An Act of Resistance

@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!

@davidrevoy i hate my brain sometimes
i look at this picture and the first thing that come up in my brain is "kinky"

@doctormo Inkscape might be able to open AI files, but that is limited to those AI files that have a PDF embedded into them (= are saved with "PDF compatibility"). What Inkscape then actually opens is not the AI file.

@doctormo @davidrevoy

Oh, does Inkscape fully support importing AI files now? I haven't needed to do that in a long time.

But circa 2012 when I did, I had to do some hacking to get the drawing layers to translate into Inkscape's conventions.

Not sure I have any AI files around to test with now. I accepted submitted art in AI, but converted to SVG for check-in. But I don't actually own a copy of Illustrator.

@davidrevoy
"In an age of computers, making something imperfectly, with a brush and easel, is an act of resistance".

@davidrevoy Ma_gni_fique !

@davidrevoy Truly Not, the Thing With The Feathers.

@davidrevoy yesssss

@light You have a point, we should not forget that being criticized then becoming normalized is what happens to technology since ages.