oh good fucking lord. i hate to even have to say anything in defense of the guy- i think the original tweet was corny as hell and it’s certainly not my place to defend him writing the anne frank house kiss into his books, nor would i even want to. but Jesus Christ, publicly responding to a false public accusation of pedophilia (that the accusers are ASKING YOU TO PUBLICLY RESPOND TO) is not “leading a harassment campaign”. how do you assess that situation and not realize the people publicly accusing someone of being a pedophile (albeit using coy weasel language about it) are the ones quite literally leading a harassment campaign and not the person responding to it. i don’t care that the guy has a big platform, making public false pedophilia accusations because of “vibes” is libelous harassment, and if you directly ask for someone to respond to your harassment campaign, you don’t get to “nyaaah I’m just a little guy” yourself out of things when they do in fact respond. come on.
this guy did nothing wrong here. this is not “leading a harassment campaign”; it is responding to one.
watching the AI art debate thing on twitter is a special kind of torture if you’ve ever attempted any irl political action in your entire life because it’s a train wreck of people trying to enact a movement against something and methodically picking every worst possible argument you could hope to make, constantly shifting the battleground from concrete territory you can actually Win into highly subjective areas that nobody in the conversation can ever decisively win
“all AI art is ugly” is a pointless cul de sac you have to re-argue whenever anyone makes even a half-decent picture, “any commercial art AI should have to demonstrate that it’s only working from public domain artworks” is material, practical and doable. “all AI artists have no passion” is a great way to give those people an avenue to argue you’re just being cruel and bitter (or for AI artists who also use traditional mediums to flat-out refute), “any art produced commercially by an AI should have its prompts recorded so we know they didn’t invoke another artist/their IP to make it” is a thing you can make laws and regulations about. “AI art is soulless fake art unlike Real art from Real artists” gives your opponents the easy opportunity to paint you as a backwards out of touch academic snob disconnected from everyday people (and uh, as an academic snob myself, good luck decisively solving the “what is real art??” debate for the first time in human history), “an AI can’t have any kind of conversation with the commissioner to understand their vision, it can’t truly understand what its making so feedback and precision won’t be on par with a real human, so if you want something accurate and personal it could be an inferior service for your money” is a tangible concern that anyone looking to buy art should be aware of, whether or not an AI can make a pretty picture is less important in practical terms than whether it can make the exact picture the person buying wants
you can spend all day arguing that as a human artist you have Soul and that your work has Life, or you can argue that as a human artist if the client wants their fursona’s right arm a little more to the left or for their expression to have more sassiness in it then you can just do that for them instead of arguing with a robot over what an arm is or the complexities of anthro marmoset facial features
I think that for every episode of bake off that has a foreign country as a theme there should be a special third judge that is just a grandma of that nationality and they should be equipped with an air horn they can toot in paul hollywood’s smug face whenever he confidently says something completely incorrect about a bake’s construction, flavour, texture, etc etc
I don’t think this goes far enough. I think we should give the grandmas guns.
i know unicorns are usually silver or lavender with those skinny horse legs built for running but id like to see more unicorns with natural colouration built like tanks like these beasts
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we need like a scale of unicorn. on one end you have amalthea last unicorn who is the peak of elegant otherworldly unicorns with silver and lavender colours. we need the opposite of that. we need a unicorn who looks like the horse version of a trucker
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like this
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I cannot express to you how heavily I endorse this.
list of very specific terms that have been censored and sanitized to hell and back and lost their original meaning
✔️ intrusive thoughts
sorry if thats not thats not #aesthetic #dark academia #cottagecore of me but publishing my intrusive thoughts would instantly get me on like 10 different government watchlists.
hey, the person who posted this tweet is a disabled poet who writes about the experience of becoming disabled and someone else’s art about being mentally and physically ill isn’t an example of “sanitizing intrusive thoughts” i also don’t know why all of you people seem to think writing poetry about murder/rape/et cetera is illegal or not done but i hope you engage with art soon i guess
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