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Okay, I'm fine. Welcome back to Brainathan Drainathan! My brain is drained.
First, an addendum to the Bad Webcomics Wiki post I made, mostly one specific thing I had jabbed at, that being them CinemaSins-ing the webcomic Perki Goth Candi Raver. I had mentioned that said comic was well-nigh impossible to find outside the Wayback Machine, but boy was I wrong! Apparently the Keenspace / Comic Genesis site is still up, you just have to copy paste a link to a specific comic to get to it. I did a quick skim-through to see if it was fully complete, and yeah, it seemed complete. Unfortunately, some other webcomics on Keenspace, like the majority of Vet on the Net and the entirety of Fusion D, rely on the Wayback Machine to have nearly-complete archives (although in the case of the latter it changed sites a fair amount).
Other than PGCR, the only other fully-surviving webcomic on Keenspace is Shinku (or Shinkutokimekisempukaku, created by the same guy who'd later do Fusion D). Comicollage and Ghostz come really close although a few comics haven't made it.
Secondly, plans for chapter 4 for Codename Rei! We're gonna get to see a new character. Wonder what she's like.. maybe I'll stop beating around the bush and figure out a good way to start it.
Right, now for the main event..
AI, and why I hate it.
Now, I can sum it up fairly quickly. I am an artist. AI steals from artists. AI bad. There, rant over, right?
Hell no. I'm running this thing as long as I can.
I'm one of the hopefully large group of people who think that any and all AI is bad. Every ounce of it, ranging from your run-of-the-mill chat bots to things that can just generate video games and stuff with one "prompt". A majority of the sites have become so overrun with AI filth that I have turned to rejecting it all, on the verge of just rejecting social media altogether, and simply sticking to Neocities, because at least here I can do just about anything without the fear of AI taking over.
AI generation is the main reason I wanted to make this post. Code, images, videos, stories, you name it, AI can "generate" it. By generate, I mean stealing from other places, including artists' HARD WORK, and then puke something back up and have the balls to say "Would you like me to remake this again to fit your needs?" No thanks, robo, I got my own HTML craphouse I'm doing.
These posts, and all the customization you see in the site, are made with my own two grubby hands. My butt hurts and I have to walk around for a bit, all because I spend minutes, maybe a few hours, stumbling over my own text and figuring out what part of the HTML I broke and having to redo some tiny little thing. Okay, that might be a bit dramatic but still! I do use templates, but I credit the people who made them. AI doesn't credit. It just spits out some trash that barely looks serviceable to the untrained eye, over and over again. It's polluting the internet, and it's also using up our clean water.
There's about a hundred areas that can easily tell you about AI vs. water far better than I'll ever be able to do, but yeah, it's a big issue. Pretty much, AI is horrific for the water. See, because tech bros and content mills alike all obsess over their little AI chat bots or whatever, the bots' servers get really hot. So they need cooling. AI server coolers rely on a lot of water, sourced from just about anywhere water can be found. I'm kind of amazed we even still have water at this point, given how much these fools use AI.
So, this all begs the question. If AI tech bros and content mills are obsessing over AI, despite the negatives far outweighing the positives to the point where there are no positives left, then what are they using it for, and why do they love it? Well, I can at least answer the former.
THEY USE IT FOR SLOP.
Simple as that.
People have already ripped into the sheer stupidity of AI slop. The endless amount of grim cat content, the sob stories supposedly made to teach English, insipid drama stories that last less than 45 seconds cause we have to keep the next generation occupied SOMEHOW, whatever that shark with the three legs is all about, AI reality shows, which I already have a burning hatred for, but this time, with AI and.. everyone's apples and bananas now? What? What are these numskulls putting in to make this crap?
The short answer, and the long one, is I don't know, and I don't care. In a perfect world, AI would just not exist. But we don't live in that timeline sadly, so we're juts gonna have to hope.
Stay saucy peeps, Wheat's gonna go now.