parahumanzine:

The time has come!

Thanks to all the contributors (find a list of them here!) and to everyone who expressed interest in it!

Find the download link here!

It’s been a good six months <3 See you next time!

man, what a journey it’s been, working on this fanzine. thank you so much to every single contributor, fan, and especially @earthzayin for starting this thing. It’s been a huge labor of love, getting this massive project to completion. I’m so happy I get to finally share it with the world. 

So read! Read it and celebrate how many amazingly talented people we have in this fandom!!!

ms-demeanor:

redarmyscreaming:

rabnerd28:

fireache:

hotvampireadjacent:

Student arrested for eating AI art in UAF gallery protest — The Sun Star - UAF's Student Voice

On Tuesday, January 13, University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate student Graham Granger was detained after he had been found “ripping ar

The Sun Star - UAF's Student Voice

Cannot consumption of AI be considered an art expression?

Of course it can, and performance art is art, but I feel like it’s important to know that the art being eaten was a series of AI generated images reflecting the artist’s experience of AI psychosis and commenting on the way that AI use changes the users’ interactions with the world. The images were generated by someone who has been using image generation tools in their art since 2017 and who was educated as an artist using traditional techniques.

The piece that the protester ate was made by an MFA student and wasn’t an attempt to “pass off” generated images themselves as art, the art was the presentation of the images and their sequence and variety (there’s an element of obsessive iteration visible even in the remaining images - an empty room, the same room with different light, the same room with a smiling woman on the bed, the same woman standing in different poses, which speaks to me of someone furiously attempting to construct a comforting reality and finding the tools in your hands inadequate, but that’s just my interpretation of what remains).

yeahwrite:

dnealians-nemesis:

luke-shywalker:

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

depsidase:

goldensunset:

my thing i haven’t made is so good 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

rip-quizilla:

mckitterick:

ALT

eroticcannibal:

eroticcannibal:

STOP CENSORING SUBTITLES/TRANSCRIPTS/CLOSED CAPTIONS

LET DEAF AND NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE READ “FUCK”

I know this sounds jokey and funney but I am serious and it is ableist and infantilising and inaccessible so stop

transparent-plastic-robotgirl:

transhuman-priestess:

capsyst:

I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?

Originally posted by madeleineengland

Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.

Originally posted by madeleineengland

@transparent-plastic-robotgirl check it out

omg that’s cool as heck!!! 🌸

achillesinhighheels:

thedeafprophet:

I think “People are always allowed to critique media, even indie media, for things that are lacking, ill thought out, or straight up bigoted” and “You should have reasonable expectations for indie creators capabilities, and really need to manage what you say to actual human beings” are two thought processes that really need to coexist

elfbymoonlight:

pissvortex:

I think I just found the only reasonable exchange involving two people with opposing views on porn to ever exist on this website

actually so based