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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Update on The Shadiversity Drama^tm^: he's still malding about being an utterly soulless waste of oxygen:

Now, some of you may be wondering "Monday, how is that AI-generated? That piece actually has a soul!" Well, as it turns out, it wasn't AI - Shad quite literally stole someone's artwork and passed it off as AI.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ok. Full disclosure. When you said “Shad”, I thought you meant a different internet person who is shitty for creating morally degenerate art, so when I read this I thought that they had pivoted to AI and was like, I guess that tracks. But no, different shithead.

Anyway. Bland and uninspired? All actual art is inspired, just by default. If it were truly bland, you wouldn’t be able to discern anything from it, which is just not the case. So Shad isn’t actually giving a valid opinion, he’s throwing out an insult, just so that he can elevate AI slop.

Now AI slop, on the other hand, is uninspired and bland. It is uninspired because machines do not have the ability to be inspired. It is bland because it has no intention to be discerned, so contains nothing of substance.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not that you, under any circumstances, "have to hand it to" alleged convicted assaulter Shädman, but at least he drew his immature shock porn using his own mid artistic skills.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Not to mention he also didn't write a third-rate rapey-as-shit "dark fantasy" novel, throw nonstop tantrums about people criticising/making fun of him, or jump on the anti-woke content mill grift train.

Just to make this perfectly clear, yes, I am saying that >shadman has more dignity than Shadiversity.

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