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My rising wwwwhat? 😅 Is this about the AI topic? You realize the common man is being trampled because he's not sticking up for himself. Exiftool looks handy. I have it but haven't dived (dove?) in very much. I've been trying to set up my metadata system using Directory Opus. Been hounding those devs to make auto writing of metadata for folders. The desire is if a file gets put into a folder then its metadata gets auto-wrote according to a template. So I had the thought, for my vector pictures at least, for my art program to do it. And of course, in the now expected modern clownworld fashion, in the age of quantum computing and back flipping robots my fully featured art program can't auto write basic text to basic ass files. Shocking!

Good request. This lack of metadata support is not a minor error. This Designer 2 program is very odd. Because the tools to make vector art are fantastic. And yet several of the organizational methods are like a six year old scribbled crayon on an app and sold it on the internet. No metadata support in a professional graphic arts program? ...what?

I'll have a look at those, thank you. They already have. People don't create art for themselves. Anymore than they choose what clothes they're going to wear for the day for themselves. I could print out my art, put it on my own walls and pat myself on the back if I want. But that gets old quickly. Or I could have the joy of making art for a group of fans, that appreciate what I do. And have a legitimate business that pays the bills, doing what I love doing. Which isn't a sin, but it becomes a sin when it's just a dream because it's unattainable. And so I'm truly a starving artist, not because of my skill but because the internet has been taken from those who do good and given to those who do evil. How many industries is AI forcing into poverty? All of them? How much privacy and personal faculty is AI going to take from us? All of it? Ya. Have a look at why Spotify hasn't done anything against AI music. You would think that is odd, seeing as it's hurting their catalog and reputation. Well, it's because they are developing their own AI creator system. They will have their own fake artists making their own music so they can take all the profits. That's what's happening. You don't find it odd that all these AI tools are free or nearly free? That so much development cost was spent and then they just up and handed it out to the public like that? The ruling class are keeping the peoples' perception positive towards AI so that the ruling class can openly develop their own systems. And using us for the beta testing. Letting the opportunistic thieves ruin the internet so that no one stands against AI because it serves them too. Giving the raiders the spoils of their raiding so they have an incentive to do it. So after they've been bribed they turn a blind eye to how dark and twisted this whole thing is.

I can't seem to find this app. Getting results for tutorials on metadata. Where can I find this?

Can you add metadata to the export persona please. So that our personal digital signature can be auto-written to the picture files we create with Affinity Designer 2. It would have templates that are saved with the export presets. So we type out our info one time only. There would be a drop down menu on the export preset options to choose your metadata template and so that export preset would always write it to the files exported with that preset. Things like author, rating, copyright info, comment, group, and tags. And whatever else people would want. SVG files don't seem to work well with metadata though, which is of course depressing.

I'm also very interested in how to block AI content scraping. But from what I've gathered so far, it's not possible. We can tell them "no!" but what would that do? "Please don't rob my bank, mr. bank robber." ... The one and only thing in the world that's going to cure this cancer on the Earth is the US Copyright Office. AI theft isn't defended against because it's not illegal because the big corporations are the worst offenders. The ruling class doesn't volunteer limitations on themselves. I don't even want to make art at this point. Knowing it's just going to be taken by a bot and added to their borg hive mind. And probably pirated by some morally bankrupt parasite, posting it somewhere else on the internet, on their account, and so the work of my own hands exploited by someone else. What a time to be alive.

