An Act of Resistance

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ...girl is my portrait copy! ​​​​

@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.

@davidrevoy Oh wow, this is so good. I want this as sticker.

@otyugh @davidrevoy You can learn that from a certain (cook)book. All you need for AI is a strong electromagnetic pulse

@davidrevoy ️ for the strip, and ️ for also being someone who changes their mind about the phrasing mid-sentence

@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.

@zombiecide Haha,thank you. Yes, I'm rewriting too much and it is visible. I'll edit to fix the shuts→shut ( fixed in commit: https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/webcomics/-/commit/72fc5c65418488bed6f614931bed753bafce6f2a )

@davidrevoy But David, stop calling it slop, it has feelings

@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.

@davidrevoy

I'm absolutely the same, and if I see other people doing it it's an instant +10% likability bonus for me (maybe even more, now in the age of avian untigellience)

@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!

@zombiecide

@davidrevoy

There's no AI in Inkscape

(actually don't know if you're using Inkscape to typeset these weeklies)

@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.)

@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.

@davidrevoy This hit home.

@doctormo Sure!

@davidrevoy Your lighting, shadows and details on the cloth square in the lower left panel jumped out at me: beautiful!

@davidrevoy

OK, I'll come clean, Inkscape *does* have support for AI¹

¹ Adobe Illustrator files

@davidrevoy Where's the love button?

There must be a love button somewhere around here!