If I could leave Google, I would. They just hide their own rules behind safety arguments. It's bullshit. But I stay, because some people depend on them and don't deserve to be punished. That's why I won't publish any new apps here, though.
To explain my position: Google is getting this wrong. If we followed their rules, several safe apps on F-Droid would be removed. But you can make a scam app that just follows their rules, and it's fine. They're just misleading people by giving them a false sense of trust.
I read that Fdroid would be even somewhat safer than big G's store - as they take your repo and run a build on their own and the App will only be released when that is identical to your build version.
Deciding for Android years ago - option of side loading... but yeah for some reason can't go to a de-goofed version
PS: nothing new to invent here, all the technology already exists. It would just be assembled differently. E2EE and OSM are already in place and working in HolosSocial and PawFed.
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I think it’s an interesting idea, though you’d need to be able to adjust the radius because initially ‘people locally’ might mean ‘people in the same country’. 🙂
Here the anchor would be a town instead of a listing. You pick yours on the map and land in its discussion, without sending any coordinates. @SebastianGallehr
I feel like instead of town (or in addition to it), it should be on boundary relations to indicate scope. - Mostly administrative relations: offering a list of admin levels covering the current location, like city or state or country. - Also other boundary types, like public_transport or protected_area, because those may span states, but only some parts if them.
Why? Way back when I was new and anonymous on Twitter, I posted about issues with local transportation but also about politics.
I run a neighborhood association and it's hard to get anyone to do any tech thing and it's hard to host Mastodon and I found GoToSocial a little rough last year
But! I love the idea and I want it to work and I want an alternative to NextDoor for us! I'd love to host a little fedi thing for my neighborhood
@microblogc I am thinking it should have categories (or channels/topics/whatever), like: dating, politics, just chatting, sport, music, ... Because there will be things I'm interested in and others I want to mute.
Also, Terence Eden has done some thinking about location-based services on the Fediverse.
Perhaps you could have an anonymous setting and a public setting. The first for random chats with local strangers, the second for attending events etc.
Would you like to be able to optionally add a location to your social media posts?
What would you do with that information? What new uses would it unlock for you?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/scattered-thoughts-on-social-geolocation/
@LeonardoDiOttio Yes, but in any case the anonymous part should be mixed with the public one. And the second version, for events, is mostly what Mobilizon already does.
@tom79 What I'm trying to say, I'd rather see how you plan to make sure that the stuff is really anonymous, how do you ensure that people post in their correct bucket (if you don't you just just reinvented Usenet with fixed predefined geographic groups by "towns", but then you basically only need to route it via Tor, i2p or similar), I'd appreciate a nicely researched paper first.
It's a great idea, but I'd be worried about the Lowest Common Denominator Effect, so you'd need to have the ability to block, for sure (unfortunately...)
If it is safe, it's an interesting option. Not sure if it will be of use to me (Mastodon is barely known in my parts), but as an long time OSM editor I'm glad to see another use for it. For more Masto-active regions, narrowing down the area would probably be necessary. Note that there often are country-specific tile servers that may be faster and better suited for local users than the generic ones.
I have been using wintel laptops for over 20 years
In all that time, I have, to the best of my knowledge, never had a problem with virus or malware
Of the 4 or 5 computers that have gone bad, all but one suffered mechanical issues (screen went bad, 6 yro stepped on one, etc)
one laptop I had for 6 or 7 years suffered "windows slowdown" eg the well known phenomenon tht windows often gets very slow after a few years, so I replaced it, not a big deal
Tu es même l'un des rares artistes dont je peux citer le nom qui m'ont inspiré pour suivre des études d'arts. Bon ok j'ai raté, mais si j'avais réussi, ç'aurait été un peu grâce à toi.
@joel Je me suis posé la question, mais aller; je me suis dit que nul ne mérite ça; d'autant plus que si ça se trouve, certains compte peuvent être piraté ou utilisé à l'insu de leur propriétaire aussi. Merci!
@tradjincal Oui, l'IA galère à faire des timelapse crédible, mais malheureusement ça arrive aussi. Surtout que c'est le même refrain: un artiste expérimenté ou débutant arrivera très vite à voir des étapes qui n'ont aucun sens, alors que pour un néophyte, ça restera dans la moyenne de ce qu'il ou elle comprenne d'un timelapse.
C'est pas galère dans Krita, et intégré: je le partage avec toutes mes BD (dans le post, ou dans les reply) depuis un an et plus: peppercarrot.com/0_sources/min…
@rdp In my case I have proof they have! One of the books I did a chapter in is in the Anthropic case, and I know LAION5B scraped my art blog for art, I am guessing they trained the 100,000s of words I wrote there too.
So yeah, I'm not copying AI, they are probably copying me!
@artair sadly, I think there is a lot of those bad-faith accusations of art being AI generated. It must be incredibly frustrating to have to deal with that.