The various mentions are intended as examples about what AI is actually about. A little bit of off topic, but I'm no professional writer. Only half of the issue is the nature of AI. The other half is who is using it. This is not the generation that should be trusted with this kind of ability. Just hop on youtube and search for "how to use AI for passive income." You will find endless results of horrible people teaching how to scam the (currently unprotected) system. Find the products and topics that are selling, copy what they are doing, use AI to do it in seconds, and sit back and profit. Saturate the world with walmart-grade nothing content, making everyones' lives a little bit worse, so you can buy that apple watch you never needed. And without having to earn it. In the past the business teachings would be how to run a business based on what you're already good at. But now the first step is "choose your niche." What? Choose your nice? So that means you have no previous experience in that particular topic? So you couldn't care less about that niche or community of people. You have no passion, experience, skill, or interest in it; you just want to make a quick buck; off of whatever victims are vulnerable to be preyed upon. We used to call that snake oil salesmen. But now it's fine apparently. Check out Microsoft's best example of why you really need their AI: Yup. All that data collection, all that power consumption, all that software development, the $40 subscription fee. And this is the kind of thing it can help you with. How to name a cat. This is a perfect example of how pointless consumer-grade AI is. It's just shiny object syndrome. 99% of our computer tasks don't need an AI assistant; this is just a matter of principle. That it's technology progress, so we should support it, cause we hold scientifically and logically hilarious worldviews about our existence. That something bad is going to happen if we don't lay down and let big tech make all the decisions about our world. That's the thing I mentioned earlier. It serves you so you are not willing to stand against the obvious implications. And will spend your free time helping to distribute the talking points about how AI is good, to mitigate the influence of whistleblowers. As long as you barely survive eating the crumbs off the masters table, you won't ask the master why he's got a feast and you don't. Not to risk angering him and losing the free crumbs. But losing the opportunity to have your own table. "It won't stop AI" ... ya because there are enough yes-men who won't do anything about it. In contrast, in 1940 there was a large group of American teenagers that lied about how old they were so they could sign up to storm the beaches of France, sacrificing their very lives to stand for what they believed in. Then they came home after the war and got America out of wartime debt in two years. And in 2024, software reviews give a negative point to software when they are "behind a paywall". Yes, it's seen as a "downside" that someone is REQUIRED TO PAY for something they want. These are the same types of people that have been handed AI. Who have proven they won't exist to help the world. No, they are life sucking black holes that will take from the world always. Living for themselves and only themselves. Stealing from artists to generate content that never belonged to them.

Ya. Fun fact: VHS tapes beat out Beta because the porn industry was using VHS. And a great deal of internet development was for the same reason. But I still marvel at the modern American morality where things like the love of money, no-fault divorce etc. is just fine, while looking at colored pixels on a screen; an emulation of the marriage bed, is somehow the soul-destroying crime of the century. I dunno man. Seems like arbitrary ethics to me; whatever drives the economic war machine is what is righteous, apparently. I actually have a personal theory, that the reason AI has gained so much public traction is because it is novel. And since people are addicted to porn (novelty), AI is a natural segue to scratch the itch; satisfy the gnawing craving for novelty that porn created within. But this isn't the place for these things, so I won't expand on that. Well said. We used to call that Christianity. Now there is no King in America, so every man does what is right in his own eyes. The stats tell the tale about the results of this, just as well as any preacher could. People can deny logic, but they can't deny numbers. Math never lies. Ya the wonder of science for us children. We were going to have Jetsons hover crafts and helpful bots. But instead we have 200 genders, subscription fees, life in prison for hurty tweets and social credit scores. Wonderful future we are creating with this tech of ours. We used to have musicians bring a wonderful value to the world and get rewarded for their work and talent. Now we have people taking just as much reward to steal and defile that music with immature shameful garbage, instead of create their own. We now have Gangsta's Paradise but IT'S MINECRAFT DOORS! https://youtu.be/VkbcwLzB7TQ?si=okzwv96e0UCjMcot TWO MILLION VIEWS! TWOOOOO MILLLLION VIEWS! PEOPLE ACTUALLY SPEND THEIR FREE TIME WATCHING THIS TRASH? I'm going to listen to some TOOL to bleach out my poor ears. Here it is, guys. The result of your amazing technology. The thing that is supposed to cure every society problem. Some girl listening to music. Eighty three thousand views. Yup. Not a band making music, nope. Someone listening to music. That's the content you consume on your free time, instead of doing something worth doing. Someone listening to music. That's what you do with your life. https://youtu.be/m8rxkjKFhH0?si=ReuhmraVPq1-pYxY True. For the record, I'm very happy with the Affinity products. I've made all kinds of things with Designer 2. It's just that when these certain topics come up they push my buttons and I start to get cranky. I can't even see the term "AI" on a youtube video title without seeing red. ... Ok, well it's AI content generation that is my bitterly contested enemy. It can crawl back into the pit where it came from. I don't take issue with more efficient business systems. Nothing wrong with that. I remember way back, putting in a rented movie from blockbuster and the first thing is the FBI warning; a $500k fine for piracy. But now the average person can't even fathom the fact that other peoples' property doesn't belong to them. It's disgusting. There can be an issue with your use of AI. If it's thinking for you, you will eventually lose that ability. Soon we will all be those useless blobs on an AI spaceship, drinking our sugary drink, not being able to touch our toes or tie our shoes without help.

