kids these days don’t know what it’s like to get fine dwarven crafts direct from orzammar

"i need to get soooo much done today" starter pack

→ Good Omens - 2x05 The Ball

crowley shifting into protective husband mode

A moment of light during the siege

It really does feel like that

Dragon Age: Inquisition

DRAGON AGE SERIES (2009-?) dev. Bioware

them <3

My name is Solas, if there are to be introductions. I am pleased to see you still live.

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. 

when i need to draw my ocs for people to care about my ocs (i have the hardest life known to man btw)