Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Anything can be a LED if you try hard enough.

@idoubtit

Return to Office mandates are about commercial real estate. They have little to do with productivity or efficiency.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/commercial-real-estate-crisis-empty-offices/674310/

I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Cryptid sighting

Wanted to know if I had games on my phone

I haven’t met them. Whew.

Egg_irl Transfem Meme https://redd.it/1ajldvw

So, I need to vent.

I've had four different people send me AI art in the last week, and I want to ask you, personally, to do me a favor.

DO NOT MAKE AI ART.

It might be a quick and dirty way to generate what *feels* like new art, but it's actually not. It's trained on art generated by real artists, using datasets that are often merely scrapes of online content.

That online content is often scraped with little to no regard for copyright. In short, AI is often trained by stealing art from real artists, then copying their ideas and styles in the process.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/is-ai-art-stealing-from-artists

https://medium.com/@rwblackwelsh/a-i-art-is-theft-c5aabc198f31

If you want art, be it a photo, or more traditional art, there are three options.

1) Buy the art - commission someone to make it for you. Buying the art doesn't have to be monetary - it could be a trade of something you have for something the artist wants, but the important thing is that you BOTH AGREE to exchange something for art.

2) Do it yourself - You are more creative than you think.

3) Use freely-available rights-cleared art under the latest GPL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License