I spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages." Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder. I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life

finding out AI was in a game i enjoyed feels like when people "prank" vegetarians by sneaking bacon grease into their food or whatever

I wonder how people have been able to make gorgeous, beautiful, splendorous videogames before 2025.

The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.

“Here’s your meal, full of delicious lead” I don’t want it. No thank you. “Well, what about if we just use lead in the cooking process? You can’t even taste the lead in the final meal” I’m leaving. “You’re being childish. Soon everyone will be cooking with lead” have you fucking listened to yourself

We’re at the point now where people are calling being anti-LLMs as “outrage” as a convenient way to characterise it as unreasonable, and it’s annoying. I’m not outraged, I’m repulsed. I don’t want your stolen shit. It’s gross. You are a fucking loser to me

“AI is ok as long as it’s not taking anyone’s job” and whose work is it trained on. Did you forget that it’s a bunch of stolen fucking shit? Are we moving the goalposts already? “it’s sticking around so you have to get used to it, be realistic” no I don’t. Eat my shit and hair

the disdain for workers losing their livelihoods just drips off of this whole fucking thing like mud off a pig. The smug confidence of a man who has convinced himself that HE is definitely uniquely irreplaceable, only LESSER work is under threat.

In progress - Berumi in Christmas Chaos.. Christmas can be cozy and beautiful, a time to spend with your loved ones - but for some, its chaos and anxiety. Who can relate? #kawaii #art #illustration #kawaiiart #artist

Weird that writers and artists are consistently acceptable losses when it comes to which battles to pick. Are you so gullible as to think that "placeholder text" and "moodboards" are where execs expect this to stop, or are they waiting for this shit to be 'good enough' to replace their workers?

Na, wer fängt nochmal einen neuen Run bei #BaldursGate3 an, weil mein letzter Spielstand verbuggt war? :D Mwahaha, it me! www.twitch.tv/pandamaniaclp #TwitchDE #Livestream #RPG

I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF

I learnt how to draw when I was 30 through free ressources and tips online. Back then I had no skill, no money, I was suicidal and my health issues prevented me from even leaving my fucking bed. What's preventing you from creating is your own greed, pride and laziness. 30 vs 36 :

A striking metric to help understand how rich billionaires are is that most of us would consider, say, a million dollars as a very useful sum of money, life-changing in many cases. A million minutes ago from now is last January. A billion minutes ago is August 124 CE. Hadrian is Emperor of Rome.

Ich bin gerade live! Wir spielen die Demo zum Spiel #Gretel&Hansel und es ist einfach ein Erlebnis xD www.twitch.tv/pandamaniaclp #TwitchDE #TwitchGaming #IndieGames #HorrorGames

Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers. NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

Unfassbar. Allein das "wir" ist schon von erlesener Boshaftigkeit.

Here’s another tip: how about we all just ditch Instagram??? It’s crazy how much creatives insist on staying there while simultaneously going oh no one sees my posts, I’m not growing, etc. Girl stop, it’s not you, it’s the app.

This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.

Unsurprisingly, procrastinating all day has not made the thing I need to do spontaneously resolve itself. Maybe if I procrastinate another half hour it will?

BREAKING: Am Lübcke-Memorial hält Michel Friedman die Rede seines Lebens: "Der Hass, liebe Freunde, ist hungrig!" Jede Berührung mit Antidemokraten mache die Demokratie kaputt! Und gegen die CDU, die uns vorwirft, Lübckes Gedenken zu missbrauchen, sagt er: "Worin soll dieser Missbrauch bestehen?"

You alright man? I keep seeing small damage numbers coming off you

I think some people are genuinely ignorant. Most convos I have had with non-creatives in the past decade have revealed that the average person assumes prosperity for the artists working on mainstream hits like Deadpool or X-Men. Because they can see those characters are worth millions.

'you can generate a different ending every time you view a movie!' 'you can have endless text conversations with NPCs in games!' 'you can summarize a novel, you don't have to read it!' the pitches for genAI really reveal how much the people behind it just... hate art. like. *hate* art. deeply.

