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Benjamin (leaving for 🦋@benjami.no)

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Benjamin (leaving for 🦋@benjami.no)

@stealcase

art, gamedev, accessibility. 100% human. He/Him bluesky 🦋@benjami.no 🚨 Involuntary Training Data Provider. 🚨

Joined January 2016

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Benjamin (leaving for 🦋@benjami.no)
@stealcase
Jan 19, 2023
I post a lot of criticism about AI. Despite being above-average excited about AI for the last 12 years. It is the ethics, not the tech, I have issues with. This isn't a "Prompter vs Artist" issue. This is a "path of humanity" issue.
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Benjamin (leaving for 🦋@benjami.no)
@stealcase
Jun 3, 2024
Finally somebody is expressing the appropriate level of vocal outrage at Google's mass adoption of AI.
Adam Conover
@adamconover
Jun 2, 2024
Google’s monopoly ruined what search engines could’ve been, and now AI is making it worse.
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Benjamin (leaving for 🦋@benjami.no)
@stealcase
Feb 15, 2024
Greg Rutkowski, a legendary artist infamously dehumanised as a default prompt in many AI interfaces and used in millions of [re]generations, has started using Nightshade to poison the images he puts online. 💀 Historic moment of artists fighting back.
Greg Rutkowski
@GrzegorzRutko14
Feb 15, 2024
It’s been a while since the Nightshade premiere, but I finally had a free while to apply it to one of my recent paintings and I strongly recommend to you to do the same 😊 Link to the Nightshade: nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html #nightshade #noai
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Benjamin (leaving for 🦋@benjami.no)
@stealcase
Jan 8, 2024
Oh hey, look at that, a tech company serving artists that DIDN'T use [re]generative AI this week. And actually commissioned an artist as part of their social media strategy.🤩 (And has taken a strong stance against [re]generative AI in general due to their unethical datasets)
Procreate
@Procreate
Jan 8, 2024
One of our first @alexxgrigg #ProcreateDreams commissions — just a pal on a very tranformative and fluid journey into something new. 🌱
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Benjamin (leaving for 🦋@benjami.no)
@stealcase
Jan 24, 2024
I think this encapsulates the Palworld discourse.
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Benjamin (leaving for 🦋@benjami.no)
@stealcase
Apr 8, 2023
There's no way to "adapt or die" to AI. There's no way to overcome or beat it. Because the arena is Capitalism, not Art, and the fight was never fair to begin with. How can you beat something that literally steals your effort and produces infinite derivatives. #TeamHuman 🧵1/5
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Benjamin (leaving for 🦋@benjami.no)
@stealcase
Mar 21, 2023
Just a reminder to US artists out there: removing watermarks on Copyrighted work is not allowed. Section 1202 of the DMCA. Watermarks are CMI: Copyright Management Information. You can open Civil Suit for 2,500$ - or more than 25,000$ PER infringement. Know your rights.
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Benjamin (leaving for 🦋@benjami.no)
@stealcase
May 28, 2023
Last night, two communities clashed. An AI [re]generated image had won a Cover Art contest. Artists quickly saw it was AI, but Authors were unconvinced: they wanted reasonable proof, not hearsay. (Mark Lawrence, the host, has been nothing but gracious. Do not bother him) 🧵/?
Mark Lawrence
@Mark__Lawrence
May 28, 2023
For the latest take on the #SPFBO cover contest AI controversy: mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2023/05/ai-or-… tl:dr - it looks certain the cover contained AI generated content and the voluntary withdrawal is now a disqualification.
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Benjamin (leaving for 🦋@benjami.no)
@stealcase
Apr 11, 2024
So apparently the whole debacle was a lot worse than I originally thought.
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Pink Floyd
@pinkfloyd
Apr 5, 2024
A #BehindTheScenes look at Damián Gaume’s winning video for Any Colour You Like in Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon 50th Anniversary Animation Video Competition.
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Benjamin (leaving for 🦋@benjami.no)
@stealcase
Jun 7, 2023
They used voice actors, but don't credit them at all. Their voices were fed through an AI filter to change pitch and timbre. Yet "AI" gets credit? "AI" can't replace humans fully, but the marketing and tech WILL reduce the perceived value of human work and expression.
Kotaku
@Kotaku
Jun 7, 2023
Myst creator's new game has loads of AI-generated stuff in it: bit.ly/3IZwkzi
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Benjamin (leaving for 🦋@benjami.no)
@stealcase
Feb 6, 2024
This genuinely breaks my heart. This was what everyone was warning SAG-AFTRA about. This is why everyone was worried. Not to sow dissent, but genuine worry. Scanning for AI can not be a condition to get work. Otherwise, you are iced out. Coercion is not consent.
Kirsten Day 🎙🎀
@KeerKeer
Feb 5, 2024
This is the post from my friend who just lost work because he declined being scanned. @sagaftra I’m still completely confused as to how you let this happen. Also curious as to how much money these AI companies paid you to stand with them instead of actual human actors.
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Benjamin (leaving for 🦋@benjami.no)
@stealcase
Aug 6, 2023
For authors who want to get cover art done, I would avoid this artist. 🧵1/3 #CreateDontScrape
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Benjamin (leaving for 🦋@benjami.no)
@stealcase
Feb 10, 2023
The new Linkin Park video uses a Stable Diffusion Anime filter (based on 600+ million copyrighted images) over all the footage. The claim saying the AI was trained on original art, simply means it was FINETUNED on original art. It's still Stable Diffusion.
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LINKIN PARK
@linkinpark
Feb 9, 2023
The countdown has begun to the world premiere of “Lost” music video tomorrow at 9pm PST. Set your reminder for the YouTube premiere: lprk.co/lostvideo Directed by @pplpleasr1 & @maciej_kuciara
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Benjamin (leaving for 🦋@benjami.no)
@stealcase
Aug 24, 2024
"It's currently not possible to opt out since this is just an experiment" -says the trillion dollar company. I love being experimented on against my will.
TeamYouTube
@TeamYouTube
Aug 23, 2024
Replying to @shinyycatherine
@shinyycatherine sorry to hear you're not liking it! it's currently not possible to opt out since this is just an experiment. but if you get a response that you feel is unhelpful or irrelevant, you can let us know by submitting feedback via these steps: goo.gle/3ySHg00
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