Using generative tools to do little art challenges like Nanowrimo or inktober or whatever is like dowloading one of those apps that are supposed to help you work up to doing 100 pushups and lying to it about how many pushups you’re doing. The point is just to motivate you to do the work
NaNoWriMo proudly undermining the one core principle that NaNo absolutely got right: you have to write lots and lots and lots of junk to gain the skills to be a novelist. Telling a robot to do it for you means your skill level will stay at zero forever. There is no shortcut for anyone.
I've a basketful of micro hot-takes re: comics, here's one I'll share today: I think adults in gatekeeping positions (educators, librarians, editors, etc) need comics education MORE than the youth they are attempting to connect to
anyway idk if you heard but September is International Long Project Writing Month brought to you by the Mountain Goats! The rules are you write a long form piece. You yourself write it. Poem, screed, novel, prayer, essay, whatever. We don’t have a 501c3 but we do respect authors and their labor
Once again begging you to stop saying "content" and "consume" in relation to art, literature, performance, and anything you aren't literally eating, drinking, or stuffing into a box for storage
The Fake A.I. bubble will burst... but by the time that happens, a lot of formerly great institutions will have been permanently discredited.
The notion that opposing generative A.I. is "ableist" or "classist" is fucking ludicrous — poor people are exploited to make these LLMs work, and the environmental impacts of them will hurt so many poor people. And working artists are hurt most by the plagiarism machine.
