I remember looking at deviantart when I was younger, and noticing that there was an entire ‘genre’ of art particular to the site. MS paint pictures depicting various deranged paraphilias particular to a single individual. A unique kind of uncanny, how widely the obsessions varied and how consistent the “artstyle” was between them.
I’m half afraid to wonder what AI has done to them. Have they cascaded further off the deep end, or has the lack of training data in their preferred directions left them closer to the norm, trading specificity for quality?
They’re reusing their own and each other’s output as training data which is causing certain quirks to spread. Like skin getting weirdly rough, almost scarred. The fetishes are getting much more extreme. And it is getting harder to curate a feed that keeps it out. Whatever algorithm the sites use are all too willing to shove things I don’t want and don’t interact with into my feed.
More and more, I stop using their tools and keep bookmarks of my favorite artists to manually check. Just like with YouTube, their algorithm has gotten so bad, I bookmarked my subscriptions tab and just never got the home tab at all.
I remember looking at deviantart when I was younger, and noticing that there was an entire ‘genre’ of art particular to the site. MS paint pictures depicting various deranged paraphilias particular to a single individual. A unique kind of uncanny, how widely the obsessions varied and how consistent the “artstyle” was between them.
I’m half afraid to wonder what AI has done to them. Have they cascaded further off the deep end, or has the lack of training data in their preferred directions left them closer to the norm, trading specificity for quality?
They’re reusing their own and each other’s output as training data which is causing certain quirks to spread. Like skin getting weirdly rough, almost scarred. The fetishes are getting much more extreme. And it is getting harder to curate a feed that keeps it out. Whatever algorithm the sites use are all too willing to shove things I don’t want and don’t interact with into my feed.
More and more, I stop using their tools and keep bookmarks of my favorite artists to manually check. Just like with YouTube, their algorithm has gotten so bad, I bookmarked my subscriptions tab and just never got the home tab at all.