Recent content by Hvast

Well, it is a direct, simple, honest question. No, it isn't exactly the problem. Yes, they didn't give consent. Who said that their consent matters? People developed laws that forbid certain uses of creative works without the permission of copyright holders. Not all of them. Artists should...

The usual combination... Ordering a burger/pizza analogy. AI images are made only by writing a prompt and getting output in minutes (I always wonder if it is a deliberate snowman or a genuine misunderstanding of the width of options in AI image creation tools)... Image-to-image with slight...

I wasn't reacting to your comment specifically, more on a combination of Jwtss's post and your response. I find nothing amusing in taking someone's work and removing their watermark. Watermarks are a direct statement. "I don't want to have results of my work used without attribution". "AI is...

No. In my case, it is a debate if using AI is theft or not. I oppose the lie that people who use AI in any way are thieves. My message was about that. I reacted to the blanket labeling of people who use AI as thieves. Accusing someone of theft is not just debating opinion on ethics. It is libel...

You see, what is ethical and what is not ethical is... a matter of opinion. There are many people who sincerely believe that every story written on this site is unethical and immoral. Having an opinion on what is unethical is fine, bullying people because they do what YOU consider unethical IS...

Illegal. Clear violation of intellectual property. But no one objects that AI can be used to infringe copyrights. Tool that is good for creating content will be good for creating illegal content Absolutely legal. Style is not copyrightable and never was. "My style" is simply not intellectual...

If training AI is theft, then any analysis of copyrighted works and writing down the results is theft too. If using an already-trained AI to create new works based on written-down results of analysis of other works is theft, then every artist who analyses existing works, writes down the...

The answer is... it depends. I don't care what tools you use. I need to like the content and believe that you spent some of your own effort and had artistic vision. Merely generating some slop and posting it... We can generate some slop for ourselves. Please, stop. It may be hard to...

We are on an erotica\porn site with the goal of the stories to arouse people, not give them moral lessons. If one is aroused by Ramsay and Sansi as depicted... they do have a problem. To make non-con enjoyable, you strip away the real horror of the rape. Just like you play down the reality of...

Click on your username on the main page, scroll down and you will have the list of people you are following on the right side of the screen after you scroll past people who follow you. But there is no convenient way to mass unfollow; you will need to visit each profile.

Marcie should totally like my branch in "Controlling Maisie". AFAIR, she loves mind control stories and their "morally complex protagonists" https://chyoa.com/chapter/Complicated-friendship-and-an-accidental-command.1809203

My choice is inpainting and image2image on Stable Diffusion, either locally (when I have access to a decent PC) or on sites that provide it for free with decent tools (like https://tinybots.net/artbot). but you'll have to learn a few tricks. It isn't a tool where you can go and prompt "make the...

Copyright is about what you make, not about what tools are used in the creation. Whatever you create is not becoming "stolen" simply because you used a tool trained on the creations of other people. After all, your brain does the very same thing. You said it yourself - original content. Not a...

I would add that if you feel that there is no room to escalate anymore - END THE STORY. Write some epilogue if you feel like it and go on to other stories\branches. Stories are meant to end. And don't worry if you feel that the story is short. Did you say what you wanted to say? Did you give...

Making someone (more) empathic is a change so drastic that it basically replaces personality. Memories do stay the same, but the person is different. You create a new person based on the old one and make them suffer for the deeds of the person that existed before (and doesn't exist anymore).