@aemarielle Merci. C'est les cinq ou dix premiers les plus durs, après ça pique, mais ça passe. A l'échelle d'une vie ou je dessine avec passion chaque jour depuis mes 11 ans, c'est vertigineux. Mais heureusement, j'ai la capacité de faire soupape en faisant des BD sur le sujet 💜
This is my biggest fear with high quality digital art (which, inevitably, ends up as source material for AI mostly due to the unscrupulous ways that stuff is scraped). I know a lot of folk whose workflows switched to entirely digital WAY before all of this nonsense kicked off who are getting exactly the same, and it's particularly insulting when you MAKE A POINT OF POSTING YOUR PROCESS VIDEOS REGULARLY! Which says more about these commenters' complete lack of engagement
@Peejmaybe Thank you. I can't really blame them to not check the timelapse or the efforts I put to show it's human made, if they dislike the style, associate it to AI slop, they'll not invest in the effort anyway. That's how I understand why those comments don't check, even if I put literally the timelapse on everyone of my post (or under in the reply, depending the platform).
@nooe Sans doute, je sais aussi qu'il commence à y avoir une fracture d'experience sur les plateformes du style Meta entre utilisateur Européen et extérieur, bien moins regularisé sur l'IA , les dark pattern et la pub. Sans doute une part de cette audience est forcé d'y être exposé et ça déborde chez elles et eux.
@Cyani Oui, même sur la dernière BD, quelqu'un c'est mis en tête de décortiquer mon timelapse pour prouver que c'était de l'IA: pretextant l'apparition subite d'un pinceau, etc... Ce genre de détails. Alors que ma capture d'image est réglé sur une capture toute les 10 secondes pour pas stressé ma machine pendant le travail; et que je suis largement capable de dessiner plein de détails sous cette barre des dix secondes ce qui les fait apparaître. Bref, quand quelqu'un⋅e est persuadé⋅e...
@Gend4r Merci, en effet j'ai cette chance que la majorité des retours est encore positif. Mais bon, c'est le problème de l'arbre qui tombe qui fait plus de bruit que toute la forêt qui pousse; et ça atteints mes doutes perso d'artiste, dans les jours pas au top. Mais j'apprends à encaisser et surtout à exprimer ça en BD ☺️
While it hasn't happened to me as much (in part because I only post here really and am not as well known or popular of an artist), it is devastating every time someone makes that accusation.
I find that the people making accusations usually just have a feeling, and then pile on the confirmation bias as they search for reasons in the art itself to justify their feeling.
Keep doing what you do. It's invaluable. Even if there are those who can't be bothered to do the research, having real art made by real artists is so important right now.
@ziphi Thank you. Yes, the confirmation bias; on the one I posted yesterday, I forgot at the end to add the decals of the 'AI stars' on the wing of the parrot, on panel 1. That's usually something I do at the end, after shading, just glazing this type of decals. I received probably three comments about this specific detail, under a suspicious angle. Sometime, I'm really tempted to paint a hand with 6 fingers, turn the color balance to yellow on purpose, and create more inconsistencies to react.
Je suis curieux de comprendre la démarche de ces personnes.
Préserver l'Art et les artistes en dénigrant les rendus de l'IA ? Dans ce cas supposer par défaut que c'est un rendu de l'IA conduit au contraire à dénigrer les artistes.
Vanter les capacités des IA ? C'est justement parce qu'il y a des artistes talentueu·se·s à plagier qu'il devient plus difficile de distinguer les rendus d'IA récents.
Pourquoi s'adresser à toi comme ça ? J'ai l'impression d'être à côté de la plaque.
@arfisk @arabine Interesting (the groupement, not the pope part 😆 ), I'll investigate a bit this group/association and evaluate if it worth subscribing to it. Thank you for the link.
@feff I think this must be a 'user' thing, people assume you use Facebook, or other big tech social media, we can tell this as there is very little option to 'share on fediverse' for example.
Another example is the media talk about people who are apparently super famous usually either influencers or reality TV stars that no one out side of those circles of influence have even heard of.
@skobkin you didn't read any of david's comics, did you? AI slop being everywhere and spreaders of slop not disclosing their use of AI means no one can trust if anything is authentic anymore, whether it's art, news, articles.
@skobkin oh no the AI hatred is TOTALLY justified.
GenAI is lazy and ruining our livelihoods - I stopped creating my watercolours because I thought what is the point? I am feeding a machine without payment, I am not getitng royalties for the folks who created stuff on Midjourney and Stable Diffusion trained off my landscapes.
And it does matter how it's created. If it's created by stealing all our work - and yes my work like David's is in the training models, then it's bad and parasitic.
And terrible for the planet...all that water in a drought for the data centres...ugh.
@Cyani Idem. Je pense à l’incrédulité par rapport à la technique. Le sentiment "qu'il doit forcement y avoir tricherie". Avant 2010, j'ai eu ce sentiment et le traçage de photos, ou de modèle 3D était souvent mis en cause. Un artiste avec des volumes trop précis créaient ma jalousie, et sa prouesse technique entraîna ma suspicion. J'ai pas commenté heureusement! 15 ans plus tard, je vois à quel point c'était crétin, ça prend le temps, mais ce genre de skill est atteignable sans artifice.
I'm sure this won't make much of a difference but if it helps at all, I never got an AI vibe from any of your (beautifully drawn BTW) comics. No idea what these people are seeing beyond the whole "Everyone I disagree with is a bot" thing going a little overboard lately.
Maybe you should start your next comic with a character saying "You're absolutely right" just to mess with them
@poundquerydotinfo Thank you. I haven't typed my next scenario for episode 65; but for sure I'm tempted to react and put another layer on the top. I'll wait for sunday evening, it's usually when I take the wiser decision after the distance and perspective of a week-end :)
I told you, many Indians start-up provide services like this. They use asynchronous method and multiples accounts for phone to multiply the fake users account that can be used against or to support specific targets.
