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David RevoyAn Act of Resistance
🎥 making-of/timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of/034.mp4
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N Toyohito / 縁 豊人@davidrevoy AMEN!!!! Down with AVIAN DUMBNESS!!! :D
オチュー (stop colonialism 🇵🇸)@davidrevoy Next DIY session : how to make a hammer, a molotov cocktail, and explosives.
@otyugh 😆 🤣 lol
elly@otyugh @davidrevoy You can learn that from a certain (cook)book. All you need for AI is a strong electromagnetic pulse 
Kura 
:kura_explode:@davidrevoy love that message.
sadly this does not effectively work with avian intelligence in real life...
sadly this does not effectively work with avian intelligence in real life...
Peejmaybe@davidrevoy Utterly perfect!
Leah@davidrevoy nice message, reminds me of my slightly imperfect wood project I've done this week :) And is a good reminder if you think your work isn't good enough.
raphael@leah @davidrevoy that is a constant struggle for me as well. the duality of valuing the visibly handmade (i.e. embracing the imperfection) and also valuing highly proficient craft (i.e. reaching the point where i can make it invisible, or even mimick something else).
they are so tough to balance.
Matt Wilcox@davidrevoy Shut not shuts? or remove "can" to retain "shuts" - but the message is 100% on point (and, beautiful art, as always)
@mattwilcox oops, thank you for the feedback of the mistake/typo, 👍 I'll edit it:
(-) shuts
(+) shut
commit: https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/webcomics/-/commit/72fc5c65418488bed6f614931bed753bafce6f2a , I'll update the post on Fediverse now.
Stemy@davidrevoy It's pretty ironic since this actual strip (and all your work for that matter) you did with your own hand and mind is actually perfect.
@Stem 😊 Thank you Stemy!
kate
Lisseuse@davidrevoy Oh wow, this is so good. I want this as sticker.
cthos 🐱@davidrevoy The version with the typo in it was also good because it was making something imperfectly (I thought you did it on purpose).
Anyway thank you for this series, it's so good.
@cthos Thank you for having the charity to think that even my mistakes are done on purpose for the good of the comic; but I'm actually less intelligent than that. Just the irony, and a proof I should probably use a DeepL thing to proofread my speechbubble, but because there is AI in everything, I tend to skip it. 😆
Thank you also about this new mini series!
Thank you also about this new mini series!
@davidrevoy Oh I feel you, I disabled spellcheck on my phone because it's gotten *worse* since everyone started shoving LLMs into everything.
(But also I think you're being modest. Avian Intelligence and the Amphora of Great Intelligence are very very good critique of the current trend.)
(But also I think you're being modest. Avian Intelligence and the Amphora of Great Intelligence are very very good critique of the current trend.)
mirabilos@davidrevoy @cthos you should not use such, yes. Humans will gladly do it ;)
Antonio Patriarca@davidrevoy I have mixed reactions to the message. I agree that doing something by ourselves is an act of resistance, but I feel that doing things imperfectly is completely on brand with the current AI slop. Quality, accuracy, precision, ... do not seem to have any role in the AI world the tech bros are trying to create.
@antopatriarca Don't mix imperfect with bad; many creators are just preventing themselves to share their creation because a subjective feeling of having to make things perfect. They can be tempted by using the plagiarism machine for escaping this feeling or , on another hand, go reverse and embrace a philosophy like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi , that's what my message convey here, as well as enjoying the process and the benefits of seing in the self-reflection of our efforts something to be proud.
@davidrevoy As a software engineer, the main message I receive in this world is to make things fast, sacrificing on quality, ethics and everything we have learned. So your message somehow triggered my hatred for all the vibe-coding messages I see around me. I understand the art world is different, and I do actually enjoy making my own private, very imperfect art. This is why I had mixed feelings; it triggered something deep in me, even if I understood and agreed with your message with my head. I suppose I never realised I am starting to have almost PTSD from all of this.
@antopatriarca I totally understand your reaction toward AI slop, vibe coding, and all this mediocre content. True, my usage of "making something imperfectly" can unfortunately be mistaken for that.
I'm also tired about this, about the rules like 'find the 20% that does the 80%' , the pressure of the late stage capitalism in all area to rush and produce low quality for the highest price.
It's hard in all of this to make a room for the 'imperfect but authentic' art form or craft.
I'm also tired about this, about the rules like 'find the 20% that does the 80%' , the pressure of the late stage capitalism in all area to rush and produce low quality for the highest price.
It's hard in all of this to make a room for the 'imperfect but authentic' art form or craft.
Ob3yPaY@davidrevoy This hit home.
poleguy looking for lost tools@davidrevoy Your lighting, shadows and details on the cloth square in the lower left panel jumped out at me: beautiful!
