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I don't join often so join this I'm on this more

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I don't join often so join this I'm on this more

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Drawspace Online | Secure Academic Portal

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Drawspace Online is a secure, FERPA and COPPA compliant educational platform for visual arts. A collaborative digital canvas and curriculum gateway designed for K-12 students and educators.

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I'm done with this toxic ass site everyone can go fuck themselves

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Fuck

I feel stupid for loving you

Fuck

I knew you were out of my league

Fuck

I wanted to get to know you better so I can fully decide what I feel for you

Fuck

Now I feel ugly for liking you

Fuck

Feel like I’m worthless like a lost child

Fuck

Why couldn’t I see that he was out of my league

Fuck

Of course he is dating someone

Fuck you

Of course Kai had to go tell him my feelings for him

Fuck kai

I feel ugly

Fuck

U G L Y

Fuck

More than anything else I don’t want to be alive anymore

Fuck

I want to Overdose

Fuck

I want to slit my throat

Fuck

I want to jump off a cliff

Fuck

The whole world feels suffocating

Fuck

Suffocating me

Fuck

Why do I go for people who are out of my league

Fuck

Out of touch out of reach

Fuck

Fuck

Fuck

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I am from retired alcoholics from crochet hooks and yarn

I am from the seemingly quite home

Witch makes me feel like my parents are at odds

I’m from jews and christians

from dad and mum who was barely in my childhood

I’m from hate and arguments

I’m from disappointments and embarrassment and I raise above it all

I’m from camping

I’m from chicago

Zadie who pasted in 2019

Ice cream that bring me comfort when no one else can

I’m from hate, embarrassments, disappointment, nothing, arguments, retried alcoholics

But I still raise above it all

All the hate, that brings me down sometimes.

I still have my head raised to what’s ahead

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Can this girl stop creaking her chair like it's so easy. Her ass got karma and got gum on her hand omg she didn't ask to go to the bathroom to wash her hands gross. Gagging she picks her nose as well and doesn't wash her hands.

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The reasons that make me cry (I'm still working on this)

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The reasons that make me cry (I'm still working on this)

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I don’t cry often

I don’t mourn ether

Play the last episode ever of a series I hoped would make it

But play “when the fat girl becomes skinny”

I will cry

Cry over a poem that not made for people like me but it hits home for me

My mother fat shaming me when I “binge eat” I can’t help it

But I’m severely underweight

Saying “stop binge eating” but that makes me stop eating because she made me lose my appetite

Because she makes me FEEL fat when I’m not

I know I’m not fat but she makes me FAT

It’s to the point where I feel like I’m in an abusive relationship and my mother is my abuser

It is abusive though my father doesn’t see it my sister doesn’t see it BUT I see it

I see everything

I notice everything

I see things that no one else does

I pick up on small details

Thinking back on my childhood is painful when you forgot most of it

But I remember the constant arguments between my parents when they thought I was sleeping

The way my father use to drink,

Luckily he doesn’t anymore because I’m scared that this mental abuse could of been worse

But he still does it not because he means to but because has the education to

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The emergence of AI-image generators, such as DALL-E 2, Discord, Midjourney, and others, has stirred a controversy over whether art generated by artificial intelligence should be considered real art - and whether it could put artists and creators out of work. The Gazette spoke with faculty who are involved in the production of art - a writer, a film animator, an architect, a musician, and a mixed-media artist - to ask them whether they see AI as a threat or a collaborator or a tool to further their own creativity and imagination. The interviews have been edited for length and clarity.
Novelist and short-story writer Daphne Kalotay, instructor, Creative Writing & Literature Program, Harvard Extension School Saxophonist, percussionist, and composer Yosvany Terry, senior lecturer on music, director of Jazz Bands Independent animator Ruth Stella Lingford, senior lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies
I recently judged a story contest, and reading the shortlist was a clue to the challenges AI might encounter in creating good writing versus great. The best of these human-written stories surprised me with 1) unique ways of viewing the world (personality), 2) linguistic originality, 3) inimitable details that could come only from personal experience. Other stories were written deftly yet lacked these elements of originality and surprise. AI is a superb mimic and quick learner and might easily write strong works in recognizable modes, and with linguistic experimentation if prompted, but - I think - will lack true insight and experience. Most at risk are commercial genres with easily recognizable styles and tropes. Even something like autofiction with its ruminating first-person narrators is easily mimicked - but what will be missing, I'm guessing, is genuine vision from living in a specific physical world.

When it comes to the performative aspect of music, artificial intelligence is not a concern to me. Music can transmit and represent emotion, and AI cannot do either of those things yet. And especially within jazz and creative music, music is in-the-moment composition, something that happens as musicians are collaborating onstage. That sense of interplay, or the ability to react in the moment, is something that artificial intelligence can't reproduce because to do that requires being intelligent and having the agency to use your curiosity and your musical vocabulary. Only then, you can be able to react and create music in the moment.

With regards to composition, we know that AI has been used to compose music for film and television for quite a few years. That is a concern because AI is doing the work that musicians used to do. But when you hear those compositions by AI, they lack surprise, emotion, and even silence. I love dramatism in music, and for me, emotion in music is important, and AI is not there yet. As for how music gets to people, this is where we have seen tremendous changes. The many music platforms we have, such as Spotify, YouTube, iTunes, etc., use algorithm-based features, and they make musical recommendations based on what you listen to. We all know that AI is behind it. Musicians would like to see algorithms suggest composers who are less known rather than those who are already popular. The new technology should democratize the field, make sure that people have access to things that are outside the mainstream, and learn to recognize musical traditions that are not only from the Western world.
Mixed-media artist Matt Saunders '97, Architect and urban planner Moshe Safdie, design critic in architecture, Graduate School of Design professor and director of undergraduate studies, Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies
It's important to welcome AI with open arms to try to understand what AI can do for us and work with it in creative ways. Any new technology is first seen as a threat to the status quo, like the way radio was received when it first aired. There have always been movements opposing those innovations. I don't think AI is different, but we must remember that all these innovations are man-made, and as humans we can create and innovate. As a musician, I think we should open our eyes, ears, and arms to work with the new knowledge and innovation that AI can bring.

