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hey it’s ok if you lost your ai virginity back when you were uneducated. a lot of posts go like “reblog if you have never ever used generative ai and never ever will!!!” but it’s ok if you have used gen ai before and it’s even ok if you used to think it was cool, back before you understood what it really was and how it worked, either because no one had taught you about it and you discovered it on your own or because the only education you had received about it was from the tech bros. you’re not a burger with a bite out of it for having used ai. ok
It is 100 percent okay to stop using it today and join the "boo AI" club.
This isn't a purity thing. This is a "everyone stand with us against destroying the environment and giving asthma to poor people" thing.
Did you know that when one community says no to an AI data center, they specifically search out communities with fewer resources? Communities that can't defend themselves? And the pollution 100 percent affects their health and wellbeing, in addition to burning through our already scarce drinking water.
You can stop using character.ai today. You can say "I listened to the facts and stopped." And another thing: don't you think it's a bit more impactful to have used it, stopped, and then you're in a position to say how little it helped? How doing things for yourself improved your life?
also posts in the spirit of "if you've used AI even ONCE your soul is tainted!!!!" can't be great to those with OCD
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💬 Tell a Bad Pun (+3)
⤷ “Arrr! That's a cracking good one, kid! You've got a sailors mouth, you have!
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🔬 Talk about Science (+3)
⤷ “I have devoted my life to the application of scientific method to phenomena heretofore unconsidered."
►Master-list of Tutorials and Links for Almost Everything CC◄
So @elderwisp made an amazing post with a GREAT idea, and I couldn't simple ignore it. Here's my contribution to #simblrsagainstAI!
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Sims4Studio is the program we use to get our resources from the game and to make our package files. Photoshop is the image editing program we use to edit our image textures and previews, with some recurring to GIMP as well. You will need a DDS Plug-in so Photoshop can work on the DDS files that Sims4Studio utilizes, you can work with png files, but it's harder work. Blender is the free and mot common 3D mesh editor sims 4 creators use to work on their meshes. You can import add-ons to it, like Behemox Hair Generator, Mesh Repair Tools (both self explanatory) and Mio3, an UV editor tool. NJob is a great free tool you can utilize to make normal maps, essential to make your CC interact with different lighting in game.
• (To install Blender add-ons: open Bender and drag the add-on file right into it!)
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Speed meshes are perfect for observation and learning! Reduce the speed on YouTube and watch how other people work. Try to replicate using your installed programs as an exercise!
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Tip 1: @teanmoon has an entire blog full of EXTREMELY helpful tutorials for CC making. Check it out!
Tip 2: Always check the Sims 4 Studio Forum for a variety of tutorials on everything. Create your account and ask your questions as well! They're very helpful.
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That's about it! Thank you everyone who made those tutorials over the years. You contributed to the freedom of knowledge. I believe every knowledge should be free and easy to access, because I also believe things like paywalls and having to jump through hoops to find said knowledge is part of the reason why ignorant people are resorting to AI to make their desired "art". Let's end this.
I hope this is okay but I wanted to hop in to add even more tutorials, resources and assets!! They're all going to be mixed in as I'm going to be dividing these into CC categories instead
I swear, once you begin looking for resources they do exist out there, they're just scattered across the internet in hard to access ways. I'm certain I'm still missing a ton but I mostly focused on the ones I know I've used before.
And most importantly, never be afraid to ask for help!
Perfect addition!!!! Thank you so much!!!
Recently, I've been working on a website. It's called SIMSLORE. Basically, it's a Sims 4 online planner that'll help Simmers to organize their ideas and plans related to their save files/Sims stories. It's local (your info is stored on your device; sign in is optional). Features include:
• World Organization:
• Managing Households:
• Mods/CC Organization
• Moodboards
• Storyboards
+ More
It's not live yet. But it soon will be! 💻
Hi everyone, I haven't been posting on tumblr lately because I have been sick and also working on a lot of stuff - like learning python and making my spreadsheets better but I felt this was important to post.
It has come to my attention that wcif.cc - that new search engine that popped up for finding sims 4 cc - has stolen their directory of creators straight from my creator spreadsheets. It's my hard work that I put countless hours into creating and updating and I had months of work that was ready to be put out this month, but I've been set back by this because now I have to take measures to protect my work from people like that who rely on webscraping to do their dirty work.
