I'm aware that's what you wrote and that's how it is, but that's not what I was asking about. I was asking about what they'd have a stroke about in Brian's quote of the article. Or was it the article itself they'd have a stroke about?
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I'm aware that's what you wrote and that's how it is, but that's not what I was asking about. I was asking about what they'd have a stroke about in Brian's quote of the article. Or was it the article itself they'd have a stroke about?
"Over 40 NGOs call for a firm stance against US threats (...) The US has threatened sanctions if the EU does not weaken its digital laws in favor of American corporations." algorithmwatch.org/en/open-lett...
Why would they have a stroke? What Brian writes involves them too?
This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
This. I LOVE you for it if you name your budget and deadline right away and I am 1000% more inclined to collaborate with you and figure out a way to make it work within these metrics.
It has been really interesting to attend UNESCO's Digital Learning Week (though unfortunately I'm not able to stick around). My public lecture from yesterday can be found here: www.youtube.com/live/l-OWi6V... >>
«Reacción generalizada de creadores y artistas por cuestiones éticas, LEGALES y creativas relacionadas con la IA generativa a partir de las declaraciones de Tom Brevoort» Y no es para menos. Lean la interesante respuesta de Matthew Schofield como un llamamiento hacia toda la industria 👇
Building projects like Anubis is hard, if only because all of the "easy" bugs are now out of the way and all that's left are the "hard" ones. Here's a story of why things have been a bit strange for some people using mobile phones: anubis.techaro.lol/blog/2025/cp... Sometimes CPU cores are odd
Ah! I love whenever I see this little gal load up on websites. ❤️ Good job!
Excited to reveal, I'm working on the mascot redesign for @xeiaso.net @techaro.lol's Anubis!
Great video by Gabby Caldera, spot on: "Ai doesn't scare me and why it shouldn't scare you" www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSfj... #fightai #antiai #createdontscrape #humanmade
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If only online cookies were this cute. 🍪 Love the comic! ❤️
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I can recommend checking out @davidrevoy.com's tutorials. He did all (or most?) of the illustrations for @framasoft.org's website and is working in Krita. :)
Have you checked out Krita? :) It's free, Open Source and has a very active community that makes resources, tutorials and plugins for it.
if i had a background in psychoanalysis i would be tempted to go back to stanford CS to see why some of those professors (who patently understand how all this shit works) are willing to submit AI-generated documents to courts as part of an expert testimony. as it stands now, it's beyond my capacity.
It's a... choice?
Hey! No, no. Mine was about dating. 💔
exactly do moderation these days either. Or rather the kind of moderation they do is not protective of specific groups of people or actually targets them. Also the moderation they used to have was terrible for the people who performed it.
Alternatively to blocking, why not use the "limit who can interact with your posts" feature? So it's only followers or people you follow. That might break the worst knee-jerk reactions from people. I totally get if you don't want to set that limit on your posts though. However, Meta and X doesn't-
Hackers compromised an artist platform, and now are threatening to upload all of the artists' art to AI tools if the platform doesn't pay up. A novel extortion strategy www.404media.co/hackers-thre...
at scale
Watched all 3 and they are amazing. ❤️
I drew Hatsune Miku from memory!
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Ai upscaling made the lump, Ai chatbot writes it’s real. Must be real. 🤷♀️🤦♀️
It was so wonderful to talk to Julien about @armadillostock.bsky.social, illustration licensing, artist organizing, and more! There's even audio if you prefer listening to reading. Thank you for the opportunity to talk about the things I love!
This is a must watch for anybody remotely interested in what's happening in the US right now.
Codeberg's thread on Mastodon regarding them getting hammered by bot crawlers.
I haven't seen anybody I know post this one. With AI agents becoming a more common thing this is likely to escalate.
I don't think it's the Onlyfans people's fault. The fact that the companies they hire are so shitty at what they do that they have articles about Honey Bees taken down should say something. Also using the name honey or bee or for that matter honeybee should be too damn common to trigger a DMCA.
How the danish government used Björn Lomborg in the 00s to dial down their efforts before the international climate summit was held in Copenhagen in 2009. They scaled back on as many initiatives as they possibly could that the previous government had started and hastily put up sea windmills on land.
How management types break up with their employees and justify layoffs. "It's not the AI that's shit, it's you."
