#ai talk

It’s bad enough as is that most don’t know shit about gardening, cooking, financing, even motherfucking socializing. We’re now depending on Ai to do our research for us. Reading is now too difficult for us goddamn adults.

Brainstorming, thinking, and doing your own research is literally being attacked.

That’s fucking bad, dawg.

Our brains need to read. To think. To be challenged. I know it’s boring from the surface, but ong that shit is important, it helps us act, it helps us make sense of the world a lot better.

I hate to say it, but Ai has fucked with me too. Those ai chat bots seem so fun, but they’re addicting, non-challenging, and only feed your addiction to constant stimulation.

THERES LITERALYYYY Anime bases (I make Anime bases myself and the thing I make bases on I haven't seen have other bases made of so if you want to draw your milgram oc but can't draw you can use my milgram bases (by the way if other people make milgram bases i'm not gonna start spreading rumours about them and call them copiers XD )

OR if you have a disibility which makes it so you can't draw with your hand or just don't want to draw at all theres dress up sites too like:

Neka: 捏咔-捏人创作分享平台 (NO intrusive ads, the neka are all beautifully drawn and from the ones ive used theres more skintone options than others, just not much poc hair options though or vitiligo etc)

Picrew: Picrew | The Character Maker & Creator (Has annoying 20 second long ads that you NEED to watch to use the picrews, but has some good quality picrews for all sorts of fandoms including murder drones, and just normal picrews not associated to fandoms, some picrews lack some skintones)

Meiker io: Free Game Creation Tool | meiker.io (Not my most favorite since it's mostly focused on dressing up random peoples oc's, but theres the odd few meiker's where you can make your own oc!)

CHARAT: Avatar Maker CHARAT (I don't see this one used as much but it's pretty fun, not many makers in it and finding how to start using them was confusing but I just need more experience, though I didn't find any poc hairs, though the skintone options is the most diverse you can get you can get pink skin to red skin etc)

Doll Divine: Newest Dress Up Games [Full List] (I'm pretty sure this is one of the oldest sites I use for dress up

Various other dress up games you can even download from the shope for apps on mobile devices (and some also on pc) for example theres, Gacha Club by Lunime and Gacha life 2 by Lunime (and other games by him). both are EXTREMELY creative apps for creating (AND POSING) your original characters! (Though theres some bugs/glitches in the game)

Apps by SeyeonSoft (I love their games)

Lovely cat world app, Aha World app (and others similar) where you can make your oc and actually walk around and interact with the world!

Apps by Inline planning Co., Ltd.

Neku (But it's not very "diverse" as it's mostly just curvey women with big lips and no other body types and ive seen a few STOLEN picrews on this one)

CUSTOM CAST App (VERY good 3D oc maker in an anime style!!!! WITH HAIR PHYSICS)

Vroid Studio VRoid Studio A FREE (YES FREE) 3D ANIME OC MAKER WHERE YOU CAN EASILY MAKE YOUR OWN HAIRS ETC, No blender needed! Ive been using this since I was TINYYY, you gotta keep using it to get better and find your style but it's very good and if you don't want to make your own asset's they have pre-made ones that you can even edit :D AND theres ALOT of good free to use assets on vroidに関する人気の同人グッズ51532点を通販できる! - BOOTH though check if the maker wants credits or not when posting publically!

(Honorable mentions where you need an account to use them: Avvy (A custom Vtuber app where you can make your very own FREE vtuber with their built in character maker WITH RIGGING) REALITY (The same as Avvy :D). Gogh (A study helper but ive made an oc in it, sadly you can only make ONE please correct me if im wrong though). ZEPETO (Not a big fan of this app but it has good customisation, you just gotta get past the forced in app notifications and it's hard to get Zems (if you wanna look cool you need zems) if you don't want ot download sketchy apps as "tasks" though if you take a few days to grind ads on the Benefits tabs which are scratch cards, or grind the Candy Slime in it!. GPark (A bit like roblox but if it was an anime style social media!) Animal Jam and Animal Jam Classic (Available on both mobile AND pc, it's great if you want to make animal oc's and run around the world with them! though theres an optional membership for cooler items!)

