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Pareidolia in houses 🏡

The first Patreon event of 2023 🌟 And this month there will be two winners! These dreaming clowns are up for grabs over there through a naming contest until the end of January: https://www.patreon.com/slocotion

All current and new $6 tier supporters are invited to suggest up to two names per doll for a chance to take one home (I ship worldwide from Ireland, at no extra cost) 🙏 Happy new year!!

This is the Money Cat 💰🐈 reblog and money will come your way!

If u don’t rb, don’t worry.. it’s just a stupid tumblr post 👌

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. 

A man helping a kingfisher (翠鸟) that was frozen to a railing in northern China.

I love seeing the soft side of her <3

Spooky spirits and a pair of ferrets. 

"Sylvia Sherwood. The Handler of the Westalis Intelligence Office, WISE, Anti-East Division. XX years old. Single. At the Westalis Embassy in the East, she did the public work as a diplomat, and, behind the scenes, led a large number of agents under the strict surveillance of the Secret Police. The staff were in awe of her, calling her the "Fullmetal Lady"... because of her imposing appearance, which showed no signs of weakness."

SPY X FAMILY Pt. 2 Ep. 05: Common Operation Griffon/ Fullmetal Lady