Please stop using Chat Gepetto. The whole purpose of the thread is to push people to be more creative.
What a way to immediately take the fun away from the creative process.
This is discounting generative AI tools as non-creative, and that they burgle fun. An equivalent is about digital vs analog tools. Is something non-creative or unfun as a result of being digital? Like Digital painting, or Digital writing, or Digital music? This happened between 1990-2010, and it was about a 10-20 year transitional period of people discounting it. It's like saying vaporwave music isn't "real" music as it's digital... A tool has no power, except in the hand that wields it. The hands which refuse to learn(
even the Amish learn about our modern technology and selectively adopt good and bad parts), have no power- no tools help them because they don't help themselves. It's one thing to disavow a tool on its merits(see
equivalent thread on AgoraRoad and
blog by no56), it's another to disavow it on ideas of creativity and fun. As for creative, that's very vacuous. What do you think makes something creative? It's as difficult a question as defining art. It's quite self-righteous to say something isn't creative, nay, that it even pulls people away from creativity, isn't it?
As for fun being robbed, I actually agree. It's incredibly frustrating to get a particular output you want, while knowing that if you knew other skills you could fix it yourself. It's also not a physical skill, so you don't have a physical analogue response and analogue consequences which is part of what's so rewarding about anything physical. This produces fun, as a midpoint between challenge and skill. BUT! How fun something was, doesn't equate to the output you get from it. Consider Beethoven's deafness. Definitively not fun, but out of it the ninth was created, a definitively high quality piece of work. And Wipeout? A really fun game that has a lot of artistic expression? Its main menu is a 5000 line crunch-time slop, that was likely not fun for its developer. I don't particularly see how fun is a pre-requisite to good creative output. It can be a pre-requisite to it being worth your time though.
Another point, if you have no skin in the game, and haven't used AI tools, or haven't used a particular tool- it's very easy to express opinions on them, but these opinions lack force. Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas, neither do opinions when you're drowning in angry confusion.
"Anthalogia" sounds like someone failed spelling class.
from
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anthology :
On the other hand, the cover design looks great!
PS: I added a new article to my submission in my original comment.
Agreed, I think Anthologia is better. The cover design does look great! Can you see if there's a higher quality version of the camel? Maybe
@IlluminatiPirate has original high quality sources for the camel, or someone knows who originally created. Currently has JPEG artifacts. Failing to find a high quality version, it'll be best to clean up the edges where there's whites, and mask artifacting... maybe with some sort of filter... like Chromatic Aberration?
EDIT: Is
this a higher quality camel for you to use? Or was it what you originally used?
Looking forward to seeing the finished RSS feed for this month! I'm curious to know, will there be a site or something for the travelogue/anthologia? Hats off to you
@Voicedrew for setting this all up! Spearheading community projects like this deserves some good kudos!