Cel

Still alive.

@ExorcismoAiArt I'm fine, thank you, hope you're ok too Exo!

@acrverse Hi Cel. Hope all is well my friend! Its good to see your posts! 😊

This is actually SFW.

@Void8152 I'm trying to be good to the algo guillotine (:

@acrverse Cel! I missed that glitch! And she is totally not “SAFE” for work! Shes a Green eyed, redheaded, gorgeous succubus in human form ready to drain you dry!🥰

@moyjam82 Busy, really busy with different things here and there mainly

@acrverse It was about time... how have you been? All right?

I don't really know why but hello

@LordWell_main I was totally going to do something else this morning but yet, fate chose otherwise.

@acrverse Hahahaah. No worries man. Glad to see you, even if only dropping for a quick visit. But… you have to explain me how could anyone just start up Comfy “by mistake” 😜 Maybe something deep in your subconscious guided your mouse? 😇

@LordWell_main I have so many comfy or forge versions on my computer, so everything is basically scripted. And I ran that script by mistake so my old comfy instance booted. So I installed the new desktop thingy and made my workflow run on that

@kicker_17 Well is a stretch I'd say, but I'm alive so I can't really complain :> still doing much outside the AI world at the moment so "busy"

@acrverse Hello Cel! Hope you've been well!

@LordWell_main I don't wanna give false hope again, I just booted up ComfyUI nearly by mistake (idk how I came up to this) so I was like "let's fix my old workflow and see" 🙃

@acrverse Heeeeeyyyy!!! Long time no see man. Glad to see you around 👋🏻

@Void8152 Don't take it the wrong way with me saying I didn't miss X at all, I guess you can understand that 😅

@acrverse CEL! We missed you! 🤩

@RudeusMar 👋

@acrverse Hello Cel 👋

@Dr_iPh0ne ... Sigh.

@noholeatcrotch @Dr_iPh0ne It is exactly mine lol I sincerely gave up with that guy, they don't care at all, so it is what it is... Thank you tho 😅

@Dr_iPh0ne Is derived from that Cel's work? @acrverse

@Dr_iPh0ne What about crediting the creator?

🥕 🐰

@JediJenna @_SpyDtroid_ This guy are sick.

@_SpyDtroid_ Mistranslation. The OG is riddled with them. The localizer (yes, it was one dude who had two weeks to do it) didn’t know how to quite translate the jinx/curse idiom.

I’M PLAYING THE ORIGINAL FF7 FOR THE FIRST TIME AND WHAT THE FUCK TIFA 😭😭😭???.?.?.?.?

@CreationsLevi I find it funny enough to be able to follow along without the sound, I guess it means I heard it a "couple times" already. Yeah, dope song 😌⚡

I'm in the shadowlands, but this is done and it's important to me. After 3 years, I decided to give Levi a voice. So I sang. And gave it to her myself. The instruments and animation were done professionally, just for transparency. And so, Levi sings. <3

@CreationsLevi Won't lie it was unexpected, yet I'm very impressed. It's a banger and I already added that to my library. Hopefully we'll hear more themes in the future

♫ If love is a wire! I learned it wrong! Plugged into forever holding on. They call it a bond, I call it fate I don’t need heaven, I’ll generate! ♫ : D Cough. Anyhow, patr0ns. I made an update that's a little out of the norm. I can't take it back, so go check it out. <3

@CreationsLevi I wish I had the "motivation" to start again but it probably won't be in the near future. I went through so many things lately, I don't really want to deal with shit people or any AI drama lmao I didn't want to interact much either but I'm still following what people I like do

@acrverse Well that's a shame because I think what we need is level headed creators who push back on this sorta thing. xP

The whole Grok thing has been really gross and weird. A lot of creators in my cohort constantly talk about dealing with anti-AI harassment. Personally, I’ve never cared much. On one hand, I get why generative AI is terrifying for job security , for basically everything. On the other, this is how technology has always worked. You adapt, you learn the tools, or you get left behind. I’m incredibly fortunate that the right people saw my work, liked what I did, and it turned into a real career. One that pays better than anything I did before. I want AI to succeed. And honestly, we’re our own worst enemies when it comes to convincing anyone outside this bubble that what we do is legitimate. Don’t get me wrong . I’m hostile by nature to people who come at me with the usual “pick up a pencil” nonsense. I don’t care. But this Grok trend? Are we seriously going to feed into this and try to farm engagement by having Grok alter our images for memes and points? One of the things I’m most proud of with Levi is agency. The girls I create are willing. Sexy, yes , but never stripped of consent or autonomy. I’ve intentionally stayed far away from the worst anime-tropes: non-con, NTR, coercion, that whole mess. Not because I’m moral-grandstanding, but because it matters to the work and the friends who allow me to use their characters. So what’s my issue? X now has a feature that lets Grok edit any image. Neutral in theory. But in practice, people are using it to undress women who absolutely did not ask for it , and worse. I’m not going into specifics, but you know exactly what I’m talking about. I’m not here to tell anyone what to do. Everything online is ironic now, and being a contrarian is the only way some people know how to exist. What irritates me is seeing other AI creators rush to signal-boost this by posting things like “hey Grok put a bikini on this” for engagement and to ride the wave. This is why people hate us. This is why we aren’t taken seriously. We jump on every shiny AI trend without stopping to think about what it’s actually doing or what we’re endorsing by participating. I get called mean a lot, but anyone who actually engages with me in good faith knows I’m pretty chill , especially toward people who put real effort into their work. Not just text-to-image and done, but actually learning an editor, pushing past what an app spits out. (Hoyo notwithstanding. Hate forever.) Just because a tool exists doesn’t mean we have to use it. AI creators already talk like the most insufferable Tech-bro/NFT grifters on the planet acting like every new model is the singularity. It’s not hard to look at how Grok is being used and think, “Yeah, maybe I’ll skip this one.” I’m not even arguing this from a moral angle , X has enough of that already. But a lot of you care about legitimacy. And if you want “normies” to see you as more than a basement dwelling stereotype, maybe exercise a little agency and think about the cultural zeitgeist before chasing every trend for clicks. Look at what the Grok edit feature is being used *for*. Most of you aren’t making serious money from AI. I doomscroll Patreon a lot, sub 200 is generous for most. Skipping Grok costs you nothing. A “banger” edit from it isn’t going to meaningfully change your bottom line. Because you already make *nothing*. I’m living proof that you don’t have to lose your soul or turn yourself into a meme to succeed financially. Which if you're all honest with yourselves is your endgame whether you admit it or not. (Shutup Tommy). It is possible. I promise, with a little effort, you can do it too. And not torch any amount of good will we manage to garner in the process.