An important PSA from Batman

Hyvin sanottu, @krisukoo.bsky.social ! 👏 Mä en sivumennen sanoen täällä sinitaivaassa seuraa ketään, joka postaa generoituja kuvia. Se ei ole mitenkään henkilökohtaista, ei mikään protestikaan. Kyseinen sisältö on vaan jotain mitä en halua nähdä. Altistuin jo Facebookin puolella kylliksi.

”Tekoälyä on liikaa kaikkialla, myös televisio-ohjelmien introissa, iltapäivälehtien uutiskuvina ja mainoksissa. Suomessa on paljon luovan alan osaajia, ja tekoälyn käyttö on iso keskisormi meille.”

Fuck me this is bleak. But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

Every artist I’ve ever known has this itch to create that won’t go away until they create. They have to do it. It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.

the only comic discourse I care about

its wild how slippery objective consensus reality is right now

Oh, hey. Visa and Mastercard now say you can't pay for WoW. Magic the Gathering. FFXIV. DnD. Lord of the Rings. Because they're all "adult" content against their ToS just for being "fantasy". Let that sink in. Spread this like wildfire and have people in those circles call them. No quarter.

Itse kysely avautuu Keskustelu-linkin taakaa. Vastaamiseen meni n. 5 min. Tekijänoikeuskysymykset oli ohitettu kokonaan, minkä tavallaan ymmärrän tässä kontekstissa. Mutta kun ottaa huomioon, ettei tekoälyä voi opettaa ilman mittavia aineistoja, tekijänoikeuskysymyksiä ei voi kokonaan väistää.

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

I'm so glad someone taped over "art" with "images" because my biggest pet peeve is how much credence it incidentally gives AI slop when people naturally call it "AI art" without thinking.

lol

It’s a machine, Robert, unethically programmed on the work of humans who have suffered and understand suffering. It’s mimicking our pain. IT’S A MACHINE, ROBERT.

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

If you tried to "fit in" by hating everything the internet told you to hate, you would end up forgetting how to enjoy anything. Maybe you'll finally fit in, only to find you're surrounded by those as miserable as you. Life is too short. If it isn't actually hurting anyone, enjoy what you like.

same for artists. no artist is burnt out because their workload would be less with AI or their project managing software could be assisted by AI. we’re burnt out because our work is not respected enough. what we do is seen as disposable and replaceable, rather than valuable.

Israel on tappanut kymmeniä tuhansia lapsia. Ampumalla päähän äitinsä syliin. Räjäyttämällä kappaleiksi. Polttamalla elävältä. Hautaamalla rakennuksiin. Estämällä lääkekuljetukset ja tuhoamalla sairaalat. Näännyttämällä nälkään ja ampumalla ruokajonoon. Eikä poliittinen johtomme tee mitään.

Being a Harry Potter adult.

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

20 Aug 25 -- Bluesky has suspended multiple trans users for anti-J.K. Rowling posts even when they didn't mention threats or violence. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

yeah

i love you beginner artists. i love you even if you're trying to learn art in your 60s. sharing your art can be scary if you are new to art and learning, but don't ever let mean people stop you. your art is important and beautiful because it's yours. keep creating, now more than ever.

Lot of replies to my last few posts from Artists who feel they aren’t ’doing it right’ and all I can say is that if you made it you did it right. If you had fun you did it right. If you learned something you did it right. If you used ai you’re a loser.

"to get anywhere as an artist you need to make instagram reels" "you need to draw memes" "you need to go to conventions" wrong wrong wrong you just need to be insane

It’s sad that the discussion around pornography is always framed as “it’s potentially harmful.” It’s also potentially healthy? What did you learn about yourself, your body, your gender, your preferences, your boundaries and your self expression through the smut you consume?

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

Clean up your links before you share them with others. It's a small and simple piece of operational security that anyone can integrate into their practice.

Eikä mulla muuta, mutta jos haluat muistaa syntymäpäivääni jotenkin, niin tue luovaa alaa. Älä promptaa - anna duuni kuvittajalle. Pienikin keikka on tärkeä.

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

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We don't need AI, but we do need a livable Earth. We can't have both. #fuckAI#ArtistsAgainstAI#AgainstAI#SayNoToAI

don't read them, burn them🔥 any author who uses genAI for cover art, instead of hiring another creative for the job, is a traitor #fuckAI#antiAI#againstAI#ArtistsAgainstAI

doodles from my sketchbook (this is exposure therapy for me)

Trick question, it doesn’t matter because Israel has already condemned you Free Palestine

The number of times I’ve told people “sometimes kindness looks like punching an asshole in the face” is limitless.

Damn you mean itch didn’t actually just abandon these creators but has been working hard with its limited resources to figure out how to continue supporting them? How surprising

They’re so jealous you can write. They’re so jealous you can draw. They’re so jealous you can make music. They have all the money in the world, but they’ve been driven insane because they don’t have your joy.

yaoi -päivän kunniaksi haluan kertoa, että Itch Yaoi bundle, jossa olin mukana 80 muun taitelijan kanssa, peruuntui koska anti-porno viharyhmä oli painostanut itch.ion maksunkäsittelijöitä kuten master cardia ja paypallia kiristämään sääntöjään eroottisen ja ""haitallisen"" sisällön myymisestä. ⬇️

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Time has changed

"I can't brainstorm without ai" "I can't draw without ai" "I can't write without ai" "Ai summarized it for me cause it's too hard of a read" So what exactly /can/ you do? Because you sound fucking useless to me

just keep rolling ✨ #katamari #comic

don't read them, burn them🔥 any author who uses genAI for cover art, instead of hiring another creative for the job, is a traitor #fuckAI#antiAI#againstAI#ArtistsAgainstAI

i will always side with sex workers and smut creators and you should too. kill the puritanical pearl-clutching brainworm raising a stink about respectability and optics. it is a backdoor fascists will use to sneak their way into your sympathies. porn is good, sex is normal, kink is human. grow up.