The Neighborhood Watch

I've had this thought for a while now. I mean let's face it. Tumblr is kind of dead. With the owners of the site stupid rules on censorship yet the porn bots are still here. Literally every day I log on I see like 24 notifications. Only to realize they are all bots. So my time on here is simply log on, report and block. I'm done then.

I still work on my art and my comic but I am debating whether or not to post on here. Is anyone even there to view them. I honestly don't think so. I don't even see many of my friends or the people I follow even on here anymore.

I honestly think this is coming to an end.

At least for tumblr.

I have been exploring around and found another site called Pillowfort that looks promising.

The decision hasn't been made yet.

And if anyone is reading this, any advice?

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. 

The Neighborhood Watch

Episode 2

“And Then We Fall.” Part 2

The Neighborhood Watch

Episode 2

“And Then We Fall.” Part 2