Yes, I may be old school in pouring in the labor - but it's the best way I know to make sure the information is detailed and accurate. And for someone to just scrape that information without any credit or recognition is seriously infuriating.
The evidence is pretty clear to anyone who has seen my spreadsheets, but for comparison here are examples:
No one else has detailed creators lists like me, and I know this because I put in the work and have looked at countless mod and creator recommendation lists by many, many other people. What inspired me to make my lists was actually the cc notion list from sunny's resources - their was was outdated and had a lot of creators that are no longer making content, so I decided to make my own.
If wcif.cc had actually reached out to me for a collaboration or even given me credit, it would be a different story but they decided to just use webscraping and steal all of my hard work instead.
I put in the work to check out every single creator on my lists, I have look through all of their content and do the math to figure out their early access times, especially if the times are not stated clearly. I look through each and every creator to see what type of content they make in order to even put together the specialties columns. I use my own pattern recognition from my brain to see not only who the popular creators are but who the underrated and new creators are so they can hopefully get some visits to their pages because they deserve for their hard work to be seen. This is all done WITHOUT chapgpt or AI of any kind, because I refuse to contribute to harming the environment and real people for something like sims content.
If you care about integrity and honesty then please stop using or supporting their janky ass search engine and I hope you'll instead support me when my own website with my own searchable and filterable creator lists goes live and beyond my spreadsheets.
gen ai creeping into the sims community as well as some of my favorite game companies is so incredibly unfortunate that it's loomed on my mind longer than i'd like it to. however, it's moments like these where i get slapped with an epiphany
oftentimes, it's really easy to shift the blame onto an individual without addressing the core issue. it's almost like if we shame a person enough, it'll make them learn. but that's the thing about shame, it's a short-term solution to a long-term problem. what i've come to learn is shame does not change people, it makes them resentful. i've been guilty of it and i'm not proud of it. we often forget that acquiring any knowledge, comes with making mistakes, but it's the people that have honest yet constructive conversations with you and encourage growth is how you get through it. i believe this is also what can make a community healthy rather than aiming for sole positivity
the truth is, the most we can do to impact gen ai is to educate, share resources and form movements within communities. the core issues lie within governments lack of regulation and big companies not being held accountable however that's a whole separate conversation
what i've come to recognize with gen ai in creative spaces is people fail to recognize the difference between true art and something that is generated. i realized this with swen vincke from larian studios wanting to utilize gen ai as a reference similar to google or art books. what is being forgotten is the mind is the best source of inspiration. creativity comes from you. nothing is original but it's the human experience, what you chose that resonates with you brings uniqueness to an idea. no machine will ever do that for you. it can only give you an amalgamation of choices it made for you but it isn't handcrafted by you. art is a lot of things to people, but i don't think it would be wild to say that art is what's authentic to you. it's an accumulation of your experiences, thoughts and feelings projected onto somewhere and there's beauty in vulnerability
so, all of this got me thinkin... i want to try something
a lot of the issue in ai usage in ts4 community stems from a lack of knowledge on how to edit or the desire to reach a level that takes time and effort. there was a point in time, many years ago, where it felt like i was grinding teeth to try and learn something and then a friend introduced me to using textures. and that small sliver of knowledge felt revolutionary
so i'd like to encourage everyone to post one or multiple pieces of knowledge whether it's an editing/writing tip, an editing/writing resource, a reshade/gshade preset or even a tutorial of some sort! if you're a cc creator, you're totally welcome to joining in! i know gen ai has swept into the cc spaces
some examples ft some cool simblrs:
how to add font into a photo
how to draw hair
storytelling tips on how to plan a story
settings for sharpening
finding the right angle for pictures in game
psd for sharpening
if you wouldn't mind hashtaging it as "simblrsagainstai" so i can reblog it! or you can tag me as well!
my first few things i will share because they're already prepared:
a copy of ps (2)
a copy of topaz clean
mini tutorial on how to edit a screenshot without reshade
a texture pack and tutorial
BRB: Updating all the Joes, gents, grifters, nogoodniks, and newsmen in my '30s DSV save. Not stuck in CAS at all.
this is so sims 3.
it reminds me of willapa valley. 🧡
