I made it on to a gallery wall, lads
Begging people to stop reblogging this AI trash from βThe Phantom Painterβ on Instagram (instagram.com/phantom.painting). Iβve been seeing it on my dash more and more often from people who are otherwise anti-AI and either canβt tell itβs AI or donβt care because it looks cool.
This is the kind of shit that is VERY CLEARLY trained on the works of existing talented artistsβ with distinct styles and this asshole is selling prints and making a profit off of stealing other peopleβs hard work.
Donβt give people like this money or attention and they will go away.
Please, if youβre going to buy art prints, buy them from an actual artist.
@thegnat Thatβs the problem, itβs getting really hard to tell whatβs AI and what isnβt. This phantom painter person at least says on each post on Instagram that it was created with AI, but when people re-post it on tumblr, it isnβt specified, and people end up reblogging it.
Itβs not reasonable to think everyone should be vetting every single art they reblog to make sure it isnβt AI, which is why I made this post to let people know this artist specifically is AI, and I see it reblogged a ton.
While weβre at it
and so is everything by that person, xis.lanyx on Instagram. They also sell prints of their βoriginal imagesβ
That last one is for the people saying βyou can always tell by the hands.β You cannot. The whole point is that itβs getting better and better at it. Thatβs what it does.
As an art curator on tumblr I now have to spend a considerable amount of time trying to decipher whether or not the art I want to share is AI or not and I still sometimes get it wrong.
Tiktok has surpassed tumblr LMAO
ok tik tok you win this round
anon is confiscated until you guys learn how to play nice
if you want to provide details in the tags, iβd love to know how you know about family, especially if you know a lot about your family history.
16th century flower illustration PNGs.
(source: Book of Flower Studies, ca. 1510β1515)
I can't quite convey how shocking it is to see a mainstream British newspaper publish an article like this. quoting Karl Marx and essentially calling for a rebellion against landlords - this is one of the most radical things I've ever seen a British newspaper publish, and this is a newspaper sold in shops. you'd expect this in an obscure news outlet that nobody really knows about, not the guardian. they snapped. this is beautiful.
some choice quotes..
"Our recent history shows us that landlord abolition, while maintaining adequate levels of housing stock, is an entirely realistic ambition"
"We simply need to relearn the wisdom of the last century: to acknowledge that landlordism is the enemy of affordability"
"We are so beholden to landlords crying wolf that parliament has spent five years failing to do the one thing that, in 2019, every political party agreed needed to be done."
"If we want a Viennese-style existence we can only achieve this, as we did 50 years ago, by driving the landlords out. Which is only fair: we have given them a very good innings."
"The yimby argument has always seemed flimsy. It's strange logic is that speculative developers would build homes in order to devalue them: that they would somehow act against their own interests by producing enough surplus homes to bring down the average price of land and housing. That would be surprisingly philanthropic behaviour."
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Uh, what? It's not philanthropic, the price for houses wildly exceeds their cost to produce. You build the house and then rent/sell it, getting money.
Yes, over time that selling price lowers as the demand is satisfied, but until that price lowers down to the capital cost of producing housing, building and selling housing is still profitable and worthwhile.
I can't get over that pull quote; say what you want about landlords, that's fucking stupid.
I dont know about you, but my landlord didn't build my house. nor did he build my village. I daresay the majority of villages in my country were not built by the landlords. my house was built by poor miners. it's an old mining village. they built this village at the foot of the mountain that the mine was in so they could move there with their families and still have a life in between long shifts in the mountain. they built it themselves. then lords came along and decided they owned the land and the villagers had to pay to live there or leave. hence the term "landlord". Lord of the land.
my old landlord didn't build the house either. and he certainly didn't upkeep it. in fact, its in such terrible condition now because of how he refused to fix anything, it is considered unhabitable and actively dangerous to human life. so because he can't sell it, its a house sitting there, empty, while poverty and homelessness rises in my area. how is that right? we paid off our landlords mortgage twice over and yet it still didn't belong to us. we paid it, not him.
these anecdotal examples are not outliers. they are the majority. you'd be hard pressed to find anybody in the renter class in Britain who doesn't have a story like this to tell. the landlord class is corrupt and gatekeeps housing. it's an outdated concept that has no place in modern society.
I dont know about you, but my landlord didn't build my house.
I'm simultaneously amazed and disheartened that your response to me opened with this. It so clearly lays bear where everyone's interests lie but your proceeding 237 words veer off into irrelevance.
