This is powered by Stripe, one of the major drivers of debanking of NSFW creators. The service also has no 2FA. What happens if writers use Ellipsus to share NSFW work and Stripe finds that work objectionable? What about if images are embedded in the work? What if Ellipsus gets subpoenad?

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

Guess it's time for my yearly "alienate the moots who still use this site" but like. It's 2026. We've done known that Twitter is a nazi bar and the only reason it stays afloat is cause y'all won't leave it. Y'all are clinging to a site where the guy in charge is fomenting pogroms.

Seems reasonable to me the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

no no you don’t understand, we only used AI for the part of the production pipeline where we didn’t want to pay employees, it’s different

This is what every game developer sounds like right now.

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

Y'all. Please remember the artists that drew these things when sending around memes. I feel for these artists who NEVER get credited for these (and some, nowadays, are even being accused of being AI!) Here's a few common ones I see (feel free to add others, I want this to be a living thread): 🧵

This bill is legitimately the thing we've been waiting for. Forcing AI to reveal it's sources would cripple it, because it literally can't comply with the law, because all of it is stolen- they didn't record it Please sign to hasten the bubble popping

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

in a world where a plagiarism machine is being used for deepfake revenge porn and CSAM is being forced on every computer and app by 1%-er people who talk and think like rapists, if your battle is with what people draw or with sex work in general, you're the monster or you're the bootlicker or both.

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

I’ve literally never posted any explicitly sexual material. Or nudity. I’m the equivalent of an old Sears catalog. Your auto mod is not accurate enough to decide to hide whole accounts. Human mods don’t exist to appeal to. This is a shadow ban. You are enacting a shadow ban. @bsky.app

Like, what's under there? Is it a risque pinup drawing, which I'm fine with seeing? Is it a giant ejaculating wiener, which I don't want to see? Surprise! It's neither! It's a regular text post complaining about this change being really poorly implemented! :(

yikes :(

Five nights at Freddys guy can continuously donate to republicans, jk Rowling can ruin entire branches of politics with a hatred legal defense fund, but the digital circus and Steven universe creators were queer and made choices fans didn't like and for that they get hate campaigns to ruin them.

this is what I mean when I say "don't let orgs and managers see discriminating against trans folk as the path of last resistance". transphobes are persistent and annoying. be just as annoying. show them compliance is going to be a legal nightmare

And let's be clear for the few here who think Democrats shld "just focus on affordability": these Democrats voted to actively punish trans people. That's not "focusing on affordability." That's going out of your way, bucking your party, to hurt people.

oh no, i don't use the ai for <thing that i am paid to do> it's terrible at that. it's great for <thing you are paid to do> though.

i'll be honest, I don't understand why people are so resistant to taking a chance on unfinished multichap fics these days. "oh but it might never get finished!" your fav tv show might get cancelled. your fav band might break up. so much amazing art never gets concluded but it's still amazing art

Having AI read graduate names in a commencement ceremony deeply depersonalizes something that is profoundly personal & human for these graduates. Why remove personal recognition & connection at a time when the personal can & should be celebrated? This isn't a technical glitch. This is a poor choice

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

Checked on the Free Speech Coalition credit union and they now have a website for the Opportunity Credit Union. Their goal is to be operational in 2027 I'm giving a little per month as evidence of available capital while they go through the approval process www.opportunitycu.org/frequently-a...

(I was the original creator of this)

It is infuriating that prose writers can put the most explicit content in their books but comic writers are once again punished for doing the exact same thing. WE ARE ADULTS. EVERYONE CONSUMES THIS STUFF. WHY ARE WE PRETENDING THAT WE DON'T?

i have so, so many furious things to say about this but just to scream about one: when corporations declare themselves able to decide what art is or not made specifically for getting off, they are absolutely going to use that power to target even the tamest of queer art first.

I can't believe we're going back to this kind of discourse but: Using references isn't cheating Using 3D mannequins and photo references is STANDARD, even for professional artists Shaming people and pushing them to draw exclusively from memory is harmful and can set back people who are learning

Tiny Tim with such a wide stance it made me giggle 💛

“Sorry gas prices are sky high and you’ll never own a home — anyway check out these grainy UFO pics!” Cannot overstate how stupid these people think we are.

⚠️ Chrome's update installs a 4GB AI model file to your device without your consent! To disable the shitty AI mode*, go to chrome://flags/ and search for these, toggle each to "disabled": optimization-guide-on-device-model prompt-api-for-gemini-nano ai-mode-omnibox-entry-point -

I've never heard earned wealth phrased this way, but she's right about it.

“All 173” might be the funniest part here

I know people won't like this, because furries are terrified of drama and "harrassment" but: We need to chase the nazis out. We need to bully apologists. We need to normalize the simple fact that tolerating fascism is shameful. We need to make Nazi existence within the community utterly impossible.

destroying the trees themselves instead of the peaches is where this goes from unmitigated greed into actual evil

People in the 1800s used to riot if bread got too expensive. Just saying.

Not true. There are many reasons why we got here. People not voting is one of them. Not even the most important one. This pedestrian analysis needs to stop. The number one reason we got here, above all, is racism. Until we contend with that we won’t even understand voter disenfranchisement.

Almost 90% of comics creators who earn income from traditional publishing do not earn the national living wage from their work, with 13% relying on state benefits 👇 #BookSky

This is SUCH a good metaphor for AI. The gold is an illusion that turns to ash and it has a hugely destructive impact on a business.

"There is no ethical way to use the major AI image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are buit for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real, human artists" 🎯 @mollycrabapple.bsky.social - 2023

Helena, Selina, and Damian all posing for a picture ❤️ (Cass could not be bothered to stop eating to participate)

I love this essay very much!!!!

Nah, people around the world asked a specific question about the shooting, got told “no,” and then stopped caring

If you let them ban porn, they will call you pornographic when they ban you.

you just lost my respect my guy #antiai

The BatFam are three weeks old now-- they're starting to look like actual cats------ Dick, Jason, Tim, and Damian

if I accidentally start fixating on and playing another song with fucking Slop vocals on repeat before realizing that it's not real I am going to blow my brains out. It's happened four times now. It's putting me off of that type of vocals and that's not fucking fair.