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30 June 2026
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Troy [ https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/9056-troy/ ] asked the following
@richardmurray What do you think about the proliferation of AI generated art and content?
MY ANSWER
@Troy
Well... I will break up your question first, because the ever growing use of synthography , from corporate or personal use, influence ranges.
So , I restructure your question, what do I think about the ever growing use of synthography in the following environments or scenarios: leisure artistic activity , tool to assist human labors, fiscal artistic activity, human artistic output overall,human communication overall?
In terms of leisure artistic activity, I think synthography has been a blessing for many. Now without needing to pay an artist or without needing to learn a skill of illustration, one can get emulations that satisfy what they want to see. many of my fellow artist have suffered a financial blow because of this and hate synthography but I don't see it that way. And I will be blunt, synthography today is what the photograph was. Not every black person could paint or could afford to hire a painter but when the photograph became more commonplace , for many black people who saw daily illustrations of black people that were some form of negativity, the photograph was a blessing. Black people still learned how to paint or paid for paintings/sculpture but the photograph meant you didn't need the illustrator to see yourself while also having an affordable tool to do it and that is what synthography is today. I see how many black people especially black women get to create positive/flattering depictions of black women free from the white owned media or black owned commercial media's creations. Have i created less since synthography's recent growth in use? no. I am still creating[illustrations/literature] quite a bit. Are some artist disheartened? yes. But the key is how you approach being an artist. I don't need people to buy my work or for my work to be considered some quality level for me to like it and embrace it. The most popular comic book is sponge bob which most artist have the skills to draw right now. The artist who cognize the illustrations non artist can make with these computer programs in synthography have to realize their self worth better and embrace people, in a humanity where media is owned by a few people or groups, get to see made what they want.
As a tool to assist labors, it has been a blessing for many. Synthography tools are helping elders who are alone in this world have aids to remember. It is helping children who will never be the fastest of mind or foot have tools to aid them in learning or movement. It is helping the impoverished/poor/upper poor to have tools to aid them that they don't have the money to afford. For filing tedious or complicated paperwork, to making graphics for their websites, to making essays it is helping aid people. No one is forced to use. I only use deviantart dreamup. I have never used chatgpt, or google synthographic system. I used the microsoft system to manipulate the most recent book reviews I made because it was necessary to fit your demand. It had nothing to do with me. If I owned a magazine I would use my own grammatical + syntactical interpretation for whatever I wrote. I have never used various synthographic tools and i only use deviantart dreamup because as a senior member I get a monthly usage for free so I want to use it up as I hate waste and they don't collate the uses. Sadly while honestly, I rarely have used up a months uses and iti s going on over two years old, but, I am no synthographer. So people are free to use what tools they want. I am content with my mind, my abilities, my comprehension. if I need to I will use synthography to adjust my work tobe accepted by those that demand. I don't see it as a problem. I am not changed. I think some people are easily peer pressured into doing things. I am not.
For fiscal artistic activity, people still buy vinyl records and more and more are getting made or sold. Some artists have already realized what I said years ago and create whole works in the public view . So, making money making art is going strong in many sectors. The real revenue stream being hurt by synthographic tools are literary or illustrative commission work for unknown artist. Big time artist arguably have risen in value. I know an artist who makes beautiful work in the continent.. africa, and she makes a living, but she is known she has clients. they know she will make something by hand and that is enough , she does. and the challenge is for artist to find different venues,and they exist. Use your imagination.
For human artistic output overall, synthography hasn't damaged anything and added the synthographer to the list of artist. The reason people play fewer instruments today is before recorded music, the only way to hear music was if someone played so their was a financial labor involved and so many played instruments, but when recorded music came in and even in the earliest time where it was scratchy or expensive, the ability to play at any time was huge and as the quality improved, people chose the recording over the live for most. Again popular folk were fine and making even more money with recording of them. But, nothing demanded horn players throw their horns away, nothing. Human beings poor rearing tells them to throw away that which isn't making money, as if they lost value cause no one was paying, and this is the same challenge today. Find ways to make money not using your art + keep creating art. That was the challenge of musicians in the late 1800s with musical recordings and the various artist today with returns from computer programs.
For human communication overall, the flaw is human beings. During the sars cov 2 lockdown, France gave each french child three hundred euros which is like four hundred and fifty dollars then to pay for artistic content, the money couldn't be used to buy jewelry or clothes but books/music and what did most french kids buy? manga.