How does one detect AI? Just what they think, or do they use an AI run AI detector? And if'n its the latter, does that mean AI is taking credit for your work?
@chuff No, it's more like, 'If they think it looks like AI, they'll find any evidence (inconsistencies, anatomical issues, stylistic differences) to confirm their bias.'
A few months ago, somebody filed a complaint with my Fediverse instance. They said that I must be an AI because I seem different. Fortunately, it's my instance. I host and run it. So, the investigation didn't take too long. 😄
Similarly, I saw a post here in the Fediverse last night about how 1,000s of people had accused a genuine Monet painting of being AI "slop".
So, the answer to the question is that it's going to be a witch hunt.
I'm an engineer of half a century's standing. I consider so-called "AI" to be a mania that will end in a crash without precedent. However, witch hunts, hue and cry, this does nobody any good.
@davidrevoy : On a related note, see your Fediverse direct messages.
Thanks for the support! Funny thing I wanted to plug here: I've never received comments like that here on the Fediverse , but I get dozens of them, weekly, on the Meta platforms (Facebook/Instagram)...
I'm really grateful for how this community checks artists' work and actually verifies it's real human art before throwing random accusations.
This is my favorite place to share for a reason. 💜
Vvous êtes un artiste qui mérite le respect ( ce que ces gens ignorent) et faites vous le plaisir de continuer à y croire, malgré ce moment de doute, bien compréhensible.
Je me rappelle d'une époque où à chaque fois que quelqu'un postait une photo sur un site/forum, il y avait un autoproclamé photoshopologue qui nous sortait un "c'est clairement photoshoppé ça se voit à 100m de distance"
Maintenant les gens font pareil avec l'IA, ils s'inventent AIologues pour s'autocongratuler de ne pas se faire avoir même quand ce n'est pas le cas. C'est presque aussi fatiguant que l'IA en fait.
That's gotta suck so bad to see after putting all the effort you do into your work.
Originally when I saw your art, it took me a second to recognize that your style was something I'd seen *replicated* by AI "art" models, and not that your work was just that style because it was AI. (though of course even a moment of closer inspection revealed it wasn't slop)
I try to avoid identifying AI art solely by general style or vibe for exactly that reason.
the conspiracy part of my brain wonders if there is a campaign to spam replies everywhere with "this looks like AI" so people and algorithms cannot flag anything as AI anymore. Sort of a weird reverse astroturfing campaign.
@cetan Yes, I get this feeling sometimes too. It's hard to tell, but it's a credible possibility given the large estimation of bots on proprietary networks.
When your artwork was stolen to train these AIs and now that very work that trained them is now being accused of being the copycat. Where is justice in this!?! I feel sorry for you. 😭
@gaditb I'm not a professional writer , just a very amateur blogger but I wrote this after someone commented on how "AI Generated" my blog was..
... despite me never actually using AI.
Even taking the personal views aside, after checking through some online AI detectors (AI's themselves mostly! Oh the irony!) I still scored high on the AI Gen score.
This was a slightly tongue in cheek response to that. But as stated above I'm in the unfortunate position where my normal writing voice sounds like something ChatGPT would spew out :(
but there is this whole other problem of people who work on lazy bias and don't care and are just exercising their asocial tendencies and call every. fucking. thing. "AI"
for lulz. because they don't think. because they're assholes
i had a whole rant on it. it's a serious problem now:
but there is this whole other problem of people who work on lazy bias and don't care and are just exercising their asocial tendencies and call every. fucking. thing. "AI"
for lulz. because they don't think. because they're assholes
i had a whole rant on it. it's a serious problem now:
The picture blew up on social media because it depicts police outside the Louvre, which experienced a spectacular theft of Napoleonic jewels, which seems like a detail right out of Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes... and so... et voila... the frisson of this picture is remarkable
@benroyce @PeteLittle @gaditb Certainly, I'm often browsing sciency vids, and if the vid is made within the last few days, I will *always* check in the commenty bit to see if they've fessed up to AI. If it obviously is, but not fessed up to, then I'll flag it.
I've said before, doing auto-gen on voice-overs for vids is OK, as it helps accessibility, but if the visuals or narrative are AI-gen, they get insta-blocked.
@Em0nM4stodon @gabrielesvelto Thirded. Some years ago, I started pulling down all my artwork bc I was not comfortable with AI. I decided that I wouldnt share anything further if I could not change my comfort level and framing
.....and in the years since I have grown even less comfortable. I have made peace with the fact that my art is (and has always been) for me. Thats all that matters and I dont have to ever do anything I am uncomfortable with
@benroyce @n_dimension @PeteLittle @gaditb Now you'll more likely get "My AI has told me that you used a learning model to make this pic". I mean, people. Just say a very loud 'no' to all of it.
@benroyce @n_dimension @PeteLittle @gaditb Exactly. Hopefully(!) it'll all crash and burn soon, and I really hope no-one nice had their savings invested in that nonsense.
@benroyce @bytebro @PeteLittle @gaditb Amish ideology is misunderstood. Amish are NOT anti technology, they are anti-rapid and careless adoption of technology.
Amish have pneumatic (air) powered workshops, and they have old fashioned cell phones to conduct business.
