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.

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

wait whats going on?

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

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

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

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)

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)

re:hosts there's Teacake as well!

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.

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

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 >

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

*Meowth voice* Dat's right!

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

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

Also only one OC since my old refs are ugly and I haven't drawn new/good ones T_T

It allows NSFW art too, albeit with some content restrictions, but it used to be fully SFW until recently so I'm giving it a pass for that. (It's not like how FA arbitraily changes its mind on if Pokemon or short characters are ok to upload...)

*checks calendar* Ohhh right, the kids are stuck at home now.

if the block button actually works I wouldn't need to care if he's banned or not

I don't see this as drama tbh, this is legit fucked up to me. I was already jokerfied from seeing babies on phones when I worked retail but seeing a 16-almost-17 year old act the way I did when I was 10-12 hurts a certain way.

And even if the generic advice is that she should just see a therapist, I just think about how therapy while under 17 made me worse. She's already listing off diagnosis as an excuse for her behavior so she likely is already under subpar "care".

....also, are the mods of r/Neocities even online?!

Reddit suspended her, I really hope that led to some positive IRL intervention. Young zoomers and gen alpha are fucked.

she already had one of her reddit accounts suspended in the past (found it by lurking her post history...), her behavior is really worrying...

I just found out from yourdevilfriends on the subreddit that she's the clown who has over 600 banned Wikitubia accounts. https://www.reddit.com/r/neocities/comments/1czmtva/comment/l5hiz50/ Jesus christ, this kid needs to join a social activity for teens instead of going crazy online this summer.

Woahh what? Is everything ok?

Yeah, I'd be lying if I didn't say this kind of behavior isn't super worrying. I don't even know what can fix this kind of behavior other than hopefully growing out of it. (also you mentioned me, Spongebob pointing meme)

*is, not isn't wtf

Speaking from experience, kids and teenagers who misbehave online have shit going on in their real life, but if you can't change their environment there's not much to do. Bad parenting 101

I just realized her posts have been nuked, so IYKYK...

Reason #45435346 I hate parents. Raise your fucking kids instead letting them loose online!!

Based grass toucher 🤝