Twilight fans: Haha the cast HATES twilight thatβs hilarious
POC (especially Natives): we hate it too
Twilight fans: hey :(
Granted, I never read Twilight butβ¦is this referencing some racism in Twilight or is there something Iβm missing here?
Twilight literally caused so many myths & misconceptions about Native & Quileute people that the Quileute tribe had to put up an entire site dispelling the shit Stephanie Meyer caused. I literally cannot begin to explain how insanely racist twilight is as a series with the number of bullshit that happens to not just the Native characters, but other characters of color (but Stephanie Meyer targeted Native Americans specifically)
Hereβs the site so you can research the specific ways Twilight has harmed Native Americans & specifically the Quileute tribe.
Or you can look at my #Twilight anger on main tag to see me talk about how bad it is.
The Quileute tribe is currently attempting to relocate their community outside of the active tsunami zone they currently reside in and have an ongoing fundraiser. First thing they are trying to move is their school, which teaches kids from multiple tribes in the area. They have had no support from anyone involved in Twilight, not even the funny cast who hates it. I know times are tough, but anything helps.
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some of you people NEED to be fucking reminded that loving minorities will always be more important than hating bigots
BLM goes before ACAB ALWAYS. loving black people is more important than “pissing off bigots.” loving jewish people is more important than “making nazis angry.” dont just fight against oppressors, start fighting for minorities. fighting against the oppressor is important, but start doing it for the right reason.
re the ai art thing: there are absolutely some shitty things going on with ai art at the moment, but i feel like this whole thing would benefit from more clarity on the bad actors involved so that arguments could be meaningfully directed at them instead of the nebulous concept of "ai art". i suspect elon musk's name is being used as a buzzword here - while he was one of many founders of openai, he resigned from the company before things like gpt and dall-e even came into existence, so i find posts that talk as though he's still actively involved to be suspect. second, it's entirely possible for an ai art generator to create something thats no more derivative of existing work than a human using it as inspiration. i agree it's still not 100% ethically pure, but at that point it sort of becomes a philosophical debate, not a practical one. a lot of ai art bots DO use significant parts of work, though, and the medical photo story would be horrifying even if ai art wasn't involved - these are specific bad actors, specific people who put private photos into the public domain, specific people who don't do the due diligence in making sure their model doesn't violate the copyright and forgery boundaries we already have in place, specific users who choose to generate derivative art for unethical purposes, and aiming this very justified anger at them is likely to bring about a lot more positive change.
No, Elon Musk’s name is being used because he has a very long and very loud history of thinking he shouldn’t need to credit artists or writers and that he should be able to use anything in any way he wants and people should be grateful that he did. That context is very important when talking about the intention behind the Tech Bro Collage Machine.
Second, no. It is not possible for an AI to create anything that isn’t 100% derivative. There are a few reasons for this:
“AI,” that is, actual artificial intelligence, does not exist. This is not nitpicking terminology, this is extremely important and crucial. What we are talking about isn’t a brain. It doesn’t think. It doesn’t create. It cannot create. We may wish to think that it can create - humans love to wonder and we love to anthropomorphize everything, but no. Calling it “AI” is a branding decision, and propaganda. It isn’t fact. AI doesn’t create anything, first of all, because AI doesn’t exist.
Tech-Bros Discover Collages™️ is a program. An algorithm. It does not create any more than a paint mixer creates purple paint when the Home Depot worker puts red and blue paint into a can and loads it into the paint mixer. All it can do it take what it is given and smash it together over and over and over again. And that is - in a very simplistic but also very real way - all that TBDCs do.
I’m very sorry, but androids do not yet dream of electric sheep, computers don’t think, and comparing the pixel output of a machine that’s just as likely to barf put a man with three fingers growing out of his cheek as it is a “masterpiece” that, if you unfocus your eyes and ignore the watermark artifacts and look past the weird smeary edges and all of the other tells, almost looks kinda like it’s not AI art to the output of an actual working artist is absolutely facile. I genuinely cannot believe that people are actually making this argument. Like, I really can’t. No, the computer isn’t thinking and it can’t actually create anything. You’re playing with an extremely complicated kaleidoscope loaded with millions of dollars worth of stolen art, intended to help billionaires further defraud everyone else by replacing artists with digital garbage. That’s it. That’s all. It is nothing more. It cannot be anything more.
I really do wonder what people think is going to happen, here. Do y'all really think this is going to do anything but make it impossible for small artists to make money?
People are already selling “prompts lists” on Etsy as if that is original art, which it is not. People who have gotten really good at playing with the kaleidoscope have gone on long huffy rants about how they shouldn’t have to reveal their prompts because they put work into coming up with that specific prompts list… all written without a shred of self-awareness or realization of irony.
I genuinely don’t want the answer, here, because as a working artist, I am really exhausted of people trying to defend the destruction of the livelihood I’ve poured myself into, and the destruction of my friends’ livelihoods, too, but I want you to ask yourself (quietly, in your head, and if you want to post about it, do it on your blog, don’t put it here) what you think the end result of all of this is going to be.
Do you think this is going to result in some grand new wave of art democratization? It will not. Do you think computers can really create? They cannot. Or do you think instead this is going to lead to a lot of artists no longer being able to find sufficient work as the Fiverr/Uber/Amazonification of everything combined with AI art means that a lot of the meat-and-potatoes commissions and art jobs dry up, because why would you pay someone $100 to draw you a really original picture of your OC with their hours of labor and years of experience when you can get Midjourney to make you one in minutes ✨️for free✨️?
While y'all are busy talking about how computers are doing something not at all different from the human mind (lol), you’re hammering the livelihood of a lot of people into the ground, duped by the same people currently burning Twitter to the ground, lighting piles of money on fire as crypto, and minting NFTs. This is just the next thing in a long line of tech bro scams.
Stop falling for it. You’re fucking shit up and I’m tired.
“While y’all are busy talking about how computers are doing something not at all different from the human mind (lol) you’re hammering the livelihood of a lot pf people into the ground, duped by [-to use a more general phrase for the following context- dishonest tech people]” <- THIS. This is Exactly what machine translation is currently doing to the translation sector. Quality is deteriorating, wages are deteriorating, jobs are lost, expert workers are leaving the sector in droves and high-quality language services are becoming more difficult to come by in situations where they are desperately needed, like court proceedings, asylum hearings, etc. Frankly nobody has benefited in this situation - not translators, not regular translation providers, not even translation clients. Things have just been getting worse for everyone involved - except for machine translation providers. And the only reason why they get away with it is because people are greedy and machine translation output is much cheaper than expert human translations are (even though the quality still does not compare).
Stuff like DeepL works in the exact same way as those “Art AIs”, but because intellectual property in translation is fucking difficult nobody ever talks about that.
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