lavenderclavat

I hate AI. Let me start there. I loathe it. Once upon a time, I had nothing but high hopes for our would-be digital companion, innocent and blind to corporate greed, but that ended many many years ago before it was as demanding and annoying as it is now. Everything is tainted. AI enhance is today's flavor of poison because it fucked with my archive.

I run a very small, personal archive: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers. I have so much packed away into that so I need multiple storage mediums. I'm always looking around places the devs would not want me, adding whatever fanfiction I can get my hands on, and have made it my personal mission to grab every single piece of fanart still out there all for this archive. Am I going to post all of that fan content? No. Absolutely not. Does not matter, though, because I have effectively created something similar to a time capsule for fandom surrounding this one single game.

So imagine my absolute shock, horror, and disgust when I find AI enhanced images in it. A game from 2009 with AI enhanced images feels like a sin. I mistakenly believed no one really caring about this niche thing would save it from the taint of AI. But no and now I have to go through and verify every single image in my collection. Every. Single. One. Because AI destroys anything worth loving by needlessly butchering it for fuckall reasoning. I genuinely do not know why someone felt the need to use AI to enhance their screenshots, but they did and it doesn't even look good.




The eyes are the worst offenders here because AI just shoved TCB off the ledge and right into the uncanny valley.



So behold LAIL, icon of my grief and annoyance. I hope he conveys my disappointment well.