Hanging out with friends in the hallway clogging traffic? "Those" kind of room parties? Stocking your favorite suiter with a camera you don't know how to use?
Or if you have never been, what do you hope to experience?
Let's dive in.
I noticed that other furry subs often ban discussions for various reasons, and it's a bigger number of removed posts that I realized until I started paying more attention.
It seems like there is a clear demand for more engagement and talking. What kinds of things would you like to see more of in general in the fandom, or even just this sub?
AI is pretty much in the constant discourse cycle these days (and for very good reason) and it has proliferated into furry spaces.
There are furries who believe that AI art is fine - the arguments don't work on them, they don't care about the ecological or copyright issues, and they don't value the labor of the artist. The end result is all they care about and for them slop is good enough.
I'm guessing they are pretty rare, but that's the extreme opinion.
Some furries claim to use AI as a drawing tool. Sometimes to generate reference material, generate patterns, sometimes generate assets for the drawing like a background.
I have heard from some furries that they have used AI for drawing studies or to learn processes, or use it for temporary assets in games or animations. Most programmers I know use AI in some capacity (usually as a requirement of the company they work for).
At what point does using AI tools become problematic in your opinion?
I'm fairly against AI in principal - but my opinion has changed somewhat. I know that a big part of the pro-ai as a tool argument is that it's doing something that isn't taking away from someone's job (i.e. using AI to create a static reference doesn't hurt any other artists, those artists using those assets would otherwise just not have them) and using AI trained on ethical sets eliminates the whole "stealing art" argument, and though the ecological issue still worries me I'm sure many people would argue that simply using the internet at all is pretty much the same.