See. It's uninspired shit like this that irks me about Pokémon, the biggest franchise in human history
They remade all the Gen 1 & 2 artwork when Gen 3 came out, and that's the only art they've been slapping on products for the last 20 years
They just "copy, paste, print"
Tcg art is right there!
![Wikipedia:
History of Germans in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union
The German minority population in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union stemmed from several sources and arrived in several waves. Since the second half of the 19th century, as a consequence of the Russification policies and compulsory military service in the Russian Empire, large groups of Germans from Russia emigrated to the Americas (mainly Canada, the United States, Brazil and Argentina), where they founded many towns. During World War II, ethnic Germans in the Soviet Union were persecuted and many were forcibly resettled to other regions such as Central Asia.[7] In 1989, the Soviet Union declared an ethnic German population of roughly two million.[8] By 2002, following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, many ethnic Germans had emigrated (mainly to Germany) and the population fell by half to roughly one million.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o236pw6sfuamjd6wpmo5ja2b/bafkreiddsu3de54b5sdvcq7ezkyqwuos5l3qexfhzw3epar6eypl3rd6si)
![Post by Jingna Zhang:
Instagram labeling works I made in 2013 as "Likely made with AI".
Incredible times
[Screenshot of art post with the aforementioned label]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o236pw6sfuamjd6wpmo5ja2b/bafkreiethtwtxf227drrgb5fi3scdvqfznxjwqxguj6z7y7ja5ljzugua4)
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@monkchips.com
· 1d
i mean I appreciate the desire to do that. Late stage capitalism fucking sucks, in many many ways. The theft of IP is gross, the environmental arguments against AI are quite reasonable. We need jobs to live. But just saying I won't ever use anything that touched AI doesn't seem realistic.
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@monkchips.com
· 1d
i won't be an apologist for the excesses of the AI bro revolution, but I am a pragmatist and a realist. We have to deal with the reality of the situation as it is, not just how we'd like it to be. It's my job to track software and I fucking love software developers and developer culture.
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@monkchips.com
· 1d
your pain and feelings shouldn't be discounted. many devs are feeling grief right now, for lost craft and agency, while others are high as kites on LLM dopamine and stock options. but yeah, I don't want to leave the tech future to the fascists, so I feel like we kind of need to engage.
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@monkchips.com
· 1d
I hate AI slop. I hate AI art. I hate AI music. Writing is definitely best left to humans. But in the field of software development, we've hit a revolutionary tipping point. 2026 is the year when the models became good enough to solve hard problems autonomously. this is the new reality.
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@monkchips.com
· 1d
it's frankly absurd to say anyone using AI tools is bad or evil, and as others have commented, bullying people off this network as a badge of honour is a pyrrhic victory. have you seen what the other place does to people's brains? much better to have them here, among us, for all our flaws.
Nik Butler -- Peachcon (Derby) Im on my way .. August 9th
@awittyremark.bsky.social
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I am minded that all AI can do is look to the past, creativity is considering what might be for the future. In a world of ever powerful models I cannot help feel that all I am really getting is a better more autonomous "stack overflow". [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o236pw6sfuamjd6wpmo5ja2b/bafkreictkvm6f2qq6l2fgjg3yv6kckid3zyturzp5btseoj363gqr3tmua)
