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26, cartoon and video game liker.


Occasional NSFW rechosts, ask me to tag if necessary.


You can find art I made under #bvart!


A low resolution website banner depicting a close-up of Xenia, the Linux Fox's face against a red background. To the right is large, bolded text reading "LINUX" accompanied by smaller text underneath reading "the choice of a GNU generation."

A deviantART styled stamp containing a photo of an elderly person's face to the right of white text reading "I'm thinking about those beans" with grammar, punctuation, and spelling mistakes. The background is a photo of baked beans.A deviantART styled stamp containing a screenshot of Mario from Super Mario 64, edited to be giving the viewer a realistic middle fingerA deviantART styled stamp containing a photo of a hairless pet rat next to a toy keyboard with rainbow-colored keysA deviantART style animated pixel stamp featuring cropped artwork of femtanyl's mascot. "FEMTANYL" is spelled out in white pixel letters on the mascot's forehead that individually turn red from left to right in a loop
An 88 by 31 pixel banner of an abstract floating head creature with a liquid eye facing away from the viewer, a closed eye with an eyelash facing towards the viewer, and teardrop-shaped gems coming out of the eyelash. Xhe is accompanied by text reading "Charm will protect you!" and is depicted in front of a purple background.an animated 88 by 31 button. it is a parody of the classic "Netscape NOW! 3.0" button, replacing the Netscape Navigator logo with alternating photos of Laura Les and Dylan Brady's faces screaming, sourced from the back cover of the album "10,000 Gec". The word 'netscape' in 'netscape now' is replaced with a crude scrawling of the word "GECS".an animated 88 by 31 button. along the top is text reading "SPONGEHEAD" in a font from Spongebob Squarepants, colored in black and cohost's plum color. below is smaller Spongebob font text reading "prof-badvibes" in green, with one letter at a time in sequence flashing white. To the sides are Incidental Number 7, a background character from Spongebob, and Eggbug, the cohost mascot, colored to resemble Spongebob.an 88 by 31 button of the transgender pride flag against a gray background next to text reading "trans rights now!"
an 88 by 31 button featuring animated pixel art of Reimu Hakurei from the Touhou series against a gray background. she is pictured next to text reading "powered by Reimu."an 88 by 31 animated button. the button starts showing a blue color, but the point of view zooms out to reveal a blue variant of Tux, the Linux penguin, against a gray background. text reading "Linux powered" appears in the banner to the left of Tux.an 88 by 31 button. it is a parody of the classic "Netscape NOW! 3.0" button, replacing the Netscape Navigator logo with a photo of Weird Al Yankovich's face. The word 'netscape' in 'netscape now' is replaced with the word 'Yankovic'.an 88 by 31 animated button of the Lapfox Trax logo, which is the word 'LAPFOX' in bold serif font with a cartoon fox's head replacing the 'O'. The logo is in front of a rainbow color-shifting grid
A parody of the "Netscape Now!" 88 by 31 pixel button. To the left is a rotating marijuana leaf, and to the right is text reading "Legalize Now!" along with the letters M and J in the bottom right corner.An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner with a yellow-to-green hue-shifting background. To the left is a cropped piece of clipart showing the top half of a newspaper cartoon-styled individual's face looking at the viewer in a goofy way. The clipart is accompanied by text reading "FREE STUFF" in bolded all capital letters to the right.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting two photographed women looking up and to the right against a white background. Text reading "GAY WOMEN" in bolded all capital letters can be found to the right, with the word "gay" being larger and emphasized.An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting a sprite of a blinking one-eyed green alien from the Commander Keen games. To the alien's right is text reading "Accursed Farms".
An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting a rainbow peace symbol to the left of blue text reading "Peace Now!", both against a gray background.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting an inverted United States flag with the stars replaced by a 'no' symbol. On top of the flag is black handwritten pixel text reading "ACAB".An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting Super Mario running to the right through a 'window' to the left. To the right is blue text reading "Dave's Videogame Classics".An 88 by 31 pixel banner containing sprites of Kris and Susie from the video game Deltarune. Susie is looking at Kris with a cartoonishly angry expression. Below the two is white text against a black background reading "kris where tf are we."
An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner with a gray background. To the left is a 'window' showing a sprite of a dove against a black background. The dove is shown flying and being covered up by a red X symbol in two alternating frames. To the right is black-and-gray flashing text reading "DEAD DOVE, DO NOT EAT" in all-capital letters.An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting an illustration of Hatsune Miku against a gray background. Miku is blinking her eyes and smiling on alternating frames. To the right is text reading "This site is Miku Approved", with 'Miku' in large, bolded blue letters and 'Approved' flashing rapidly between blue and red.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the transgender pride flag, with beveled edges to give the impression of mild three-dimensional depth.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the blue Sega logo against a white background.
An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting a screencap of Blender version 1.X, with a classic-styled logo and a wireframe cube in the centerAn 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the words "download SBURB" next to a logo of a minimalist lime-green house separated into segments. The word "SBURB" is rendered in a bold, cartoony, lime-green font.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the lesbian pride flag, with beveled edges to give the impression of mild three-dimensional depth.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting character art of Sonic from the fangame Sonic Robo Blast 2 against that game's title screen background.
an 88 by 31 button of the blue-and-orange logo of the Doom video game series to the right of the Doomguy's grinning Heads Up Display face against a gray background.

