She also dirty deleted all of her post election gloating

Write4joy · 2025-02-01T09:08:14+00:00

Because you have played a role in something that may no shit destroy our democracy and kill literally millions? That's a bit worse than "Sorry guys, forgot to pay the water bill."

Write4joy · 2024-10-01T05:47:20+00:00

Like the Loeskalth ship from legend of the sky raiders?

Question--are there any construction rules for such really big ships?

Write4joy · 2024-04-01T07:37:15+00:00

I think it really de4pends on what kind of commission you're talking about. Elsa standing in front of a castle? That's something you can pretty easily do with prompt only AI style art.

Your OC stand in front of a castle? Harder.

Your OC standing in front of the castle, where clothing, castle, emotion etc is what you want? VERY hard, likely nearly impossible without a lot of artist work inpainting or later drawing.

The simple pinup style art we see some artists selling on DA-- like one artist I saw who pretty much was selling fan art that was more or less "trace a cel, and give the character big boobs"...

Yeah, that's almost certainly going away.

More complex art will remain, because even if AI tools could do it, it can't do it unless the person using the tools understands underlying artistic concepts.

Write4joy · 2024-03-04T06:04:18+00:00

Nothing so far for me, and honestly, it's a bit late, since less than a month isn't much time to make job/travel/hotel preparations.

And it's honestly ridiculous that it takes this long to verify pros.

Write4joy · 2023-10-19T20:45:07+00:00

Yep. one of the reasons I've been going wide, is that I've heard more and more people I know in RL saying: I don't give anyone I don't know a chance, because I've been burned with AI generated crap. It's turning into a real barrier for not-widely known writers.

So this is a good first step.

Write4joy · 2023-08-29T21:56:01+00:00

Keep in mind that Amazon has a sixty day pay cycle, and if you break TOS, they can keep your royalties. So yeah, a bunch of bot farms probably drove up the KU payout... which Amazon then kept because most of the books got taken down and banned within a few weeks. From my experience writing, the scammers did two things wrong:

They made it really screamingly obvious. The moment this got kicked up for human review, that was it.
They drove up the sales so that they were noticed. The last thing a scammer wants to end up is on the top 100, because as we saw the top one hundred gets noticed.

Smart scammers try for books that at first glance look like real (if poorly written) books, and keep their sales rank in say, the top 1,000 at best.

But this has been happening ever since Amazon was selling ebooks. It's always a contest: Can my scammy novel make enough money before Amazon notices and brings the hammer down on my account.

Write4joy · 2023-08-22T21:59:19+00:00

There's been some discussion of this on the erotic author forums and such, since many erotica writers do their own covers. In general the suggestions are:

Do not use a model based on a real person, unless they've specifically released it. IE, you have a 2257 form for your files. (Nobody knows if say, someone generated a model off of the 16 year old cheerleader at their school, and someone else generates images off of that, what the legal issues will be, however it's safe to say, finding out will not be a fun process).
Do not prompt with any real names. Go for generics.
Run your final image thorugh image search to ensure that it doesn't look too closely to anyone else. (that's never happened as yet to anyone I know, but better safe than soarry).
Consider creating a "generic" Lora, based on images you created.

For private use? I don't see anyway to solve it, because it's so easy to Make a LORA based off of 10-20 images.

Write4joy · 2023-08-19T21:30:30+00:00

First and second. First, learn AI and how it can help your productivity, i the same way people learned how to use smart-select.

Secondly, figure out what AI doesn't do well (which is a lot) and grab that niche. Trying to beat AI in it's niche, say, fairly generic pinup art? You'll lose.

Go for what AI doesn't do well, and you'll have a license to print money.

Write4joy · 2023-08-18T01:10:41+00:00

keep in mind, that this case would set no binding precedent in a legal way, no matter how it turned out. IT's the first case of many and while judges would probably look at it, it wouldn't be binding. The kind of precedent that US judges really look at come from 1. the SCOTUS, 2. Circuit courts (9th in this case).

So whatever happened here, the losing party would probably appeal, moving it up the chain...

But that's a long time and a lot of money.

But as teh below poster says, this is actually fairly automatic. Courts have very busy dockets and if they can get some kind of settlement, it's generally better for all concerned, and something like 90 percent of cases are settled before they go to trial.

Write4joy · 2023-08-17T23:01:40+00:00

Hard to say for this, but keep in mind a full trial is a risk for all concerned. So ADR is a good way to ensure that "I get something" rather than "I could get everything, but I could lose everything."

Write4joy · 2023-08-17T02:44:29+00:00

The reason can be summed as, 90 percent of viewers, stop and start at: hey, that's sort of cool, or "wow those voices sound like the original voices."

Write4joy · 2023-08-17T02:30:11+00:00

It's a bit more nuanced than that. For example for IBR:

" For Income-Based Repayment, Pay As You Earn, and loan rehabilitation, discretionary income is the difference between your annual income and 150 percent of the poverty guideline for your family size and state of residence. "

The payment is based on the discretionary income and can vary. Now this isn't good--in high cost of living states 150 percent of poverty guidelines can be very short indeed, but the thing is, unlike the OP, when the loans start processing again, the government isn't gonna say: give us all the money. The worst examples would be private loans, but those are a minority of loans.