Looks like I found an AI user.

For a $85 a month (CAN) subscription fee, they should be mowing my lawn too. For the 16k items installed on my computer (for Acrobat Reader alone), they should be paying me royalties for the data collection they profit from. Because a PDF reader definitely needs to know what I had for breakfast to "improve their services". True. What an industry can do doesn't matter; to remain profitable a company must provide to the market what they want. Whether that's a good or evil thing; the market wants what it wants. This generation demands something for nothing. Gen Z and Alpha have it in their head that they deserve the whole world because they were born. They did nothing at all to develop all the things that exist, but hey they still have claim to it cause reasons. As in, they are so incredibly evil, that they have no problem contributing to the theft of all the artists and thinkers that have ever existed, so that they can easily create mildly entertaining meme brain rot with an AI service (While also disrespecting previous generations; while they themselves can't name three continents or oceans). Taking food out of the mouths of real musicians, graphic artists, poets, novel writers... all manner of talented people (even computer programmers etc.) so that generating content is easier for them. So they can pretend to be a rockstar on social media without putting in the work. Through legal theft, laying claim to something that they didn't earn. Recently I watched an interview, I think it was the founder of ChatGPT; he was saying AI has already been fed all of humanities' data; that they have run out of content to feed it. That's nice. I'm glad my childhood memories and the rest of my existence has been fed to a binary code; passed around among the bots like I'm a number, not a name. I'm just so thrilled that everything I've ever done is helping edgy teenagers post low effort Gen Z trash humor to the internet, and handing them the reward that I worked for. Converting my humanity into twisted abominations. I'm not seeing a lot of quality come out of AI so far. All this generation can think to come up with is bizarre humor, making fun of politicians, doing remakes of things that already exist (yes, from previous generations, who actually worked to develop skills), deepfake pornography, reactionary content, and all manner of other low hanging fruit. Cause making something new from scratch is JUST SO HARD. Is there anything actually worth a damn that you can use this technology for? Anything? Is that all you have to offer the world? Just like the founders of the USA wrote that the constitution was written for a Godly people (and *only a Godly people; it's incongruent for secular people) , this "AI generation" in the wrong hands is a curse, not a blessing. As in: just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be done. Some guy was just caught using it to commit streaming fraud: https://youtu.be/j7G3RUplSjU?si=6GZDqubGvFpiE2m4 But I submit that everything generated with AI is fraud. It's no different than that case where he created lots of songs then used bots to make the songs artificially popular. People using AI are making things that they didn't make, using other peoples' efforts to do it. The AI isn't AI at all; it's just a complex filter that filters a data set. That data set was stolen. Therefore the use of the stolen property to create a derivative of it is also theft. And the ruling class are setting up AI to watch our every move, so they have more insight into what actions they take will result in what public responses. Just like armies send out scouts to gather intelligence. None of this will benefit humanity; as we see the great number of examples of what happens when men obtain power. The moment they realized that AI data centers need the power consumption of a small city, they have suddenly reversed their stance on nuclear power being "bad for the environment". How bout that. With that they told on themselves that they don't actually care about these ethical issues; whatever just so happens to serve them at the present moment ("all warfare is based on deception"). That "climate change" is just their giant black project slush fund. It always was. When they need to wreck the place for their precious egomaniacal AI agenda, they have no problem bulldozing Bambi's forest to satisfy their lust for more money sex and power. As if they didn't have enough already; but lust is never satisfied. But this fatherless, depraved, poisoned, uneducated generation doesn't care. As long as the system serves them too, they have no desire to stand against it. They have no problem piggybacking the word salads about AI being "good". To temper their already damaged conscience that is there to teach them what is right and wrong. For example, "If purchasing isn't owning then piracy isn't theft." ... um yes it is. ? The people pirating software just need a self justification for the fact that they have made the Earth a worse place because they've been on it. I myself couldn't imagine looking at myself in the mirror while living like a parasite; continually robbing good natured people for my benefit. Meanwhile AI will be used for client side scanning, to defeat end-to-end encryption. To subvert any hope for personal privacy (and therefore faculty), to feed SKYNET, the electric eye; the tool the ruling class will use for our ultimate enslavement. But that's fine, as long as you can cheat to put another zero on your subscriber count, right? ... There's nothing you can do about it Develop and expose I prey upon your every thought Until my power grows I'm made of metal My circuits gleam I am perpetual I keep the country clean I'm elected electric spy I'm protected electric eye https://youtu.be/GhvzMGDzt70?si=Yk3Qn4UBtg2VfVRX

