Why I 🧡 the web.

https://drawafish.com

Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

Draw a Fish

Draw a fish and watch it swim in the global tank with everyone else's fish. Create, share, and vote on fish drawings in this simple online drawing game.

DrawAFish.com
@davidbisset Doesn't work on Firefox though 💔
@derickr @davidbisset Same here :( (Firefox for Android)

@golemwire @derickr @davidbisset

broken on ff android, works on ff desktop though

@guenther @golemwire @derickr @davidbisset works on my FF Android
@tartley @guenther @derickr @davidbisset I got it working on Zen Browser (a Firefox fork), by pressing the swim button, pressing one of the buttons at the top, then the swim button again.
But anyway, fun website! <3
@guenther @golemwire @derickr @davidbisset worked for me with Firefox Nightly on Android
@derickr @davidbisset It worked for me though. Firefox on Android. 🤔
@davidbisset this person must love looking at pictures of dick and balls.
@davidbisset Went from "I appreciate a funny website but am too exhausted right now" to "he's swimming with his friends!!!" in three minutes. Thank you. 😊
@davidbisset two attempts I cannot lololol I have low probability of fish
@davidbisset
what silly fun; just what I needed.

@davidbisset nice 🙂

..but gonna need age verification tomorrow 🙄

@davidbisset I found this very fun until I saw in the project readme file "This [code] was about ~80% AI generated"

I guess it's still an original idea but I'm just less impressed with the execution. Now instead of looking just standard, maybe slightly barebones, or just functionality-first... it feels like a botch job instead. Weird mix of feelings about this project!

@luc @davidbisset

That's a whole lotta judgement of somebody who just wanted to make a cute and fun fish page. 🙁

@atzanteol @luc @davidbisset yup, and it's a reasonable judgment too, sadly.

The people who made this are participating in a movement (the AI hype movement) that is stoking fossil fuel demand on a burning planet. That's... not actually worth it for a fun little fish game, especially since it could have been built (even with the neural network component) without being part of the AI hype movement.

To me the proud tenor to their use of the term "AI" to describe the fish classifier is what pushes this over that edge. From what I can tell, their "AI" (in the app, not used to build it) actually avoids almost *all* of the ethical issues with what is colloquially termed "AI" these days. Yet they still chose to use the term without distinction, presumably thinking it would get the average player more excited about their game. Effectively, they've (intentionally or more likely not) made their game into a kind of "funwashing" aspect of the AI hype train; "Look at this fun website powered by AI, that's so cool."

I too had fun drawing a little fish, but now I feel sad about the whole thing, *especially* because it was entirely unnecessary. This was *so close* to being a very rare example of "see this is how you can use neural nets ethically!"

@luc
@davidbisset
I'm not surprised, if somebody had taken a bit of time on this thee would be a nice looking boids simulation at the end ^^
@davidbisset
I drew a diagram of a diode and a resistor and now it swims along the fishies
@davidbisset I drew a fish. I'm supposed to be working.
@davidbisset I got 18% which is like "Did a fish draw this 'fish' ? "
@davidbisset i clicked Make it Swim and it gave me this very sincere message
Ah so that must be one of those "fishing websites".
@davidbisset 1 minute after i send it to some friends they return this http://seoi.net/penint/
Penint

This drawing tool examines your mind.

@davidbisset Want to see the Monterey Aqueerium fishes please @skinnylatte <3

@davidbisset

someone drew an Oz-fish (not me) 

@davidbisset I made this!!! :) Been trying to source where all the traction has been coming from hehe
@bigboobies and looks like you just joined mastodon too. :-)
@davidbisset I created one a while back! Definitely prefer it conceptually over bluesky, but had some trouble with discovery...
@bigboobies @davidbisset Seen just now—a trumpfish. drawafish.com
@davidbisset This is very very cool! ☺️