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reading quotes by the Stable Diffusion creators has me a bit :l because they're talking about the labor of art as a tool when literally that's "why" I create art. The joy is in the creation, not the end piece. Completely anti-ethical to my approach combined with the inhuman insincerity.

i don't care about spammy AI-generated art as much as I do the effects of "how" art is transmitted. Already seeing a lot of artists who are withdrawing from the internet, and how it'll fracture artist communities in a big way. creating "friction" of effort to avoid art being scraped/generated-proof feels like the name of the game which ironically fits in real well with my plan of printed books + zines packed with sincerity and small runs lol.

Definitely if by December I don't strongly feel different, I'll perma-delete all SM accounts. At this point I'm only holding out to promo Falke. so far this feels like it'll be twitter, tumblr, masto ... probably artstation/dA too if i can ensure nobody else can camp on the handles.

ironically i've, separately, been considering making this dreamwidth part of the website as a diary much likelukadian has his. that way there's the WIP logs ... the physical zines as the main location of art, and then "this" when i have a long form text thought (much like the joy of old dA journals). hilariously it's all arcing back to the three elements i loved most about deviantart in the 00's. that, to me, was peak joy of posting art online.

lord ... this internet's a different beast. i'm tired of fighting it. very ready to burn the bridge.

edit: don't panic if the username suddenly shows as 'kradeelav' instead of 'walonvaus' and a few other minor profile / aesthetic changes happen - i haven't been hacked. :) setting up a hopefully painless transition to be the diary on the site.

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I'm conflicted when hearing about artists leaving the internet due to the AI situation. On the one hand, I get it, you're protecting your art and you're also just tired of everything, so might as well just disconnect completely...on the other, I feel like leaving the internet not to protect yourself or to generally get more work done (because SM is addicting as all hell), but to prevent AI machines from pilfering your work -- when preventing stolen art online has been a losing battle for ages anyway (and I hate it) -- it feels like such a, a, I don't know. I guess I've been numb to everything related to art-has-changed-man the past few years, that I can't even "get it" anymore.

I guess I'm also conflicted because I have a feeling the artists who are able to leave SM over AI are the ones whose audiences will follow them anywhere and they don't necessarily have to worry about even trying to get and maintain an audience in the first place like the rest of us. Or even worry about on how to survive in order to keep creating art.

(Who me, bitter and depressive? lol)

I still miss those olden days though. But it's like being between a rock and a hard place, and I'm really tired that we're the ones who have to protect ourselves because nobody else cares. :\ A different beast, indeed.

But I digress from dystopic land :'D I have my dreamwidth set up like that, as a blog on my website. I used sadgirl's tutorial on how to do it, if that gives you an idea for 'a' version for you. Just basically code magic that has it so that your blog entry pops up as a real life blog entry but when you go to comment, you just go to this site :D

yoooo i LOVE how flawlessly seamless your blog is attached, tysm for tossing both of those links over! i feel like i just hot-glued my dreamwidth on to this site temporarily in comparison XD will be fun as a little afternoon tech fix when there's time.

and you're 100% dead on that there really isn't a lot of choices for artists online, unfortunately, even less if there's a need to make money off of the skillsets. for example i really feel for the artists who need patreon given the recent shakedowns there, and i hope there's other platforms that step in with a healthier mix of sharing vs not getting hijacked by those who abuse the notions there. @ _@

Haha, hot-gluing parts onto site is such a mood, though XD But I'm glad it worked!

Yeaaaaah, all I say is, we sure do live in interesting times

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Edited (I MADE A TYPO, and I cannot rest until I fix it) 2022-09-26 10:44 (UTC)

YOOOO I ALSO LOVE THIS, damn just like Krad said my blog is essentially "hot glued" on to my site lol! This looks waaay more seamless, how is it in regards to say, access-locked posts? I use my public posts on DW as a sort of more in-depth update stream but honestly most of my "blogging" is generally private and I make regular use of access and custom lists to curate who can see what.

Hmm, worst case scenario I could always make an alternate DW account simply for those rambles that I deem safe enough for public ahaha!

YAY, I'm glad it's quite useful. If it weren't for sadgirl, half my site would not exist XD;

The code only processes public posts! I have private-for-me posts and access locked posts, and they don't appear on my blog. The only ones that do are the ones open for everyone ^_^ (As in you choose to explicitly make it open for everyone.)

Hope that helps!

Thanks again for posting this little tip, sooo helpful and just what I need/wanted in a feature like this! <3 I might hopefully even go back to making more frequent public posts too for things other than site updates honestly (I'm kinda hitting that niche already with my main page by adding short update descriptions ^^;)