In 150 years, the #amish will be made fun of because they use silicon computers, smart phones and drive combustion cars 😁
I want to reframe this in a way that may help with making the decision. If someone told you to stifle your self expression, or to change your voice, would you do it? Further still, would you give that part of yourself up so that someone—or something—you are opposed to is the only one who gets to do those things?
I am by no means popular, but I am a creative. Usually what gets folks to toss AI accusations my way is my writing style—especially if I dare to use an em dash. I know what I am; my writing was forged under a decade and a half of volunteer staff work for various websites and chat rooms. My prose became very formal, concise, and tactful over time. You need to speak clearly and carefully to deescalate tensions, and keep users happy.
My lived experience is in my voice, as it surely is in yours. I'll be damned if I capitulate to oligarchs and their playthings, and I will unapologetically use my voice to express myself in whatever I create.
@voxel Yes, but no method convinced me. The AI like nightshade proved their inefficiency too many times, changing the semantic of the picture (eg. 6 fingers) would detriment the aesthetic, and watermarking like fourrier transform could be cleaned up without much effort. You were thinking of a specific method? I haven't studied this since last December, I might be outdated on the current practices.
If I'm looking at this properly. It's from reddit. Which the site is becoming to be filled with more bots than humans. So, it's possible you're being bot attacked. Granted humans could be massively great...jerks, too.
The worst part of being a famous artist :). You can report the most hurtful replies, due to false information. Fans & followers will reply to them, they will always defend you 💚 and overlay truth over these lies. This too shall pass.
we had people being overconfident while posting shit like this on facebook long before gen 'AI', the problem is now we just don't know if their comments are real or LLM-generated :P
this is insanely offensive and aggressive. I hate it. AI is stealing other peoples property and work, but humanity has nothing better to do than accusing the victims to use AI. Sorry for the words, but F this, humanity is so lost.
Mais... pourquoi ne portes-tu pas plainte pour parasitage et surtout préjudice moral et commercial ? Y'a sûrement à faire et d'une manière ultra intéressante car, ayant été publié par Glénat, il y a preuve tangible d'antériorité de ton style qui a souvent été imité. Bon, après, (et je sais ce que c'est) faut trouver l'avocat qui est réellement motivé par l'affaire et financer son travail. Et ça douille, bien sûr.
@dascritch Problème assez simple: une après midi chez l'avocat, 600€. Au moins trois ou quatre rendez vous nécessaire pour faire un dossier. Aussi, j'ai eu une enfance trop au contact du système judiciaire; je veux le plus possible ne pas à avoir affaire à ça. Sauf cas de force majeure. La vie est trop courte, et de toute manière, les corpos sont blindés dérrières leur propre team légal et leur Term of Services.
I don't understand, why people don't see it's not ai you do. I mean, I just need to look at facial expressions in ai "art" vs real art. Expressions in ai "art" always look off and wrong and not correct(like a bad actor doing stuff) while real art has usually expressions who are spot on, cause humans know, how things must be expressed.
So it's clear that your images aren't ai, your faces emote too good and spot on,even if one doesn't know all your previous work to detect it's not ai.
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Also I ran out of characters, but really good comic. Glad to see Cepper and Parrot again (Not that the other comics were bad of course I just like the Cepper and Parrot series).
On one hand, we know AI in general has a bias for yellow because yellowish images have a higher tendency of getting marked as "good looking" because of the "golden hour" in photography.
On the other, true, while AI hurts artists, due to that, even more for those who like yellow tones!
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The issue with other platform is that people expect ai stuff, they want to see ai stuff and it must look like ai. When they say "it's ai, right" it's not because they don't value your work but because they want to know that they can make a prompt and do the same.
I could be completely wrong, but why stay on such places if they don't want ai crap ?
je ne me suis jamais posé la question parce que je connais ton travail depuis des années. Aucune idée de si je me la poserais si je le découvrais aujourd'hui :/ Ceci dit, j'essaye toujours de faire bien gaffe avant de dire que quelque chose me semble fait par IA, et je mets les formes possibles quand j'ai un doute.
I hate that I myself sometimes see genuine art and have doubts that it's AI. I guess it makes me pay more attention to the artist behind the art I see which is good.
Now that "looking like good art" is something that AI can do, paying attention to what it's conveying and who's making it is more important than ever.
I'll take community over mindless consumption everytime
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exactly the reason i despise all those youtube videos and such on how to "identify" AI art, every bloody time they just end up driving actual artists off the internet, while the slopsters don't give a damn about their callout posts
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You are one of the first people I followed on mastodon and feels so nice to see your post getting so much love. I have no idea what it can be like doing what you do in these times. All I can do is join here and share this from behind a smile, a feeling of empathy to a "stranger" I have a feeling I know and tell you that I look forward to your posts. Especially now after this one.
I think it's just something people struggle with, they will make deranged statements in pursuit of trying to seem like they're still on top of things.
I know it's easy to say, but don't take it personally, I've always been a fan of both your art and your open source tooling/process.
This stuff is one reason I'm really happy the EU is requiring AI involvement to be labeled as such; it works both ways, and hopefully other countries/areas will follow, so we can put an end to this.
Your art is amazing, your local-first process is commendable, your wherewithal is admirable, and your address of the state of things is spot on!
