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When we expressed that we wanted to pursue art we used to be told there is no future in that particular field. But the machine that's scraping from artists' works is the one they believe has a future. #viensart #createdontscrape

i just googled "even ironic use of generative ai harms the planet meaning" and you would NOT believe what it came up with!!

everyone signing on to be a part of the new HBO Max Harry Potter series is endorsing this and should be treated accordingly

Foreign tourists to Japan love staying in traditional ryokans, with some inns saying inbound travelers now comprise 90% of their business. However, foreigners are less enamored of traditional Japanese food, leading some ryokans to stop offering meals at all. buff.ly/fppu8ni

I don't fear replacement, I fear humans losing the love of doing things for themselves. Why draw? Why ask questions? Why write? Because it brings joy. Because creating, putting forth effort, doing things, is what makes us feel alive. If we turn to machines for all of that, why live?

LLMs work by running statistics on existing data. So, like, if EVERYONE stops researching & innovating, instead just using AI, then that's it: the end of progress by definition, since we'll just be recycling existing data and feeding it back into the models. That's depressing.

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

My students are shown regularly how badly AI answers questions that they know the answers to. The problem is, if you’re ignorant, you don’t know that it’s wrong. (But it sounds like what they think an educated person sounds like.)

Tried to use my soft pastels today

Little gentle reminder to all the human creatives out there 💪

new print dropping for CAFKL ;D

men will literally crash the global economy before going to therapy

Every argument with AI tech bros always feels like this #createdontscrape #supporthumanartists

I have a near visceral dislike of the "Ghibli-esque AI" Ghibli is about painstaking craftsmanship. Of animators, actors and more spending *years* to create something that moves you across the spectrum of human emotion Go watch "The Boy & the Heron"/君たちはどう生きるか before using cheap tricks

Hot take on the gen AI issue. I hate to say this but AI Bros community macam ada better engagement than the artists community. I just saw a comic made by ChatGPT, then they have a lot of responses, most of them ask for what prompt did they use. So they have this spirit to learn from each other 1/?

If you're trans and you're making a webcomic, comment so I can make a starter pack of webcomics made by trans people for #transrightsreadathon !🏳️‍⚧️

How was I planning to play Monster Hunter Wilds but ended up making Caramel Pudding instead?? (1/2) #viensart

4threset.itch.io/reset-prologue Putting this up here because I've run through this and it seems to work!!! Only 10-15 minutes long, here's what I've been smashing away at for roughly a week! First foray into gamedev! Let me know your thoughts if you play it! :) (And if you find anything broken)

Good morning. Remember not to support that movie with that genocidal queen. Her home state broke the ceasefire :( #freepalestine

Translation: "I'm a woman, my life is fine" Yet there are many more women who don't have the same privilege. Happy International Women's Day. #IWD2025 #InternationalWomensDay2025 #viensart

The actual joke I wanted to make. English translation in alt text. It sounds funnier in Malay tbh Lamar = propose lama = long (time) #kendricklamar

Happy Valentine's Day!! 💕

I've seen a huge uptick in these kinds of booth designs, paired with a vendor who's stuck on their phone and won't even acknowledge their would-be customers. The last con I was at, I couldn't get the attention of someone who's art I wanted to buy, so I just left instead

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Controversial opinion: Women who have not been violated by men have the right to avoid them too. Women do not have to pay a rape tax to get the right to espouse a mistrust of the class socially, culturally, and legally empowered to violate them.

I've been thinking a lot about comics lately and the craft and calling of making them. So I wrote myself a comics manifesto. Please comment, share, steal, or disregard.

"Virgin Punk" anime series by Yasuomi Umetsu (A Kite, Mezzo Forte) & Shaft studio will first debut in Japanese theaters on June 27. virgin-punk.com

I had this unpleasant experience 2 years ago and last weekend I saw a similar booth design. So I'm just sharing do's and don'ts on how to design your booth at artist alleys (ideally). Feel free to suggest others ideas! #viensart #artistalley #artistbooth #doujinbooth

Oh, the "free speech" ship sailed loong time ago. On the day of Super Bowl LVII on Feb-12-2023, Musk went nuts because Biden's tweet attracted 29.8 mln views compared to Elon's 8.4 mln. This is how "Character Limit" by Cate Conger and Ryan Mac described the situation "got resolved"

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Wanna draw at work cos I'm done with most of the tasks but then I heard my boss is coming over to pick up some stuff later. I'm dreading 😂

Hi everyone, I'm Thar, an illustrator who loves bright and vibrant colours! Here's some of my favourite works from Rangeela, a zine about beautiful Indian women. Please bear with me as I slowly set up my cozy little nook here!❤️

Freelance artists! Do you use any task/manday tracking tools? I find that even tho this was such a Sisyphean task when I had a desk job, it helped me somewhat gauge how much I can do in a day especially if I need to do more than 2 projects at a time.

When Muslim women talks about their rights. Translation in alt text #feminism #muslimfeminists #IslamicFeminism

Whenever we discuss general or systemic issues on social media... English translation in alt text #viensart #socialmedia

Coincidentally this is one of the main reasons why AI art will go nowhere. There’s no passion behind it, no drive, no will. Saying AI art is “soulless” is a cliche, but it’s true. You will never sit in front of ai art for hours pondering what the artist meant behind it.

I make video essays about Star Wars and Trek and shit; not because it’s meant to start a revolution or present deep communist theory, but because if you use it as an entry point for leftist thought (like how outrage merchants use as a gateway for the far right), it can be a potent start for people.

It frustrates me when people reduce my Star Wars video to “auteur theory is fascist.” I never say that. I use SW to discuss how capitalism strips art of meaning to glorify (oft cis white) visionaries, reflecting how neoliberalism’s focus on individuals aligns well with authoritarian fascism.

A comic from 2018. The "gender war" online discourse often looks like this. #viensart #misogyny #sexism English translation in alt text.

Gen x and millennial parents can't read

The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop. I want our World Wide Web back.

I wish there are examples of completed works that follow this rule.

Wira and Manja fanart. My first impression when I first saw the official poster 😆 The scenario I made in my head: Wira is the himbo type while Manja is the girlboss. #tourismmalaysia #malayansunbear #wiraandmanja

AI is a more than a dead-end: it is death. The death of creativity, the death of the paid artist, and the death of the environment. But, hey! Some rich people got even more money, and lazy people got a shitty image or text.

I wanna move to bluesky for good, but I keep getting distracted by twiddur drama 😭

For those who missed these at CF24 can go to my shopee and buy them here. Take note that I'll only post within 2 weeks, depending on my schedule. PM me first if you have specific requests. my.shp.ee/Lh2b7TT

Done watching #Sonic3 with my boyfriend.