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Heat Guy Jen 💙💜💖

@rararokuri.bsky.social

Jen Adams! Animator living & working in Vancouver🍁 (Invincible Fight Girl, Tales of TMNT, My Dad the Bounty Hunter, Animaniacs, +more!) I'm mostly here to post anime fanart & talk about Fairy Ranmaru ✌✨ (she/her) www.instagram.com/crestomancer #animation

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Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 23h ago

"A.i." is not inevitable. Chuck Schumer is not inevitable. The domination billionaires is not inevitable. ICE is not inevitable. Anti-trans bullshit is not inevitable. The funding of genocide is not inevitable. Everything can change. Never let the fascist and deactivists tell you differently.

austin_walker@austinwalker.bsky.social · 5d ago

Over the past month, IGF judges and jurists have had intense, difficulty, generous, and deeply engaged conversations about AI and the games industry. This statement is the result of those conversations.

This year's IGF entries have been incredible. We've been lucky to play games that surprise, connect, and challenge us, and we're excited to vote for our favorites. Unfortunately, there has also been a significant increase in the number of submitted games developed with generative AI tools. This has set off some fairly intense discussion and disagreement across the judge and jury pools, and at this point there is no universal consensus on what (if anything) is to be done. The IGF has affirmed that we may cast our votes according to our own tastes and values. But we, a contingent of IGF jurors, feel that this trend and the games embracing it deserve stronger pushback than a vote in silence. While IGF leadership has approved the release of this statement, it's important to note that we do not speak for IGF as an organization, or for all IGF jury members. Many jurors had differing perspectives and significant reservations about this statement. Some jurists additionally voiced concern about their ability to safely sign without professional blowback, and we do not intend this letter to serve as a censure of those who were unable to sign. Above all: Our goal is to state solidarity with those who despair over the future of their art, their craft, and their industry—including those who have experimented with these tools in the past, but who now believe they are not in our best interest. We know that change does not come at the individual level, but as independent developers, we also know firsthand the value of pushing back on what an industry has deemed "inevitable." As jurists, we feel a responsibility to push past defeatism and aspire to a higher ideal. The future is not yet settled. You are not alone. We can stand together.We, the undersigned IGF jury members, believe the following: 1. That generative AI has these negative effects: Ecological harms at community and planetary levels Economic harms to working developers and artists Cognitive and psychological harms to its users Harm to the increasingly fragile information landscape Harms to labor and worker power in creative fields 2. That these harms do not depend on what is generated, be it music or writing, art or VO, marketing assets or code. 3. That AI-generated code is not an exception to these harms. Programming is a creative discipline whose labour deserves the same respect we extend to any part of making a game. This extends to the past work used to train these models without the creators' consent. 4. Finally, that the use of these tools is neither a foregone conclusion in our industry nor that their adoption has been wholly voluntary. We stand in solidarity not only with those developers who have the freedom to unilaterally reject them, but also with those who have been compelled by their employers to adopt their use, those working to establish or improve their workplace policies, and especially with those in positions of precarity who are so often those most pressured to abandon their values. For these reasons, this year we are declining to vote for any game that uses generative AI in any capacity. We urge the IGF to adopt a strong anti-AI policy for future years that disallows games containing any AI-generated work. A.M. Darke aurahack Aura Triolo Austin Walker Brendon Chung Brent Arnold Dan Floyd Everest Pipkin Gianna Ruggiero isaac io schankler Johnnemann Nordhagen Lena Raine Marielle Kho Megan Fox Noel Berry Osama Dorias Sam Barlow Tamara Duplantis Taylor Mccue
sam@lunarriviera.bsky.social · last wk.

best movie review i've ever read. "olivia colman gets her spine realigned by a wicker basket," taking 150 people in the 4dx theatre along with her on this magical journey

just. just read it on tumblr
Littledigits@littledigits.bsky.social · last wk.

its not ai, except for the part that would have been done by the largest departments. inbetweens are not a SMALL part. They are not just disposable inbetween keyframes. thats so antithetical to the actual feeling and craft of animation i am BAFFLED.

Animation Magazine@animag.bsky.social · last wk.

Acclaimed French director Sylvain Chomet defends himself from accusations of using AI in his new Dior animated spot. #dior #sylvainchomet #ai #christiandiorsnightincolor

e d e n 🍃@edentimm.bsky.social · last wk.

CANADIANS!! if you love bioware, if you love games, if you love artists in your country, take a look at this petition! it's from an actual member of parliament - lets tell our government what we want! I signed - Make sure to do the email confirmation to ensure your signature is counted.

Don Davies@donvdavies.bsky.social · last wk.

The developers at BioWare know how to run their studio. They know how to make the games that fans love. They should be given the first opportunity – and the federal support – to buy it and run it themselves. If you agree, sign the petition at the link in my bio! #SaveMassEffect

Rosemary Travale@travale.bsky.social · last wk.

Hi, I am looking to expand my go to list for 2d and 3d designers (characters, bgs/ environs, props). B.C. preferred but Canada wide is ok, reply with your portfolio if you want! (This is not a job posting, don't expect anything from me here!!)

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Heat Guy Jen 💙💜💖@rararokuri.bsky.social · last wk.

man i want to take a day (or week) off so bad, but if i do & then am just spending it hanging around my house i think itll make me more bummed out than ever 🥲 I want to GO somewhere & DO something so so so badly... but ive been a hermit for too long & idk what ppl even do for fun around here anymore

Macaron (マカロン)@a-macaron.bsky.social · last wk.

-set your language option to "none" to be sure you see all posts! App it now defaults to only showing your device language -set NSFW content to WARN even if you don't want to see it. Automod gets it wrong and you can use context clues to decide if your fave has actually posted hole or if its misfire

👁️🍄🪸@bloomfilters.plus · last wk.

allison montgomery, the trans woman who won in alabama, deployed messaging like this where 1. she directly calls republicans pedophiles and sex pests 2. she directly points out that sex testing kids is pedophilic. compare this to the spineless cis wafflers who face no danger here lol

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Suzanne ✨🌑@tendermiasma.com · last wk.

Stuff like this is why I'm strongly doing things even if you don't believe they'll work out. It's important to go through the motions even when you don't think it matters or you're dooming because if enough people do that then look what happens