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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Calling all #ffxiv Community Voice Acting Nerds! I've over expanded my world, and looking for more to be the voice to faces! If you're not on discord you can track the characters that are open as i build this monster project here: tales-of-osea.vercel.app #voiceacting #ffxivcommunity #gposers

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Had my usual rant and suddenly MORE stupid AI accounts come out of the woodwork by SEO/Web scraping. It's not BSKY's fault, either this is just the nature of 2026 Internet. IT's like 2015 internet. But instead of it being "BOTTED" by dumbshit SEO tactics.. It's the same but it's AI bots doing it

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Cute Bunny's 'Wow' Reaction

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Other news to my rants: While i'm like 3 weeks now behind mAKING THE SECOND PART OF THE TALES OF OSEA SERIES It's actually because i got footage done, dealt with life bullshit, scripted it, and now i'm in teh casting phase again. But i'm also half done with the website!

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NO HATE btw to fourthwall, I do'nt agree with the idea of them aligning with LLM use like that but i'm not going to sit there and utterly shit on them. I think they're naive a little on the "WE DONT TRAIN ON YOUR DATA" because this is 2026: Sam Altman already sniffed your tax code.

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And just as I archived AI shit in the fourthwall shit we found out that naively Fourthwall is attuned with OpenAI. I ... realize so technically is SHADCN. But there's a differecne between me using a design system that i'm not paying for or getting paid to use.. And a shop system that pays me.

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I HAD SELF MADE MUSIC VIDEOS I DID THAT I HAD TO PRIVATIZE BECAUSE I WAS MAKING VISUALIZERS WITH AI GENERATED IMAGES A COUPLE YEARS AGO.. ....ffs like I CANT CATCH A BREAK even with my own shit XD

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Unless someone's DIRECTLY demanding I keep all my "AI BULLSHIT" I used to do out in public or else i'm "LYING" i've privatized even some of my coolest VoDS because the damn opening sequence I used on twitch had AI on the front of it.

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So in the quest to be honest, and clean up after my three year stint doing open source and otherwise AI: I am getting more and more cranky and shitty having to privatize things that I don't want public. Not because I want to lie. but because NOBODY NEEDS TO SEE THAT SHIT.

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Y'all the problem is: I thought genuinely at the time I was being a smart ass going "ITS NOT STOCK IMAGES IM DOING SOMETHING CREATIVE" ... nobody gives two shits if my album covers look like a cat took a barf on a microwaved mince and cheese pie.. ONLY IF they're AI generated or not lol..

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me currently when going through every fucking pieces of media i've ever made that also coincidentally had AI generative images and or sound to it:

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Ben Affleck's Regretful Smoke

ALT: Ben Affleck's Regretful Smoke

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Saw this in Kirra Mae's server and one of our alters was going to answer because of our Tales of Osea series... And then we realized you LITERALLY MEANT WoL. Felix's answer was going to be "I'd just make Criss chase me across multiple universes" ....and then we saw our error LOL

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

LMAO. OK SO. UH. WoL wise? K'rhis would be the first to die. He doesnt have proper "LORE" as he's just a proxy for the 300+ alters that have modded glam plates. But if we go by the fact it's a proxy for the body- then ther'es an Elezen and Viera that would outlive him XD

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ash s. @housegoblin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ōtepoti your airport smells like sheep

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here's the funny thing: Labour only isn't up in the polls because everyone's sick of everyone's Wet Noodle mode this time around. THose that didnt like Jacinda (I liked her!) - are reeling and wish to return to status quo

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ok so this is the endgame for Hobson's, the Free Speech Union and Franks Ogilvie. The Wellington Pride case brought by terfs, that real estate dipshit getting laws changed so you can be anti-Māori - they want to claim their bigotry as a protected belief to lawfare pro-diversity organisations.

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This Weds (US TIME) i'll be going in for a friend's birthday into the world of FF15. It marks my return to streaming! If you want to join my discord for notifs on when I go live: discord.com/events/10244... Or else: www.twitch.tv/duskfallcrew/ #twitch #ff15 #finalfantasy15 #ffxv #noctisluciscaelum

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@punkerduckie.bsky.social I had a weird dream that somehow I met you either over the internet or otherwise. I need more sleep. xD Love your memes <3

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But like. Be kind. Rewind. Be nice. Do the nuance. Also make me go teh fuck to bed. GNIGHT BSKY.

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

THAT WAS ME JUST MAKING A SURFACE MEME. I'd seen so much fucking worse. Ho... ok i need to go to bed. I'm treating bsky like threads But threads isn't total shit just that my mom has threads now and I have to limit my bullshit rants in front of her XD" Yes: I do want people to discuss w / me

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ai is a slot machine of gambling. You either get shit, or you hit jackpot. And jackpot in open source usually meant someone's bugging out because they can't generate Alisae in a two piece illegally in the state of florida with an adjacent naked alligator. And that's me scraping the surface...

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I urge someone to hilariously do a case study on the dangers of the dopamine cage XD DOPAMINE IS NOT AN ADDICTION BTW XD It's just that AI is sadly a dopamine slot machine. I mean so are video games but that's ... another ... argument LOL.

