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living in sketchy times

[Romain Revert @romainrevert]

An absolute legend passed away.

Murakami Katsushi.

His art always made me dream so much. I think about it every day. I will always cherish his work until my own death.

Thank you for everything.

[abax @aybacks]

artists PLEEEEASE update your menus and TOS to include not to feed your artwork to AI

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

This right here is why you don't hate AI enough. You're going to lose an entire generation of talented, amazing artists over a technology designed to eradicate the need for workers, entirely built from stolen work. Fuck this so hard and fuck people who make excuses for it.

[Samuel Deats 🌕 @SamuelDeats]

More than half of internet traffic is bots, half of what we read is AI, pretty soon half of what we see will be AI, do we not see the problem with this dumb fuck future

[Lacradores Desintoxicados 🏳‍🌈 @LDesintoxicados]

Acho incrível que até uns anos atrás, não tinha IA e todo mundo realizava trabalhos normalmente.

Aí, de repente, ninguém sabe fazer mais nada, todo mundo PRECISA usar IA, porque é um grande avanço...

Para mim, uso de IA é o suprassumo da incompetência.

[Samuel Deats 🌕 @SamuelDeats]

So shareholders were lied to about how AI models were trained exposing the companies to legal risks and they're pissed.

Generative AI is theft and we all know it. Glad they're catching up.

[animator_supporters @animatorsupport]

This year, we have fallen far short of our fundraising goal, making it difficult to maintain the dormitory.
We would be very grateful for your support.
Help us keep our doors open!
This is an animated message from one of this year’s new rookies!

[Samuel Deats 🌕 @SamuelDeats]

Generative AI is built on the stolen art, photos, videos, films, voices, music, writing, journalism, private data, and so on of countless people. It's nothing short of theft.

They saved money by hiring fewer concept and VFX artists, period. Because the AI stole from them.

[Joan @_Meloku]

We've learned of the passing of Ryoichiro Kezuka at just 36 years old. He was the author of the manga Onban Kiko (Record Journey), in which he shared his love of music and vinyl records. He was one of the most promising and talented young artists. I'm completely shocked...

[D.SLOOGS 🔜 CEO @AngryangryD]

Still remember how this conversation started years ago and now the time is finally here.

This took many months of style study to solidify the art direction and create the final look for the show. There were late nights filled with lots of technical tests to get this as accurate as possible to classic animation, and many storyboards and other test animations to prototype the final product. And all while drowning in tons of work and deadlines.

So to see this cross the finish line with the help of talented artists and friends is a huge relief. Thank yall 🙏Congrats and I’m so happy your vision is finally coming to life.

[bONGO 🌐 @wariocolosseum]

god i can’t wait to see this evil ass company crash and burn

[Onii Chan @oniichanph]

Rest in peace to the woman behind Kiki’s Delivery Service 🕊️

Akiko Hayashi, the legendary Japanese picture-book author and illustrator, passed away at the age of 81. While anime fans may know Kiki’s Delivery Service through Studio Ghibli’s 1989 film, Hayashi was the artist behind the illustrations of the novel, giving readers one of the earliest printed images of Kiki and Jiji before the story became an anime classic.

Hayashi was best known for her warm, delicate portrayals of childhood in books like Miki’s First Errand, Good Evening Mr. Moon, Aki and the Fox, and There’s a Hippo in My Bath! Her work captured small emotions with rare tenderness: a child’s nervous first step, a quiet moment under the moon, or the courage hidden in everyday life.

Her illustrations helped shape the visual memory of generations, from picture-book readers in Japan and Korea to fans who later discovered Kiki’s story through Ghibli.

Rest in peace, Akiko Hayashi 🌙

[Samuel Deats 🌕 @SamuelDeats]

In an era where real human-made art and animation is at serious risk I beg folks to please support this gorgeously crafted film. Those folks have been through hell to finally get it made and out there and they deserve success.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

It’s been confirmed - Anthropic is pushing hard for the Australian government to legalise IP theft.

This would be an outrageous thing to do. Generative AI competes with the people whose work it is trained on. Legalising the theft of creatives’ work would represent a huge transfer of value from struggling creatives to some of the biggest and most predatory companies in the world.

Australians’ life’s work is not the government’s to give away.

[AnimeTrends @animetrends]

KODANSHA DESTRUYE A OTRA MANGAKA

El escándalo corporativo de la editorial Kodansha empeoró drásticamente tras revelarse una nueva y brutal denuncia por parte de otra de sus artistas.

Maru Kayata, ilustradora de "The Girl, the Shovel, and the Evil Eye", confesó que la empresa retuvo injustamente sus pagos por más de un año e ignoró por completo su alarmante deterioro físico.

A pesar de sufrir una severa pérdida de peso, la directiva la obligó a seguir trabajando en condiciones inhumanas.

Esta nueva denuncia confirma que el reciente abuso a la autora de "Cells at Work!" no fue un caso aislado, sino una cultura laboral destructiva.

La explotación es el estándar.

[Michael @TheMG3D]

How high do prices have to get for people to start being anti AI?

[XO @MEGUjuke]

Japan's Fair Trade Commission used AI art in a campaign about protecting anime creators.
When criticized, they said the AI user was paid.
The AI couldn't even figure out which side of a pen tablet is the front.

[Michael @TheMG3D]

Yes let’s hate the technology that is built off of theft, is used to scam people, increased RAM prices by 300%, uses a lot of water, uses a lot of electricity, pollutes our air, poisons our communities, takes away our jobs, creates deepfake nudes of people

I can go on

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

Translation: We're exploiting people and their work.

[Kala Elizabeth @kalaelizabeth]

Remember to thank generative AI for these console prices btw. The next gen of Xbox and PS will probably be even worse. It's bleak, all because of some predatory unethical tech that is destroying the planet