@poleguy Thank you for noticing the subtle transparency of the fabric. 😊
@davidrevoy You gave me too much credit. Now I see it. Wow. I was actually impressed right off the bat by the lighting and shading of the folds. Now I'm doubly impressed. (The other panels are also great, but wow!)
@davidrevoy My mother, who is now 87 taught me how hard it was to draw fabric and showed me the basics of how to do it.
Seeing your work wants me to go back and do my life over and lean in to the drawing side harder. What an inspiration!
(Not really, of course: I could/might still lean in to that whenever I want to: no regrets.... I love where I landed.)
Keep it up!
Emmet O'Neill@davidrevoy Where's the love button?
There must be a love button somewhere around here!
@emmetoneill 
Thank you Emmet!
Thank you Emmet!
Greuppe@davidrevoy i hate my brain sometimes
i look at this picture and the first thing that come up in my brain is "kinky"
i look at this picture and the first thing that come up in my brain is "kinky"
PixelPodium@Greuppe @davidrevoy It is so incredibly kinky to resist LLMs and GenAI, and bully the companies pushing them.
@Greuppe 🤣 🤣
( At the same time, I can understand the feeling if one imagine being playfully gagged by a gothic woman. 
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Light@davidrevoy
"In an age of computers, making something imperfectly, with a brush and easel, is an act of resistance".
"In an age of computers, making something imperfectly, with a brush and easel, is an act of resistance".
@light You have a point, we should not forget that being criticized then becoming normalized is what happens to technology since ages.
@light That's why in my speech-bubble the "With your own [...] mind" part is important.
If AI was just a "tooling" upgrade as your metaphor suggest about comparing it with a tech upgrade like computers did ~ 50 years ago, I would have no problem with it ... mostly (OK, still have problem with the energy part, the massive rip of online content for the dataset too, and their control/dev by the largest worst companies in world.)
Nyx Allocer@davidrevoy Truly Not, the Thing With The Feathers.
James@davidrevoy yesssss
F4GRX Sébastien@davidrevoy menfin, mais écrabouille le tout entier directement ce faux piaf a la fin!
Voxel@davidrevoy First small goal to wipe out the Avian Intelligence industry :)
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crimsonfallThis is why I sometimes consider just making art traditionally. AI still can’t do that (not yet anyway) and no one can accuse you of being slop artist (tho im sure some one will still say otherwise) 
Мя ��@davidrevoy i feel that revenge. After all these episodes of repeatedly listening Avian Intelligence.... 
PDF Textbooks@davidrevoy Glad this is not AI
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)@davidrevoy … at least until the cyberparrot figures out it can use its beak to chew through the fabric.
Seth of the Fediverse@davidrevoy This is great!
eswillwalker@davidrevoy An even better solution is a bag with which to cover the bird’s head. Everyone knows that birds go to sleep when it gets dark, even if the dark is artificial.
@ELS TIL here! Seriously, I had no idea it was a thing. Visually, if I painted that, it would look like a harder torture or kidnapping technique, imo. 😆 But thank you for the feedback!
@davidrevoy In any case, I love the artwork!
Softwarewolf
Rikard@davidrevoy I love her dress!
Keith@davidrevoy Love this!!!
Müllermeier@davidrevoy proof that Avian Intelligence is better than Artificial Intelligence because you can actually shut it up like that.
@davidrevoy C'est marrant, l'intelligence aviaire est le seul arc du mini fantasy theater à avoir plus de deux épisodes. Apparemment, le sujet est très inspirant.
@Stem En fait, j'ai quelques 'tags' à présent sur le site pour trier tout ça, mais c'est sur que l’Intelligence Aviaire c'est de loin la plus longue série. https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomics/miniFantasyTheater__Avian-Intelligence.html
Je continue car il y a un effet très intéressé personnel: "tant que je gagne, je joue". C'est difficile à écrire, mais le thème intéresse. Alors je continue. Et pour une fois, mes messages et mon activisme est bien plus relayé que mes blog post, même sur les plateformes proprio (eg. screenshot Insta ci dessous). 😺
LeiaThe fact that I have to more deeply aquaint myself with human flaws is...interesting I suppose. "This hand is fucked up. Is it fucked up in a human way, or an extruded way?" "Is this llm written, or are they just going in the corp speak a little too hard?" On one hand, *We should not have to do this.* On the other, those that do learn it hopefully gain more awareness of our fellow humans.
@Tourma Yes, right now I'm really trying to process how such a deep change will influence my art. The last paragraph of the Wabi-sabi concept on Wikipedia rings a bell to me with key principles: "Characteristics of wabi-sabi aesthetics and principles include asymmetry, roughness, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy, and the appreciation of natural objects and the forces of nature. " ( src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi )
I love this list of words