What is my point? the usa heritage , what it carries, or culture, what is grows from the declaration of independence to two thousand and twenty five has always been negative in majority. yes, the usa has a positive individual heritage that gives freedom for an individual to act freely of a collective. Yes, the usa isn't inherently tied to one heritage or culture which is what many , maybe most whites in modernity, are fighting to prove not true. But overall the usa has a negative heritage or culture and in terms of human communication, the usa tops the negative list. The usa has many parents, and mostly not black ones, who inundate children into electronic technology. I will be blunt, when I went to college no one cheated more than asian students, regardless of their phenottpye [white far east asian, mulatto south east asian, black south west asian], and asian children are usually tech addicts beyond black non asian[africa/caribbean/D.O.S.] children. i have seen asian children in the usa. the media treats them differently than they are on average. But the tech addiction parents, of all races [phenotype/religion/language/ or other] I have seen in NYC put on children is parents fault. You teach children not to think and then get angry when they rely on the crutch you told them to use, you pushed them to use. As for the internet, again, whose fault is it that people react to everything they see or hear. Stop reacting, calm down, check sources. I bet the people who are being born today will use the internet so differently. I have three main sites: aalbc/deviantart/tumblr and I use email for communication where I have many filters, which many people foolishly never did with their emails. deviantart is all arts: illustration/writing/photography/synthography/sculpture/fractals/ and more whether not safe for work or where the whole clan can view without unsettling. aalbc I have my groups each with an agenda, programming/calendrial existence/old literature , I sometimes chime in on the forum to discourse. tumblr, have some small communities of black artist and I have a soccer blog. the only thing I do that relates to the larger media is soccer. and I rarely share media posts that are unconfirmed. so I am content online. I have been from the beginning but it goes back to rearing and habits. I don't follow others, nor do I feel I have to do what everyone else does, but that comes from my rearing by my two black happily married parents. I like myself.
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30 June 2026
This event began 06/30/2025 and repeats every year forever
ABOUT THE NEW VOICES AWARD from @Lee and Low Books
Established in 2000, the New Voices Award is given biennially to an unpublished writer of color or Native/Indigenous writer for a picture book manuscript.
Manuscripts may be FICTION, NON-FICTION, or POETRY for children ages 5 to 12. Manuscripts should address the needs of children of color or Native/Indigenous children by providing stories with which they can identify and relate, and which promote a greater understanding of one another. Themes relating to different family structures, gender identity, LGBTQ+ communities, or disabilities are also of interest.
The submission period for entry will begin on April 1, 2025 at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time and will end on June 30, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.
New Voices Award winners receive a standard publication contract, including Lee & Low Books’s basic royalties and an advance in the amount of $5,000.
Winners are also given close publishing mentorship as they work to develop their first book for publication. Nurturing manuscripts takes time, and Lee & Low’s commitment to this contest represents over two decades of dedication. We ask for the same commitment and courtesy from applicants. Please make sure you are able to abide by the eligibility and manuscript submission guidelines before entering.
I ASK FOR HELP DECIDING A STORY THAT I SHOULD USE AS AN INSPIRATION FROM THE FOLLOWING
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/81311721/my-tales-or-poetry
AALBC COLLAB group
@Dee Miller @Rosey Lee
Thoughts?
Contest Rules
https://www.leeandlow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025-New-Voices-contest-rules_updated3-10-25.pdf
New Voices Award FAQ
https://www.leeandlow.com/authors-illustrators/writing-contests/new-voices-award/new-voices-faqs/
Submission form
https://forms.zohopublic.com/leelowbooks/form/NewVoicesSubmissionForm/formperma/skImqvLtrSEzWlRCEpt0CcbbOWXvNa6pw5XIUdwoti4
URL
https://www.leeandlow.com/authors-illustrators/writing-contests/new-voices-award/
forum page
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11565-new-voices-from-lee-and-low/
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30 June 2026
This event began 06/30/2025 and repeats every year forever
L RON HUBBARD creators of the future June 30th 2025 due
writers contest
https://writersofthefuture.com/enter-writer-contest/
illustrators contest
https://writersofthefuture.com/enter-the-illustrator-contest/
I Contacted an administrator for L Ron Hubbard and they said, as long as a work wasn't used for profit it can be applied.
So I chose to select from the following
Which of these do you like
Literature
prose https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Candace-the-Great-early-at-bats-as-told-by-Edubrer-1124577912 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Around-The-Moon-In-80-Risings-979150152 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Henda-jr-and-the-Highest-Striker-1116366320 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Koko-Henda-and-the-wails-1116366734 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Koko-Henda-and-the-Stitched-People-1116368214 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-King-Of-Paradise-913395528 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/You-re-fired-934205908 stageplay https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Journey-of-Sofie-Wakten-to-become-a-witch-1025949171 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/WHICH-SUN-IS-FUN-1140924741 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Last-Day-1124559173 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/LOVE-THAT-PASS-SHIPS-IN-THE-NIGHT-974879079 poetry https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Ship-of-Fools-Legend-to-be-909901566 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Poetic-Critique-of-Luthien-and-Beren-by-jjwinters-1143440896 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Wee-Sonnets-Sonnet-1119639140 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Hark-The-Poet-Angels-Sing-1130714222
Illustrations
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Holiday-Rex-DTIYS-B-W-905513401 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/THE-GREAT-ORIGINAL-CHARACTER-SNOWFIGHT-1181758432 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Princess-Candace-in-a-moment-in-the-Kingdom-of-Mir-980117692 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/crystals-21-Witchtember-2022-930362174 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/20th-anniversary-deviantart-Black-and-White-856152910 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Ancestral-Tree-back-b-w-966925996 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Ancestral-Tree-front-b-w-966925605 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/AmpraehDTIYScolor-917892345 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Suriel-of-Sylessae-BW-939310620 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Vape-Of-Love-calligraphy-1103786990 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Phoenix-crying-bw-1082135508 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Sikarengo-BW-990210090
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