Look, you can just say “it’s important to me that a human person made this thing.” All this hogwash about how AI art is ugly… you care about people and that people make art. It’s important to you. You’ve just never had to face that because it’s always been a given until now. You’re not going to be able to tell the difference between a human made artwork and an AI artwork very soon, if it hasn’t happened already. You have to face that it is about your values. It’s not about the quality.

I called for feedback, and I received it. It was at times hard to hear. GOOD. I was ignorant, and I am ashamed. Of course I should use every platform I have to support BASIC FUCKING HUMAN RIGHTS. I said I was fucking torn about posting. TORN. I implied that NOT posting about it at all was an option. FUCK THAT.

COPPA is not a threat to you if you are not specifically a kid-oriented channel. Thread. COPPA is not a new law, it has been around since 1998. What you're hearing about recently is that Google was fined $170mil for violating the law. Jan 1st is the day by which Youtube has to have functionality in place to prevent violating COPPA again as part of their settlement.

For those upset over Thundercats right now: there was a visually stunning, heartfelt, story driven, action oriented reboot of Thundercats in 2011 that exceeded all expectations and showed a passionate respect to the source material. Nobody watched it and it was cancelled. The 2011 Thundercats series featured a sequential story, but often featured one off episodes, which ended up being some of the best episodes of the show.