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graphic designer / artist / traumatized person

Tallinn, Estonia
Joined March 2014
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Padishah ex Midiankai retweeted
What the hell are we even doing here. Please explain the cost benefit to me. Slop videos, slop documents riddled with errors, slop chatbots that don't help...where is the value in any of this?
AI used as much water this year as the entire bottled water industry and generated carbon emissions comparable to those of New York City, per the Verge.
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On-brand for AI to take an iconic piece of art celebrating manual labor and turn it into a sloppy shrine to billionaire CEOs
None of these fuckers could walk a beam.
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Padishah ex Midiankai retweeted
To understand why so many artists hate AI, it might help to know that before AI, the worst thing you could do in the art community was steal someone's work and pass it off as your own. Now thanks to AI, it's a half a trillion dollar industry.
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Padishah ex Midiankai retweeted
AI is a massive liability. If you use it without informing your client and they get sued because you intentionally or unintentionally ripped someone off, that's a problem. It's also a problem because AI can't be copyrighted, they have no rights to the work, anyone can use it.
clients do care if you used AI because they are paying YOU to do a job, not an AI don't believe AI penny farmers who have never worked for a client before.
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Padishah ex Midiankai retweeted
the people pushing the “AI is here to stay” narrative are mostly… wait for it… the people who will profit from AI staying. AI is not here to stay if we kick it out and slam the fucking door
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Padishah ex Midiankai retweeted
breaks my heart how prescient this post was 😢
When I started working on AI four decades ago, it simply didn’t occur to me that one of the biggest use cases would be derivative mimicry, transferring value from artists and other creators to megacorporations, using massive amounts of energy. This is not the AI I dreamed of.
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Padishah ex Midiankai retweeted
Malenia, Blade of Miquella
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Skroce ftw🔥
The Matrix storyboard art by Steve Skroce, 1998
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Always happy to listen to Karen Hao dig into the AI industry's dirt. Give it a listen. Link in the comment below 👇
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Warriors, prepare to witness a story filled with pain. Will this sacrifice be worth it? Y9S3 starts September 11th, 2025.
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Oh, Scott Belsky is head of their tech labs? He used to work at Adobe, responsible for Adobe Stock Photos and creative cloud! Under his rule, Adobe illegally used 300+ million stock photos from photographers to train their AI Firefly!
It’s about to get tense
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To celebrate the reveal of Lords of the Fallen II, we’re giving away this one-of-a-kind painting of the Scion. Created in human blood by @MaximeTaccardi. Follow + RT to enter.
Yes, that logo tease was real human blood. Blood-artist @MaximeTaccardi explains all… including why he bled for Lords of the Fallen II. Watch now:
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Padishah ex Midiankai retweeted
The Cellist
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Variant for TRANSFORMERS #26, a matching pair with the previous issue...this time featuring the villains 🙌
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I am thrilled she got so much love guys :) I remember testing a lot of painting techniques in this one, and having a bit of a hard choice leaving the « blank » canvas at the bottom… And from what I read, a lot of people used this image for their personal RPG campaigns :) !!!
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Padishah ex Midiankai retweeted
A selection from my art book Carbon Based kickstarter.com/projects/oni… Thank you to everyone to has signed up so far. I’m told it’ll launch August 11th, print this fall & ship in March. All work is analog, pencil, ink & white paint on board. This was an X-O Manowar piece for Valiant
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Have friends? Do those friends play For Honor? Well, they should! For a limited time, For Honor is up to 85% off on PC 👇 Ubisoft Store: ubi.li/N4iA0 Steam: ubi.li/UZH1n
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The first 6 minutes of this video explains from a big picture the problem with AI scraping and how it could kill the internet, with actual numbers you haven't heard before. The rest you can skip, it's more opinionated, and IMO, not as reasoned, and is marketing for cloudflare.
If you’re in media, this is worth a watch. Cloudflare handles ≈20% of global traffic, so when CEO Matthew Prince warns at Cannes that AI bots are reshaping the web, publishers need to adapt or risk being left behind.
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We’ve arrived!!! 🛸
LEGO has approved an awesome new set based on The X-Files thanks to a 90s contest. bit.ly/4l2buR0
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DOOM The Dark Ages - I did a painting - the print is out now, grab one! link below I dove into this one, really happy with these final!
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