Jave 🐦

@javenchi.bsky.social

He/him professional bird man trans 🏳️‍⚧️ I make vrchat avatars and other art Twitter survivor Icon by zilluzion AI will burn comm info+gallery: https://javenchiart.carrd.co/

RE: the druffle situation from a base maker's perspective: I agree that invasive DRM is bad practice for avatars. Partly because of the privacy of it all, but also because it motivates people to rip and repost. Even if you track down every pirated package, 10 more will pop up.

My hottest furry take? Well, I'm very glad you asked. I am so tired of bired of we need to need to beed to talk about balk about about how boften furries burries worries snurry. Everyone beveryones furries just dont talk about we need to normalize gormalize talking about balking about out. Furries

Here we go again!! gofund.me/7857fcfd0 Full explanation in the gofundme link, but to summarize: ~city is going nuclear on us for the yard needing mowed and the neighborhood illegally dumping trash behind the house ~this is the 3rd emergency this month and I'm tapped out ~we could lose the house

A redacted city notice that we must solve the problems by July 2nd or have a lien placed on the house, plus if anyone dumps again they won't even notify us before they do this!

If you pre-ordered a Coyote eclipse shirt, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL!! There’s some important information I sent out!! Also if you need to update your address, please respond to the email with your new one!! /some/ of the pre-orders will be shipping next week!

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Black Forest Labs (like Stability AI) likely took a bunch of work off the internet in order to train their AI. A bill in California would force transparency in their dataset. Want to help it pass? Please sign this petition in support, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

Black and white image of Martin Scorsese raising his hands with a caption in big bold letters that says "ABSOLUTE SLOP".
Karla Ortiz@kortizart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/ This company’s models were trained on web scraped datasets (like LAION) and their founders are ex-Stability AI employees who engage in the same thieving practices that led artists like myself to sue Stability. GenAi companies NEED big names to sanitize their exploitation and crippling PR.

Screenshot of an X announcement by Black Forest Labs:

Martin Scorsese is an advisor to Black Forest
Labs.
He's spent six decades shaping how the world sees stories. Now he's helping us shape visual intelligence with human taste and craft at the center.
We sat down with him for a working storyboarding session using FLUX.