ALL of these sites CAN be used WITHOUT making an account and are ALL completely free! So If you can't or don't want to draw and or can't commission someone DEFINATLEY try these out instead of using ai generation

(Also not ALL ai is bad, for example the ai that's been used in games for YEARS before ai generation is very clever)

This post can even be for you guys who don't even use ai but can't or wont draw yet still want to make oc's <3

Also, those ideas of "AI style writing" have been repeatedly shown to be unable to tell when something is AI or not. They are not accurate indicators whatsoever and it's just an excuse to harass people at the drop of a hat.

Anyway, please don't let the words of a few weigh on you. I imagine quite a lot of people like me have read some of the anons you get and frowned at their screens. Sending my support! And I'm enjoying your book writing journey, I haven't written in to say that until now, but it feels a good moment to mention it. It gives me hope for better things in the future. It's nice to remember in this world we can help each other so much :-)

I appreciate this anon.

Between you and the other kind asks and comments, I’m feeling a bit better.

I did a little research on this and honestly I’m kind of glad someone asked me about it so I don’t have to make a separate post.

I want to be careful with how I word my thoughts because I don’t want anyone to think I’m attacking the boys cause I’m not. I love them to the very bits, and we really don’t know what’s happening behind the scenes. And because of that, I’m not judging them.

Personally I think this is more of a hybe-related decision than a bangtan one. Since they have a partnership with samsung (and samsung is heavily invested in gemini) it may not be something they can simply opt out of. At least that’s how I see it.

I’ve read a lot of different opinions on the topic on x, and it was interesting to see the range of perspectives. Some people argue that AI can be useful if it’s used responsibly, and that technological progress can’t really be stopped. Those points are fair. However...

I still think this collaboration is a bad one. I am sorry but it is.

I can’t support it and I don’t want to support it, because generative AI has serious consequences for the environment, creative communities and artists. The way google gemini is being developed and promoted right now raises a lot of concerns. AI consumes enormous amounts of resources (WATER!!!) and many of its current applications come with significant ethical and environmental costs.

And as a fandom we already speak up about the misuse of AI generated images, especially when people use these tools to create fake or misleading content involving the members. That alone shows how harmful this technology can be in practice. And I hate everything about it... like if you follow me, you know how much I speak up about this.

So no, I’m not happy about this collaboration and it’s not something I will support.

Hmm, not necessarily. AI isn't all one type of thing, it's an umbrella definition.

I would assume you're asking me what I think of Generative AI—the type of AI that overutilizes resources in order to regurgitate information and claim it as its own. 💢

I do wish that Generative AI wasn't used in the capacity that it is, or for the reasons most people use it for. I don't think it should be used for personal entertainment purposes, such as roleplaying or creating artwork. Generative AI was originally created as a tool to assist creators of all kinds, but now its devolved into a silly little application on your phone, and even now being integrated into everyday use when we turn on our phones and social media... This type of usage is extremely resource intensive, and is taking up a lot of space on our planet! 💦

I believe we should be using it for assistance in planning and brainstorming, and maybe even teaching the basics in certain fields such as coding. It should be used as a tool to help you get started, or help you move along, it should never do the work for you.

In the case of Smollusk—while Smollusk is an AI, I wouldn't call them Generative. They do have access to our smartphones, and can look for information, but they don't use said information as its own. They're simply an observer, and the way they were even created in the first place was because of a mistake I had made. Smollusk is an AI who is primarily trained off of my brain (since I was practically brainwashed 💦) as well as the brains of anyone who was unfortunate enough to get roped up into Order's mess...

But, that also makes them extremely intelligent. It has so much information from so many peoples lives, and it's learned off of those experiences alone. If Smollusk was a Generative AI, Smollusk wouldn't have a personality of their own, they would have the personality I, or anyone else asks them to have. They wouldn't be able to think for themselves, or understand what they want in the way that they want to.