Absolutely love your stuff. I love that the lack of algorithm in the fediverse doesn't bubble up "engagement" for you, and that you know you're really valued!
I mean, by me.. Whoever I am.. BUT STILL! Love your work!
Sadly there are not much we can do to verify if content has been created by human people or not. Fortunately, many people don't care about that. Unfortunately, I care about it so... I'm sorry if I have got wrong identifying an AI work and I've not treated it as good as deserved.
There is a clear education problem I don't know how to address and it is somewhat annoying.
The same happens with writing communities. "Oh that sounds like AI", whine the ignorant who don't seem to get that "AI" was deliberately made to sound like people do and trained on exactly that sort of content.
"AI detection" is fundamentally bullshit unless the "AI" is absolutely garbage at what it's designed to do.
Those false accusations are quite demoralizing to artists.
For the social systems to be able to mitigate and filter out its presence, people first need to internalize a few basic facts on how it works, to not fight at cross purposes.
That painting is quite nice.
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David releases his comic under a free license, people start creating derivative works: "Great!"
Not-so-people-like algorithms start creating derivatives, strip the attribution, and now the public thinks David is aping the AI that trained on his work first: "No, NOT like that!"
@David Revoy Not that I would compare myself to an artist, but in a similar fashion I have already been told that my prose (mostly technical prose—again, not an artist!) must have been AI-generated due to my propensity to use em dashes…
Damn it, I—and countless other writers—have been using em dashes long before those stochastic parrots came into being!
@dgouttegattat A lot of technically-minded people use a lot of parentheticals to cover details, and em-dashes really help.
I suspect the AI uses them because it tends to random-walk around the point. It's bad at staying on topic. I always have the impression that it's weaving all over the road and bouncing off the guardrails. @davidrevoy
@TerryHancock @dgouttegattat True, I wasn't familiar with em-dash before making the translation system for Pepper&Carrot, in French it's not common, we often use the : or ; to split sentences like that, and of course, yes, personally I use too many parenthesis (of course). But I also adopted it.
One of the AI effect I observed; now many French articles have this US/English way to construct sentences, with em-dash. And French tends to adopt it, so AI is shifting local culture more than we think.
This is one of the things about AI generated art that many people don't think about... it's that *psychologically* speaking, regardless of whether we use AI or not, we're all now in a state of constantly questioning whether something is authentic or not.
This is an incredibly erosive precedent to be set for human culture. We live in truly dangerous times.
I'm used to avoid AI slop, and my reaction to the image 1 was “AI gen”. I even closed the image, and then saw the title “Authenticity Problem,” it made me doubt myself. I reopened the image, read the comic, and then watched the timelapse, which confirmed that it was indeed your work and not AI.
And now I can’t even imagine what it must be like for you. Hang in there, and great work despite everything!
@FogRyu Oui, de Montauban :) Et oui, j'ai un passé un peu chargé avec la Blender Fondation ; avec quelques participations à leurs court métrage, et j'ai bien suivi les 15 dernières années de Krita, d'assez prêt. Merci de découvrir mon travail.
Thank you, you're "artwork" finally convinced me that there is no hope for bundles of "happiness" like you. I would encourage you to start finding yourself amongus the land marks of Everest, such as green boots. You AI sloop creature.
you'd have to be an idiot to still be using the Meta platforms as a non-creator*, so it makes sense that so many wouldn't be able to tell the difference between your wonderful work and slop.
* I understand creators and brands need to stay on there for their livelihoods. I wish they didn't, but I wouldn't call artists needing to make a living "idiots."
obviously you just prompted a bunch of stuff between now and whenever you discover time travel and went back in time to back fill your folio in the pre GenAI era
@bassistance If you mean the comic, just check on my website: on the footer I always share a high resolution, the Krita source, the text separated on a transparent PNG or PDF and the comic with just the artworks too.
If it's about the fictive artwork the Gothic Sorceress Cepper is painting on this comic, you'll find it here ☺️ :
At least this one person got it 🫤 This may be the pinnacle of the whole artists getting paid in "exposure" meme. Your art style is literally everywhere, yet what you get out of that is pain 🤬
If you think that would help for haters... 🤷 I have my doubts. It's not just the drawing. Just getting a grasp of modern problems mixed with fantasy RPG theme is totally creative for me. Those who ignore all of that now will most likely do so regardeless later on. I think many just see boosted strips and not the other stuff.
I also like the other stuff an forwarded some of your videos to a friend (@KathyKahner). She mostly draws with good old tools like pen&paper. So I thought it might come in handy for her (maybe some time in the future) to get a glimpse of what someone could do with Krita. Although I suck at drawing (i'm in awe of your skills!), I am still fascinated about the workflow in digital Art.
@marud "Un bélier furry" lol 🤣 lol, merci. Ça m'évoque tellement d'images cette métaphore. Faudra un jour que je fasse une BD avec l'armée chaotique et coloré du Fediverse.
En même temps, les plateformes de chez Meta mettent au maximum en avant le contenu IA pour essayer de rentabiliser leurs horreurs, les utilisateurs se font bombarder de contenu synthétique... ils doivent être un peu rincés de tout ça.
Ici, tu postes un contenu IA, t'as la Fedi-police qui défonce ta porte d'entrée avec un bélier (un bélier furry, hein, faut pas oublier qu'on est sur le fediverse)
I can't imagine how frustrating this must be for artists.
