This. Aside from the commonly known data scraping it's created an exhausting amount of scams to the point real creators are drowned out. Gen AI scammers steal creator process videos to make their own fake sob stories WHILE appropriating minority identities to sell their shitty drop-shipped crap.🙃

Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 18h ago

Gonna be blunt, the reason I complain about AI so much is because it's made so much extra work for me, as I'm inundated with AI slopware games that I have to sort through and filter out, if this garbage tech ceased to exist tomorrow, it would be an immediate ease of that workload.

chicken

I should not spend money on anything but steam had a bundle for big walk and peak for less than $20, hopefully I can find someone to play them with

i cannot get over how funny the moderation tag on this is

USSR Pictures@ussrpictures.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Prudery is the enemy of art" - Soviet poster, 1980s

Chapter 18 is done and up on patreon so we'll be going back to regular updates next week. I may try to stream some later while I work on this commission? We'll see how much energy I have. Archive: https://cryptsandcantrips.kytri.net/ Etc: https://www.kytri.net/links/

in a world of AI slop, give someone's hand crafted webcomic a try

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United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 6d ago

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this mess we're in #ffxivart #estimeric

I'm probably going to clean this up for webcomic filler but here's a Stephanivien/Artoirel sketch for yaoi day

FFXIV Rarepair Week - Day 1 - Forge/Temper "Temper my sorrow, and reforge my heart anew..." #XIVRarepairWeek #XIVRairpairWeek2026 #ffxiv #artoirel #stephanivien

king shit, honestly

Space Leech @ Otakon@spaceleech.bsky.social · 4d ago

At the Ghost in the Shell panel. Not even the screenwriter and producer have seen Shirow in the flesh. Shirow communicates only by photographing hand written notes and sending jpegs to his editor, who relays info to the staff.

made this for yaoi day last year lol

I'm still of the opinion Emmanellain needs to be dunked in a trashcan and rolled down a hill but here are some boys (and pairings) I like, AND OCs

www.patreon.com/kytri/posts/... if you're supporting me on patreon at any amount you can read the next chapter of my webcomic right now. Everyone else can read everything up to that point on my website cryptsandcantrips.kytri.net #webcomics

Crypts and Cantrips chapter 18 | Kieran Thompson

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I talked to my brother who is good at hardware and owns a soldering iron about it and he thinks he might be able to splice on a new USB plug but he'll have to see it in person first. Also I keep reaching into the inky darkness under my desk to turn it on, only to remember that the lamp is gone.

Kytri@kytri.bsky.social · 5d ago

I bumped the plug on my lamp with my foot and it came apart???

Apple charges people ~20% more than the Patreon list price and they keep the difference for themselves. They also hold the proceeds of iOS app sales for 75 days, making it impossible for creators to accurately predict earnings. They basically inserted themselves in order to rip *more* people off

Part Time Yeen@parttimeyeen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Any of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year

Please use this link twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338... and tell twitch how fucking insane this is. Comment and let twitch know that this is horrible. Thank you

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d ago

Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.

If we can't opt out of this, this effectively puts an end to my hobby because I absolutely refuse to give a constant stream of voices, vocal clips, audio, to AI systems that'll use it without my consent I signed the petition demanding default opt-out but frankly, I just don't want this shit at all.

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d ago

Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.

I bumped the plug on my lamp with my foot and it came apart???

I've been fortunate that this hasn't happened to me too much but it's happened a bit, and I think a lot of it can be attributed to the obscurity of my work + most of my trans OCs are kind of incidentally trans.

mimi ⚔️@knightlyaffair.bsky.social · 5d ago

our indie game: - hand drawn by Celeste's pixel artist - music by Disasterpeace - made on our own game engine - a slow-burning horror RPG - meet (or date) 10+ charming characters - fast-paced combat - customize your playstyle with crafted items and combat abilities

Got my first comment on globalcomix and I'm like 99% sure its a bot. It's still only the first chapter there so the story so far is like: here's a little guy, he lives in a fantasy city, he goes to the store and gets harassed by a cop, an adventure is mentioned but has not yet begun. "INSANE!"

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It's midnight but I'm finally doing some of the new content in FFXIV. No spoilers but when will the Hildibrand quests let me punt that lalafell into the sun?

How comics actually work: some pages take an hour and some pages take eight hours and they're not always the ones you'd think. There are sometimes entire weeks taken up by research that MUST be completed before you can progress. And you also must account for several days lost to the Horrors

15MIN's back and he brought you something from the store

Oh my god I forgot it was tuesday. I'm still working on chapter 18. It is almost done and I'm hoping I'll have the finished chapter up on patreon this weekend. So I think the comic will start back up on August 11. Archive: https://cryptsandcantrips.kytri.net/ Etc: https://www.kytri.net/links/

Maybe I try streaming tonight if I can finish some other stuff at a reasonable time.