Hello everyone! I hope you guys are doing well! 🙂 I want to talk about something very controversial these days: AI art. AI art and its ethicality have been controversial since the medium began, but you will need some context to understand why it is this way. So here is a basic summary for anyone out of the loop about how AI art models work: The problem with these models is that the images/art they are trained on are usually used WITHOUT the explicit permission of the artist/person who initially made the image. Obviously, this is pretty sketchy and possibly […]
The Yamaha and Crypton Partnership is BACK!!
Hello, everyone, from the early morning of August 1st, 2024. I was just scrolling through Twitter just a couple of minutes ago, and this popped up in my feed: THIS is HUGE news! For historical context, back on Miku’s 12th birthday (August 3`1st, 2019), Crypton Future Media announced that they were somewhat severing their tie with Yamaha and VOCALOID and they were going to create their own software to *somewhat* compete with VOCALOID, which became Piapro Studio. This new software would host Hatsune Miku NT, a new voice pack, and any new voice pack released by Crypton Future Media after […]
A Cybersecurity Student’s Perspective on the NicoNico Douga Attack
UPDATE (7/27/2024): Since publishing this article, NicoNico has announced that the platform will reopen on August 5, 2024, after a couple of months of downtime. I am very happy that the NicoNico team was able to get things running again! Congratulations! 🙂 Original Article: Hello everyone! As some of you might know, NicoNico Douga, Japan’s version of YouTube and a home for VOCALOID content for about two decades, was attacked by ransomware on June 8th and has been down since then. We now know from a blog post they made that NicoNico won’t be coming back for at least a […]
Making of the Miku & VOCALOID History Website!
Introduction Hello everyone. As I am writing this, I am stuck in a classroom, done with testing, and board out of MY MIND!!! So, I decided to write this blog post on the making of the website that WAS supposed to go with my history video, but that video has been delayed until I have time to work on it. Anyways, this website was my final project for my 2nd semester CTE class for Web Design and Development and it was entirely coded in HTML with Bootstrap. So, without further to do, let’s talk about the development process… Part 1: […]
A Sendoff to A Part of My Childhood: Scratch and their Wonderful Community
So, today marks the end of the longest social media runs ever… my 8-year, 5-month-old Scratch account! Here is what I wrote for the description: Hello Everyone, So, this is it… the final project! I created this account in 2015, which means that this account is 8 years old (man, I am old…)! Today, I had some free time because it was a break from school, so I made this and then downloaded all of my Scratch projects to have a backup of my work. I want to say one thing.. from the bottom of my heart… THANK YOU! You […]