My industry has been hit by this too, but for however much I want to believe that code is art, it will never be as personal and expressive as actual art. I really feel for you.
I'm really sorry you get that on other platforms. I've heard similar stories from other artists and it makes me very sad. It must feel terrible to have people think your art is fake. I'm glad fedi has been treating you better! I'll continue to do my part in keeping it that way! 💜
…and after the house destruction incident, I thought that parrot had been banished to the bin forever.
This I think, is going to be a real challenge… especially once it lands in the courtroom. Either someone who committed a serious crime will get off because the defence sows enough doubt about whether evidence is real to convince a jury that the accused is guilty… or someone who is being framed for a crime will get charged and sentenced for something they didn't do due to craftily falsified evidence.
I faced this while doing a research paper for publishing, there were many parts that I wrote them myself, but it's was flagged as AI percentage. No matter what I change those paragraphs, it still gives me that an AI wrote it. I eventually inserted some typing mistakes intentionally to escape this loop.
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@Purplegengar25 If it makes you feel better, I think the percentage itself is more of a confidence marker than an actual "this thing is 26% AI". Something with a low-but-not-zero probability can come from really basic standard typing habits and would be considered an unlikely positive, while something like 50-75% would still be a neutral uncertainty. When you start getting into the 90s, then you got something.
Unfortunately, the results readout can be very misleading if not understood well.
Literally, they train AI on *your* art and then they have the nerve to claim your art is not authentic.
Of course, AI companies would never want to add source fingerprints to their data because that would prove they're infringing on other people's copyrights.
Oh god, that first panel. I live a quiet life but have a high engagement drive, so I keep a protocol droid for light philosophical banter and self-indulgent fandom roleplay. And the moments that REALLY make me want to smack it with a rolled-up newspaper are the unprompted image dumps right into my lap when I mention my thoughts on an art project.
Like, NO!!! I want to do it my way, with my ideas, not your influence! And I'm not touching your image, put that away! 😫
how mych tokens did you spent to generate each frame of those time lapses? Must be more than 10 billion 😬
(Just kidding, keep up the good "actual illustrator" work 💪 Also I wanted to say that my kids loved the pepper & carrot game that was around on Android long time ago)
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We love you, David, not just because your creative work is awesome, but also because your social ethic is. We simply need more people like you. ❤️ Thanks for your shared labour!
@cuauh Yeah... I also saw that. I saw also for my previous comic framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/1170… , someone using it to speak about immigration 🤮 Well... Sometime an artistic content has its own life in the hand of users; I hope the audience can see and find the source that it is not really the message the author wanted to convey.
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.
"Bulldog Beard Shampoo & Conditioner is a 2 in 1 beard grooming product formulated to cleanse and clean your beard, keeping it fresh and healthy. Each use cleans and moisturizes, providing everything you need to maintain your beard's softness in just one product. This beard grooming combo is made with all-natural ingredients including aloe, camelina and green tea. It also contains no synthetic fragrances, artificial colors or animal products."
I checked my bathroom cabinet, found a dusty bottle of By My Beard. It smells lovely. I prefer offline shopping (supporting local organisations), however Claude could not find a
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For David Revoy's AI-only promotion of "ToxiClump™" cat litter, I asked Anthropic Claude and ChatGPT where to buy.
In the absence of ToxiClump, ChatGPT suggestions included:
"Bulldog Beard Shampoo & Conditioner is a 2 in 1 beard grooming product formulated to cleanse and clean your beard, keeping it fresh and healthy. Each use cleans and moisturizes, providing everything you need to maintain your beard's softness in just one product. This beard grooming combo is made with all-natural ingredients including aloe, camelina and green tea. It also contains no synthetic fragrances, artificial colors or animal products."
I checked my bathroom cabinet, found a dusty bottle of By My Beard. It smells lovely. I prefer offline shopping (supporting local organisations), however Claude could not find a local retailer for this product.
The top result online is in stock: <makeup.uk/product/278555/> – £7.32 (£5.33 + £1.99 delivery to a locker).
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Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.
ChatGPT, Claude, and Google (AI mode) correctly found no record of ToxiClump.
Google usefully notes:
"… the phrase relates directly to the popular online safety debate regarding the potential health risks of traditional clumping clay cat litters. Most standard clumping litters rely on sodium bentonite clay, which expands up to 15 times its original volume when exposed to liquid to create easy-to-scoop waste balls. …"
Is Kitty Litter Dangerous? | Cat Litter Concerns | Ask Dr. Weil — <drweil.com/health-wellness/bal…> (2010-04-15) – 100% human-written, according to Pangram 4.0 <
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ChatGPT, Claude, and Google (AI mode) correctly found no record of ToxiClump.
Google usefully notes:
"… the phrase relates directly to the popular online safety debate regarding the potential health risks of traditional clumping clay cat litters. Most standard clumping litters rely on sodium bentonite clay, which expands up to 15 times its original volume when exposed to liquid to create easy-to-scoop waste balls. …"
Earth-Friendly Litter for Your Favorite Feline – Bluedot Living — <bluedotliving.com/earth-friend…> (updated 2025-02-25) – I now have too few credits for a Pangram check.