Thanks to @framebuffer for my profile picture, @candiedreptile for the Charm button, @softwareangel for the Spongehead button!


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RoyalAssassin
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MrMandolino
@MrMandolino

incidentally, if you frequent the "AI" space and are wondering why certain services have gotten "stupider" lately, it's because running this stuff is INSANELY expensive, so they're being throttled. the amounts of energy and computational power required for that is nuts, we're talking about power bills in the six, seven figures kinda stuff, maybe more -- the numbers aren't that well publicized

they cut the power to those systems (and made them "dumber") because the numbers don't add up unless they find a way to either get infinite amounts of venture capital money injected into them constantly or a source of free or extremely cheap energy they can suck up from the rest of the world. the first is there, but the money required is so high they are actually starting to consider pushing for the second one. and the more people use these services, the more the costs rise -- an unavoidable direct correlation that will only get higher.

that's the dirty secret of "AI". the numbers don't add up without constant injections of cash or, and this is key, finding ways to get governments to subsidize them -- unless people want to pay subscriptions for those services that would make Adobe products blush. and this is why they're pushing so hard to portray themselves as the future of humanity. they need to make us believe we can't live without them for that to happen.


amydentata
@amydentata

So many reasons to laugh every time someone assumes this tech will be "even better" a few years down the road


doodlemancy
@doodlemancy

@ my fellow artists. it is not inevitable or predetermined. it is not set in stone. the idea that AI slop is going to get better and better and eventually outpace human creatives is a MARKETING PLOY, and certainly not a reason for you to give up or quit. don't let these guys trick you into despairing the same way that they trick gullible CEOs and venture capitalists into investing in their trash heaps


Kayin
@Kayin

Unfortunately AI art is.... actually much cheaper to use and is practical for people on home GPUs. Turns out human language is SUPER HARD and getting useful results requires crazy huge data sets and specialty hardware to be okay. Meanwhile AI art is going to exist and grow even without money being involved. We're unfortunately kinda stuck with it.

But the good news is while they have certainly made Chat GPT dumber, I think we as a society are also realizing how inherently dumb it is. It seemed like magic when we were using it to write funny poems or whatever but when you start using it or see it used for serious things -- as you see streamers play dumb AI dialog games or w/e... you see the repetitious patterns, the dodging of answers or making decisions, and just the fact it's all... statistical averages. You see AI art and while the quality gets better, and sometimes it can even trick you (even though mostly it's obvious as hell), when it tricks you it's like... a normal picture of Hatsune Miku? There are functionally already infinite Hatsune Miku. Anything it does well has been done to death. It can't surpass and grow creative because that's just... not something it can do??? it's an averaging machine. You want shlock? It can generate you infinite shlock. But there was already infinite shlock. Brands are realizing using AI art is basically akin to using clip art. It feels cheap.

All these resources don't make AI any closer to being creative or actually intelligent in the same way a more powerful processor doesn't make your computer closer to being creative or intelligent. It makes these things more coherent but in the end, it's about mimicry, not creativity.

Like sure, as much as I hate it, there are some creative uses that people can find using these tools and there are some legitimate uses, but none of them validate the incredible waste and scale of it all.


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It's like these guys don't understand what they have. By definition llm are the past, it can't create the future, only make more of the past. At most they might make stuff like daft punk, remixing the past in way you don't expect.
But it won't go punk rock by stabbing the gear with a screwdriver and going "oh that sound horrible I love it cassie from antman gif". It won't go cubism.

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