Sweet!

Approved!

All this to say, your AI stuff is awesome!

Thanks man! I went scrolling on your site checking out all your AI art, and I kept thinking I should give it a try, loved the stuff you posted. As for the art, and it being AI, I agree with what you say, AI tech is only getting better, almost scary accurate at times, but at this time, I see a lot of flaws - but this is good. art is no way perfect, and art should be flawed.

the reason why AI tech is getting better is because it steals from actual artists, i dont want to be an ass but it is taking actual pieces w out permission

Oh it is 100% against everything I think as someone who spends HOURS on a square inch of my pieces with pent/paint/ink, but as someone who was raised on the first computers and videogame consoles, it is wild and interesting to see and dabble. There's definitely a lot of "borrowin" AI does, but I mean it's learning from everything before it, so obviously.

@scenequeen That's pretty much what all AI does, for instance AI chat, they learn from gathering data from the likes of reddit, facebook, twitter etc. I'm not saying I condone the stealing of artwork, but to me, for an AI to process by keywords, without scouring the net, and create something on it's own would take a hell of a lot of processing power, more than it already does.

Infact, I really dislike art theft, I've had mine stolen a few times, and it was hell trying to get them taken down.

what AI created art on its own? im genuinely curious cause the art gens ive seen havent listed this

@scenequeen There are none, not from what i've seen, that was my point really, If we were to have an AI engine capable of creating art on it's own, it would need immense processing power. Something that doesn't seem plausible as of right now.

maybe someone's trying to make an ARG?

@clownbonk - ahhhh, I think you may be onto something!

yea @clownbonk has it right i think

Yeah, I think you guys are right.

might be shadowbanned from commenting like i am

@sugartear - oh goodgrief, now we have to contend with shadowbans? /grumbles

apparently the minimum of moderation kyle drake DOES give us that is in the form of being shadowbanned to varying extents if enough people block you on here. i am probably wrong on this btw

@sugarteara - or possibly not. Either way, it sucks.

If that's true then that might actually be the worst possible way to moderate this site, since you can theoretically shadowban anyone if you have enough sockpuppets to block them with.

a) they might have you blocked, b) i've noticed it taking up to 12 hours for my comments to appear, c) i do think there's a limit of how many comments you can do per day (i somewhat remember seeing this in github)

@prosequitur - 100%, and I ain't about that mess.

@behavior - ahhhhhh! I haven;t thought to look at in terms of time or frequency, I think you might be onto something there!

shadowban is a thing here? Last I saw this wasn't reddit =/ I can see a spam check being intiated if comments are being posted too fast on various profiles, but shadowbanning eh..this is all starting to feel all too familiar. Like google filtering your results because they don't like what you typed in the search.

@enflicted - 100000% - I came here and set up shop becuase I thought there was a cool way to connect and netowrk while having you own entire space, but it begins to feel less and less like that's the case on the daily.

@paintkiller I'm beginning to get that same feeling, I came here for my love of the old web, I wanted my webspace back. But if i'm going to start being censored, or shadowbanned..this hermit might have to pack his tent and gtfo.

"Shadowbanning" on here is something I've come to suspect after noticing a few instances where I couldn't comment on people's profiles. If true I don't think it paints any platform in a good light, especially when one can't easy question it (which I have tried to do here).