It is in your landlord's interest that new housing not be built. With less available housing, the landlords can charge more. It is, however, in real estate developers' interests to sell off the homes they build. They buy land that is undeveloped or underdeveloped and construct new housing from which they can profit. That's their whole game.
Again, your landlord does not want this. I feel insane having to say this. People who own housing and make money off it oppose new housing. Getting everyone to believe "allowing new housing wouldn't even help housing prices" is a landlord's wet dream. Stop carrying water for your landlord and supporting arguments that help them.
I have to admit, im a little confused. I read the quote you originally responded to as sarcastic. im not advocating for new builds. im advocating for abolishing landlords as a class.
I also disagree anyway, because new builds, in my country at least, don't make renting less expensive. they make the area look fancier and make the place more expensive.
in the nicest way possible, I really need Americans to stop coming on to British peoples posts discussing British specific issues and injecting their American viewpoint into it. because it doesn't work. we are very alike but in some regards, American solutions will not work. it turns healthy discussions into a slapfight and a pissing contest about who has the best ideas. I'm sorry, but sometimes the American perspective is just not applicable.
I can't quite convey how shocking it is to see a mainstream British newspaper publish an article like this. quoting Karl Marx and essentially calling for a rebellion against landlords - this is one of the most radical things I've ever seen a British newspaper publish, and this is a newspaper sold in shops. you'd expect this in an obscure news outlet that nobody really knows about, not the guardian. they snapped. this is beautiful.
some choice quotes..
"Our recent history shows us that landlord abolition, while maintaining adequate levels of housing stock, is an entirely realistic ambition"
"We simply need to relearn the wisdom of the last century: to acknowledge that landlordism is the enemy of affordability"
"We are so beholden to landlords crying wolf that parliament has spent five years failing to do the one thing that, in 2019, every political party agreed needed to be done."
"If we want a Viennese-style existence we can only achieve this, as we did 50 years ago, by driving the landlords out. Which is only fair: we have given them a very good innings."
"The yimby argument has always seemed flimsy. It's strange logic is that speculative developers would build homes in order to devalue them: that they would somehow act against their own interests by producing enough surplus homes to bring down the average price of land and housing. That would be surprisingly philanthropic behaviour."
βΌοΈ
Uh, what? It's not philanthropic, the price for houses wildly exceeds their cost to produce. You build the house and then rent/sell it, getting money.
Yes, over time that selling price lowers as the demand is satisfied, but until that price lowers down to the capital cost of producing housing, building and selling housing is still profitable and worthwhile.
I can't get over that pull quote; say what you want about landlords, that's fucking stupid.
I dont know about you, but my landlord didn't build my house. nor did he build my village. I daresay the majority of villages in my country were not built by the landlords. my house was built by poor miners. it's an old mining village. they built this village at the foot of the mountain that the mine was in so they could move there with their families and still have a life in between long shifts in the mountain. they built it themselves. then lords came along and decided they owned the land and the villagers had to pay to live there or leave. hence the term "landlord". Lord of the land.
my old landlord didn't build the house either. and he certainly didn't upkeep it. in fact, its in such terrible condition now because of how he refused to fix anything, it is considered unhabitable and actively dangerous to human life. so because he can't sell it, its a house sitting there, empty, while poverty and homelessness rises in my area. how is that right? we paid off our landlords mortgage twice over and yet it still didn't belong to us. we paid it, not him.
these anecdotal examples are not outliers. they are the majority. you'd be hard pressed to find anybody in the renter class in Britain who doesn't have a story like this to tell. the landlord class is corrupt and gatekeeps housing. it's an outdated concept that has no place in modern society.
tzeentch changeling completed
Herders in Lapland (Finland) are spraying their reindeerβs antlers with reflective paint to help drivers see them in the dark and the end results are really creepy.
if anyone has money to spare for donations, im forwarding more links for palestinian aid
CareforGaza is a nonprofit that provides direct aid to Palestine, and you can donate directly here
Operation Olive Branch is a document that lists evacuating families that need assistance, which gives information on the families, the urgency, and tracks the progress of their fundraisers
eSims for Gaza lists very clear instructions on how to purchase e-sims to keep them connected, they are urgently in demand
Mutual Aid Diabetes has channels set up for you to donate insulin and medication to diabetics in Gaza, as well as lists fundraisers for diabetics seeking to evacuate
please keep sharing and adding links on this site, please add more if i'd missed any, and please don't stop talking about Palestine.