Austin Zheng
✝️ | opinions are mine and mine alone | art I've commissioned and worldbuilding nonsense | 🚫 AI, 🚫 NFT, 🚫 techbro garbage | avatar by @ziggyzagz.bsky.social
- Heartfelt thanks to @ziggyzagz.bsky.social for this wonderful little gift! I am grateful for it.
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- i love the hermit crab looking one on the left so much
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- You have the absolute best expressions. Snarly boy
- I love them so much!!!!
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- wash it down with some Fighting Tea
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- yes please!!!!!
- Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community on AI file770.com/erin-underwo... Erin's core thesis is "There are responsible ways to use AI that support creators without replacing creative labor."
- The letter writer’s insistence on further debate on AI is, I feel, misguided. No amount of debate is going to change the fact that these things are an ethical catastrophe, both in their creation and their use. At this point vehemence, not nuance, is the correct response to AI.
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- I have a pet theory that social media is inherently cursed because you need Poasters to build up a userbase that attracts people actually worth following, but those Poasters themselves also inevitably turn social media into a soul-destroying morass.
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- It really is a tragedy that there's so much beautiful fun speculative biology, and then these funny cat-furries-if-normies-had-to-design-them-at-gunpoint main characters.
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- 100% certain this is (ironically) sleazy AI clickbait slop. Don't worry, though, Oracle is about to find out exactly what happens when you leverage yourself out the wazoo to build a ton of data centers near the top of a tech bubble, which might be even more entertaining.
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- The typical bsky normie is a pretty insufferable sort tbh, but the nice thing is that it's possible to stay completely in your artist bubble (positive) and not have to see any of that nonsense at all lol. Just don't go to 'Discover'.
- Keshral wishes you a very merry Christmas! Thank you to @kajirra.bsky.social for the wonderful YCH lol.
- In the last year, artists had the Frieren meme, and AI bros have whatever this is. I thought this was supposed to democratize art lol
- No honor among thieves! May they continue to devour each other.
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- Their only mistake was not making ED-209's manufacturer some Silicon Valley startup named after a Tolkein thing and helmed by creepy fascist techbros.
- This is such a bad take I had to block the person no matter how many smart people I like follow them lmao This is presumes that all creative output must be availed to the public. This is stupid. You do not owe everyone a behind-the-scenes look at your development if you don’t want to.
- I hate the use of 'hipster' as an insult, but there is a sort of nuance-addicted Serious Thinker Yet Professional Shitposter type that saw the ubiquitous backlash generative AI has been getting and, based on that alone, began posting these 'well acktually ppl are overreacting, you see??' type takes.
- Imagine being OP and posting this weeks after the Frieren Angle Saga
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- I'm like 95% sure that all the 'improvements' in the technology (i.e. not drawing hands with an abominable number of fingers) has just been overfit.
- So the guy himself is saying they arent really even seeing productivity gains? He said they are just using AI because they are afraid of being left behind. He is inviting this public scorn by repeating techbro talking points for no benefit at all. The mind of a CEO is fascinating.
- Weird how generative AI is a potential "golden egg", but known-to-work things like "retain institutional knowledge by not firing your devs after every project" or "don't work your devs to mental breakdown" or "figure out a direction before year 5 of a 6 year dev cycle" are eminently ignorable.
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- please metaphorically bite her also on my behalf, this is an absolutely lovely piece. I love the eye glint so much!!!
- Art and money discourse is always so funny. If someone has a skill that society finds valuable, in the abstract they should absolutely be allowed to leverage that skill into enjoying a life slightly less miserable than existing in utter penury (with or without UBI).
- (and if you think any Western government is ever going to give you UBI that doesn't take the form of housing rights to a 100 sqft slum apartment and a bunch of coupons for discounted OpenAI subscriptions you are, quite frankly, delusional.)
- I got this lovely piece from @ngreentail.bsky.social!!! Thank you so much. Countless are the children of Rushédak, but no matter how distant they wander their hearts always yearn for the homeworld.
- i think the accessibility features on bluesky are great but because i don't use the platform often, i always forget they're there. whenever i post my art, i post the same thing on all my socials at the same time, so it's a lot of copypasting.
- You don’t owe rude jackasses anything. If they care that much they should go yell at the bluesky team to make alt text mandatory before posting images.
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- If you have any slots left I'll take one!
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- Your art is wonderful and your style is exquisite and a fair valuation would, I think, definitely be quite a bit higher than that. (But of course you can do whatever you like!)
- perfect creechurs
- I got this amazing piece from @skepsys.bsky.social!!! Thank you so much. Kaslarul was a detective for a megacorp by day, an amateur pit fighter by night, and he was usually careful to not piss off the wrong people from both those worlds at the same time. Usually.
- the 'leftist' argument for pirating books is the same as the 'leftist' argument for generative AI, and just as bullshit
- but then again most every western internet 'leftist' argument ends up boiling down to "I should be able to sit in my basement and be handed anything I want". Same endpoint as neoliberalism—man as a soulless empty vessel defined exactly by the stuff it consumes.
- I still can't believe Tasmania is a real place
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- I would!
- Short on some bills, so I have to open unexpected express commissions. Turnaround - 2 weeks. Payment upfront. Design of the outfit for existing character/redesign of existing character is acceptable. If interested - DM me ^^'
- closed, thank you folks for reposts and attention <3
- Hope to grab one the next time you open!
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- Your art is great!!! social media is just completely fucked right now, including here tbh
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- You did such a great job with this piece, thank you again!!!
- I got this most superlative work from @guttertongue.bsky.social! Thank you so much!!! Tasmorei realized too late that, though former demon she might be, she was way in over her head. The most vicious among the infernal host were known as 'heroslayers', and it was a sobriquet well earned.
[Not loaded yet]- Congratulations, here's to many more followers to come! Thank you for the opportunity, I humbly submit for your consideration my character (credits: @/noahasai.bsky.social, @/noonmarkart.dev).
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- I can promise you none of the "AI is _actually_ useful if you obsessively double check what it produces" people are actually doing that on a consistent basis. Why not? Because it would be less mentally exhausting to just do the work outright!
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- Thank you so much for working on him for me! He looks absolutely amazing, I love the expression!
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- ooooh turian OC
- I got this superlative character design from @skepsys.bsky.social!!! Thank you so much! Many space pirates waste their loot on frivolities; he chose augmentation. He now ventures into unknown space, making enemies everywhere, confident that he can overcome whatever horrors the galaxy has to offer.
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- What a beautiful piece!
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- $90!
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- Mastodon is perfect if you think mod drama should be your drama (whether you like it or not)
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- 70!
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- this is way too good!!!!
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- A crank, but I still respect him more than Kevin “I’m all in on AI, the technology I believe only has a 10% chance of destroying humanity” Roose.
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- I knew gAI was evil once it turned out the evangelical-industrial complex had nothing bad to say about it. I mean, they've spent the last 30 years screaming about how D&D etc will turn kids into devil worshippers, but once this blasphemy-in-a-box comes along they're inexplicably silent? lmao
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- Hope to catch you once they open up again!!!
- Many thanks to @zinthings.bsky.social for this surprisingly adorable chibi!!! This hero-slaying demon might be a nightmarish monstrosity, but she just wants to give you a hug. With her mandibles.
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- Another thing I hold against the LLM folks is how they somehow redefined 'useful' to something akin to 'technically possible if you squint at it hard enough, even if actually using it for X would be laughably impractical/expensive/ill-advised'.
