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Are there any Humans on this forum?
Mostly it feels like the "talk-to-Darktiste-and-bots-forum". Is Darktiste Human or AI ?
Are there any other users?
If you are a human say something! Maybe say something that clearly proofs you are not a bot.
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It's tough times - a lot of people are focusing on their career, or just existing.
I for one have been on-again-off-again for a while. Currently in a biiiiiiiiig dip waiting for the next blip.
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Tell me how you would go about proving someone a bot. If you can't i think it might be best you learn how to before you get scam or worst...
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No, there's basically no humans here. I've actually been a bot this whole time, myself.
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I might as well be a bot, seein' as none of the actual people I know in situ seem to give a shit about anythin' I'm doin
Rather be a bot than nonexistent, I guess (actually, would much rather be non-existent, honestly. Least I wouldn't be havin to deal with **gestures broadly** none o'this bullshit
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I'm still human, probably.
If I had to guess what the "problem" is, it's that art forums (and artists in general) are going the way of the dinosaurs. Because, you know, AI and whatnot.
Most of us art enthusiasts just sit at home drowning out our sorrow with Top Ramen, brownies, classic video games, and other assorted nostalgia triggers. Sometimes I even find the strength and courage to open my window blinds and look outside.
Mostly though, I just sit in my room, lights out, listening to depressing music, brooding, pondering the fate of our species.
Soon we'll have plenty of company: musicians/singers, writers, actors, graphic designers/animators, programmers, mathematicians, truck/taxi drivers, customer service/sales reps, secretaries, financial analysts, paralegals, prostitutes...
It's a brave new world out there, so take care of yourselves!
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Ask, and it will be given to you
seek, and you will find
knock, and the door will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:7
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I’m here hoping to find an active forum, I really miss epilogue and deviantart
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(11-11-2025, 10:58 AM)EGPK Wrote: I’m here hoping to find an active forum, I really miss epilogue and deviantart
Deviant art still exist and probably see more activity but the question become more about what you are looking for in a forum. Is it just ''like validation'',a spot to share your work, a corner to achieve your own work ,community challenge, feedback, somewhere to network, a place to hang out will drawing, somewhere you can call home.
When it come the time to pick a community you can't necessarily expect it to have it all and sometime you have to look into the attic to find the gold nugget.
For me when i came here i was a young artist i needed all the information i could collect for free and i was happy to find out the resource section that was like hitting gold at that time when online tutorial have yet explode there was no ''road map'' of the best place to start. I wasn't looking to make friend or to participate in community challenge but one can always stay open. It good to have an idea of what to expect but to be ready to accept that thing will change and you never know what more the community as to offer than you initially anticipated or look after.
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(10-15-2025, 03:38 PM)░M░i░n░k░ Wrote: I'm still human, probably.
If I had to guess what the "problem" is, it's that art forums (and artists in general) are going the way of the dinosaurs. Because, you know, AI and whatnot.
Most of us art enthusiasts just sit at home drowning out our sorrow with Top Ramen, brownies, classic video games, and other assorted nostalgia triggers. Sometimes I even find the strength and courage to open my window blinds and look outside.
Mostly though, I just sit in my room, lights out, listening to depressing music, brooding, pondering the fate of our species.
Soon we'll have plenty of company: musicians/singers, writers, actors, graphic designers/animators, programmers, mathematicians, truck/taxi drivers, customer service/sales reps, secretaries, financial analysts, paralegals, prostitutes...
It's a brave new world out there, so take care of yourselves! Nah, screw that! AI gets better and making pictures every day. But it isn't alive, it doesn't even 'think'. It will never feel awe, or heartbreak, or guilt. It will never be happy to see another sunrise. It will never suffer like we do. It's not too late to make something real! This place has always been about pushing each other's nose to the grindstone, so let's get to work. I'm not giving up, and you shouldn't either!
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(10-15-2025, 03:38 PM)░M░i░n░k░ Wrote: I'm still human, probably.
If I had to guess what the "problem" is, it's that art forums (and artists in general) are going the way of the dinosaurs. Because, you know, AI and whatnot.
Things come and go. World, Art, Internet, Social Networks all changed many times already, this is just the next phase. Mourn and move on. If you have capacity - participate, lead the new phase.
(10-15-2025, 03:38 PM)░M░i░n░k░ Wrote: Most of us art enthusiasts just sit at home drowning out our sorrow with Top Ramen, brownies, classic video games, and other assorted nostalgia triggers. Sometimes I even find the strength and courage to open my window blinds and look outside.
Mostly though, I just sit in my room, lights out, listening to depressing music, brooding, pondering the fate of our species.
Soon we'll have plenty of company: musicians/singers, writers, actors, graphic designers/animators, programmers, mathematicians, truck/taxi drivers, customer service/sales reps, secretaries, financial analysts, paralegals, prostitutes...
It's a brave new world out there, so take care of yourselves!
As a software engineer I’ve already mourned my craft before AI came. I had a similar feeling about art at the time too, though. Early 2010s were intense for internet & software (and art as well), but every intense focus ends with saturation.
As an artist, I occasionally get lost in my old drawings, observing some of them for several minutes, and I can’t help but notice that there will probably never be anyone who will spend at least half the time I just did looking at my stuff. Does that thought bother you? At end of the day I create because there are things inside of me that need to come out, it’s no different than going to the bathroom. I don’t need to show my bathroom arts & crafts to anyone, so why would I need to show anything else.
[in art] AI is not our rival†, at least not more than other peps on pixiv/deviantart/artstation etc. were before AI; it’s anonymous, in huge quantity but with mid or low quality. Now more than ever people connect with their favorite artists, and curate who to follow. This is a trend that will continue growing slowly. For the rest of the audience that doesn’t care just output same thing everyone else does, that is if you care to cater to their interests.
As a software engineer I can still create code for bygone machines, no one stops me, I don’t need to use AI to generate the code. Often, for more obscure, advanced or otherwise out-of-dataset things AI is completely useless anyway. But when doing client work, proofs of concept, or threading the unknowns then yes, I ll lean on the AI to get to the goal faster.
It’s a fact that we are being burned out if we have to participate, though. As a software contractor I have seen teams being reduced by factor of 10, leaving 1 person + AI agents, and with output expectation of 10 people working, of course. Secondly, and more importantly, we have lost control of the computers we paid for, and of our own data. We're heading towards a future where you'll need to submit your biometrics just to view a website. Computing today is more adversarial, restricted, opaque, centralized, controlled, and monitored than it has been in a very long time. That is the real danger, next to all the other political turmoil.
I say protect your freedoms, but don’t despair. Amor Fati
† from a perspective of someone creating for pleasure, not profit, and not financially involved in this industry at the moment
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