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Stop asking me to commission you

A very informative read that I highly recommend! The term "sex addiction" is being tossed around by influencers and grifters today. I've been noticing a lot of "download my app to stop your addiction" on places like ig and twitter. These accounts are using your shame and guilt for clout and money.

Scarleteen@scarleteen.com · last wk.

Seen people talking about “sex addiction” and “porn addiction"? These are not real medical diagnoses. Dr. Amy Marsh explains, with information for people who are concerned about the role of sex and porn in their lives. www.scarleteen.com/read/sex-s...

Text: "Want the fact on porn and sex 'addiction'? Dr. Amy Marsh sets the record straight on a misunderstood term. Read it on Scarleteen," alongside a person squinting one eye into a magnifying glass they're holding up to their face.

Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.

Yeah in terms of game news btw for the EA shit you should all basically expect nothing to ever come out of EA ever again. If ME4 does limp across the finish line expect it to be slopped out and made by a skeleton crew scared of getting fired at random.

David Dalglish@ddalglish.com · 2h ago

Don't forget, when prepping for the sale, they insisted they could make up the gaps via AI replacing programmers. So, you know, an absolutely flawless plan.

In Super Mario Maker 2, failing the matching game in the World Maker will cause Mario's mismatched creation to emerge from the door, making him slowly back away in fear or disgust. Below are all the possible abominations Mario can create.

In the World Maker mode of Super Mario Maker 2, the Match & Win! minigame is directly based on the Spade Panel game from Super Mario Bros. 3.
If Mario fails to match all three reels to create a picture of a single power-up, he will wait in front of the house...
...whereupon the mismatched object he created will emerge from the door. Mario will back off, seemingly in fear or disgust.
Here are all the possible abominations Mario can create, extracted from the game's files: [collection of 24 mismatched objects]
Source: Random Talking Bush, spriters-resource.com/nintendo_switch/supermariomaker2/asset/130200

i think, now, more than ever its really important to interact with people who like your art and vice versa, and cultivate more community and trust among artists and commissioners and followers in general. its not a perfect system by any means but i think building trust between everyone will help

Fuzzikayu@fuzzikayu.bsky.social · 15h ago

This is what people mean by AI is theft. Someone I know later found out an artist (16k followers) they got a commision from uses AI and now they don't have funds to commish me or another artist they like. Not only does the slop machine steal art, these scammers directly steal work from real artists