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I log on every few months contemplating whether or not to do an art backlog update. When the AI announcement went up about everyone consenting to usage in the algorithm by default or whatever, I drummed up a "well this is my last journal post ever!" entry in my head. But I thought, no this is absurd. There are people paying for this site; they HAVE to do some sort of backpedal else this site is going to implode on itself anyway.


And uh, looks like they did? So that's nice. Still stupid they even thought a significant chunk wanted to donate all their intellectual property once held dear by this site.


I think that's what this whole debacle boils down to. It's always so interesting to watch divides between artists and programmers, as someone who dabbles in both. I've seen AI recognition algorithms in their earlier (maybe not earliest) stages, and most of the uses are all the same: you feed it zillions of examples and eventually it figures out what's what. Art AI has to be similar, but because the "answer" it's looking for is a bit more abstract, I'm curious what people do to tune it. Y'know, people using their own algorithms that aren't just searching Google and cooking up the results in one go. Maybe I'd know more if I toyed with dA's generator but uh... it still feels so dirty to even experiment with.


I don't think AI is going away, like... ever? Animation has already seen a shift that benefits programmers, in the form of 3D and motion capture, more recently improved cel shading. Movies are just getting stronger, probably both because we still have artists working on it as well as because programmers are out there making the physics and graphics generators smarter. And I think, if we treat art the same way we treat code, AI art wouldn't be that bad. The problem on everyone's mind is that most people *don't* treat the two entities with respect for the creators, for some naive reason like "well it's on the internet, so it's free." :facepalm:


Like, again, the shift to AI art reminds me a lot of the more specific shift from traditional animation to modern animation. And I still sort of hate that shift sometimes. I do think we're ages off from AI being capable of generating both the wild and oddly specific wants that artists can make, but I also think people want to get to a place where programmers are able to code their way around art. It may not happen in my lifetime, but it's something I think people will have to adapt to.


Ah, but anyway, I'm not really leaving or deleting anything for the time being. Frankly, I was looking forward to my old, lopsided art shattering their algorithm. But now that they've revoked the forced consent thing, I don't have it in me to manually spite them with the images I genuinely think are awful. But if the site does implode, remember I do have my own site in my profile. With this dumpster fire, Twitter's chaotic implosion, and the nearly forgotten tumblr exodus, it feels like my site is the only thing I can rely on anymore. I uh... do need to actually update it, though... I still plan to implement a "comic" feature where one entry is linked to multiple images, but coding is hard! :faint:

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I have a personal site for my art! No social media accounts required to enjoy!


https://www.papersak.com


I will still post to my other accounts since... I mean there's a 0% chance anyone will find the site otherwise. If I keep posting, maybe I can boost it to 5%. The site will have my "good" art; maybe deviantArt will remain my archive for uh... ancient relics.


I say that, but it looks like I came across one or two other "art goals" I had. They're silly goals not really based on skill or work, really more based on social media. 1) I got hate mail on tumblr the other week and 2) someone put my art on Zerochan, haha. Frankly, I was hoping both would happen and don't mind either; thanks, anonymous slices of cheese bread for the ego boost. Less thanks to the hate mail dude (though I don't know, maybe they were actually asking if I was immortal and phrased it weird! can't clarify, person was anonymous, oh well.) As for other indications I "made it big" on social media, still waiting on "stolen for youtube/ various other sites," "stolen for eneff teas"... and some that would be way more troublesome than those, so I'd rather not jinx myself.


All the more proof social media has just turned into a toxic mess, sometimes. 😓and the reason I started building my site. But I was also inspired by some old fan art sites back in the day, where a lot of my pre-2010 saved hoard comes from. They were simple, to the point, *algorithm-free*, and a treasure to find. :D I guess all that said, maybe making my first personal site is an accomplishment. Even if I needed Picano to build half of it... maybe most of it. But I'm in control of all the content now! It's a good feeling in the end.

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Have I done that title already?


Ah. Well, all I know is, there hasn't been another site where I... just put up art. Other social media has been fun for a while but always becomes a clogged mess, even in my own blogs. You can't search everything or scroll through art easily because it's a bunch of memes and things. I think even though I barely log in here anymore, I like just having my stuff up portfolio style.


