Re: Tom of Finland GDrive--call me stupid if I'm wrong but why would a big organization save their files on Google Drive permanently? That's the thing that's screaming to me, besides the whole "whoops we deleted this without your consent, oh well." There are services that provide your own drive or servers for archival reasons. I would have hoped something as important as Tom of Finland organization would have saved a little money for that...Then again, I don't know, that's just me archiving stuff anywhere that's not GDrive (or saving it until I can download it, if push to shove)--or that GDrive was unironically the safest route for them until last year. Pondering here.
I've heard stories that platforms are actually having a bigger issue with AI of children now, because (womp womp) a lot of them are close or actually are just glorified CSAM, and it's getting impossible to moderate. Based on one or two people, even worse to moderate than actual CSAM, because folks can pull the "it's fake, it's art, not real" thing with it. Maybe I'm a normie, but if there's AI art of children that's indistinguishable from a photo, I'm fucking calling the spade a spade. And I've seen AI art that's actually REALLY hard to differ from a photo, so that's my stance lol. I would not be surprised if folks who hate lolisho will use the AI art of children as further reason to go "well they said it was drawings, but if AI art used real photos, then oops, it's all the same."
I don't like lolisho, but I can agree it's become more of a hot button topic in recent years. I would say the sudden forced isolation and lockdown of Covid played a part, but I'm not sure. It also doesn't help when harmless shows are starting to be judged even more harshly just because of the style. Like, I also am not a huge fan of moe style, but I can also say that shows like Clannad and K-On are harmless and won't make the normies go crazy for loli. It doesn't make you an auto lolicon if you watch those and others. If anything, I'm almost agreeing with the idea that if you start being a little holier than thou, it probably says more about you than the thing. I have an example here: https://bsky.app/profile/brainchild129.bsky.social/post/3klbb4b6aqy27
My mother and I watched Moon Phase together and I would have never pegged this to be loli. She hates lolisho waaaaay more than I do too. (She would probably report lolicon artists to the FBI if she could be arsed to lol) Yet, this show is one of her favorites and she never saw anything loli in it. She even went out and bought the DVD collection and a plushie of one of the characters that you could presume is meant to be loli. But she's a normie. She sees the characters as what the anime says they are. I do too. According to this person and one of the replies, just even having the DVD makes her a pedophile or a lolicon. Try telling that to her face, I wanna see blood LMAO.
Anyway this is getting long so uhhhhh, relevant to "programs for layout," I tried giving Scrivener a whirl once and gave up lol. Wonder how Krita would fare. Affinity Publisher shall be my beloved until it dies. I've just taken to using the basic version of a thing until it doesn't stop working, if it gets to be bad. (e.g I'm still using PS CS5 lel)
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Date: 2024-02-20 01:27 am (UTC)I've heard stories that platforms are actually having a bigger issue with AI of children now, because (womp womp) a lot of them are close or actually are just glorified CSAM, and it's getting impossible to moderate. Based on one or two people, even worse to moderate than actual CSAM, because folks can pull the "it's fake, it's art, not real" thing with it. Maybe I'm a normie, but if there's AI art of children that's indistinguishable from a photo, I'm fucking calling the spade a spade. And I've seen AI art that's actually REALLY hard to differ from a photo, so that's my stance lol. I would not be surprised if folks who hate lolisho will use the AI art of children as further reason to go "well they said it was drawings, but if AI art used real photos, then oops, it's all the same."
I don't like lolisho, but I can agree it's become more of a hot button topic in recent years. I would say the sudden forced isolation and lockdown of Covid played a part, but I'm not sure. It also doesn't help when harmless shows are starting to be judged even more harshly just because of the style. Like, I also am not a huge fan of moe style, but I can also say that shows like Clannad and K-On are harmless and won't make the normies go crazy for loli. It doesn't make you an auto lolicon if you watch those and others. If anything, I'm almost agreeing with the idea that if you start being a little holier than thou, it probably says more about you than the thing. I have an example here: https://bsky.app/profile/brainchild129.bsky.social/post/3klbb4b6aqy27
My mother and I watched Moon Phase together and I would have never pegged this to be loli. She hates lolisho waaaaay more than I do too. (She would probably report lolicon artists to the FBI if she could be arsed to lol) Yet, this show is one of her favorites and she never saw anything loli in it. She even went out and bought the DVD collection and a plushie of one of the characters that you could presume is meant to be loli. But she's a normie. She sees the characters as what the anime says they are. I do too. According to this person and one of the replies, just even having the DVD makes her a pedophile or a lolicon. Try telling that to her face, I wanna see blood LMAO.
Anyway this is getting long so uhhhhh, relevant to "programs for layout," I tried giving Scrivener a whirl once and gave up lol. Wonder how Krita would fare. Affinity Publisher shall be my beloved until it dies. I've just taken to using the basic version of a thing until it doesn't stop working, if it gets to be bad. (e.g I'm still using PS CS5 lel)