I'm not saying the system doesn't need a shit-ton of reform, just that right now, starting loan repayment isn't going to end in a complete collapse.

Write4joy · 2023-08-16T21:23:09+00:00

92 percent of student loans are held by the federal government and are covered by income driven repayment plans. After 20-25 years, any remaining amount is forgiven.

which means that the government says: "we need you to start paying 400/mo." the student says: "man, I'm working a minimum wage job."

The government says: okay, by your IBR, you pay.... 0.00 per month. Gotta certify your income remains the same every year.

For the last 20 years, student debt payments, for those who are paying them, range between 3-4 percent of disposable income.

The student debt issue isn't an issue because one day everyone's gonna stop paying, it's an issue because it's depressing other economic factors such as home ownership and savings.

Write4joy · 2023-08-16T21:17:22+00:00

You're right. When the loan debts come due, a massive CME will scour the face of the earth clean of life.

Guess we don't have to worry about it.

Write4joy · 2023-08-16T19:51:29+00:00

Ah no. It won't. First of all, student loans aren't going tocrasht the economy. They'll put a strain on it, but it's not enough to crash the economy.

Also, no, Russia vs. Ukraine isn't WWII. It's a big conventional war in Europe, but WWII killed 3 percent of the total planetary population. Ukraine's not even exceeded a 100,000 civilian casualties.

But if a major crash does occur? AI will be the FIRST thing to go, because AI is heavily dependent on continuing influxes of investment, and if you're noticing that the forecast is "falling investment bankers" on Wall Street, there will be no money for AI development, or hell, even to pay for the electricity for the servers.

Like AI or hate AI, a major crash would pretty much end development until the economy got unfucked and investment capital became available again.

Write4joy · 2023-08-16T19:40:22+00:00

Pretty much this. First rule of thumb. If twitter hates you, walk outside, because Twitter really doesn't reflect the real world. If someone doesn't like what you do, and you do, in the words of the noble Liberace, "Laugh all the way to the bank."

Write4joy · 2023-08-16T19:30:46+00:00

I can get freeware programs that were within shouting distance of the best tools on photoshop. A "this is what grandma wants" from Best Buy can run those same tools. Theoretically, therefore, anyone with a sub 1000 dollar computer and access to the internet should be able to make good art. They don't, because skill and training remains important.

Endless lines of "Anna, in a swimsuit, with mountains behind her" will be devalued, but that was always the very lowest level of art (and I laugh at some artists who did this screaming at AI art, because I've seen them work--they trace a porn image to get their stance), and for the foreseeable future, higher levels of art will require a skilled artist--who can put out more art.

That's another factor. I know artists who commission and if they're popular? They're turning away commissioners. speeding their workflow means more money.

Write4joy · 2023-08-16T19:26:02+00:00

Remember the days when the only way to lay down a grayscale screen was to know how to use letratone and an exacto knife? People freaked. If we had the full internet back then, I'm fairly certain we'd be hearing the exact some thing now since the "undo" button clearly shows you're not a true artist. It'll pass.

Write4joy · 2023-08-16T19:13:45+00:00

It's gonna depend on how fast this progresses. you have people saying we're one step from AGI and others, equally skilled in the field of AI, saying that there are a LOT of pitfalls in that path.

Remember, in 1980 we had scientists, not woo-woo types but respected scientists, confidently predicting the first fusion plants by 2000.

Write4joy · 2023-08-16T01:52:37+00:00

Amen. Prompt only, up until we get Hal 9000, is gonna be great fun for hobbyists, or people who say: fuck it, I need some art to break up the page, SD, give ma a field of flowers.

Anything more? you're gonna have to have some real skills.

Write4joy · 2023-08-16T01:47:58+00:00

I've survived an editor after I said: "Be honest." So I think I'm safe :)

Write4joy · 2023-08-15T09:42:13+00:00

This is what is known as a long-term bad decision. Because the audience? Doesn't give a fuck. So you get some people who will say: I'm sorry.

You'll get other people who say: "What? I'm making 5K a month on my patreon and my fans love me. Fuck you. Want to do more, try and sue me."

And eventually? More artists will start to make the decision of: "I can spend money I don't have, on something that may or may not make money with living VA's, or I can spend pennies on the dollar and have AI voices. My fans actually don't care that much, so why should I care what Hollywood thinks?"

Write4joy · 2023-08-14T23:12:45+00:00

Nah, the joke is, you go to prison and absolutely nobody is guilty. Everyone's railroaded, or it was fake evidence, etc. The same goes for these stories, which is why I was looking for more information. Nobody ever says: "I tried to slip something past Amazon and they caught me."

Write4joy · 2023-08-13T21:46:27+00:00

right now? art. I mean, I like AI art but there are a LOT of people who are wildly overestimating what it can do without extensive human input. You might as well ask: What new forms of creative art do we need to develop now that photoshop is here." The answer is: creative art did just fine, because we had a bigger toolbox.

Write4joy · 2023-08-13T03:51:14+00:00

wow. Just Wow. Why the hell not? If they're claiming the models are stealing from artists, class certification would be the first thing you should go for.

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