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Professorbigbody:
Not to mention how bad it is for the environment and for artists' careers. If anyone can make something "good enough" then what's the point of artists at all?

The carbon footprint is INSANE. The amount of energy taken up by AI is nearly that of the country of Japan.

In my opinion, AI should be used as a reference or a tool for human art. Not the final product

PurpleJade:
If AI struggles with fingers, it struggles with every other part of anatomy. The common eye doesn’t notice when specific proportions look wrong, but it may look weird or uncanny without a direct reasoning for why it looks unnatural. Artists should be referencing real art.


Excelent point, also! ^^
6 months

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Professorbigbody:
Not to mention how bad it is for the environment and for artists' careers. If anyone can make something "good enough" then what's the point of artists at all?

The carbon footprint is INSANE. The amount of energy taken up by AI is nearly that of the country of Japan.

In my opinion, AI should be used as a reference or a tool for human art. Not the final product


I actually disagree a lot with two things here!

Artists' careers are not in danger because of AI, for basically two reasons. One is that capitalism is the danger, that is because capitalism is the only system where a process becoming more efficient can be directly destructive for some people. And two, if your job *really* is threatened by AI, that means your job is not importand after all. WAIT! hear me out:

Im not saying that Artists are not importand (Im one ahah!). Im saying that, a lot of the time, what we mean when we use the word "Art" is really, just content. Simple-minded enough that having a human do it has really not much more, in terms of utility, than leaving it to the AI.

Many Artists dont really do more than mere mindless content creation. The criteria for this basically boils down to what are their intentions with their art.

It would be wrong, however, to say that we should abolish Artists. Instead what im saying is that we, artists need to be more vigilant, intelligent, and intentional with our art.

And also, this doesn't bring food to the table. Nobody will give you money to create a painting that criticises money.



Also, i have to point this out. "AI's footprint" is too vague, most AI models can run on your average computer! The reason OpenAI and other tech companies have such a high footprint is because they intentionally have developed models that are very inefficient. That is just an attempt to make the upfront costs of setting up a company with AI service so big that nobody else can join in that market. Effectively securing an oligopoly for these tech giants.

Edit:

For the first thing, its not very objective. Im basically describing the logic by which an observer might think of "Art", said observers are people who pay for it, for example.
6 months

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My only advice is, try to learn to draw! Seriously, if you put hours into writting something, why not put some time in drawing something?

There is also an interesting thing going on. Even if your drawing isn’t great (assuming that its not utterly terrible) a "hand-crafted" cover picture will be greatly appreciated over an AI one, or even a picture taken from the internet.

And that is partially because people recognize AI for what it really is, in a sense, that is effortless slop.
6 months

Honestly, i’m tired of the games

H203:
I’ve been on this site for a very long time, using several now-deleted accounts, and honestly, I’m getting really tired of the lack of real connections. I’ve always enjoyed sharing updates, engaging, and being part of the community, but lately, it just feels like I’m wasting my time. There are so many fake accounts and people who just want to take without giving anything back, and it’s incredibly frustrating when you put yourself out there, share personal updates, and get nothing in return.

I’m not just here for shallow play – I’m looking for something real. For me, it’s not about a fetish or kink; it’s about a genuine connection - not even romantically necessarily, even companionship and friendship would be great. I’ve always loved bigger women, not because of some fantasy, but because I find them genuinely attractive. It’s really tiring being reduced to just a stereotype or a fantasy role.

I had a really crappy experience in the last 24 hours where someone pretended to be legit and I talked sincerely to them and was warm and interested but they gave nothing back. They asked me to post some new photos of myself so I did and they just seemed to be 100% fake.

In response to this, I’ve taken down all my photos and stopped sharing publicly. Now, I only share updates with people I’m sure are real and actually want something more meaningful. But it’s getting harder and harder to find those connections.

As a guy in this community, it’s hard enough to find female companionship just because of the ratio. But it’s just extra disappointing when you put yourself out there and then it’s just someone playing games.

If you’re actually interested in something deeper and more real, then I’m open to talking. If not, I’d rather not waste my time. At the end of the day, it’s about respect and honesty – if we can’t be real here, what’s the point?

I’m just disappointed.


Reading what you typed makes me think about stuff. I dont know how much this will help but...

I have great difficulty to really befriend people. That's because, either conciously or subconciously, i need to see something from the other person, specifically i need to understand his intelligence (if he is competend or not), which i need in order to trust them, and then build a bond over that.

I think this, potentially applies to other intelligent people as well.

Maybe this is not the best advice but i dont see why this wouldn't work, you could try to write something like the above in your profile. That is, to write something along the lines "I need the other person to be intelligent", and so on. And to do that in such a way that it will simultaniously make unintelligent people (narcissists for example, or people who act very impulsively) people slightly uncomfortable that from their POV you seem to questioning their intelligence, but at the same time for whatever you end up writting to actually be super reasonable, and blunt, and intelligent, so that someone who has the capacity will actually register it as such and will get interested in you.

