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1 year ago

It has been two years since the Wix-owned DeviantART introduced an on-site AI art generator and allowed "people" to post AIslop. 💔 Is this how xennials felt when Livejournal was sold to Russia?

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hardmachine 1 year ago

This is my personal 9/11. I'm mourning.

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1 year ago

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1 year ago

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art/mlpold.html

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hardmachine 1 year ago

I wish I had a scanner, otherwise I'd upload even more old art.

hardmachine 1 year ago

Uh oh, the recent uploads don't work. Give me a moment...

hardmachine 1 year ago

................HOW DID I FUCK THAT UP?

hardmachine

1 year ago

I'll post the link when I refine things more, but I started using my Toyhouse account again. If you've drawn art for me and have an account, let me know so I can credit you as an on-site artist.

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hardmachine 1 year ago

Vice versa if I've drawn for you and you want to credit me.

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1 year ago

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vivarism 1 year ago

glad youve got something fun to look forward to!!!! i havent played any of these games but i am still bumping "engage the enemy" 10+ years later lol. i hope you'll enjoy playing X again!!

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1 year ago

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runes/g2mlp.html

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hardmachine vilaa

1 year ago

Thank you for archiving these!!! Karabiner's Digimon fanart is a sight for sore eyes.

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vilaa 1 year ago

such a talented artist!! too bad they decided to nuke everything in 2019 😭

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hardmachine 1 year ago

I figured that was the case, I knew he wanted to move on to 3D in 2010 but I assumed the domain expired :(

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hardmachine 1 year ago

Today I Learned: I draw a lot of My Little Pony fanart.

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1 year ago

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fabled 1 year ago

I agree with you on many significant points here. I myself have no plans to leave this site, having just arrived (on 4/20, no less!). I would say my perspective on the situation is the same as yours. Since the blog post by this person is a year or so old, I am surprised there's a "situation" about this at all, but I guess it is a good discussion to have.

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hardmachine

1 year ago

I'm not leaving Neocities because staying on here isn't any different from how everyone is glued to worse shitholes like Twitter, but feel free to share other free alternative hosts besides Nekoweb/Leprd + have an RSS feed on your new sites so I can continue following.

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hardmachine 1 year ago

I had pretty extreme schizo-tier opinions on AI in 2022, but now I've just accepted it as an evil that needs to be regulated instead of gone completely. Drakey wakey already had a Daria-themed AI chatbot for April fool's this year, so I kinda been knew he's okay with AI. As long as our sites aren't going to be scraped by him (not Google, it already does that) I can't really care.

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hardmachine 1 year ago

I'm also still on hiatus so ofc I only found this out from checking my feed and seeing people talk about leaving 😭

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helianthus-fields 1 year ago

wait whats going on?

angeleyesprings 1 year ago

@helianthus-fields https://kyledrake.com/writings/ai Some are leaving because of this blog entry

hardmachine 1 year ago

Peoplr just now discovered Kyle Drake's (old) post that's optimistically supportive of AI and jumping ship. https://kyledrake.com/writings/ai

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chantolove 1 year ago

wait, THIS post is what people are talking about? this is like two years old

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mrszenigata 1 year ago

Neocities has felt very odd lately ever since that article resurfaced. Personally, I agree with you that it's something that needs to be regulated, but as much as we try to deny this tech it's always going to exist. I'm going to keep my site here, unless something happens where they implement some kind of code generator onto the platform that was clearly built on the hardwork of the users. (1)

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mrszenigata 1 year ago

I am so tired of site owners acting like all user-based content belongs to them. I don't understand why the developers of this technology don't use royalty free or public domain content, anyone can use that! (2)

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virtualyellow 1 year ago

re:hosts there's Teacake as well!

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hardmachine 1 year ago

My personal 9/11 (joking) was when DeviantART introduced AI and initially had everyone's art opted-in for training, I hope NC never gets evil but that's my personal straw. Drake's a techbro so he's going to have a positive view on AI for other usages besides "art"/writing. I don't love the post but it's an optimistic curiosity than "art theft and deepfakes are cool" bullshit.

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hardmachine 1 year ago

Also, I thought Teacake was invite-only? I know one person migrated there by asking, so it can't hurt.

sakana 1 year ago

Oh man, DeviantART... I spent so many years batting for them. It was the only active place on the web that was ACTUALLY optimized for art (I had gripes with artists posting exclusively to social media and forcing me to look at compressed, muddy versions of their art sandwiched between posts that eroded my faith in humanity). I don't like the opinion expressed in the post, but if there are no plans to introduce >

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sakana 1 year ago

< generative AI tools on here, I'll live.

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1 year ago

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runes/index.html

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hardmachine 1 year ago

I haven't been able to type away or code but I have a review 60-70% written. How hard would yall kill me if I finished it despite not being able to beat the last boss?

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ocrevol hardmachine

1 year ago

CAPY ALWAYS WINS. CAPY WILL PREVAIL

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hardmachine 1 year ago

*Meowth voice* Dat's right!

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1 year ago

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hardmachine 1 year ago

I have two WIPs right now, one can only be posted after I... finish the game... u_u

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hardmachine 1 year ago

I will also change the layout for the links page... One day...

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hardmachine

1 year ago

I saved my 123guestbook entries as an html file, I should probably reupload it here one day...

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hardmachine 1 year ago

Turns out I only saved one page of it!!! I had two total... Damn... Now the oldest stuff is memoryholed.

tv-r0mii hardmachine

1 year ago

LOVE THIS SITE, I now know how to make capybara bread 🥹 THAAANK YOU 😭 💕

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hardmachine 1 year ago

Have you tried it? I've never any other photos of a Pãopivara besides the one that was on TV!

tv-r0mii 1 year ago

I haven't tried to make it yet, but I am excited to!! wil totally drop an update when it happens ✨

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hardmachine 1 year ago

This is the shittiest page I ever made (technically wrote it last week and just sat there), but I have a draft in progress and am still focusing on art after work.

dann 1 year ago

Bad page design is the sincerest form of X-E flattery you can do.

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hardmachine 1 year ago

I actually like X-E's old layouts! I didn't realize that I was subconciously inspired by them until I reread some archived reviews.

loves1ck 1 year ago

lolol i know you said its your worst page ever, but this was genuinely helpful to me bc i was curious about the cookies 😂

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1 year ago

shrine/ivy.html

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hubbardian 1 year ago

The background of the journal page is a good vibes. I didn’t care about it until now because I was reading your articles so earnestly.

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hardmachine 1 year ago

I used to change it every month, but I got lazy in August... It's a good background and color combination so I can forgive reusing it.

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cabbagesorter 1 year ago

regarding the politics being sports or fandom to people... yes, yes it really does seem that way and it never crossed my mind to say it like that but it's very true lmao

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hardmachine nerkmid

1 year ago

Thank you so much for this!! It breaks my heart how so many beloved petpages are memoryholed for me :(

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