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do not make me write a goddamn CSS file by hand. I HATED IT years ago. IT USED TO GIVE ME MIGRAINES. As for agentic assistance the deal with me is: Scope. IF i don't understand something: I'm not allowed to do it anymore. Y'all I TRIED TO DO SERVER LEVEL ORCHESTRATION.. I ADHD'ed so hard.

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yet let me tell you the hill i will die on: People who know anything about programming will argue two sides. Ther'es teh ANTI AI PROGRAMMING CAMP And there's the "OMFG I FUCKED AN AI CAMP" and then ther'es the "WTF is wrong with you two camps" Camp that me and a lot of poeple are in..

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And the explanation to anyone who's SEVERELY AGAINST AI: We're not using it for commercial gain from this aspect. We're not anymore using it in a "fully harmful" matter anymore. We're leaving fourthwall for this reason. Alter portraits aside, we do VERY little agentic assistance in coding.

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fictional alters who previously had neat AI ones, "NEAT" being that as an artist and designer some of our AI outputs had that sort of novetly kick to it.. But they've been replaced with recent either game art, or source art. It's only the assholes that think they used to be dead.

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But there's ALWAYS nuance to this. We're a DID system, we WILL not budge on the idea that AI portraits is "JUST AS BAD" like it's BAD in a "EEHHHEHH *CRIES* DONT MAKE ME" sort of way. It's a nuance long story on WHY we aren't changing certain ones.

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Then you wake up the next morning and see 10 other models just like it even if you trained it poorly. You're training the equivalent of a fucking digital "machine clone" of art. It's NEAT for concepting things, there ARE accessibility things I still stand by a little--

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

3 years of me doing open source AI training and then jet set quitting recently? The human mashup component is where you bash your head against a bunch of python code and ask it to fucking breathe a tiny fart into it and go "BE DIFFERENT MY LITTLE MAN"

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ai itself cannot be creative, it cannot be feature complete -- it mimics and always will mimic. That is the issue. Morally and ethically the "STEALING" argument is poised as such because it MIMICS. HUMANS can mimic and it's inspiration because we know how to remix, and mashup.

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's like picking up a pen from the grocery store but lauding it as the ONLY PEN forever and ever and mounring it's death the minute it's gone.. It was a freaking plastic pen. It was a tool.

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Automation has lead humanity in the past to allow for DIFFERENT intelligence. The reason why AI automation and replacing humans = bad is because we don't have anotehr avenue in which to shove our stupidity in. AI is only "THE END" because wer'e too stupid to realize ti's only a tool.

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

AI Video is kinda fun to toy with just to see what it does. Yet, using it in everything you do, replacing human output is brain damaged. Like you start to actually lose cognitive function and not just because they jacked up a bad study on it..

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wholeheartedly think sometimes AI can be a creative outlet. But it's a tool. That's all it is. And where I draw that line is a good example:

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The hardest part of all this is being a tech adjacent nerd that AESTHETIC SURFACE level understands how AI works but absolutely hating what it's become... Which pits me in with the anti's .. having to make sure i watch my tongue because i do think it steals from people but i also.....

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yea i'm a hypocrite: XD I used to use claude. In my quest to do as LITTLE TO DO with generative AI as possible in the future, I scaled away from claude because of cost not because of the ethics of the company. Anthropic is the lesser of two evils-- Yet they're still just as bad as OpenAI lol.

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We had a huge chat as partners earlier, Earth and Angel and us -- and I appreciate Fourthwall's honesty about everything, but the sheer fact that openAI has a direct tie with the facist right wing government... and that Anthropic's CEO just flat out is a billionare playboy not far off of Nvidia's

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm not saying i'm interested IN STAYING or not. I'm saying i'm trying to WEIGH up my options. it's 2026: At least it's not amazon.

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If the information on the company's site is fairly plain easy to read, and trust me? THE PART ABOUT IT BEING 3 layers deep was a whole load of bunk... They have a DIRECT link on their transparency page if you can't find it. And it's legit just in your settings under "AI" So three layers deep? LOL

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That's not saying I still support generativeAI - that's to say that according to all documents.. Those reviews on trustpilot are GPT generated from false right wing accounts so they can make people look bad. Trust me, it's even more propaganda ... If it sounds too legit.

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trustpilot reivews threaten they're using Generative IMAGE AI - but they're not. They're not supporting outright people who use midjourney or otherwise. They're just a print on demand service. They just don't want you scamming ILLEGALLY. Moral blindness is a corporate $$$ lol.

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I do **NOT** like either company. I acutally despise openAI more than I "Distaste" anthropic. And the funnier shit is: No LLM is decent without a reasonable harness and instructions XD But the AI doomerism cult that Musk, Altman and even other companies pull is the reason we have extremism..

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This makes me "SICK" in a weird ass way and I'm laughing because I FEEL BAD: They're like on the grand scheme of things merely just riding the basic train of automation. the shit about AI that's not the worst. But what part do i draw the damn line?

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fourthwall is being a little naive, in all fairness by trying to say NONE of the companies do anything to store data. Anthropic and openAI both train on customer data on free tiers, so does ANY LLM that's commercially based. Why do you think it's such a big deal?

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Duskfallcrew @duskfallcrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The problem is in all fairness: The privacy policy has an accidental hole in it. Fourthwall itself does NOT onsell, nor share purposely any data to third parties for training.. However. Those third parties can still store relevant data from chats etc through the site.

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