bad one.
Some art of Thunder, a character of mine over in the RP/ARPG group I run. She’s a manmade dragon-centaur who currently stands at about 18′/5.5m at the shoulder 🙂
Don’t let her size get you worried, though, she’s actually a bit of a goof and will flex at strangers.
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First image is about the most accurate thing I’ve got for her body type – she’s extremely buff and I love her. Second image is a quick sketch for a winter clothing getup (the ties/harnesses have small heat runes on them to help keep her warm, since spiky scales make clothing on the dragon body impractical).
And the third image is a base edit (the initial base was by myself as well) for her current reference. It looks a little clunky so I’d like to redo it in the future with proper custom art.
I’m pretty sure there’s a good amount of stuff I’ve never posted here, so please observe my boy and his bird son (who’s gotten significantly bigger and more round since)
Artstation protest against allowing AI-generated art on the platform, which took form of artists flooding the site with pictures saying NO AI ART, has utterly fucked up AI Art generators that were sampling art trending on artstation without permission. Thus proving that all these generators do indeed steal artwork.
-Admin
THIS IS FAKE.
This is literally the AI bros trolling people who are against AI and everybody is falling for it.
The current popular models of AI are absolutely a problem because they’re trained on unethically sourced data! But that data is not sampled live. That is, the data they’re trained on is already scraped. Doing this is more of a protest towards the hosting service to say “hey, fuck you, we make you money by drawing in users who subscribe and/or view ads (as the case may be, per service), and we’re gonna drive them away by making THIS all they find from us unless you stop fucking over your artists!” than it is a means of actually fucking with the AI art generators.
Like, yeah, it would be hilarious–I would love to see it fuck with them. But that’s not how they’re working as of now.
And the AI bros are 100% using this to go “lol look, see, these artists don’t know ANYTHING about how AI works! All their fears are based on lies and fearmongering and not any actual substance! None of their protests need to be taken seriously because they don’t know what they’re talking about!”
That’s, like, their goal–make artists look like ignorant idiots who are just afraid of change instead of people who have actual, valid fears. That’s where the trolling part comes in. I mean, artists do very much have valid concerns. But falling for this is not an “own” to the AI bros because “lol they’re admitting their stuff is all stolen”, it instead comes off more as “lol look at the technophobes who’re mad about lies they made up lolololol”.
So yeah. This would be hilarious to see happen, but these tweets are not actually legitimate. They’re trolling everyone.
