Renjiroth

VRChat is under attack from anti AI people who would love nothing more than to kill the game for all of us just because they cant turn it into a bully simulator. This is awful behavior.

Probably best not to ask "Japan_Nobunaga" anything about the reality of Japan. There seems to be a network of accounts on 𝕏 that just post manipulative AI generated nonsense with the specific purpose of drawing in the attention of Americans. These accounts would be getting community noted all the time if the community notes system worked properly (the system is still based on a popularity contest. Popular lies don't get noted with unpopular but demonstrably correct facts). Not sure if @nikitabier is the correct person to tag here regarding both the community note system or this network of accounts that look like they are manipulating whatever creator revenue system (in all its forms), but I'll tag him anyway.

The mod is coming together really well 👀

Totally true - I wasted about 2 years from Lockdown onwards trying to hire "Artists" for a TTRPG project, getting ghosting, crazy rules, delays, ideological/political 💩-AND- it turned out for the "Pick up a Pencil!" garbage I am legit BETTER than a good % of these "Pros".... They rely on PhotoSLOP to TRACE images they GOOGLE. Most refuse backgrounds also. This also gets to that I wanted "Fantasy Art" where you can't casually google an image with 1000 like it but need to make up something NEW even if its sparked with reference images and descriptions. Again they are only good at using PhotoSLOP to TRACE googled images and if they had to "Pick up a Pencil" 90% would have VASTLY diminished work if they did physical media and couldn't use tracing, including tons of non-computer methods. On top of wanting to really over-charge to just trace (as if I can't do that) it's a copyright nightmare... Know what happens when some "Rightsholder" notices your "Artist" traces their image and PRINTS it in a BOOK? It's at best tens of thousands of dollars since the alternative is going to court and paying HUNDREDS of thousands of dollars to fight for "Fair use" but potentially ruinous if lost. And 99% it involves the order to DESTROY all the printed material since the original rightsholder is usually screaming for too much $ to make it worth it. These immature adult babies who enshrine their self-diagnosed mental issues are garbage and wastes of skin. They thought they have some magical skill that couldn't be automated and were over-estimating and WRONG. Art and music are things most would like to do but we do silly stuff like earn $ to eat and live indoors and not be reliant on relatives or others - so we wanted to give a little $ to people who just had more TIME to develop those skills and get pics for our books, games, projects... And we found spoiled, toxic adult babies. Along the way I have found some "Pros" who legit gave good product in a timely fashion for reasonable $ without garbage over politics. But all the TIME I wasted finding them after wading through a sea of cruddy photoslop users that again I could do better especially by HAND I am really Pissed off at. Here's a 101 of that - you pay someone $ to save yourself TIME. Think a McCEO can't flip a burger? Think a big tech CEO can't patch into the call center and imitate a stereotyped accent "Now let us be seeing if the computing device is in the ON state..."? Likewise most writers (and business people) are amateur illustrators who COULD do a masterpiece if they spent 40+ hours on it. But they all have OTHER things to do - so they spend $ to get the work done while they focus on what they need to do themselves. The "Artists" have NOTHING magical or irreplaceable about them even without AI - it's a matter of time and $ - and they F_ it up by being adult babies and better fashionably radical soapboxers than illustrators... Furthermore, almost no one does backgrounds anymore so that alone I LOVE Ai for. Is that "Turkin" anyone's "Jeerrrb" if they refused it?

Every artist I've followed since the 2010s either disappeared, style turned to shit, or did the "I HATE CAPITALISM GIVE ME $10,000 TO DRAW YOUR FURSONA" shtick. They hate AI because it "took" their rent monies since they won't work a real job.