please please please help me find more cats smelling a smelly smell 

A compilation from the notes: stimky

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

I have discovered the truth about chainmail bikinis, and it is imperative those wearing such armor do not think about it too hard or they may inadvertently cross the line between Sexy Hero and Homicidal Pervert.

I actually appreciate how aggressively non sexy this whole comic is

hey don’t cry, mutual on your dash, okay?

REBLOG IF IT'S OKAY FOR ME TO BOTHER YOU IF YOU'RE MY MUTUAL

My current hyperfixation has been D&D, so have my most recent art of my Blind Wild Oracle, Elios Regulus and his seeing eye cat, Bangus Orion the Third (who is unfinished because I could not be bothered when I was making him)

you know what's good? when you have a meat and a sauce and you eat it with a rice. thank you for listening

book quotes that i will never recover from

On today's episode of Sass pops back on Tumblr once in a blue moon. Another life update:

I graduated Mortuary School last month! Huzzah. I have my National Board Exams scheduled for this upcoming Wednesday and July 9th, so I'm turning my brain into mush studying a year's worth of material.

But otherwise, hello again. Still not dead yet!

Also idk if anyone would want it, but I'm much more active on my twitter. @thanatochymist

On today's episode of Sass pops back on Tumblr once in a blue moon. Another life update:

I graduated Mortuary School last month! Huzzah. I have my National Board Exams scheduled for this upcoming Wednesday and July 9th, so I'm turning my brain into mush studying a year's worth of material.

But otherwise, hello again. Still not dead yet!

Also idk if anyone would want it, but I'm much more active on my twitter. @thanatochymist

Vibrates into obscurity. Hello all, I'm alive and well, just suffering through my last semester of mortuary school.

Also, very important life updates. This is my big baby Beelzebub and my newest tattoo