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ai prompters are so unserious like wtf is "generative art" and "algorithmic art" lil bro
Misc. digital art dump (art by me!)
Working on improving my art is a slow (but fun!) process. The journey is messy and not always perfect but it's extremely satisfying keeping track of my progress over time!
Really proud of this design, can't wait to animate her! Still figuring out what level of detail I should give backgrounds, this background is based of a vague memory from my childhood :)
I'm working on creating backgrounds that suit my style, I've found that soft faux watercolour works quite well. (The doodle is inspired by a book I've been working on off and on for the past couple years)
A couple of character doodles, every time I draw Inkling the meme image of the lineup of 2014 fashion friends flashes across my mind. The random line on a random layer is a cornerstone of the digital art experience and is always there to support me <3
A random mushroom study that became the cutest thing I've ever drawn (Pio the mushroom)
A quick incredibly bisexual abstract pose drawing (I've been trying to figure out expressive posing for my characters and animations so I thought starting with simple loose characters would help me focus on body language!)
Hot Take
If you hate people who use AI to make art but are fine using AI to roleplay with a character then you are part of the problem and are actively funding AI creators to keep making AI happen in the creative industry.
It's gonna encourage AI to write more scripts for movies, shows, and more. If you want to roleplay with a character, go out and find somebody through social media who is willing to role play with you. If you're having a mental health crisis, go seek help. AI is not private, it is not accurate, and it's stealing jobs up right and center.
I do not excuse AI at all.
AI will never be able to simulate human empathy (Referencing Disney/Pixar's Wall-E - 2008 ; will contain spoilers if you haven't seen it)
WALL-E is such a huge example of this. (genuinely don't understand why people don't talk about that movie more)
This film has such complex layers to everything and it's one of--if not the--most prevalent movie today. Its two main points are global warming and AI vs humans and I'm gonna talk about both.
The movie takes place in the year 2805. Global warming has turned the Earth uninhabitable, and everywhere you go there's trash. The company CEO of BnL has made a shio called the Axiom, a space craft made for taking the entire human race off the planet and to somewhere more habitable. The humans are nowhere to be found, and the only forms of life are a small robot and their cockroach companion.
WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class) is a dingy lil robot who's job is to compact trash left behind by the human race into little cubes. They are the last robot of their faction, as the rest shut down due to system malfunctions, old age, or lack of sunlight. (The Wall-E units run off solar power). They have been able to form a sort of human-like sentience from the 700 years they've been working on Earth. They've seen playing with trash he compacts (bras, fire extinguishers, and even a ring box where they throw away the ring). During a shift, they find a small sprout and place it in a boot for safe keeping.
Later, a rocket from outer space lands and leaves behind another robot called EVE, who's mission--aka "directive"--is to find plant life on Earth. WALL-E becomes smitten with EVE, and nicknames them EV-A. WALL-E shows EV-A their home and their collection of their favorite objects that they've gathered over the years, eventually showing EV-A the plant they found. EV-A's programming kicks in and shuts the probe down until the rocket can come back to pick them and the plant up and take them back to outer space.
The rest of the movie, WALL-E and EV-A show almost full sentience and show humans and robots alike that Earth is safe to return to and they must succeed despite the efforts of a "corrupted" AI unit called AUTOPilot.
Obviously global warming will always be an issue and it's never gonna go away. Hell it's 100F and it's pretty much August! The main contributing factor to it is gonna be deforestation I believe. The characters of WALL-E spend so much time trying to find any sign of life to return to Earth because humans cut it all down. Granted, we only get to see a small bit of America in the movie, but I think it would be safe to assume that an EVE-Probe was landed at every continent besides Antarctica (which probably didn't exist at that point) based on the amount that we're shown the Axiom launched.
The movie shows how human resilience will always prevail no matter what, and I think that's a good thing. It feels like the human spirit cannot be broken, only stuffed down from routine and day to day chores. You really start to see it in this movie.
With the AI aspect of it, we're shown that in every angle of the AXIUM, robots exist. They do everything for the humans; clean, feed, groom, and even teach. They don't explain how the humans procreate in their enlarged state, but I will not be risking my mental state to ask those questions lol
I don't believe that any robot in this movie is necessarily 'corrupted". They're all following their base programming, even if it means taking it to a severe extreme. That is exactly why I do not trust AI. AUTOPilot is essentially the steering wheel of the ship. They are shown as the captain's right hand "man" in the movie, and even during a scene where the Captain starts second guessing his position as captain, the portraits on the walls of the captains of previous years show that auto keeps creeping closer and closer and closer in frame to show that they are taking up more control of the ship than the captain. AUTO's directive is to drive the Axiom, nothing more. They do not care about the lives on the ship, they do not care about the life or well-being of the captain. Their only directive is to drive the ship away from Earth and to never allow anyone to return.
The other bots of the ship are very susceptible to WALL-E's influence, as they have never seen a sentient robot before. They are all quick to pick up their habits and form some sort of empathy towards one another. These robots are actually programmed to have a false sense of empathy towards humans. They are there to serve the humans and to keep them comfortable in their time on the ship. That is why they were able to gain sentience for one another so fast.
AI cannot learn the difference between human empathy and simulated empathy as they do not have a brain. They can definitely learn how to show empathy, but they will never be able to truly do it themselves. WALL-E was only able to become sentient after hundreds of years because they were able to find songs and imagery of humans from hundreds of years ago. Hello, Dolly! is the musical that is shown in the movie, and I believe the two songs that are played (Put On Your Sunday Clothes and It Only Takes A Moment) were perfect choices for the movie. Sunday Clothes was a rally song for the robots, and Moment was the connection with another robot that WALL-E yearned for.
