I’m a digital painter with a strong interest in dark themed fantasy and sci-fi. I love horror and eeriness. Dark spooky halloween vibes.

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Cake day: October 30th, 2024
  • From_D4rkness@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew InmanEnglish
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    21 days ago

    It was an ok read for me, but mostly because I enjoyed the art rather than relating to the entirety of the sentiment.

    I’m an artist and I find AI art evocative and illustrating things in a way that I wish that I could illustrate, but feel that is only because it comes from real human artists. I agree that it is a void in terms of difficulty to process, but there is still skill involved in both using search engines and describing something to an llm. A minute amount of skill, but still a skill.

    I hate AI art because it is stealing from artists, not because it doesn’t feel right. It can have a million iterations and only needs to get it right once to count as feeling right to me. The relationship between the content and their artists to the ultimate product is removed, this to me is the wrongfulness of claiming new art from it. It is just stealing in a more wind-about manor. This isn’t like generating fractal art or something.

    After all these years of corporations fucking up the literal social fabric and and how we communicate over IP law, for them to turn around and steal everything and just get a pass is an extra slap in face. Stealing only gets allowed2 one way in our society, and AI is just another example of that.

    I’m honestly surprised to not see this take more from others and felt like i needed to mention it.

    edit: emphasized that by making AI art taking skill, I only mean just a minute amount.

  • From_D4rkness@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What movie did you see too young that still haunts you to this day?English
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    3 months ago

    My friend found a bunch of vhs tapes that his dad hid, and we would watch them together. We were both around 8 or 9, and we watched various porn tapes, and stuff like Heavy Metal and other R rated stuff. The stuff that really gave a lasting impression in my mind’s eye though was a collection of actual deaths caught on tape called “Faces of Death” and a movie called “Pink Flamingos”. Ill always remember aligators ripping a paraglider apart, and the chicken scene from pink flamingos. I rematched it when I was older and it didn’t seem as bad as I remembered, but it’s not a great scene to have stuck in your head…

    Now I specialize in making horror illustrations lol.

  • From_D4rkness@lemmy.worldtoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon is 33
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    9 months ago

    I was homeless, and also briefly in jail for doing something others had respected; jail sucks and is never preferable, but it certainly made things a lot easier than it would have been had I not entered with respect. On my first day I was receiving gatorades, instant noodles, and muffins from people stopping by my cell. I even was given all the paper and pencils I wanted to do my art.

    Homelessness was risky, but I would still choose it over jail with respect. Not to say that the sacrifice wouldn’t be worth it if you did the right thing.

  • From_D4rkness@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Proton is dead (for me). Let's collect and discuss alternatives! ✊🛡
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    9 months ago

    From what I recall, the red flags included stuff like giving the IP away of activists, having access to private keys while claiming e2e, and taking more info than they claim. I am busy atm, but i can find some links to sources when I get a chance.

    edit: here is the link I said that I would find: from Hacker News

    The Switzerland-based company said it received a “legally binding order from the Swiss Federal Department of Justice” related to a collective called Youth for Climate, which it was “obligated to comply with,” compelling it to handover the IP address and information related to the type of device used by the group to access the ProtonMail account.

  • From_D4rkness@lemmy.worldtoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon is a dentist
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    10 months ago

    I have seen it with my eyes. I was homeless and travelling in canada and needed an emergency extraction and heard that there is a dentist volunteering to do extractions for free. I went there, and they had 4 chairs being prepped by volunteer nurses, as the dentist went from one chair to another in a circle doing a quick extraction as each chair was replaced with a new patient. They may have even been going faster than 5 per hour.