The instinct of management is to blame those pesky workers rather than AI being shit, because the AI mandate comes from the bosses, and the first priority of management is to ensure compliance and mete out punishment. The failure of a project is in many ways a success for justifying a purge.
AI cannot fail, it can only be sabotaged. You must stay ever-vigilant against Trotskyist wreckers.
Literally forcing faulty spyware on people's computers.
Yeah, my whole gateway into artist support & protection was because of repost accounts. (Pre merch bots, NFTS and gAI ofc) I saw so many great artists give up and stop sharing their work because of shitty reposters who posted their work without even crediting or linking to them. Let alone ask.
I've added Louis latest video (the one above) to my blogpost about the Clippy movement and will be adding a section with examples of being a clippy based on his past videos later.
You can be a Clippy 📎 if you... - Push back against anti-ownership or other anti-consumer practices. - Share information with others on how they can push back. - Volunteer your time to help out with the Consumer rights Wiki or make your own thing even! - Whatever is possible and makes sense for you.
Did you read the article? This has nothing to do with pirating or buying products. It's about OnlyFans account owners who's had their content leaked onto the web and are now using bureaus that uses faulty AI filters to have DMCA takedowns of news sources, blogs etc. that has nothing to do them.
Faulty Google DMCA request takedowns are happening to 404Media and other news sources, scientific papers etc. on behalf of people who aren't in any way mentioned or shown in the material that's taken down. The companies who does it, do minimal human error checking but otherwise shrugs at the issue.
Truly really enjoy @hankgreen.bsky.social's vids on energy and climate - this is a pretty cool new one -->> www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbQM...
Oh, 100% there is. Man is and has obviously been declining for a while. Plus the dark marks on his hands, swollen ankles etc. Also him suddenly disappearing for so long is incredibly suspicious for someone who seems to be unable to stfu and not constantly be in the limelight.
Perplexity is now crying because their plagiarism machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall. How about you start paying for stealing others' content to train your shity AI? Perplexity Says Cloudflare Is Blocking Legitimate AI Assistants www.searchenginejournal.com/perplexity-s...
Ha, probably @cloudflare.social managed to finally block their sneaky tactics: blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...
It was a really good one. And really relevant as more so than ever social hacking is what will be used on us, rather than trying to break through security. Well, that an AI agents most likely. 😂 Saw this exit interview with Mikko Hyppönen where that came up for one.
Great interview with @racheltobac.bsky.social shining a light in a lot of important topics, like what are likely attack vectors, impact of #AI on #security, #ethics, affecting social interactions and #privacy . "Be politely paranoid." 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEdZ...
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Peak internet for me was from top middle to first panel second row. Yes I did enjoy the social media games etc. But I didn't enjoy it as much as being on forums dedicated to interests I had or visiting random webpages.
This is the post they shared.
YW. I saw someone I followed share a post from X with the original photo and his upscaled version yesterday and that's how I knew this one was the upscaled one. If you look at his USA hat there's weird red pixels in the S, there wasn't in the OG image.
Maybe outsourcing your thinking to a tech company isn't a great idea?
Thank you Eric! ❤️
A nice reminder Watch it, then sign off. Enjoy your life, spend time with family, work on a project, create some art! youtu.be/bIBUGQ0aYnc?...
Hey, I'm just writing to let you know that this video is problematic. The whole "no hair" etc. is because the image he uses is one that's been AI upscaled and it made his hair look like he has a chunkier neck than he actually does. You can't enhance an image like that. It doesn't work like in CSI.
This is a great summation of what's been happening and is going to happen. My hope is that the last panel will happen before the second panel become reality. But it takes people walking away and saying no to what's happening in 3rd to last and 2nd to last panels.
This is something I've tried to do myself ever since I was made aware how many artists don't get near the reach, shares, comments or likes that repost pages who posts their work get. The result for smaller artists who see their work gain popularity, but doesn't get any benefits from it give up.
This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.
Thank you for showing respect for and support to artists by sharing their stuff in a way that helps others finding them too. ❤️
Someone send me this in a (discord) DM and I was going to post it here. But hey sometimes you should look up the source and repost instead of blindly copy pasting someone’s art! IMHO peak internet was between top right und middle left. When social media was new and chronological!
If you want to weed out once in a while I can recommend having the feed "Followers" and check it once in a while. 😅 Just caught this beauty by doing so. Checking his feed first to see it's a one off and then yeet him onto my blocklist. It's pretty easy to spot too, because they are usually spammy.