Going back to the danger of AI, AUTO shows that robots will always default to their programming. Directive A113 was a no-return policy that AUTO had to follow for the overall safety of the people--it didn't matter to them if a captain had to die in the process, just that they followed their directive.
After doing some further research, apparently there's also some religious theme to the movie. Originally, EVE was a namesake to the first woman, and WALL-E was thought of as Adam, the first man. The Axium was compared to Noah's Arch, and from that EVE's symbolism changed to the white dove carrying the olive branch and thus changed the entire direction of the film. WALL-E became a symbol of mans imagination and hard work, compared to Prometheus, Sisyphus, and Butades.
Final thoughts: I love this movie. It definitely needs to be talked about more, especially with the rise of AI and the fall of human creativity.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN from mine and my bf's fursonas to yours :3
A bunch of bot accounts keep posting AI-butchered versions of this portrait, so of you see this picture of Gaara but with no scar, a very femme face, and suddenly eyebrows, please do report it! That image was stolen and (poorly) altered!
Gaara🌪️✨
My bad gang sorry for making some of those filters I had no idea 😔
AI DISTURBANCE "OVERLAYS" DO NOT WORK!
To all the artists and folks who want to protect their art against AI mimicry: all the "AI disturbance" overlays that are circulating online lately DON'T WORK!
Glaze's disturbance (and now the Ibis Paint premium feature, apparently. Not sure.) modifies the image on a code-level, it's not just an overlayed effect but it actually affects the image's data so AI can't really detect and interpret the code within the image. From the Glaze website:
Can't you just apply some filter, compression, blurring, or add some noise to the image to destroy image cloaks? As counterintuitive as this may be, the high level answer is that no simple tools work to destroy the perturbation of these image cloaks. To make sense of this, it helps to first understand that cloaking does not use high-intensity pixels, or rely on bright patterns to distort the image. It is a precisely computed combination of a number of pixels that do not easily stand out to the human eye, but can produce distortion in the AI's “eye.” In our work, we have performed extensive tests showing how robust cloaking is to things like image compression and distortion/noise/masking injection. Another way to think about this is that the cloak is not some brittle watermark that is either seen or not seen. It is a transformation of the image in a dimension that humans do not perceive, but very much in the dimensions that the deep learning model perceive these images. So transformations that rotate, blur, change resolution, crop, etc, do not affect the cloak, just like the same way those operations would not change your perception of what makes a Van Gogh painting "Van Gogh."
Anyone can request a WebGlaze account for FREE, just send an Email or a DM to the official Glaze Project accounts on X and Instagram, they reply within a few days. Be sure to provide a link to your art acc (anywhere) so they know you're an artist.
Please don't be fooled by those colorful and bright overlays to just download and put on your art: it won't work against AI training. Protect your art with REAL Glaze please 🙏🏻 WebGlaze is SUPER FAST, you upload the artwork and they send it back to you within five minutes, and the effect is barely visible!
Official Glaze Project website | Glaze FAQs | about WebGlaze
I fucking love Alex hirsch
MY MUSE... WAS A MONSTER,
original under the cut!
hhrgh tumblr will probably eat up the quality but behold! the ms paint flow on an incredibly tiny canvas make my chronic artblock go brrrr
got stacks on stacks on stacks of content, full color comics, traditional + fibercrafts all cooking in the preverbial creativity crockpot for you folks, so stay tuned! Thnx ILY buy gold!
plz plz plz keep your suspension of disbelief up long enough for me to eventually be able to explain what in the teen beach movie my oc has going on lol but for now feast on this moderately unfunny joke i put way too much effort into! bone app the teeth
full comic + sketch under the cut!
what do yall do for the artblock? i feel like this is all somehow tiktoks fault for giving me an exactly 7 second attention span bu t. hey. every shamelessly rendered oc found-family post is another f u to god and another step in recovering my creative flow so at least i got that going
anyway ramblings aside stay tuned folks there will be Plot on the horizons yet! thanks ily buy. gold
Presenting: Human(oid)!Bill
Womp Womp I’m working on a greater comic but I justt, need campy satyr bill out of my headd
This design comes out of a joke, what if bill asks to become the GOAT™️ thinking the greatest of all time like he’ll surely have like- a banger hot sexy male model body builder bod, only for the axolotl to be like ‘oh goat goat mmmmm oh I know goat! (thinks about like Mr.Tumnus from Narnia) we can totally do goat!’ Much to Bills chagrin, hubris fueled humiliation.
Anyway thanks for still being here ILY Buy Gold!
Be not afraid.
I'm on Cara! (My username is the same)
Please support the Cara team if/when you can, once they add other options to donate I plan to.
I'm also using Glaze and Nightshade to directly combat against AI on large platforms/Met@. I recommend all artists to do the same if you can, this is my first time using it so the effect is stronger than I would like but I'll get more experience with it.
I will be reposting my art over time.
Hey guys! So don’t worry I’ll still be posting on here but I made this announcement on my Instagram too so I figured I’d say it here (I’m more active here anyways). With the rise in AI on so many platforms it’s been very difficult posting art lately and I know I’m not the only one who’s felt this. Well there’s a new app that came out called Cara that is made by artists and for artists and it seems really promising. A lot of people are migrating to it and I’ve decided to give it a shot too ^_^. I have a lot of hope for it and I hope I’m right so if you feel like checking it out here’s my account if you wanna follow me there!
Go follow me on Cara!!