I left another anti AI Furry group. They had a Fursona / Fursuit vs real-life going on. They have rules against using AI images, but for me AI did a better job helping to express my idea of my fursona than any artist could or willing to do. So, I am unwilling to recant and left. My self-expression outweighs any false idea that an “artist” an artist is entitled to my business. No entitlement exists in a free market.
Note: Ask Papa Bear, a furry Advice columnist, contacted the moderators on Christian Furry Fellowship Discord server asking for letters on how Christians explain its ok to be a Christian. Regrettably, I could not make the deadline due to work and commuting schedule. Still, I thought it would be a great exercise.
The question How do you, as Christians, explain that it is okay to be a furry?
I would like to answer this question in two parts: As a Christian who believes we all are created in the image of God to be creative and things indifferent that we have liberty in were the bible does not specifically speak.
Now for the case of being created by God to be creative, I will refer to an argument first brough up by Frank Schaeffer the son of Francis Schaeffer, the theologian and philosopher, that we are created in the image of God.
Continue readingFurlandia gives in to Neo Luddite entitled artist.
Furlandia gives in to Neo Luddite entitled artist.
May E Lowd a furry, award-winning writer, and regular fixture at Rainfurest and Furlandia received a rude awaking when she was giving notice she was removed as Writing Guest of Honor. Was her crime, was speaking ill of the LGBTQ in the fandom? Was she a clandestine member of the Furry Raiders, or a MAGA hat touting Trump supporter? No, her only crime was the use of AI for her covers and illustrations. Furlandia act shows the escalation of Cancel Culture.
Continue readingAI is a game changer. At work, marketing is switching over from stock photos to AI images. In the furry fandom It allows individuals a way to create their own Fursona without the limitation of gate keeping artist. I have use AI to reimagine Acton. My reason is I am dissatisfied with the mediocre state of art in the furry fandom. I have grown tired of the quick buck chucks who have not gone pass pushing mass produced twentysomething looking, toony eyed, grinning, badge, YCH, and adopts. AI is going shake up or as in the Artist need to be better than AI (take an art class or an apprenticeship) or give a needed shake out easy money illustrators with a drawing tablet.
One fallacious argument that bothers me is that AI Art steals art. Tell me has any artist one day without seeing a furry, take pen to paper or digital pad and out pops a furry drawing. For most artists, the drawing of furries doesn’t not come without observing the art of others and nature. AI duplicates the Artist leaning and producing art process.
Finally, there is something artists cannot deny, the concept of Creative Destruction a market system. This is the concept as we Innovate, obsolete methods and job will go away or evolve. For example, an entire photo-film industry has disappeared, as society went from photo film cameras to digital cameras to smart phones.
An open reply to the message Grubs Grizzly sent before banning from the Greymuzzle group.
For those who know me on Greymuzzle Group on Facebook, I am no longer part of the group. Grubs Grizzly, the owner of the Group has help me make the decision to part ways. I will still call for discernment and seek multiple sources than rely on one vocal vision casting spokesperson. My crime is to disagree over his decision to ban AI art on his group, which is one of many disagreements I have with his action thought the years. I may have confirmed in his last post to me before I gracefully deleted it that Grubs is engaging in vision casting.
Vision Casting comes out of the megachurch movement. The idea is one sets them self as leader, in the case the pastor, The job of the leader is to create a vision for the community one feels they oversee. As a member of the community of the vision casting leadership, their duty is to carry out the vision cast by the leader. The terrible final aspect of vision casting is no can question the vision of the leaders; objectors are cast out of the community. One notable example was Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church, with his throwing detractors under the Mars Hill Bus rant. I was threatened to be written off by the pastor of a Baptist Church I was a member for asking accommodation and compromise by standing up for our elderly members the pastor had written off in the pastors attempt to reshaping the church to attract a younger generation, and now Grubs Grizzly ejecting me from The Grey Muzzle group. If Grubs Grizzly thinks his act will hurt me, it will. Am I grieved about what I said, yes, but I still stand by my words. I am used to it, and I grew stronger. So, Goody Bye. I will not quarrel with you. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left. I will leave you this warning Grubs: power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.