BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.18//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMWorkCalendar NAME:RMWorkCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:what do I think of what is commonly called A.I. ? DTSTAMP:20250630T183729Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:366-5-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n Troy [ https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/9056-troy/ ]  asked the following\n\n\n\n @richardmurray What do you think about the prolife ration of AI generated art and content?\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n MY ANSWER\n\n\n \n  \n\n\n\n @Troy\n\n\n\n Well... I will break up your question first\, because the ever growing use of synthography \, from corporate or personal use\, influence ranges. \n\n\n\n So \, I restructure your question\, wha t do I think about the ever growing use of synthography in the following e nvironments or scenarios: leisure artistic activity \, tool to assist huma n labors\, fiscal artistic activity\, human artistic output overall\,human communication overall?\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n In terms of leisure artistic ac tivity\, I think synthography has been a blessing for many. Now without ne eding 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 syn thography 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 co uld afford to hire a painter but when the photograph became more commonpla ce \, for many black people who saw daily illustrations of black people th at were some form of negativity\, the photograph was a blessing. Black peo ple still learned how to paint or paid for paintings/sculpture but the pho tograph meant you didn't need the illustrator to see yourself while also h aving 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 bl ack owned commercial media's creations. Have i created less since synthogr aphy's recent growth in use? no. I am still creating[illustrations/literat ure] 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 ski lls to draw right now. The artist who cognize the illustrations non artist can make with these computer programs in synthography have to realize the ir self worth better and embrace people\, in a humanity where media is own ed by a few people or groups\, get to see made what they want. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n As a tool to assist labors\, it has been a blessing for many. S ynthography 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 ha ve the money to afford. For filing tedious or complicated paperwork\, to m aking graphics for their websites\, to making essays it is helping aid peo ple. 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 necessar y 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 d eviantart dreamup because as a senior member I get a monthly usage for fre e 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 t o 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 chan ged. I think some people are easily peer pressured into doing things. I am not. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n For fiscal artistic activity\, people still buy vinyl records and more and more are getting made or sold. Some artists ha ve already realized what I said years ago and create whole works in the pu blic 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 cont inent.. africa\,  and she makes a living\, but she is known she has clien ts. they know she will make something by hand and that is enough \, she do es. and the challenge is for artist to find different venues\,and they exi st. Use your imagination.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n For human artistic output ove rall\, synthography hasn't damaged anything and added the synthographer to the list of artist. The reason people play fewer instruments today is bef ore recorded music\, the only way to hear music was if someone played so t heir was a financial labor involved and so many played instruments\, but w hen recorded music came in and even in the earliest time where it was scra tchy or expensive\, the ability to play at any time was huge and as the qu ality 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. Huma n beings poor rearing tells them to throw away that which isn't making mon ey\, 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 creatin g art. That was the challenge of musicians in the late 1800s with musical recordings and the various artist today with returns from computer program s. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n For human communication overall\, the flaw is huma n beings. During the sars cov 2 lockdown\, France gave each french child t hree hundred euros which is like four hundred and fifty dollars then to pa y for artistic content\, the money couldn't be used to buy jewelry or clot hes but books/music and what did most french kids buy? manga. \n\n\n\n Wh at is my point? the usa heritage \, what it carries\, or culture\, what is grows from the declaration of independence to two thousand and twenty fiv e has always been negative in majority. yes\, the usa has a positive indiv idual heritage that gives freedom for an individual to act freely of a col lective. Yes\, the usa isn't inherently tied to one heritage or culture wh ich 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 t erms of human communication\, the usa tops the negative list. The usa has many parents\, and mostly not black ones\, who inundate children into elec tronic 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 r eact to everything they see or hear. Stop reacting\, calm down\, check sou rces. I bet the people who are being born today will use the internet so d ifferently. I have three main sites: aalbc/deviantart/tumblr and I use ema il for communication where I have many filters\, which many people foolish ly never did with their emails. deviantart is all arts: illustration/writi ng/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 lite rature \, I sometimes chime in on the forum to discourse. tumblr\, have so me small communities of black artist and I have a soccer blog. the only th ing I do that relates to the larger media is soccer. and I rarely share me dia posts that are unconfirmed. so I am content online. I have been from t he 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 fro m my rearing by my two black happily married  parents. I like myself. \n \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11658-what-my-google-dashboar d-just-taught-me-from-aliccia-mccalla/#findComment-74839\n\n\n\n  \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250630 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR