u/LavaTwocan

You've heard this story a billion times on this sub by now, Asian Parents, they want nothing but their Harvards and Yales, so we can skip past that. Unrealistically high expectations and all.

So I'm 18, my tech-bro Chinese parents keep trying to force me into majoring in AI because it's the hot new tech and it makes money (debatable because the actual AI companies are swimming in debt) and my boundary has always been NO. Now I'm a creative, I love art, writing, music etc, so why would I want to feed the slop generator? "B-but you can focus on AI ethics and how it's implemented" I could also focus on a thousand other things that aren't going to get miserably neglected by the actual companies, thank you. The ethics is questionable at best and Grok at worst. Not to mention that I dislike how exploitative the tech industry is in general.

Anyways, I wasn't asking to get into an art major or anything like that because... being an ARTIST? in THIS ECONOMY? Lmao even. But the thing is that they decided to personally erase my essays where I decided I wanted to major in something like Psychology or Cognitive Science, and without my consent, ChatGPT up some dogshit slop where I "enthusiastically" give my feelings about the AI major (AI slop is literally banned from college apps btw) and said they made a few "edits".

Now, after confronting APs about this, they became incredibly defensive and began yelling (as usual). I plugged their essays into multiple AI content detectors as proof, to which they earnestly declared that they wrote it themselves and to paste in my own essay. Guess what, not AI. After arguing that I should be allowed to cross-reference my own essays for editing, they immediately threw a fucking tantrum, called me "stupid", and did the usual song and dance of "You live under my roof, and I feed you and clothe you, in India and China they work ten times as hard, etc etc etc"

Advice? Because I'm honestly not sure how to get out of this.

(Not to mention, they've also attempted to sloppify my actual real life face by putting it into Sora AI and generating videos of me flying or whatever without consent because "look at how cool and revolutionary this technology is". There are one billion problems with that, but I don't think I have the right to complain)

^((Imagine if my APs found my Reddit lmao they're also homophobic and transphobic as fuck; this would never fly))

Genuinely, how are we not talking about this more?

Up until AI became widespread propaganda was iconic. It defended a lot of questionable ideas, sure, but you could identify a propaganda poster from 1920 as reflecting the ideals of the time, the art styles commonly being used, and the craftsmanship (color theory, composition etc) used to sway people.

I'm a big fan of propaganda posters; they're literally avant-garde art that create lasting cultural artifacts. They are created to sway entire groups of people. They're displayed in museums for fuck's sake. The means of which propaganda has been used to sway people in the algorithmic age has changed from "something people will remember" to "lmao guys isn't Minecraft Steve bombing Iran funny/isn't this AI image of the Statue of Liberty being destroyed good". Nobody is going to talk about AI Lego propaganda after it circulates on Xitter and gets 3000 likes in an hour. It's gone with the wind.

Propaganda is an art form that's gone extinct and we just... don't fucking talk about it?

We're never gonna see an iconic propaganda piece again because governments can just churn out 30 AI images, post them all on Xitter and call it a day.

Hi, so I made a file, 1600 by 2560, which I plan to use as the base for all my panels, and I made some scribbles on it as a test.

The problem is that in the “preview” on PC, it seems to have completely blown up my test image’s resolution, and it looks super blurry. I haven’t posted anything yet as it’s a work-in-progress, but is there a way to fix this?

And I know 1600 by 2560 works because other ppl here have recommended it

Hi, I'm new to making Webtoons and such. Webtoon uses this long scroll format where everything is on a super condensed skinny stretch of png, as we all know, and like... how do you actually do this? Is it one continuous png (which would be incredibly laggy to draw on Procreate) or do you upload it in separate clips? Also what's the aspect ratio? Sorry if this is an obvious question but I'm very new to this