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Jan. 27th, 2025 04:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedAfter I went up to the apartment where my desktop is, to zip the folder containing all the graphics for the twins' house, I went on to do a few other things online. Brian came up to sort out his laundry for before he'd leave, and at some point, I offered to show him an in-progress afterword for a Cibus ebook that I plan to crowdsource if he still has time after finishing up. He decided to check it out right then, and expressed particular interest in my old plans for a game of the original Madoka adaptation project.
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Yesterday's shift was set from 8:30 to 2:00. Mom had decided to make dinner early so that Brian could leave whenever he saw fit afterwards, and was already finishing up when I arrived home with him.
While we were eating together, Brian told Mom about my afterword and planned Kickstarter campaign. At one point, I mentioned certain plans to commission a pic through which to promote it, and he asked me if I ever considered having pics generated for me in AI. I specified that Chelle has reblogged a number of posts on Tumblr describing ethical issues with AI art, one of which was also quoted in The Week recently:
I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.
(Currently, I do have one person on Discord creating an unrelated short comic for me in AI, mainly because he previously expressed a desire to work with me again at some point after I suspended a story project that he had outlined each chapter of. AI was what he offered a much lower price for, but the one image that he managed to generate so far came with some errors, and there is one detail that he said would be a bit complicated getting his program to implement correctly. I have prohibited AI on Upwork for some Cibus pics, partly to avoid an overload of proposals to choose from for what was primarily about that promotional pic.)
Halfway through our discussion, while Brian told me that all technological and other breakthroughs have their share of detractors, I compared the whole thing to some of these videos Dad used to put on, about these disappearing artisan trades for high-quality goods such as lace, shears, and floor tiles, in favor of mass production. (I should note that his own father, Peter, dead since 1996, worked at a lace mill back in Britain, and the demand for that in Rhode Island is how he and his family managed to immigrate here all those decades ago.)
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Yesterday's shift was set from 8:30 to 2:00. Mom had decided to make dinner early so that Brian could leave whenever he saw fit afterwards, and was already finishing up when I arrived home with him.
While we were eating together, Brian told Mom about my afterword and planned Kickstarter campaign. At one point, I mentioned certain plans to commission a pic through which to promote it, and he asked me if I ever considered having pics generated for me in AI. I specified that Chelle has reblogged a number of posts on Tumblr describing ethical issues with AI art, one of which was also quoted in The Week recently:
I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.
(Currently, I do have one person on Discord creating an unrelated short comic for me in AI, mainly because he previously expressed a desire to work with me again at some point after I suspended a story project that he had outlined each chapter of. AI was what he offered a much lower price for, but the one image that he managed to generate so far came with some errors, and there is one detail that he said would be a bit complicated getting his program to implement correctly. I have prohibited AI on Upwork for some Cibus pics, partly to avoid an overload of proposals to choose from for what was primarily about that promotional pic.)
Halfway through our discussion, while Brian told me that all technological and other breakthroughs have their share of detractors, I compared the whole thing to some of these videos Dad used to put on, about these disappearing artisan trades for high-quality goods such as lace, shears, and floor tiles, in favor of mass production. (I should note that his own father, Peter, dead since 1996, worked at a lace mill back in Britain, and the demand for that in Rhode Island is how he and his family managed to immigrate here all those decades ago.)