I heard through the grapevine that OpenAi Ceo allegedly met with Paramount Pictures to push SORA. Unions, SAG-AFTRA The Animation Guild // #WeAre839 Writers Guild of America West This concerns all of you, as these GenAi companies are still pushing regardless of all the legal/ethical and labor theft concerns.
#GRIFT

Well that didn't take long...
Glaze 2.0 is here. Improved robustness for all art styles but particularly flat color styles. Addressed patch artifacts. Improved efficiency (~50% speedup) and support for Mac GPUs. Mac M1/2/3 support is here, Mac Intel coming this week.

Bloated valuations come from Venture capitalist investments, but there is no biz plan to make those returns back to investors. This is why Stability Ai went up in smoke. You need hundreds of millions to rent cloud compute to make 1/10th of that back, (not including staff wages)

I got blocked for this comment. No regrets.

Don't let these people justify theft by using marginalized or disabled people as a shield. Deplorable behavior, call it out every time.

We called Adobe out on this last year…😬👀😬

This proposed bill from Adam Schiff would require GenAi to disclose ALL COPYRIGHTED WORKS used in data. Tech bros/ GenAI shillers will ofc argue this is terrible (for them) Stealing and unfair competition are not the same as Fair Use.
billboard.com/business/legal…

Here is my entry for the #ifxmysticalmachines challenge hosted by ImagineFX Magazine . Just ran out of time so I kept it monochromatic. Also included some of the process to prove this is human art per the contest rules.

Trying out a few color combinations for this #bountyhunter anddroid #spacebabe #spacebountyhunter #bountyhunter #droid #robot #characterdesign #originalcharacter

Here's a quick guide for terms that GenAi corpos and their shillers love to throw at us. Here's what they mean.
Share with literally everyone.
#GenAi #Ai #CreateDontScrape

This generation cannot find employment, faces an insane healthcare/housing crisis/debt and corpos are eliminating MORE jobs/industries while multiplying effects of climate change, with the promise of Ai 'Productivity' make no mistake, your lives do not matter to these ppl.

People hate Ai in marketing. It’s a thing.

Keep it up, people. #Createdontscrape

80.lv/articles/brand…

I have noticed THIS. Most people promoting GenAi in studios are NOT artists, and are not affected, but looking to throw teammates under the bus to prolong imagined longevity

AI black eyes this week🧵
• Emad resigns as Stability AI CEO
• Admits he did a poor job
• Stability vacates chicken shop HQ
• Brands go 'no AI' with agencies
• NYC chatbot suggests illegal activity
• BBC backlash over AI Dr. Who promos
• ChatGPT IP filters easily bypassed

Wanna hear a GenAi joke?

Midjourney Dev discusses Laundering, Stability Ai Dev gives the 💯 emoji.

Two of the most harmful companies destroying Artist’s lives (that are both being sued btw) sharing notes.

#CreatedontScrape #thEyMad

This is absolutely BRUTAL:

• Defaulted Amazon payments
• Wild overspending and misleading claims
• Failure to deliver on grand promises
• Less than 4 million in bank, Oct 23
• 10% staff layoffs in 2024
• Disastrous Nvidia meeting
• Lots more... 🧵

forbes.com/sites/kenrickc…

FORBES will a banger article about Stability Ai, and their (former) CEO. Highlights below lead to Emad completely tanking his company. Unpaid bills, fumbled business meetings, employee turnover due to ignored concerns about UNLICENSED DATA, and CP/CSAM.

forbes.com/sites/kenrickc…

I think we need to learn when something is posted as rage-bait.

If they are getting engagement from anger they are still profiting. If they keep posting about how much AI can make you, or posting “I will not share the name”, these are meant to get rage-bait engagement

Someone should do something about this… like maybe we can get together in an expo or something and celebrate these incredible artists behind our favorite things… how’s everyone’s schedule October 25-27?

DeviantArt I’m so glad you’ve been sued. You guys have zero shame throwing generations of artists that held you up, myself included.