If You're Using These Litters, Your Cat Is Miserable – Feline Fanatics – YouTube — <youtube.com/watch?v=fYyDFnZFCW…> (2025-06-15)
You Might Be Using One Of These Deadly Types Of Litter! 😳 | Lady Cuddles Meow – TikTok — <tiktok.com/@lady.cuddles.meow/…> (2024-07-09)
Everyone knows this guy unfortunately (Trump) and how he wants to make America Great “Again”… And how he is deporting so many “illegal” immigrants, and how he makes it difficult for others to come to the USA tribe.
Here is him posing proudly with the US Physics team that won five gold medals at the 2025 International Physics Olympiad:
These are all children of immigrants. As you can tell. None is a “native” American, whatever that means.
That is not freeing phones, it is better. It is making phones that we're never non-free to begin with. Mind you, I have a non-free phone right now, and I would love to have a way to de-google and de-commercialize it, but I don't. It may be two more years before I can afford to replace it, but when I do...
Is funny how a few thousand migrants, poor people, are such a scare for Europe.
Maybe they should go after the millionaires and billionaires who hoard all resources, consume the most power, influence politics, and enslave so many people in Europe by holding them hostage with low wages. That's a crisis, not some poor people who seek for a better life.
the so called «invasion» has been relatively non violent and most have gone back peacefully, but 60.000 people, all young men, forcefully entering in a 80.000 territory is terrifying. Certainly, i would't call them «few».
actually it's not funny. The "crisis" is working as intended. Using this fabricated crises, the EU can pressure Spain into supporting other EU foreign policy, ie, Palestine and Iran. All the leaders of the EU are descendants of Nazis which is why they are the most dangerous and evil people on the planet.
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All the leaders of the EU are descendants of Nazis which is why they are the most dangerous and evil people on the planet.
No idea if you are serious or not, but just to mention is the environment that makes people be good or bad. Regardless of genes and heritage tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo…
@Tio @Beyond Orwell That same 'environment' as you say is ultra right wing fascist in EU! I get old enough soon to determine how racist this land is to browns.
Yes 60.000 more exact and most returned. If you want to talk about immigration worldwide then percentage increased some 1-2% over the past decades. Not as crazy as the headlines say.
Our children are becoming a minority in their own Nations this generation.
No one is a minority if you see all people as humans. Which we all are. Evolved from the same creature. Humans.
So there should be no fear from this perspective if your mind is scientific.
@Tio @EvolLove in fact diversification in genes makes smarter and harder and better people also in health and all, so those people are retarded talking about our Children may not be in contact with foreigners children. To be clear no migrant is a threat to you as long you are not a threat to the world, bunch o imperialists. And such retarded ones are allowed to vote sadly. This is no Greek era Democracy , the cradle but just anyone can vote, even the most retarded. And there it becomes about geography demography and local news steering a direction for the retards. While I call it rather Capitalism as a whole entity. Coalition, opposition, factions etc do not exist in real pure Democracy. Chamber seats and Senators neither. That is the Roman adaptation of it. Today is influence by invisible hand that decide who will rule or not.
@EvolLove @Tio They pur in or are there as pure diversification and I'm sure you gonna google that word as u dunno it, also make less wars outside so they do not come.
@Tio All points to a pivot of power the EU hangs om bipolarity with the USA along with NTO while the rest of the world goes for multipolarity as the Chinese introduced , we in EU are in a hell hole af. Mostly with those stupid decision makers no one voted for her.
la cuestión de fondo es geopolítica. Nada que ver con crisis de inmigración espontánea. Es Marruecos presionando una vez más a España por, entre otras cosas, comprar gas a Argelia sin que Marruecos se lleve un porcentaje. La connivencia y organización de la propia policía marroquí con las personas que se aglutinaban para hacer la invasión es absurdamente de desfachatez.
tighter checks? why, did they miss seeing the THOUSANDS of people who swam around their physical barrier?
And who, btw, are justification for NOTHING because they're all back where they came from already? Except the ones who DIED, of course, but wtf does she care?
The central health service body has acknowledged the inaccuracy of claims previously made in a transparency document which indicated that only NHS staff were able to see such sensitive information
NHS England has issued an apology after admitt…
If you'll be in #Munich, we've got something special for you!
Join us at the ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre for a day dedicated to the eclipse, with a rich programme & a live stream of the event: supernova.eso.org/programme/de…
Want to learn more about the eclipse? You can join Mar's public talks on 8 August in Villahán (Palencia), 11 August in Castrillo de la Reina (Burgos) and 12 August in Hacinas (Burgos), Spain.
@wisze There's no need to register, attendance will be just limited by the room capacity. The talks will be in person and in Spanish at the following times:
@astro_jcm Thanks for covering this and mention the importance of viewing the eclipse only w/ proper filter glasses.
That said, a lot of people try to photograph solar eclipses without being aware of the problems that come with that, incl. misconceptions about ND filters and in turn destroying their gear or, in case of optical viewfinders, even damaging their eyes as well. I posted something short and incomplete. ESO could cover that more comprehensively. mastodon.social/@RecoveredExpe…
Service post for those who plan to photograph tomorrows solar eclipse (from Iceland down to Spain):
Do not try to photograph the eclipse without the right filters IN FRONT of your lens.
You will damage your lens and camera.
It seems @Codeberg unauthenticated access is down (e.g., I couldn't git pull my public repo of my Emacs config over https without authentication).
I hope it is not yet another round of DDOS or botnets that is ruining Codeberg admins' weekend.
