So difficult to withhold the eyeroll when people say things like, "My body was designed for this" wrt childbirth or whatever, because even if I accept the premise that our bodies were designed, I have to imagine mine was designed with the most basic function of breathing in mind, and yet I had childhood asthma and would have died without intervention so idk if I'm trusting my "designer" with something as physically traumatic and historically deadly as childbirth
little gif i made <3
a few miscellaneous dapu drawings
hope is a skill
hope is a weapon you are trained to wield
favourite additions
You cannot hide this in the tags, bestie. This is too lovely to keep a secret.
Theodor would approve.
Being someone who loves robots but hates genAI is a very interesting thing. Bc yes, one of my favourite tropes in media is Robot Learning What It Means To Be Alive™ and that usually involves a moment where the robot in question picks up an artistic tool and creates something from the soul, therefore proving it has one.
And then I’ll log on and see some genAI slop and whatever mood I’d previously had is replaced with barely-contained rage. The notion of an artificial being evolving and eventually developing a soul is a concept I find to be so profound, and yet the very existence of slopware like ChatGPT and Sora makes me sick.
I feel hypocritical at times drawing/writing about robots who pursue artistic passions and then turning around and being so loudly anti-genAI, but I have to remind myself that there is a difference. At the end of the day, art cannot be art without intention and soul spurring its creation. Maybe someday robots will obtain both and robot art will exist in an Iron Giant-like or Andrew Martin-like way, but I also feel like the artificial intelligence in our literature and film is incapable of existing in the real world simply bc capitalism won’t allow it to.
Idk maybe I’m making sense, or maybe I just need to reread ‘The Bicentennial Man’ and go to damn sleep 💀
I made this a very long time ago...