So I'm seeing some random artists, mostly leftists, making a bluesky account - something about X using their data for their AI or some shit.
It was always in the fucking TOS but somehow they're surprised that it's being openly disclosed? What the fuck is going on? Someone give me the lowdown.
Mid tier scribblers whining again, looks like.
Twitter announced that they are going to be using any images uploaded there for AI generation. What people fail to recognize is that bluesky (where everybody is leaving too) also allows for AI scraping I believe.
If you're posting literally anything on the internet it's going to get AI scraped, same as how everything gets scraped by webcrawlers that build search engine results. People are retarded if they think they can post stuff online and not have other people copy it and then proceed to do whatever the fuck they want with a locally saved copy of said thing. It has been this way since the days of Geocities and, God willing, it always will be.
Yeah the phrase "The internet never forgets" used to be significant, anything you post could be saved and reposted later. It's just self-important artists who think they "own" the pixels they arranged and that means nobody else should be able to download it and upload it anywhere else.
The whole thing is the biggest clown fiesta. Just off the top of my head...
Bluesky also has no ability to disable retweets (or whatever they call them), so if you follow more than ten people, your feed becomes unusable. The average retweet-to-OC ratio is what, 15:1? Artists are especially bad about this, because they are literally too retarded and too narcissistic to realize that they're sharing their followers' feeds.
It's also far less forgiving than Twitter with reprocessing images. Twitter is a bit bipolar and will occasionally rape an image down to ~100 kb, but for the most part is okay. Bluesky will literally always compress your filesize by 50-75%, even if the original image is just a few hundred kb, and it will resize images so that it's no larger than 2000 px on its longest side.
It also doesn't even have video support. I keep track of Bluesky's development cause it brings me joy to watch the feds' abandoned, worn-out whores flail about to make their own even gayer Twitter, and they didn't even get private messaging until May. These fags implemented hiding replies before they added custom gif support (they got Tenor though!)
Artists choosing to chain themselves to Bluesky brings me great joy. I cannot wait to read the whining about how bad their metrics are.
At least the smart ones are staying on Twitter and only opened a Bluesky account as a backup or to hedge their bets.
I've seen discussion that the revised block function also makes it to where outside AI scrapers (not just Elon's Grok) can also scrape an artist's work. Don't know how credible it is, but this was the consensus among Japanese Twitter.
But Musk doesn't own Bluesky so Bluesky good!!! /s
Genuinely skilled artists have nothing to worry about, mentally ill/furry DeviantArt commission guys are already obsolete thanks to AI generation.
They should learn to make proper art and not just mediocre computer graphics of ugly naked chicks. I'm currently in the market for a nice classic style oil painting, AI can't do that and likely won't be able to anytime soon. That's my version of "learn to code" for these bad internet artists.
I bet if you put "a nice classic style oil painting" into generative AI it would give you one. And then you just need to format it such that it can be fed to something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iLYObPdcy0
If you wanted to get it to use a more human-like brush movement, I'm sure that's possible.
It's because they're under the illusion that it is a better platform, but inevitably this exact shit or something like it will happen, or some bullshit will manifest that gets it shutdown out of nowhere like cghub.
Mark my words, it'll be the new thing for awhile, then it'll eat shit because it can't compete in terms of reach and popularity with artists doesn't exactly pay the bills. You should have your own website anyway.