the girl from enchilada 🌻🌺

i wanna blow raspberries on that big sexy belly

(him, too)

*cracks open a can of pepsi* want a bet?

also, i don’t know if you’re aware of this, but the big nuclear reactor in the sky has a tendency to um. belch out bursts of gamma rays and an assortment of radioactive particles every so often, and the last time earth took a direct hit from a big one, it knocked out all the telegraphs.

you have cunty companies like meta spitting out pro-ai ads with david bowie’s “five years”, a song about the world ending, playing in the background, and it shouldn’t have to take a genius to tell you that they’re planning something nefarious with that.

you have people literally addicted to this nonsense like it’s cocaine.

you have people literally being pushed to suicide by this.

it wastes mind-boggling amounts of energy and water (and places like WALES are in drought as well as on fire at the moment), its data centers are absolutely wrecking the earth and the atmosphere, it hallucinates constantly (and in places it’s got no business hallucinating in like hospitals or banks), it makes these truly atrocious ads for tv youtube and radio that are either so far in the uncanny valley that the video for black hole sun looks normal by comparison or looked as though it came from ads on old websites that would’ve drained your batteries back in 2015, it’s been shown to have gone rogue multiple times (and who’s to say it won’t go skynet or HAL 9000 on us at any point), it can apparently create pathogens now (and literally no one sees anything wrong with that), it’s made school completely lethal as well as pointless, it’s all about “streamlining” (read: rushing) everything to the point that people are walking around with this dead look in their eyes and have zero concept of time anymore, it’s completely ruined my career as well as the careers of god knows how many artists and authors, its extreme proliferation on social media has made those sites virtually unusable and the data centers running those sites are releasing recycled potable water at superheated temperatures making them prime breeding grounds for horrible diseases, i.e., i’m blaming it for taking me away from my friends, my family, my fans, and the man i love.

i have surpassed the joker and i feel myself turning into the punisher.

So, I don’t know if anyone’s been following with this, and I couldn’t find anything on here aside from a bunch of Spanish posts (as “cara” is a Spanish also Portuguese and Italian word), but Cara, an app that was born in response to the mass mining and scraping of the internet via AI databases and their cronies and seemed to be bulletproof against it, was scraped. Every nook, every cranny, every sketch, every shitpost, and every finished piece, taken away just like that.

I had an account on there, but the only time I really used it was for mermay 2023, and the last time I really checked in was some time in 2024.

Still. I had previously been a victim of art theft and plagiarism in the past, so I feel this in my bones. and the thing that makes this especially horrid is the victim blaming that’s been happening in the wake of this. All of the “you shouldn’t have posted if you don’t want it scraped up” that is beat for beat akin to “you shouldn’t have dressed like that if you didn’t want to be raped/sexually assaulted“ that has plagued society for decades.  Listen, if you’re a working artist, you know how vital the internet has been when it comes to meeting people and building an audience, especially if said audience is willing to commission you and potentially help you: I have had the worst experience in getting commissioned and even eyes on my art over the years, but I have always kept trying at it, though.

Someone on tumblr described it as “art rape”, which, I admittedly have always more or less described it as such (taking without proper consent was the kicker) but now with this in mind plus forcing AI onto us against our will, it’s all basically a mass manifestation of rape culture with the passage of time, but now it seems it’s clear as day.

I mean, what are we artists supposed to do now? It’s bad enough that everyone is gravitating towards the AI generated pieces of shit away from the real thing as of late, and to the point of completely sinking someone like me, someone who’s been drawing the way she has for nearly 20 years, since she was a kid, but hasn’t been able to get very far because “if it isn’t realistic, it’s garbage“ is so baked into the collective consciousness that it almost feels redundant saying it aloud.  When you go to the Reddit thread describing this incident, you’ll see “fair use” getting thrown around… yeah, don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining. there ain’t nothing fair about blatantly stealing millions of pieces of art for your own benefit.

tumblr has the option to opt out of being scraped, but who’s to say that that won’t change in the future? I’m starting to wonder if posting art and writing is even worth it here now, because literally nothing is safe or off-limits.

I have felt this way since 2022 when news of the scrapings came into my radar: artists are the canary in the coal mine. If something is going horribly wrong with us, there will be a ripple effect and depending on what it is, it’ll be devastating. AI scrapes an artist’s work for data and later usage in order to train models, and does so at unthinkable speeds. The models then vomit up pieces by way of prompt at unthinkable speeds and depending on how many times a prompt, or multiple prompts, is/are typed in, you continue to train the robot so you get this feedback loop going. As a result, the entire place is absolutely inundated with AI slop labeled “art” (I haven’t done any kind of “how to train your AI“, by the way, this is all just from observation and being a firsthand victim of this).