Midia666 - MD

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

#3 & #5

What did his childhood look like? Did he live with the other crown bearers?

He didn't have much of a normal childhood, godhood found him very young so that's pretty much what it consisted of: becoming a god and all that entailed. He wasn't taken in by Shamura right away, but they did find him eventually. Back then when there were more gods there weren't domains that separated them and there was more mingling, which is how the siblings came to find each other and form a kinship. Most of Narinder's childhood, once Shamura found and took him under their wing, consisted of learning by their knowledge and influence, so it wasn't really any surprise he ended up as powerful as he did.

How did he feel about Shamura pre-exile?

Well. They were very, very close.

Shamura doted on him (in their own way), taught him almost everything he knows, and encouraged him. Narinder in turn was very receptive to their guidance and got attached to them, eager to make them proud as he grew stronger.

...For a long time, anyway. It didn't take long before he started feeling held back.

Narinder ask game <<

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I found this old ahh meme again and made the sketch for this comic sometime around May, only finishing and posting it now ajslsjs

such little, cute babies🥺

Uncle Shamura gives them delicious sweets ✨

lost my mind when i indoctrined narinder on chirin's file this weekend and got him with the pettable trait so here he is getting scritchies.

he's just a kittttyyyyyyy

day 15 < Day 16 "Confess your sins" > day 17

Prompt list

I did it *cries* I barely finished it because of my Berlin trip. I'm soooo tired, we've been non stop walking for the last free days (my poor knee). BUT IT WAS GOOD VACATION TIME!