Kathryn, I love and admire your big vision for your work and I'm certain of its value.
So about the graphics you've chosen to support this post: I'd really like to understand your reasons for using AI generated illustrations. All of your work is about supporting artists in their work and human creative expression. Preferencing AI seems contradictory to me from my present viewpoint. No doubt you can offer me an alternative way of looking at it and I would be more than interested if you would. As an octogenarian, I'm trying to keep up.
I appreciate the question. I should probably change these out now actually and that’s a good reminder to do so. They come from a time when I was experimenting with an AI tool because I was curious about what happens when you enter specific text, such as the text from a post or essay, into the tool. It was obviously clearer to people who were receiving multiple newsletters from that time than it would be now that it was all part of that experiment.
I actually don’t take issue with AI on a creative level personally. As someone who wrote online and offline the last twenty years much of my work has been utilized by ai … and also many humans have flat out copied my work. To me it’s all just a tool. I think all of the ethical concerns as well as technical concerns are super interesting and worth debating but I don’t land solidly on either said personally. That said I have been swayed by the arguments not to use ai art on this platform specifically and so will likely change this out.
I'm on a fixed income, but I really have come to value your content in the short time I've been aware of it. When I get my disability next week, I will look at your pay what you can options and see what I can do!
I must say I love your graphics. They are so vibrant!
Thanks, I've been playing around with how inputting different text prompts into an AI Art app generates different images.
Interesting! Thanks for replying.
Kathryn, I love and admire your big vision for your work and I'm certain of its value.
So about the graphics you've chosen to support this post: I'd really like to understand your reasons for using AI generated illustrations. All of your work is about supporting artists in their work and human creative expression. Preferencing AI seems contradictory to me from my present viewpoint. No doubt you can offer me an alternative way of looking at it and I would be more than interested if you would. As an octogenarian, I'm trying to keep up.
I appreciate the question. I should probably change these out now actually and that’s a good reminder to do so. They come from a time when I was experimenting with an AI tool because I was curious about what happens when you enter specific text, such as the text from a post or essay, into the tool. It was obviously clearer to people who were receiving multiple newsletters from that time than it would be now that it was all part of that experiment.
I actually don’t take issue with AI on a creative level personally. As someone who wrote online and offline the last twenty years much of my work has been utilized by ai … and also many humans have flat out copied my work. To me it’s all just a tool. I think all of the ethical concerns as well as technical concerns are super interesting and worth debating but I don’t land solidly on either said personally. That said I have been swayed by the arguments not to use ai art on this platform specifically and so will likely change this out.
More thoughts welcome.
I'm on a fixed income, but I really have come to value your content in the short time I've been aware of it. When I get my disability next week, I will look at your pay what you can options and see what I can do!
I definitely do understand that and I really appreciate your interest. <3
Kathryn, I so appreciate the work you do, and I appreciate you for doing it. I am so glad to have met you in this space.
Likewise <3