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natevrez

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Ash

@acubed.art

My thoughts on the gen ai normalization I've been seeing recently:

I'm seeing this from different people:
"We must experiment with these tools to understand them and our place in the industry in the future."
I hear coming from the Trojan horse.
They weren't built with the idea of keeping artists on these projects, they were built as replacements and to save on the "bottom line". Gen ai and llms are used currently as replacements, and they're just going to get better.
No experimenting needed dudes, they are designed so that a 2 year old can use them, if you know how to photobash youll be able to learn this workflow in 30 minutes if you so desperately needed to.
Refusing to use them is standing in solidarity with the thousands affected and more so stolen from. Using them is crossing an active picket line and breathing life into a future where you no longer create art for media, you assist ai until the corporate machine no longer needs you to assist it. This issue is so much larger than the arts. We were just the canaries in the coal mine.
We have the ability to stand firm on this and create the industry and world we wish to live in, not one we are forced to by people with interests directly harming our existence. I owe too much of my own life to art and what it has brought me in my darkest times than to capitulate.

October 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM

natevrez

@natevrez.bsky.social

And to all a good night #Blender #Blender3d #b3d

December 22, 2024 at 7:28 PM

natevrez

@natevrez.bsky.social

"...communicate to your audience that you peddle low-effort garbage by using a plagiarism machine." I'm swooning over this statement.

Jason Rainville @jasonrainville.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hey folks, a reminder:

Don't use Gen ai.

You can either afford an artist/stock art, or you can't.

If you can't, you can make your own art/designs or abstain.

Or you can cheaper your entire brand and communicate to your audience that you peddle low-effort garbage by using a plagiarism machine.

November 18, 2024 at 7:53 PM