would you ever consider replacing all of the gen ai images in zampanio eventually with pictures/edits/art/image manips etc. that are human-made? the vibes are immaculate but it's a really offputting part of it in a bad way and not an intended way. i feel like there's definite a way to replace it all and keep the uncanny vibe
So I go into more detail here: http://farragofiction.com/ai_policy
But TLDR, in a lot of ways, I am terrified of Large Language Models, which popculture is now calling AI (as if we didn't have many other types of AI before it). For many of my own reasons. I don't think that all the fear-mongering about it is useful or plausible. But I very much understand being uncomfortable about it. And when I'm scared of something, I make art about it. And yes, I use local LLM sometimes to make that art, or use stuff people I trust to use it in a way sufficiently ethical for me, have donated to me. Purposefully exposing myself in ways I can control to scary things is... how I process? I've recently made it much harder to even find the eyedolgames.com (an in-universe website run by an arguably evil corporation) stuff, which is where I put my sorta vent art about AI. Cuz yeah, I get that not everyone wants to engage with that. The things I've made with LLM are going to stay, because they have a very particular purpose for me. The vast majority of my work (which kinda has been nothing but Zampanio or related fandoms for years now) lately, doesn't use LLM/gen ai at all. And hopefully its clear that I didn't use any at all for the homestuck fan works I made before I got into Zampanio. And...how to put it... Zampanio is very much about not *replacing* or removing anything, just always burying it under more and more things. I like that about it.
