Not to mention, art was already "democratized". There was no law or social class that barred peoole from being able to learn how to make art.

Watching the current state of AI discourse online after being there from the very beginning is wild. Pro-AI folks have really lost the plot based on what I've seen, and it shows that most of them haven't been around long enough to even know what they're talking about.

Trump posted a completely AI generated video of himself playing soccer with Ronaldo in the Oval Office. This is, once again, the kind of stuff we warned about years ago when we said public officials would use AI.

Once again, Coca-Cola has produced another souless AI-generated Christmas ad. This is an example of what the pinnacle of corporate greed looks like. I'm never purchasing another product owned by Coca-Cola again.

It's the 28th day of the government shutdown. Trump has fled the country. Speaker Mike Johnson won’t convene the House. Senate Majority Leader John Thune refuses to allow a vote on food stamps. This is Republican leadership.

This is the kind of thing we warned about years ago when it came to how the government may use AI. We were called crazy and alarmists by tech accelerationists. And yet here we are.

Kimmel: Brendan Carr is the most embarrassing Carr the Republican have embraced since the cybertruck

This is one of my latest drawings.This is an Abyss Spawn. It's a monster I've designed for my ongoing Science Fantasy D&D campaign.

So in South Korea they are arresting their right wing Christian cult leaders for bribery. Isn't that different.

Adam and Eve

Today's my birthday! 🥳🎉 If you enjoy my art, a like or retweet would be such a lovely gift. PS: I love to draw pretty elf ladies 🤍

It's ironic seeing the folks who made George Floyd jokes for five years after he was publically murdered clutch their pearls about other folks are indifferent to Charlie Kirk's murder.

lady knight painting:

Follow up on this. I'll admit when I was wrong: This video is apparently not AI generated, and there's no proof that it was at this time. The video definitely feels off, but that's just going off of my own vibes rather than hard facts.

So Trump posed an AI generated video of himself addressing Charlie Kirk's death. The man couldn't be bothered to record a proper video and instead likely had a staffer generate this. This is also very dystopian and only further proves my notion of the Post-Truth Era. www.reddit.com/r/law/commen...

what a fucking way to find out magic is real

We don't even have proof that the person who killed him is a leftist. Man I hate how culty this country is.

I think we all agree that the only "political violence" Republicans condemn are the incidents that result in the swift elimination of their right-wing fascist cult colleagues. It's not often it happens, but now they're all out in droves acting like this isn't a direct result of their own actions.

Real America's Voice, which airs the Charlie Kirk show confirms that he has died.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

What can I even say anymore? This is the kind of stuff we warned people about before he got re-elected. They voted for him anyway.

"Commission site Artists & Clients has been hacked by AI bros. Site owners threatened to pay $50,000 USD" AI bros will try to justify this. And when they do, it will be an example of the true nature of the pro AI crowd: their utter disregard of other people's consent for the sake of genAI advances.

My original instagram account got hacked like five years ago and I've never been able to get it back. It's still got some of my artwork on there and whomever runs it uses my name as they try to scam people into signing up for what I assume is a porn site of some kind. www.instagram.com/glynntarrant/

Charlie Kirk shares his sexist, racist and Islamophobic views by sharing a bigoted AI generated image. This is yet another example of what Gareth Watkins meant when he said, "AI is the new aesthetic of fascism." I'll link Watkins' article on that below as well.

Oh! I know I keep saying I'm gonna share art here, but I'm ACTUALLY gonna do it this coming week. I've been busy these last few months with moving house and my new job, but thinks are starting to calm down finally. I've got a couple of character drawings I made for a D&D campaign I'm running. ✏️

Illinois became the first state to ban AI therapists. Finally, we have another example of what regulations to protect vulnerable people from unethical LLMs can look like. This is a step forward. www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...

darkly funny that every big tech CEO prostrated themselves in front of Trump admin and he still sent their companies through a cheese grater

This sounds mad. And the more you read, it just gets madder and madder. And the picture of the end result is just sending me. But it *works.* It's legit. It's fucking insane the lengths you need to go to in order to get around the immune system's rejection response.

QRP with powerful women

Been going through a lot lately, just got let go from my job. It will be a while before I have the mojo to make art again.

Update on the Calvin Robinson nazi salute situation. Good riddance to bad trash.

Real quick, before I upload any of my work, does anyone still use Glaze? Is it still a viable means of protection from AI scraping? Some of my old work when I was on Artstation was already sucked up by some genAI models and I don't want future work to be.

Calvin Robinson does a nazi salute at the National Pro-Life Summit. These people are watering down the nazi salute, making it a joke so that they can do it openly.

The first thing Trump did on his first day back was attack people's civil rights by issuing using insanely over-reaching executive orders that targets LGBTQ+ people. Those who voted for Trump, explain to me how this helps literally anyone.

But they used to hate TikTok and called it “evil”

Honestly, despite having done character art for years I still struggle with backgrounds. Most of my art is just a character with a white, black or no background.

I've been working on some character art for the D&D campaign I've been running. Planning on posting a few pictures in the coming weeks.

Misogonists on Twitter demanding that I should stay and argue with them instead of going to my echo chamber (BlueSky). "You need to listen to both sides, you need to have discourse!" Umm nah, I'm good.

trump has turned his fanbase into a diarrhea cult

I work in healthcare for my day job. Tons of folks are going to suffer and die under the incoming Trump administration, especially if state insurance is on the chopping block and RFK Jr. is going to gut the FDA and try to cripple the CDC. I hope it was worth it to own the "libs"

I wonder if finishing up some art I started will cheer me up. This is going to be a long four years, and even though I expect to lose my civil rights, they can't take my skills from me.

Wario64 posting here now. The seals holding people to twitter are breaking one by one. It’s happening, Bluesky is the chosen one.

Just got done speaking at my alma mater Wayne State University about the ethical and legal concerns of genAI in the creative industry. We had very insightful conversations and our message was very well received. #SupportHumanArtists #TeamHuman

the leopards are already preparing their feast

I'm moving over to BlueSky more permanently. Twitter, while it was already a pigsty of bigotry, will only get worse years into the Trump Administration. I would like to stay there to help get the word out in our fight against genAI, as it's a bigger platform, but my mental state can't take it.