WI'm at the point in life where it doesn't feel like a lot changes except my age and health. Yippee. I mean there's that whole pandemic thing but that's affecting eeeeverybody, I don't have more to add (which is fortunate in a sense; haven't personally got covid). If you got any low-cholesterol recipes, I'll take them. Especially vegetables. Internet recipes that are just like cottage cheese every day just get depressing. ^^;


What was it, Reddit of all random places marginally improved my poor commenting skills, or rather reassured me that there are other people just as lacking in words as I am, yet they're nice enough to thank people anyway. Maybe I just need to get over sounding repetitive.


Here's to more years of art. :dummy: and forgetting to comment

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I logged on after finishing a picture and was like "hmmm maybe I should upload stuff again."

I'm still atrocious at leaving smart comments. I'm not sure I've really come to terms with how I want to handle favorites. Like I need a favorites and a favorite-favorites... I think last I was here you could only do that with collections and something something things limited to subscribers.

This is totally not my social account anymore. ^^; I think rather than art I jumped onto the video game bandwagon and have been out and about with obscure video game tournament scenes. Being good requires effort... which I sort of half-do and never come out on top. But I've really liked travelling and hanging out every few months.

It's like I hate one-on-one communication nowadays and like being in groups. Making ninja-comments and then booking it out of the conversation. Something about this environment always pressured me to replying to everybody and commenting on everyone's things to the point of where it was more like a chore. Maybe 'cause I always had to write something so you know I even read it whereas like *everything* else I could just click "like" and we'd go forth and be merry.  So I'd moved onto tumblr for a bit where "hey how's it going" was just clicking the "like" button, as has been with Twitter more recently. A lot of my social time was sucked up by Discord where I just post memes in a quick chatroom and run. That is genuinely how I like to communicate; it's broken a lot of barries in Pokken chats, so far. :D

It's less so that I'm bothered here and more so I wasn't really being myself, I guess? I'm not always talkative, and trying to always be talkative made me drive myself away from dA. Part of that was the whole "dude you gotta be an artist and being an artist means getting noticed." But now that I've sort of let that dream sink I don't really wanna go out of my way to be noticed.

So now I guess I'll use it for being more of a ninja? I do like logging on and seeing that old friends are still active, be it drawings ot just blogs, and quietly looking over their hard work. Prolly stick more with the quiet admiration, though. Like I've said in the past... my comments get stale, and I'm afraid of leaving the same thing over and over or it just sounds hollow. :invisible:  Plus I've... had my own stuff to upload for a while, I've just been hesitant to log on and be social about art. :ohnoes: Ion't wanna say I'm "back" but I'm "visiting sometimes" when I "have something to do" like "jokingly misuse airquotes."

In real life news, I've been at an office job for like 5 years now and it's boring but ok. It pays for my video game addiction. :shrug: Picano is a baller as always.

Ah. I miss these emotes. :meow: :shakefish:
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Mother of cheese whiz I barely use dA now. ._.; Seems like every time I make a journal it's "sorry I get overwhelmed by backlogging messages and don't have unique enough comments but hey I drew something and remembered I have a deviantArt account."

"So how was your day" is like my go-to phrase in awkward waiting silences. But really it's nice to hear from people every once in a while, or see journals and know people are still doing okay even if we hardly talk. Or even if you're reading this now like "who the fudge is this why don't I clean out my devwatch" yes I hope you are doing fine, too really if you forgot me I probably forgot you but if I forgot you you are welcome to refresh my memory

Sometimes I look at my backlog and notice people who last submitted art months ago, aspiring artists or writers who had super creative streaks and loved to draw. But then they stopped. And nobody wants anyone to stop drawing, but if they did something else I'm just hoping they wound up happy. Maybe they'll come back, and if they do, that's grand. If they don't, I hope whatever they moved onto is fun, too.

Speaking of moving, I moved out in December. Currently mooching work internet, sometimes I mooch someone's unprotected wifi (mostly for weird recipes), other times I mooch :iconpicano:'s internet, especially for Smash Bros. My hope was to get more done without the internet but it feels like I get less done eheheh. Like all the time I used to spend on tumblr or what have you I spend playing console games. Guess I run more errands than I used to? That and my whole weekend gets burned up when I go play video games with picano and friends. ;>_> Can't really complain I have no time if I waste it all, I guess. All that and I still cannot main Meta Knight. :P Ah well.

At least I ate all the cottage cheese before it expired. :dummy:
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