StaryStory

Hi! Sorry for long days of absence, some journeys take too long to end. Hope everyone's doing good, I had to fix some things, and I saw a lot of things as well, most of them, are bad, not only for me, but for a lot of people. I saw a large mass of people getting so upset, also, something thay should be good, fun, a amazing reveal, also disappointed a lot of people in a community, these things affect directly what we enjoy, it's surely a dark time for gamers, and other parts of the industry as well.

Also, there are two things I want to talk about

If anyone's worried about how I removed all my friends from my friends list, please, don't worry about that, my friendships will continue the same, what happened is that:

1: I didn't see the need in keeping the list, there were a lot of people there who I didn't consider as my friends, and there were a lot of people who I consider as my friends and they weren't there as well. And there is the followers thing, which makes it even more irrelevant for me.

2: And mostly important, I wanted for my profile to only have the "About Me" and "Activity" sections, my first attempt was getting rid of the blog I made, but It didn't work, as the blog section is still there, so in its place, I removed everyone from my friends list, which worked, now there are 3 sections only.

So don't worry about that if you consider me your friend, our friendship continues the same, it's just a change in my profile.

And lastly, I saw how controversial the Studio Ghibli art style copied by AI trend became (☆). I heard that a lot of artists are scared about this. If it's true, I honestly, don't understand why they're scared, I mean, I understand the reason for the fear, what I don't understand is why it's happening now, why it's still happening. Isn't AI showing for more than 1 year that it is capable of doing such thing? I would understand the reaction 2 years ago, but at this point? Also, it's just a trend, in no time, it'll stop and they will jump into the next art style to replicate with AI.

I understand though people saying specifically in this case that it's really bad considering what Hayao Miyazaki himself said about AI (☆), I agree about that, but for me there's really nothing that can be done, maybe something related to copyright issues could be made, but such thing could be a headache for a lot of people. I believe the old man and the Studio's works speak for themselves, simply enjoy the good things we still have.

I already shared my opinions on AI multiples times here, for me it's a lost battle, all I can do is ignore it (while I still can)

Though, such thing became harder, you need to take a few decisions to resist, like, during this absence I saw for the first time a loooot of artists using "No AI" warnings in their drawings (☆), these guys really don't want to see their art styles being used for Ai training, and I'm one of them as well, so I guess I'll need to do such thing, I really didn't want to, especially because I wouldn't expect for it to happen, I'm not famous enough for them to do that to me, but I better do it now, before it's too late, and I'm not sure if it'll work, but it's worth trying. All of my drawings from now on will have a "AI use and reproduction prohibited" warning, I don't feel good doing this, but it's necessary, I Believe I'll get used to it.

That's what I can still do.

Also, happy 5th anniversary for Maria (the original version of my oc Mary) and the Starys  ~☆