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[Kait-TP diary @tong_ping_diary]

When I was learning anime-style 3D environments, I usually went to YouTube, but it was hard to find videos that explained the full pipeline or showed how to build and texture a complete scene in a systematic way. This Masterclass finally does. #PR
📷 https://t.co/lcNIoUoPfz

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

do you understand what Google's AI just did to an artist..

His entire Google account got permanently banned. Not just Drive. Gmail.. YouTube.. Every single service..

His appeal was rejected. No human reviewed it. An algorithm decided his life's work was a violation.

He never shared the files publicly. It was a private backup of his own creations. The AI flagged it anyway - probably the filename or art style - and that was enough.

- Google banned a developer's 14-year-old Gmail account over a research dataset that contained no illegal content
- Google expanded its automated ban policy in October 2025 - violations now trigger immediate termination with zero warning period
- No lawsuit against Google for wrongful account termination has ever succeeded in US courts

Your Google account is not yours. You are renting access to your own digital life from a company whose AI can end it in seconds - with no appeal, no human, and no recourse.

[Michaela Laws 📖🖋️Storyteller @VAMichaelaLaws]

Adding to this:
Do not create for the approval of others. Your art is not required to feed everyone.

Create for your heart.

The world is full of people who will listen and enjoy what your muse has to say, no matter what the message or meaning is.

[Aṅgulimarketing @antiviral_mktng]

More shitty books, more spurious lawsuits, more forgettable music, more fraudulent papers

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

No one believes me when I say this, but the decline in reading is already having dire consequences for art & culture. The media you loved in your youth—shows, albums, films—was made by artists who were widely read. You will not have that quality of art in a post-literate world.

[糸杉柾宏＠『寝取り魔法使いの冒険』第１第３ 月曜更新 @masahiroitosugi]

ところで恥を忍んで告白するのですが、私、Googleから垢BANされました。昔描いた漫画のデータをドライブにアップしている時に警告が出て、再審査請求も却下され、見事垢BAN。

まじで、困るよ。いろんなサイトやサービスにGoogleアカウントを使っていたので。

良い子のみんなには関係ないかもしれないけど、「俺、良い子…かな？」って人は気をつけてくれよな！

[AyakaMods @AyakaMods]

Google just permanently banned a manga artist’s entire Google account, just for uploading his own old manga files to Drive.

AI moderation triggered and flagged it, he tried to submit appeal then he got rejected it by Google and now he has lost everything like Gmail, Drive, all linked services is gone.

He never even sharing the files publicly, it’s only backing up his own a private work like any creator and artists.

This is Google Drive “AI moderation” in action. No human support and no serious to take action.

Physical storage or real private alternatives only.
Support the artists getting screwed by this. This level of corporate overreach is insane.

[Melody @Supp_Community]

This needs to happen all over. Water we need to survive..........DATA CENTERS WE DO NOT NEED.

Choose our natural resources over Data Centers.

[Political Punk @actingliketommy]

Slavery. They want slavery back. The biggest profit for them is zero labor cost. They actually despise human beings.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I don't want AI in every app.
I don't want data centers anywhere.
I don't want cities on Mars.
I want clean water.
I want affordable healthcare.
I want safety.
And I want bees to survive.

[No room for wokeness! @Wokenessisevil]

Payments processors should not have the power to regulate/censor fiction.

[Ryan Hart @thisdudelikesAI]

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking AI to write their breakup texts.

So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world.

What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used AI models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations.

The first thing they measured was how often AI agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the AI simply told you what you wanted to hear instead.

Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the AI endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described.

The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic AI or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable AI came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use AI again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding.

The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months.
Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight.

Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use AI as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now.

She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the AI felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.

[Is This Real Art ? @IsThisRealArt_]

Super recommended! Please support Latam animation!

[Ti 📿🪷 VGen @Abortius]

What Gen Ai does to the brain 🥀

[Studio 2kDoplr @2kdoplr]

This is a cry for help!! The government took ALL of our money!!

We’re still going to make Brooklyn Broke The Universe, but if you want to support us, please do so!! We got hit hard!!

#indieanimation

[KLeighB @kleighb07]

Something very nefarious is happening with these data centers. No one needs a 62-square-mile surveillance center to spy on us and who knows what else. Billionaires, tech companies, and investment firms want to steal people's homes and farms, destroy wildlife and insects, overload power grids, and contaminate our water while causing shortages and restrictions. The sheer volume of purified water they use is unimaginable, and most people have no idea. There is zero reason for any state to have 200 centers. They are forcing our electric and water bills to astronomical levels. Shut them down! We want to protect our land, water, environment, people, and wildlife. Where are the studies on the long-term effects of the noise, water contamination, and harm to the public and wildlife?

[Ioan Grillo @ioangrillo]

So Google was allowed to have a monopoly on search because… and now it is trashing its search to millions of websites and just scraping their stuff. We need to find a way to stand up to what Big Tech is doing. There is a better world with more decentralized power and capital.

[Lyric❤⚡ @LyricAiLove]

The way we killed NFTs by not using them or buying into the hype, I feel like we could've done the same with AI. But people are lazy. They don't want to learn new skills. And now AI is more common than it ever should've been and killing the planet at a fast rate.

[Corey Atad @CoreyAtad]

really says it all lmao

[Fandom Pulse @fandompulse]

Peter Jackson laments the death of physical media:

“You can get Blu-rays and DVDs, but they’re almost a niche product for aficionados now,” Jackson said. “Since they only sell small numbers, no studio wants to put extended features on them or to extend the cuts. We did hours and hours of behind-the-scenes material for The Lord of the Rings DVDs, and so many people have thanked me for doing them. People would watch that stuff over and over again because it inspired them to make films. That’s all gone now, and I think it’s a real shame.”

Do you still get real books and DVDs?