What do you think?
6 months

Honestly, i’m tired of the games

H203:
I would, but I’m not really sure I could call this person a scammer. More of a catfish… I guess? Although they might be who they claim but still just wasting my time.

ILuvChubbyChix:
Substantial misrepresentation, or catfishing is also unacceptable and is a potentially ban worthy offense. While they might not being trying to scam you out of money, they often engage in the same kind of behavior. In some ways, it might even be worse, since this is what predators may do.

Certain amounts of fudging is acceptable and even expected. Examples include, but not necessarily limited to might be:

- Height is off by an inch or so.
- Weight is not expected to be up to the day or minute accurate. If you don't want to say, you can use an extreme that clearly doesn't fit the pictures provided (e.g. 100 lbs or 800 lbs).
- You aren't expected to answer income or occupation, etc.
- Location doesn't have to be entirely accurate. It's accepted, even expected that users who don't live in a large city, will often choose the nearest larger city or metro area as a balance between privacy as opposed to cultural and potential meet-up purposes.
- Any pictures of you, if provided, are expected to closely represent what you look like now, or properly represented to mean this is what you looked like in the past.
- No one is expected to potentially highlight negative traits.

I think you get the idea.

This is in contrast to substantial misrepresentation. Where if you were to somehow meet this person face to face, the individual is nothing at all like you expected. Examples of this include:

- Images that look nothing at all like the person, and aren't labeled as such, or it's not immediately obvious it's not.
- Age being incorrect. You can use an extreme outlier if you don't want to answer.
- A male pretending to be female, or vice versa. If you don't want to answer, you can set it to "other." We do recognize that some individuals could discover being trans, but that's why the options of "trans-woman" and "trans-man" exists.
- Pretending to live in another country.

These policies are in place to protect not just you, but both parties in fact. Not to mention, it saves time in case it means you aren't each others' type.

After all, suppose you do ultimately meet the person face to face? What do you think will happen? At best, one person might get up and leave immediately, or might perhaps say something like "Get the fuck out of here, right now." At worst, it could result in severe physical altercation, significant injury, and the police potentially getting involved.

Roleplay isn't prohibited, but you don't have to misrepresent your profile to engage in it, and agree to certain parameters before commencing.

Finally, some more through explanation of one of the rules! 😂

(I wonder about the other rules, is there a thorough explanation for them all?)
6 months

Extreme ssbbw admiration in ot

Olga01:
... Yahweh , because of lack of unconditional faith and love for Him ... sent to them draught, locusts, shortage of food and water...


Yahwen as you put it is a pathological narcisst btw.
6 months

Gaining subcutaneous fat, according to chatgpt

Generally speaking, all this is bullshit. Large language models are nothing more than very good word salad generators. The only reason they, indeed, sound like humans is because very often, humans are as dumb as Chat GPT!
6 months

Anyone here prefer playing games alone?

Kitsune:
I was hesitant to play Smash Bros with my siblings during Easter but I played anyways. Of course, I ended up looking like a tomfool. :'(

I've come to realization that multiplayer games overwhelm me and I prefer to play in single player mode. I rather play for my own enjoyment and not be judged by others. Anyone here in this same boat?

Now, I should play my good ol casual flash games sometime.

Munchies:
Generally, I prefer to play solo, but sometimes, I enjoy playing with other people Depends on my mood.

My favorite multiplayer game will forever be to Fire Boy and Water Girl series. I don't know what it is, but it scratches a particular itch for me.


OMG, my childhood nostalgia hits so hard rn! I still remember how on the jungle temple game there are some wooden planks that hang from a chain (and would tild when you land on them) i would play this with my sister too!
6 months

Tariff impacts on feederism

Enas:
Throughout the history of capitalism, its dynamic center has shifted. There has never been a succesful attempt to stop this, by any country/region that it was leaving from.

I think the only way in which America could get out of this is by building a huge worker coop sector, which will certainly not move anywhere, but the sociopaths running the country will have none of it.

Morbidly A Beast:
How will a huge worker coop help us in a service based debt economy?


A huge worker coop *sector*.

It would alter the very conditions that led you to a service based debt economy in the first place!

For example instead of corporations abandoning workers in your country (which are then left to rot), you would have democratic control of industry by said workers. And, guess what, they would NEVER fire themselves in order to move the production elsewere. You also dont need to start from scratch, the US already has vast amounts of industrial machinery that is simply gathering rust and dust in the moment.
6 months

Tariff impacts on feederism

Throughout the history of capitalism, its dynamic center has shifted. There has never been a succesful attempt to stop this, by any country/region that it was leaving from.

I think the only way in which America could get out of this is by building a huge worker coop sector, which will certainly not move anywhere, but the sociopaths running the country will have none of it.
6 months