Kinda wild when I see an AI booster on here and I go to block them and they follow me ?!!?!?!!
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I will note that this doesn't just lead to people in engineering being awful and callous: it leads to them being *bad engineers*. If you don't care about the humanist elements of tech, there is zero incentive to do *anything* right. This is how you wind up with untested spaghetti code in production.
Is there some sort of documented emotional blackmail message threshold to reach where an artist will just start supporting genocide?
youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...
It was a really good one.
... uh, well those are... interesting.
📰 "The Austrian data protection authority has ordered YouTube to give users access to their personal data, enforcing data access rules contained in the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)." www.euractiv.com/section/tech...
Louis explains what it means to be a Clippy! A lot of people don't know what all of these Clippy images is about and think it's merely virtue signaling, but no. It's about pushing back again anti-consumer/user practices and saying no IF or WHEN you can. Not everybody have the same possibilities.
Haha I realise this is a joke, but if you want an alternative check out @joinpeertube.org
Eu reparei isso qdo eu tava vendo os videos do AzulGG Todos os shorts dele, parece meio bizarro a facecam dele, de distorção msm
Cut together a quick timelapse of the snuffed character art I did last night. It looks manic because I have compulsions to do too much in the same file and move whatever I am working on all over the canvas like a maniac.
I was purely talking about functionality in this specific example. That the data it runs on is scraped, pirated and taken from all over without consent and compensation is a whole other expansive can of worms. My pinned post focuses on how scrapers are passing on extra costs to website owners.
I know this, but they keep claiming they can “fix it”.
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"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
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This is Anubis. An Open Source project to keep bots out.
Sorry to the bearer of bad news. I've been focusing on this specific problematic for a while now, because not only are they stealing from artists and other creators. They are also leaving them massive traffic bills. I've been keeping a thread documenting examples I came across here on Bsky.
It is, but it isn’t enough. Check out FOSS tool Anubis.
Look into Anubis and/or Cloudflare on top of robots.txt. Many of the big players don’t respect robots.txt or even hire third-party botnets to perform mass scraping of sites (lots of individual IPs, hard to block)
Anthropic doesn’t respect robots.txt
I'm REALLY unimpressed that I caught Anthropic crawling my fucking webcomic. And doing it so intensely that it set off my IP blocker. <_< Like... I knew these freaks did it. But I don't have to be excited by seeing the evidence right there in my logs. Suck my dick, assholes.
So, this isn't my reactionary conclusion. It's not my opinion. I'm not being woke or virtue signaling. The vast majority of independent research, journalism, and analysis from the most equipped individuals and groups on earth agree that... let me state it clearly: Israel is committing genocide.
"the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group by committing various acts, such as killing, causing serious harm, inflicting conditions of life meant to destroy the group, preventing births, or forcibly transferring children." So let's break that down:
This is the opinion of Doctors Without Borders: web.archive.org/web/20250710... The International Federation for Human Rights: web.archive.org/web/20231216... 5 independent studies by The International Law Scholars: (just linking one due to site limitations) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
This is the opinion and determination of 86% of the 500+ member International Association of Genocide Scholars¹. This term is used by Amnesty International², United Nations special committee³, 1- genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u... 2- amnesty.ca/wp-content/u... 3- archive.ph/202504102027...
Judging from the last few days of vitriolic comments and messages, it seems that me referring to Israel's occupation and blockade of Gaza as "genocide" is quite controversial and I've even been accused of antisemitism. So let me explain myself: 🧵 I didn't just decide this based on my own feelings.
Só consigo pensar já que eles não conseguem fazer a IA parecer de verdade, então estão tentando fazer a realidade parecer IA pra forçar as pessoas se acostumarem com essa nojeira
Ironico q fui abrir o video e ele ta sendo dublado automaticamente por IA
OnlyFans piracy has been a huge and largely ignored problem for adult content creators forever. Now it's going to be everyone's problem www.404media.co/how-onlyfans...
Having listened to a fake podcast about a paper will undoubtedly shape how you perceive the paper, if you even take the time to go read the paper itself. >>
Well that's a new warning. It's kind of funny seeing this on a platform that famously has a problem with porn bots flooding many comment sections. Also link to Cara's video, it's a good one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z377...
What a great resource! Thank you for sharing Brian. :)
www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/a...
Spreadshirt is opting your work into AI manipulation if you stay on their platform. So get your work out of there if you don’t want that artists.