Often, when I speak to my contemporaries in the animation world, they prefer not to think much about AI. But of course, we need to.

Generally speaking, AI does threaten jobs in the animation industry. I'm told that it is already being used in some large studios. But it will also be a collaborator.

I am told by a knowledgeable friend that it would be possible to train AI on my style and have it work as an assistant in my work. I can see how this would be useful, but, as I actually like the repetitiveness of the animation process, the idea is not very appealing, at least for my own personal work. But it might be a tempting idea in commercial jobs, though I have not explored it yet. In my personal work, the repetition of hand drawing (I draw on a digital tablet) gives me access to a less conscious, intentional side of the creative process, which I think makes the work richer and more nuanced.

Although it is maybe far-fetched to talk about AI as creative or imaginative, the melding of images from different sources, with large elements of the random, closely approximates some aspects of the creative process. AI is acting like a sort of collective unconscious, and I do find some of what it produces very interesting. I don't suppose that animated films made entirely by AI would be very successful, but used with human guidance throughout the process, they could probably work very well.

I recently attended the Annecy Festival, and many people I spoke to there talked about "riding the shark" - harnessing the power of AI while staying in control. People also predicted the audience's fatigue with the look of AI. It was noticeable that a high proportion of films shown at this year's festival were made using recognizably analog techniques - stop-motion, animated painting, etc. - and this seems like a reaction against the dominance of computer-generated imagery in the last years. We do seem to want to see evidence of the human hand. Of course, AI may soon be able to simulate that absolutely seamlessly!

A programmer I spoke to was of the opinion that the panic over the power of AI is hype-manufactured by its makers to disguise its limitations and make it seem sexier. This person saw it going the same way as VR, seeming to offer unlimited potential, but then fizzling out. I would like to think that he's right, but I can't quite believe it.

To the question of whether AI can be a threat or collaborator, I might respond that every new technology upends conventions and delivers not only new possibilities but a new kind of material intelligence. I am sure many artists will be intrigued by the "agency" of AI and seek ways to grapple or collaborate with it. Many already are. And we should be grateful to be challenged and knocked out of our habits and assumptions! Most of the things that worry me about this fall into the realm of the social and ethical. I hope there are great artists to help us imagine around and work with this new reality.

As to whether it could be creative or comparable, I end up in circular thinking. Art means what we ascribe to it. It can be a provocation, but it is essentially always part of a conversation. Many artists are already using the inventions (and provocations) of AI in works of great substance, but of course the artists are still the ones bringing it into the room. If things change, maybe that will change too.

I've been following AI since the 1970s, when Marvin Minsky [one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence] and I spent time together. But AI has emerged as the product of an extraordinary computation capacity; algorithm, which is quite different from what Minsky had imagined when he started working on it. For him, AI was the science of making machines be as intelligent as humans, with the capacity for human reasoning.

Right now, it seems to me that AI has an extraordinary capacity to analyze, but I don't see it yet doing the kinds of things we, architects, do in our head when we design, which involves taking into account a very large number of variables and sorting them out. And yet, as an architect, I think AI can change our lives. If we ask the right questions, AI is going to give us significant answers. For example, I can ask AI, "I have this building that's sitting on this particular site, and I'd like to optimize the sun, the shadow pattern, and I'd like to position the windows at the place of optimal orientation," and I think AI could give us a helpful response. We could perfect our designs or improve them based on the response. But I don't think it's going to give us the whole answer. For example, if you ask AI to make a garden with hideaways, clearings, and planting arrangements for all the seasons, I think it'll do that very well. But if you want to have a garden arranged in a way that is magical and pleases you, I'm not sure it can do that.

I'm not frightened of AI at all. I'm intrigued. I think AI will be able to create graphic presentations of extraordinary beauty and interest, but that leads us to the question of what is art. Art has an element that is spiritual, emotional. It is something that happens when you look at Picasso's "Guernica" and makes you think of the cruelty of humans to humans, or when you look at a Monet piece, and you feel the unity with nature. In terms of art created by AI, I don't think we can call it art. I don't see AI yet doing the kind of creative things we do. I can see that it composes a piece of music, but I don't think it could create Beethoven's last sonatas on its own. AI can imitate something that's already been created and regurgitate it in another format, but that is not an original work.

When our firm designed the Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore, our idea was to have retail shops, airport facilities, and an attraction. The idea that this attraction should be a magical garden came from me. I wonder if AI could have come up with the same idea. I don't think so, but who knows? That would be a very interesting test.

I don't know if Minsky's dream of artificial intelligence is attainable because it assumed that AI attains consciousness and independence of thoughts. Therefore, in some ways, artificial intelligence is a misnomer. Maybe I'm underestimating its capacity, but from where I stand as an amateur, because I'm an architect, not a mathematician, it seems to me that intelligence assumes a certain independence and consciousness, which I don't think AI has right now.

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Is art generated by artificial intelligence real art?

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Writer, animator, architect, musician, and mixed-media artist detail the potential value and limit of works produced by AI.