conflicted on the AI thing. Obviously as a human being I think genai is terrible. Amount of people I see who start metalheart/frutiger aero works and use genAI to make them are plenty, and it's not something I respect. genAI diminishes the human nature of creativity. But also Neocities is my favorite social feed and the idea of talking about sites and sharing them is awesome
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Nekoweb is obviously the alternative and I already have a site up (slaid.nekoweb.org), but the social aspect of Neocities was a big draw and excitement to me. Maybe Nekoweb will add more social things, maybe not, but idk. I'll stay here on the meantime unless things get worse
AI obviously has been with us for decades by now and has proven worth too - hard to deny the medical advancements AI has caused, especially when my father was able to be saved from prostate cancer due to medical advancements related to it - but it's just a shame that someone with enough creativity and thought behind this site would also implore genAI as a good way to make art, much less be a way to replace creativity
wait, hold on??? what's going on ???
TL;DR the person behind Neocities had a post surface from end of 2023(?) that was basically him defending genAI. Talked about how it "exponentially increased creativity" and "made beautiful art" and unfortunately it's not something I agree with. https://kyledrake.com/writings/ai
i see...... kind of unfortunate as an artist myself. i'll consider a nekoweb but unless things get like,,,,, bad bad i'm probably not moving
i honestly doubt there's gonna be ai on here at any point in time. though if you want data scrapers off your neocities site you can make a robots.txt file, i found it out from here https://neocities.org/site/shinyexe?event_id=4237442
@sclptures how do you implement that on a neocities site? still sort of new to how to implement that kinda stuff
it's easier than it may look! just make a new file called "robots.txt" at the base of your site and copy the text into the file
@shinyexe woah that's really easy and convenient, thanks so much!
i agree with everything you've said, using ai for art isn't cool but for medical purposes and to actually help people is an amazing advancement in technology. i do like the social element that neocities has as opposed to nekoweb so i think i will be staying here too
I agree completely with what you're saying. It's quite the situation going on now, but I am going to stay on Neocities since I really enjoy it here. I'm not moving unless all hell breaks loose and this place isn't enjoyable anymore.