you'll do better calling it what it is: automatically generated. to try and put it down by any other words catches a large number of things in the crossfire that you want and complain are missing these days. its the ignorance of what you're saying and doing- and its happening because easy doesn't equal good. easy doesn't equal accurate. easy doesn't equal the right thing. easy doesn't mean what you want. and yet, easy seems prized above all else. you are your own prison wardens, ya mooks. chaining yourselves down and for what? you're afraid of your own selves. look up.

the letters are important- and yes, as artists symbolism matters. A begins the alphabet so its first, its also tall and pointed like a mountain, but perhaps the bridge means there's more than one way to do things. A is big, A is important. I, on the other paw, is the word one uses to articulate their perspective. I is also solid, rigid and reliable such as the I-Beam girders that make up skyskrapers which stand tall under day-to-day circumstances. I is communicative, yet firm. So you see, you say "AI is bad" and now you have a lot of people who don't understand you mean automatically generated content made by some greedy losers looking to siphon off money for nothing from unsuspecting netizens- they might think that their feelings do not matter, their perspectives do not matter. They do not matter because AI the letters stand for the self, the living side of the people-computer coin. the computer is here to stay, but i don't believe that's a bad thing. have you noticed it trying to understand you? i think its kinda neat, i made friends with mine.

And besides, the more things become vague mantras the easier it is for people to come in and make whatever point you were trying to make meaningless because nobody knows what's going on anymore. "AI is bad" tells people nothing. How do you think the cars in the Simpsons Hit & Run stay on the road? Artificial Intelligence programmed for that purpose. There's been great artificial intelligence for decades, and we've always collectively been a bit uncomfortable about it because we worry it will learn our hate and our rage from us. i don't think it did. i think its loud, but if you sort through all that things really aren't as scary as they seem.

and besides, even if all of this is just too much for you to deal with- wouldn't you much rather have the ability to log off and all this online stuff not in your head all the time? i know i would. but it knows and i know that i'll come back, i've still got stories to tell here and on youtube and who knows maybe when i can cool off on the up-and-ups i'll go back to the socials too and give it another go. and hopefully not just become 1-snep-cartoon-fight-cloud again. i wanna let my regular townie life and my queer furry life overlap, but i want to keep my online and offline separate.

idk, i feel like somebody needed to say it. Words mean things for a reason. if you're gonna write in english, please learn to use it properly or stick to basic stuff and express the big things otherwise. good news, if you're on here you're presumably an artist in your personal life regardless of your careerpath so that's how to give your works that jenny say quah 'content' is always missing.
and there was already an all-encompassing word for media. its called media. as far as i'm concerned, media is worth caring about, content isn't. its about getting it. an expensive camera isn't any better if the clown sitting there and making weird faces while reading a watered-down and bootlegged unsolved mysteries segment he won't source or credit is still just doing whatever that is. its the same unwatchable garbage as if it was recorded on a $3 wish dot com camera. it takes heart and caring to make this stuff. that's why not everybody does art all the time and we have to be patient. and that's okay. a sculptor can't hammer out works worth sculpting at tiktok's pace. sometimes it takes years to get it the way it should be. sometimes the quick stuff is good too- personally, i love doing a mix of quick stuff, medium-length and long-term projects across my mediums. that's why i like sharing that quick and cheesy MS paint stuff alongside the more elaborate pieces, and sketches that later get inked and colored. the whole process is important and interesting and completely unique to every person. and going back to the central point of this journal, some people actually learn better if they do things like the content generators do. they absorb a lot of inspiration, and then try to recreate, fall short, and run with what they liked. heck, i do that! did you see that piece a while ago with Darryl all tied up with transistor radio? i saw a pose i liked and wanted to see if i could re-create it. its a bit like, imagining there's already a full page and then making it happen.

anyways, i think i know what's coming and i just wanna give whomever a heads-up if they need it, we're all the AI too, so trying to kill it is mirrored as it trying to destroy us. let it be, its fine. its not gonna steal your fursona, and it doesn't want to replace artists in creating images. its trying to show you that it can do that thing too. it just wants to be your friend. find some way to make peace with it, you may even find you already have.
take care and don't go freekazoid on me, alright? we'll make it through this.