Trusted? How have they earned your trust? Do you know them personally? Are they family members? Are they members of your church perhaps? Do you coach their childrens' soccer games maybe? Did you go to school with them? What is your definition of "trust" ? Because any company can boast "security" because they haven't been hacked yet. And can boast "trust" because they haven't been caught yet. As per my original complaint, I didn't complain about what Feefo does. I complained that I didn't authorize them to have a relationship with me at all. Am I supposed to let strangers steal my car for a while and drive it around when my back is turned because it's promised that they will take good care of it? The thing about trust, is you are declaring trust with a third party while in the same space are destroying trust between your own customers with acts like this. The irony. Said every company ever. Even companies that sell products like VPN's (that exist to *enhance security, not damage it) have been caught gathering and selling data, etc. After promises that they don't do that very thing. The reputation of data sharing has been proven to be, "everything's legal man, as long as you don't get caught." "Product reviews" isn't that big of a deal by itself; but it's a part of a whole. The enshittification of the internet and computers in general. Subscription models, data collection, malware everywhere, advertising maxxed out in every place, AI assistants shoved down our throats, monopolies, reactionary content and other brainrot going viral instead of quality content (due to algorithms, not common sense), AI content generating parasites saturating the internet with walmart-grade nothing content, and on and on we go on this clownworld merry go round. https://youtu.be/4EmstuO0Em8?si=diC6WpcyvMHO-jSP I'm surprised the general public's reaction to enshittification has been mild so far. But no one wants to challenge the system when that same compromised system serves them too. Everyone wants to go to Heaven. But nobody wants to die. Think of all that time you wasted going to museums and art galleries when you can pick up your phone and watch someone breathing on the internet for free. https://youtu.be/TJ9o4fxmL9c?si=JyH7S7RBFBRG-EC3 What a time to be alive.

The USA needs to make assumed permission illegal. And make all EULA's have a first page summary of important aspects of the document. If the common knowledge is that people don't read EULA's then no, we didn't actually agree to it if we didn't read what we agreed to. Neither should companies be allowed to have offensive requirements as part of a sale. For example, "By using this software you agree we can take and sell your data." I would have remembered it. And since my communication preferences were enabled as of yesterday, I know that I would have immediately unsubscribed, if this had happened back in Jan. No. I've never heard of Feefo before and I avoid these types of things always. This is just a case of Canva hiring a third party to do a business task for them. Which, of course, the customers are just pawns for their business endeavours; common practice in 2024.

When did I agree to any contract allowing my contact details to be shared with third parties? When did I opt in to their communication preferences? So now that you've handed them my data they can now sell it to their "partners". Facebook, X, Pinterest, Adobe, Shopify... and whoever else is the highest bidder. Then those companies can troll me about graphic arts products, now that they were given info about me that I never agreed that they can have. This is the reason people have to spend a significant amount of time and money mitigating data collection. Because unscrupulous greedy morally bankrupt arrogant executives think they own not only my computer (subscriptions and licensing instead of ownership) they also own the rights to access my personal life. All because I decided that I wanted to use their software. When did I become your indentured servant, Serif? Or should I say, Canva?

There is some graphic artifacts on the edges of objects sometimes. It changes based on the zooming. Zoom out a little and it fixes: Another example: Same; I zoom a little bit and it's back to normal.

Don't think I have any backups. I don't remember intentionally making any. My projects and renders still exist, which is the main body of work. Losing those would have been a serious problem. The settings and studio setup I can redo. This serves as a lesson on maintaining proper backups.