“Gamers aren’t buying games anymore.” says the triple A gaming studios who have started using AI, cut corners and various amounts of writers and illustrators who made their releases worth playing, and are just reusing and repackaging past titles… 🙄

People are always surprised to learn how little creators actually own in comics, games, etc. Big corporate brands are usually built on a work-for-hire model, meaning creators get paid once and then the *company* owns their ideas forever. This is why independent/creator-owned work is so important.

Being unable to tolerate frustration + chasing social media clout gotta be a big reason why ppl jumped on the gen ai machine to churn out slop

My patience for, like, fandom Discourse is so brittle these days due to 1) I already did most of that messily in the 2010s and 2) everything in the actual, real, literal, material world is actively on fire

i love feesh, i am feesh ♡ #art #kawaii #shark #emote #vtuber

Sensation am Walter-Lübcke-Mahnmal in Berlin: bei der Eröffnung verkündet @orkanoezdemir.bsky.social der Menge, dass SPD und CDU gemeinsam für ein AfD-Verbot stimmen und ALS ERSTES BUNDESLAND im Bundesrat dafür stimmen werden! Berlin wäre das erste Bundesland! Wow!

Das ist das Denkmal, das für den Berliner Bürgermeister Kai Wegner (CDU) ,an Geschmacklosigkeit kaum zu überbieten‘ ist. Es ist das Denkmal für Walter Lübcke, der für seine christdemokratischen Überzeugungen von einem Rechtsextremisten ermordet wurde. Danke @politicalbeauty.bsky.social

Freue mich sehr, dass dieser Sticker auf der Spielemesse so gut ankam :> ! Pro jedem verkauften Sticker gehen nämlich 1,50€ an Sea-Watch e.V. ❤️ (wasserfest ist er übrigens auch 9v9)

I suspect I'll get crap for this, but I do think it's something we all need to be reminded of, especially fans and creators of things.

Just so you know... Art directors, Art enjoyers, Art buyers and Artists talk with each other. Nobody wants AI slop, specially when there is real art out there as an alternative. You can totally get blacklisted, not only on the industry, but inside fandoms for defending AI precarization and theft.

Inzwischen kann ich wirklich nur noch hysterisch lachen, wenn Menschen behaupten, wir hätten "viel zu lange" nicht über die angeblichen Probleme mit Migration gesprochen. Seit Silvester 2015 ist Deutschland mit wenig mehr beschäftigt, als sich über die Folgen der eigenen Menschlichkeit zu empören.

If you ask it a question that’s been answered correctly several times, it has a higher likelihood of getting it right, but it’s still random. And if there is no info for it to plagiarize, it is ALWAYS wrong.

Was die AfD-Hitlerjugend zu sehen bekommt, wenn sie am Wochenende aus ihrem Versteck rausguckt: Wie findet Ihr? #Giessen

took this stance real early on, have been paying close attention, and i have yet to see a single thing that manages to challenge that opinion even a little bit, rather than solidifying it into diamond-hard conviction

Hier bin ich Mensch – hier kauf ich NICHT mehr ein: Der Geschäftsführer von #dm hat die Mitgliedschaft bei „ #DieFamilienunternehmer “ öffentlich bestätigt und verteidigt die Öffnung des Verbands hin zur AfD.

Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

creators share 90% of their work for free, so what ends up for sale is a small fraction to gather income and support. treating creators like they aren't already sharing freely riles me up. also: libraries exist, you can read books for free without stealing while supporting authors at the same time

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Nachos, Friends, Penis ............................I MEAN-

Warum bezeichnen viele Medien das Ergebnis der #COP30 als „Minimalkompromiss“? Ein Plan für den Ausstieg aus Kohle, Öl & Gas wäre das MINIMALE gewesen! Das jetzige Ergebnis ist das MAXIMALE SCHEITERN, weil Sieg der fossilen Lobby. „Sagen was ist“ gilt auch und gerade im #Klimajournalismus!

Sensation über Nacht: Die Polizei Gießen hat für die gesamte Stadt eine Demo-Verbotszone ausgerufen, um die Proteste am Samstag zu verunmöglichen. +++ 5 Tage vor der AfD-Jugendgründung haben wir den Adenauer SRP+ sicher direkt vor Ort abgesetzt! Wir bringen den Protest dorthin, wo er hingehört! ✊

Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear "Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks! Let it Go!