• GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    I think the name of the artist is AI based on that plane to bird animorphs book cover on the top right

    • laziestflagellant [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      Plus the buildings in the background are melting into each other and in a genersted sludge way not a lazy artist not wanting to do backgrounds way. Also the weird foot on the bent leg

    • I think that could just be an actually clever reference to the phrase people would say when they saw Superman flying:

      Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It’s Superman!

      But it’s probably also a reference to trans people in a transphobic way because you have one thing transforming into something totally other as if to indicate its absurdity and impossibility. But maybe could still work like the rest of this image. I think it’s cool.

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    272 months ago

    Hot take: using AI to generate agitprop is good if it allows comrades with no artistic skill to create something they otherwise would not have.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      292 months ago

      I would argue it’s even more powerful in the hands of someone with artistic skill, between eliminating busywork and their own ability covering for its shortcomings. If it can cut down the work involved in turning a starting sketch into a finished piece then it stands to reason that someone with talent can make use of that even more effectively and use it to amplify their own skilled labor. Even modest talent is enough to go and clean up its flaws, so surely even greater talent could make even better use of it.

      The conclusion I’ve come to it on it is that it’s a powerful piece of productive capital and the fact that Capitalists will misuse it to cause considerable harm shouldn’t stop us from seizing it for ourselves as well - Capitalists have used every new piece of productive capital for harm, and that never stopped the left from repurposing captured machines and factories before. We cannot stop the problems it’s causing and will cause without defeating them entirely, and abstaining from technology out of pride or disgust with its use by Capitalists means we get weaker even as they get stronger.

        • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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          182 months ago

          Yeah. Like I started watching the Stable Diffusion community to keep up to date on new developments and resources, and like 90% of the people involved should be locked up for a variety of reasons, and even the more innocent of them are mostly treatbox addicts marveling wide eyed at the tech and eagerly sharing whatever nonsense it spat out in much the same way as a child talking about a dream they had.

          Still, I can’t help but be impressed by the tech itself and how accessible the open source local models are - a midrange gaming rig can easily run them well, and even some AMD cards can handle it ok (with the caveat that some individual cards seem to just hard crash at random with ROCm, like my 6800, which has left me too anxious to do much with it since I’ve started feeling a spike of panic every time I hit generate and the fans start spinning up). It doesn’t require some $5K+ card like commercial AIs do, and the strongest open source tools right now are absurd already.

          I’m convinced that in the right hands it’s got to be an amazing tool, and my cynical and pragmatic side says we should seize upon it and see what heights it can be taken to instead of just leaving it to be a vapid treatbox for the worst people alive.

    • D61 [any]
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      92 months ago

      Best way to fight crime is a fist full of cat arse holes…

  • EllenKelly [comrade/them]
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    232 months ago

    First, lets tackle a pitfall that irks Rightists to this day. if you make your characters naturally handsome, fit, and well-groomed, then it becomes increasingly difficult to properly mock them. Beauty is self-evident, and the character in this piece is good looking.

    🤓

  • Egon [they/them]
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    182 months ago

    Lmao what’s up with the building waving that big-ass flag in the background?