Announcement (Patreon)

Hi all. I rarely write any announcements (I think I’ve never written anything like this), because I’m mainly focused on creativity, and largely thanks to you, this became possible for me. It is important. I always focus on this. However, now I see the need to express my opinion on some aspects of my work

1. In May of this year, Patreon sent me a warning and closed my page for a while. I received clarifications that some content should be removed. I wasn't told exactly what the content was, so a lot of work was censored, mostly from older stories. Unfortunately, I was very depressed at the time because of this and I did not announce this to you. It was my mistake - I admit it. I noticed some users reacted negatively to this and of course this is very offensive for me personally, I did not think I would receive such criticism. I will not start a debate on this matter, I will only say that today I tried to check all my works on deviantart and updated all the stories in which the links here did not work. I also added most of the stories and sequels that were here on Patreon.

2. Talk about AI. I'll start by saying that when I generally started writing and creating this content, I started doing it because I didn't find similar content on the Internet. I mean, I personally missed exactly the kind of content that I did and do. I was very pleased and am still inspired by the fact that someone else might like it. Please note that I am not talking about the quality of my content as something excellent, cool, etc. I'm sure that a lot of authors write better than me, make captions better than me, etc. And believe me, when I receive laudatory feedback, I am very, very pleased and it touches me to the core, but at the same time I understand that my level of quality of texts is not such as to accept this praise as truth. Yes, yes, yes, some will say low self-esteem. I won't go into this.

Actually, what is all this backstory for? Besides, my content is an experiment that I make from the very beginning based on my tastes. Of my old subscribers, I think many noticed the period when I was interested in replacing faces. Many people didn’t like it and I also received negative assessments. But then I didn’t react. Then I got interested in midjourney, here the reaction was more positive. Unfortunately, I was permanently banned from this neuron precisely because I sought to sexualize images for my content. I'm still sorry, but I thought it was an interesting experience. I like working with neural networks. It's like some new experience. It is very difficult to get the result you want. For those who think that it is enough to write a promt and everything will work out - no, this is not so. I won’t go into deep analysis here, just in midjourney and now in ChatGPT I spent a huge amount of time so that the result was exactly as you saw it, as in applications like FaceApp once upon a time (now I also sometimes use this tool).

I make posts both here and on deviantart, including looking at the reaction of users. As I said at the very beginning, you are the force that inspires me to create further content. And as I said at the beginning, I always remember why I started - it was to try something new. My current experiment with ChatGPT has also led to certain questions addressed to me, including the question that I don’t write stories, but AI writes it for me. God... if you only knew the process of creating this text together with AI and how much time it takes to try to get something worthwhile. What I mean is that at such moments I really feel the depreciation of my costs. I don't want to argue about tastes again. Some works turn out to be interesting, some are worse, some will like it, some will not. I try to publish what I like and what I think someone else might like (I’m taking you back to where I started).

I apologize if I offended or offended anyone, I just wanted to say what I said. In any case, I do not plan and will not go completely into this. Perhaps I will use it as a tool, perhaps not. The last post "Wild Stories" was posted by me to evaluate the photographs that are coming out. I was really interested in your opinion. And thanks to those who wrote comments or private messages. I repeat again, this post is not to offend anyone or anything like that. Rather, this is an explanation regarding my content. Regarding AI - at the moment I have lost all desire to somehow study this, although in fact it seems to me that this is an excellent tool (like a screwdriver or a telephone) with which you can do something interesting. But I think I'm writing this now in an emotional state, and most likely it sounds like an accusation. I don't want it to sound like this, but I want to be heard.

Thank you for reading to the end all my verbal diarrhea and hey, unfortunately I’m still a human being, and I have feelings =)