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[cupcake_goth]

 Thank you everyone who commented on my previous post about feeling down about my lack of writing, etc. I know I'm still tired and burnt out, but I am going to try to work on a small writing project next year. Slowly, I swear. 

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I kicked off a bit of a storm over on FB & Twitter: Rogue + Wolf, an alternative clothing & other goods company, has started using AI "models" in their ads, and I called them out. This is a huge disappointment to a lot of folks, because R+W commented on the R+W FB page, and uniformly received answers along the line of "photoshoots with real models are expensive" (but they used to do them) and "There are lots of different opinions about the ethics of AI, but we think people will understand how great it is". Needless to say, a whole lot of folks are mad at them, and my original post has spread far and wide. I've also gotten comments, uniformly from dudes, about how I'm being a Karen, how I'm trying to crush a small business, how I'm a "type b personality disorder envious narcissistic abuser predator", and I'm a racist misogynist because I also called out that the company used AI to create yet another thin, young, white girl. I am DELIGHTED by these comments, and find them hilarious.

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Everyone be proud of me - I haven't checked my work email or Slack since the Friday before Christmas. 

Comments

[karlht]

I am so incredibly proud of you, for this and many other reasons. I hope youo and the Loomy One have a wonderful new year.

[dark_phoenix54]

Good for you- not just on not checking your work email, but for your stand on R&W.

[staxxy]

I AM SO PROUD OF YOU OMG!!!

I also find those accusations hysterical. and egad, ai models.

[lichprincessceleste]

Go go Auntie, kick ass!

[archersangel]

MTE.

[musyc]

*\o/*

[melchar]

So glad you called out the use of AI models. Hard enough to live up to skinny living models, but literal DREAM girls? FFS!

[danabren]

Proud of you for being Out Of Office.

Prouder of you for calling out Le Bullshitte, and I am also snerting over the Type B Predator Misogynist Diaperbaby Word Salad LOLOL

For what it's worth...

[chicating]

it wouldn't bother me that she had a trim little body half as much as her head only looking lightly attached to it. I should have backed you up, but I was feeling very "Something needs not to be my problem," that week.

[michaelboy]

Real people have certain real flaws or not which make them more than just right for me -- as opposed to a generated assertion of perfection in an algorithm's imagination.