Not to be dramatic but the whole AI art debacle has really brought home to me that mainstream audiences are so fundamentally indifferent to the ethics of how art is created. It makes me feel like people just want to shove their faces full of mindless generic content and don’t care about the ethics of where that content comes from. Sometimes it feels like—- like people really care more about fictional characters and the prettiness of cartoon anime girls than they do about the lives of the real human beings who actually labor to create the things they enjoy.
And while that’s not new to AI, I can’t believe that no one…cares? No one cares? Outside of professional artists it feels like everyone has mindlessly cheerfully embraced AI as a replacement without recognizing the horrible implications this has for art? It’s so frightening and awful and disheartening.
It’s like people simultaneously want art that captures Something about the experience of being human but aLSO don’t want human beings involved in its creation. They want to care about beautiful painted fake people but don’t want to care about the real people who created them. They want the illusion of life, but not the actuality. And while that’s hardly unique to ai it’s just…:(. :(
despite what popular opinion may lead you to believe, some rocks actually do have scientifically-proven auras! Unfortunately, those rocks are uranium and the aura is cancer.
Does anyone remember the name of the tumblr artist who had a really Don Bluth/90s Disney -like art style, and who always drew themselves as this tall, lanky skinny figure with dark bags under their eyes and long-fingered expressive hands, every single character design detail just OOZING that extremely clear and distinct “90s cartoon queercoded villain” vibe.
And then someone sent them an anon asking “why do you draw yourself looking like that.”, and the artist actually posts a picture of themselves. and they literally just look like that. Like a distinct IRL version of the cartoon self-portrait OC, like Disney did a reboot of the original cartoon but in 3D animation, and leaned in slightly too deep into some hyper-realistic art style. And put the villain in a hoodie in front of a shitty webcam.
i promise you, crosstagging with things that have nothing to do with your content will NOT reach you a wider audience on tumblr. in fact it’s the most surefire way to get potential audience to block you lol
