LOOKIE LOOKIE. NEW TABLET. NEW TABLET.
(She said after two hours of struggling, but succeeding, to get it working in Linux)
Super thanks to @jeff who helped fund the majority of this. :)
Return to Office mandates are about commercial real estate. They have little to do with productivity or efficiency.
It's nice to know that when the meat body fights me, the digital body simply is. #dysphoria #secondlife
AI, Chat GPT, GPT, Art Theft,
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
Artist for Closetspace and A Wish for Wings
Writer for Sea of Legends
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One enchilada short of a Mexican Platter