Notices by Flaky (flaky@the9thcircle.club)

@PhenomX6@fedi.pawlicker.com The first is that furries are highly influenced by each other, if you're an artist you'll get numerous autists copying you or wanting a character in your universe.Reminds me of what I saw when This Fursona Does Not Exist came out. For context, some furry trained an AI / ML model on head shots from e621. It was very impressive at making new fursonas, as well as anime catgirls and Sonic OCs (keep in mind this was during the COVID lockdowns, before the AI art boom of 2022), though the amount of art of certain characters did mean the model suffered from overfitting to an extent so you were seeing clones of certain characters like Renamon, Nick Wilde and Toriel. Also, forget about generating anything that's not canine or feline.

Furries on Twitter got so fucking mad that they were trying to do all they get the furry who made it to stop (down to sending bogus DMCAs). You could see some parallels back then to the pant-shitting that's going on with AI art since late last year. Thankfully it didn't stop that furry and he made a new version that was a Colab notebook with sliders to make your perfect AI generated fursona.

Someone who's not a furry, who was affiliated with the creator of TFDNE through a Dark Souls Discord server, did a pretty good writeup on r/HobbyDrama, and one comment he made is that furries are so generic and derivative that it's easy to point at any art and go "hey that looks like so-and-so!"

@PhenomX6@fedi.pawlicker.com I wanna go to that vintage computer con that LGR goes to but I'm unfortunately British. Would have to see if there's something similar in the UK.

(btw if you ever come to the UK, the Centre for Computing History is great. I think it'd be up your alley in terms of vintage computing in general.)

@PhenomX6@fedi.pawlicker.com checked their rules for this year and they exclude AI art even if you've used it for smaller things like backgrounds while not banning fetishes that involve things that should stay in the toilet.

I've got a friend who used AI briefly to help with his own art (and hell, my avatar was inspired by AI generations I was playing around with) - we'd both be banned from showing off our stuff here.

@PhenomX6@fedi.pawlicker.com The ironic thing about the whole KF nonsense she took part in is that her and Fong-Jones' actions have only made the site stronger.

@PhenomX6@fedi.pawlicker.com They banned 9th for "spam". I've been on this instance for two years and not once have I seen a spam problem. They do have "friendly with freespeechextremist" as one of their reasons, and I'm inclined to believe that's the actual reason given they've proven to be liars in your case. I've never seen you post any loli whatsoever.

The reason that Gab and Truth Social don't get shit on is because they were never part of the fediverse to begin with, they just use their tools. mastodon dot art with its simply false reasoning for blocks is much more harmful to the fediverse.