[ Art From 2021. ]

Support workers above profits. New tech is exciting but should not come at the cost of our rights. For any industry.

We are on strike. I wish it wasn't happening, wish that the producers would negotiate in good faith, and support the strike 100%.

wgacontract2023.org

WGA on Strike

We have not reached an agreement with the studios and streamers. We will be on strike after the contract expires at midnight.

Tiny little nosferatu

Stages of Mitosis (cell duplication)🧪

I don't think any of these have been answered yet and presumably most if not all of these will get answered at some point its just having to wait for the right time in the story to answer them

Didn't add John's deal with Kayne because I feel like that will be answered soonish whereas these feel like they won't be answered for a while (if they get answered)

‘life is loss.’

Last batch of doodles before I return to hell (finals)

Someone needs to update the kayne pet name audio track we got a few good ones this ep.

2nd pic had me crying at work. Straight up binged first 10 or so episodes to get me through the day and the day fuckin wrecked me

¾ eye characters down, one to go…Also i like to think Cecil is immune to the fears so Jon can’t “know” anything about him and is just constantly confused.

Using art without compensation/ permission for your own gain is theft, full stop.

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

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I finished malevolent within a week and shit this was so beautiful and im so traumatized now.

I MEAN I cried like...? 8 times???? Maybe 10???

Never cried over a media before so that was WEIRD. ESPECIALLY over a man lovingly holding his own f*cking hand.