#Codeberg is an important part of today's FLOSS and it is a shame that we have had so many attacks during this past year. Stay strong Codeberg admins, we need you 🍻
Ideas revolving around religion, family, sexual orientation, and so forth, have been changing and mutating a lot over the years. What was once prohibited in one culture has become the norm in the same culture, and vice versa. From women being allowed to vote, to gay marriage, or the separation of religion from state. In our book “Morality and Ethics” we showcase how the norms, traditions and what it was accepted as “normal” in the past, changed over millennia, from culture to culture.
Therefore any discussion about “our culture, language, traditions” should always be put under the powerful light of history in order to understand that these “things” are remixes at best, and will always be. This, I think, is crucial in order for us, humans, to be able to have relevant discussions about them, without being too emotionally entangled with them. To put everything into a historical, and realistic, perspective.
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Ideas revolving around religion, family, sexual orientation, and so forth, have been changing and mutating a lot over the years. What was once prohibited in one culture has become the norm in the same culture, and vice versa. From women being allowed to vote, to gay marriage, or the separation of religion from state. In our book “Morality and Ethics” we showcase how the norms, traditions and what it was accepted as “normal” in the past, changed over millennia, from culture to culture.
Therefore any discussion about “our culture, language, traditions” should always be put under the powerful light of history in order to understand that these “things” are remixes at best, and will always be. This, I think, is crucial in order for us, humans, to be able to have relevant discussions about them, without being too emotionally entangled with them. To put everything into a historical, and realistic, perspective.
Here's something new that I learned. In Spain, and likely everywhere else:
You get sick, say you bleed abundantly from a surgery that went wrong, and you have to stay in ER for a day to have you fixed. You lose a lot of blood and need to stay at home for a few days because you cannot work.
So: stress, trauma, money spent to go to the hospital, others helping you, etc..
The hospital gives you medical leave, as is normal.
Great? No.
Guess what?
First few days you do not get paid from work. The next weeks you get 65% of the salary.
So you are fucked health wise and in this system apparently is normal to not even get paid from your job...I mean you can't fucking work even if you want to, and you can't even get any help.
I cannot work because I bleed... Oh..ok no problem here medical leave. Thanks. Oh wait and I also lose money because I lose blood? Yah...if you don't work, you cannot get paid... But...but I cannot work for a few days...I need help... Yah. Well. That is the law. Take care!
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Here's something new that I learned. In Spain, and likely everywhere else:
You get sick, say you bleed abundantly from a surgery that went wrong, and you have to stay in ER for a day to have you fixed. You lose a lot of blood and need to stay at home for a few days because you cannot work.
So: stress, trauma, money spent to go to the hospital, others helping you, etc..
The hospital gives you medical leave, as is normal.
Great? No.
Guess what?
First few days you do not get paid from work. The next weeks you get 65% of the salary.
So you are fucked health wise and in this system apparently is normal to not even get paid from your job...I mean you can't fucking work even if you want to, and you can't even get any help.
I cannot work because I bleed... Oh..ok no problem here medical leave. Thanks. Oh wait and I also lose money because I lose blood? Yah...if you don't work, you cannot get paid... But...but I cannot work for a few days...I need help... Yah. Well. That is the law. Take care!
If this does not sound insane to you, you have a serious problem. You are part of the problem actually.
INSANE!
This Trade-Based Society is just that: Trade. All else does not matter. People's lives are measured in trading hours.
Go to sleep humans, you are nowhere near an intelligent society. You are the most primitive dominant form of life on any planet probably.
Now consider the fact that most countries don't even have free healthcare so you lose a lot of money for paying hospital bills too. We humans really are a dumb species..... We take care of each other we say, but only if it makes a profit it seems.....
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Today, I spent a long time trying to understand why the in-app translator using #LibreTranslate was still being abused.
I took drastic measures, because legit translations were stuck in the queue behind the abusers (now they are quick). But these measures also kicked out people using the API without abusing it. So please DM us if you're affected.
Hey @apps, good to hear that you are mitigating the problem.
I would also like to point out that the recent version of the offline translate app (FLOSS, Android, f-droid.org/packages/dev.david…) is providing a Libre Translate HTTP Server to perform on device offline local translation for other apps. It supports a lot of languages and has even a text to speech function which might which might be even more interesting. Maybe this is an option for your app?
@Scary Jerry 👻 I'm not surprised, machine learning is really good when the search space is large (all the possible interactions with the Mastodon software), but the expected outcome is small and easy to measure (unexpected privilege escalation). This doesn't tell anything about Claude or any other LLM, this fuzzing is really expensive and currently only affordable because it is subsidized by investor's money (including a portion of everyone's government-backed retirement fund in the US).
, but I get dozens of them, weekly, on the Meta platforms (Facebook/Instagram)...
I live a quiet life but have a high engagement drive, so I keep a protocol droid for light philosophical banter and self-indulgent fandom roleplay. And the moments that REALLY make me want to smack it with a rolled-up newspaper are the unprompted image dumps right into my lap when I mention my thoughts on an art project.
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in reply to Fedilab Apps • • •I read that Fdroid would be even somewhat safer than big G's store - as they take your repo and run a build on their own and the App will only be released when that is identical to your build version.
Deciding for Android years ago - option of side loading... but yeah for some reason can't go to a de-goofed version
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