blathering about artists and AI artists, reference to personal stuff
Assuming a situation in which ML is less problematic, I can imagine ML as an useful tool for knocking out 70% of work quickly so an artist can really push on the remaining 30%.
But it's not being sold that way, "AI artists" are sure what ML kicks out is 100% finished. The same way they don't acknowledge what they have is an intermediate step, they are not interested in the obviously unfinished, they want a full color painting NOW. On the personal level, I think the idea that you want THIS tool to do EVERYTHING really feels one-true-way-ish, the adapt or die rhetoric doesn't help here.
This also contrasts a thing you notice about artists, which is wanting to work on stuff just a little more... and a little more. In an age of clearly fantastic digital tools, there are tons of people who WANT to work in traditional media (can't speak for everyone but for me using traditional media winds up being convenient in ways opposite to what we're told!). The love for process reflects into WANTING stuff like that.
This feels like another example of "our thought patterns work completely differently" and it doesn't even have to be a bad thing. I think it's just having differences which always existed between people, more obviously and uncomfortably lampshaded?
uspol related opinion
hot take about stuff I admittedly heard second hand.
A 10K fine (crippling for us hoi polloi, but not for Trump) IS a slap on the wrist, but I feel it's necessary to establish precedent, that any further penalties aren't coming out of nowhere, ESPECIALLY in the face of how Trump spins narratives.
vivid dreams all with a little bit of sourness to them
- one of them had a short trip to an Amazon warehouse, one of them my parents were moving and had one of my Dad's old work friends over but she was so loud I didn't want to be around her and I hung out in my room playing a music video about Halloween (started with this cute rolling pumpkin shedding little magic sparkles while rolling around and booping this puppy's nose, and then it went some variety of incredibly dark, and the end of the video was two cute animals nosing each other and rolling around on the floor - this was one of those dreams where I remembered music for a little after I woke up, but I can never remember it long enough to write down). By the time I felt like I could go out to the main area it was mostly vacuumed and everything was boxed up so they could move, and my room was still this disorganized mess I hadn't started on.
in the middle of the earth in the great land of the Shire
lived a brave little hobbit whom we all of us admire
most people looked at him with terror and with fear
but to Laketown chicks he was such a lovely dear
He's Bilbo Bilbo Baggins
there was a cat who really was down
He's Bilbo Bilbo Baggins
it was a shame how he carried on
*spoken*
Well he fought with the goblins
he battled a troll
he riddled with Gollum
a magic ring he stole!
song lyrics, all caps, tonight's plans
I don't think getting baked is a good idea and I think a bagel would be too much food, but listening to The Sword sounds good.
HONED BY THE HALFLING TO VORPAL SHARPNESS
BEHOLD! THE BASTARD BLADE!
BANE OF THE DEMON LORDS!
SLAYER OF THE SPIDER PRIESTS!
SPILLER OF THE SILVER BLOOD!
Lots of random gunk, but some drawings and cooking talk too. Obsesses about DnD and related topics. Left-leaning/profoundly frustrated politics. Black lives matter; trans rights are human rights.
Occasionally NSFW art and discussion, please do follow if you're 18+.