BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 20:36

There are a few really specific good uses for AI, but these are so unbelievably rare and far between that they do not justify the rest of the terrible uses

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 20:34

UCI was the same. If I had a nickel for every AI-generated poster I saw on campus, I'd have a steady income stream

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 20:31

And I've said several times on me your social platforms that if an event producer is using AI for their posters I will do their posters for free if it means they stop using AI

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 20:30

You have nothing to apologize for. As an artist, you saw AI in my profile when I had made a statement that I am permanently against AI. You came in hot and angry. Does it look like hipocracy. And if you've noticed, I didn't direct anything at you, but instead to answer and clarify what had happened with those images.

Your response was entirely valid and justifiable given that there are so many people in the pup scene that will just recklessly use AI as a replacement for commissioning actual artists

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 20:28

My grandfather taught me: judge a man not by his mistakes, but instead by how he chooses to fix them.

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 20:25

When pup T:Mo ran some night owl drag posters through an ai check (which he shared with me) I immediately fired the "artist" who made the night owl drag posters and started producing the posters for the last few shows.

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 20:23

I also took an online graphic design class to start making my own event posters

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 20:22

So the dates of the first two were back in '23 and the third was gifted to me a couple months later. The first major copyright suit didn't go public till mid to late '23. Once I found out, I changed my pfp

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 18:45

I hate AI and think it looks sloppy, but I think the last message was a bit dramatic. Arf arf arf or whatevs

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 18:38

It’s been well known for a long while that AI uses other people’s work to “create” something new. To say you didn’t know doesn’t justify what’s been done.

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 09:19

the first two i did slop out before it was revealed that AI was all stolen assets, and the third i didnt produce. i later found out that was ai as well. i have since terminated all uses of ai.

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 06:48

Yep and right after I got art of the old version from spacepupsilver too

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 06:38

Nope. No AI here ever. Full human brain just cybernetic netrunner upgrades and augmentations

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 06:36

Bup doggos. This alpha got a cybernetic upgrade

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 06:35

If you haven't, they have an announce channel.

Announcements of events/PSA/official puppy business for the local San Francisco Puppy & Handlers (and kitties, and everyone that loves us)
/channel/sfk9unit

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 20:36

Even outside of the school, so many local businesses and events use ai

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 20:32

We see a lot of issues with it locally and it aggravates me,because there are so many talented artists and photographers that would be more than happy to make promotional material :/

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 20:31

And it's a serious problem with event producers that they don't want to take a graphic design course or pay artists for posters when they can just plug a prompt into AI and get a free poster for their event

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 20:29

Sorry to come in hot and heavy, as an artist I find ai to be a tool to be rather destructive. I appreciate you learning from your mistakes, and I’m sorry once again

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 20:25

Did I fuck up and use the new shiney toy? Yes, but once I was educated on the icky, I didn't want anything to do with it, and I've been a very loud anti ai proponent since

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 20:24

To be clear: I'm saying that your most recent decision was the correct one.

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 20:23

To a gym selfie I took for the purpose of changing off of the AI slop. And as you can see I've commissioned several other artists since then for art, and I pay and tip them well

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 20:19

I'm with August on this one. Changing one's policies in response to new information is something that should be encouraged.

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 18:44

It looks like they haven’t been used in a while. I think we have too many big issues to make a stink over something someone has learned from. People are literally getting kidnapped off the streets so a puppies old (keyword old) pfp isn’t the end of the world

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 09:21

also 3 out of 29 isnt even remotely close to half

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 07:59

isnt like, half your pfps AI generated ?

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 06:43

In the words of Del the Funky Homosapien
Upgrade, f*ck save it's time to load

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 06:37

AI took over
Skynet begins

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 06:35

I don't mean to bombard. Let me know if this comes off too strong.

BAY-PAH

03 February 2026 06:33

I think this was it:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/QoQrKUxLEZ7WMhBT7