#anti ai

[0sbrain]

alternatives for ai to design ocs

hero forge

picrew

the fucking sims 4

your local furry artist

bitmoji

shitty photoshoped collage

DeviantArt bases

zepeto

making edits of your favorite character

searching "dress up game" on the app store

learning how to draw

[reasonsforhope]

AI models can seemingly do it all: generate songs, photos, stories, and pictures of what your dog would look like as a medieval monarch. 

But all of that data and imagery is pulled from real humans — writers, artists, illustrators, photographers, and more — who have had their work compressed and funneled into the training minds of AI without compensation. 

Kelly McKernan is one of those artists. In 2023, they discovered that Midjourney, an AI image generation tool, had used their unique artistic style to create over twelve thousand images. 

“It was starting to look pretty accurate, a little infringe-y,” they told The New Yorker last year. “I can see my hand in this stuff, see how my work was analyzed and mixed up with some others’ to produce these images.” 

For years, leading AI companies like Midjourney and OpenAI, have enjoyed seemingly unfettered regulation, but a landmark court case could change that. 

On May 9, a California federal judge allowed ten artists to move forward with their allegations against Stability AI, Runway, DeviantArt, and Midjourney. This includes proceeding with discovery, which means the AI companies will be asked to turn over internal documents for review and allow witness examination. 

Lawyer-turned-content-creator Nate Hake took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to celebrate the milestone, saying that “discovery could help open the floodgates.” 

“This is absolutely huge because so far the legal playbook by the GenAI companies has been to hide what their models were trained on,” Hake explained...

“I’m so grateful for these women and our lawyers,” McKernan posted on X, above a picture of them embracing Ortiz and Andersen. “We’re making history together as the largest copyright lawsuit in history moves forward.” ...

The case is one of many AI copyright theft cases brought forward in the last year, but no other case has gotten this far into litigation. 

“I think having us artist plaintiffs visible in court was important,” McKernan wrote. “We’re the human creators fighting a Goliath of exploitative tech.”

“There are REAL people suffering the consequences of unethically built generative AI. We demand accountability, artist protections, and regulation.” 

-via GoodGoodGood, May 10, 2024

[jesperfaheys-defenseattorney]

If you care about your fanfic authors at all and what they provide to you do not use lore.fm. And if you don't support AI using writing to plagiarize learn how to write, then don't support the use of the AI making audio books either. Once again, it's hurting an industry. If you want it so bad, get people to read on your app; With author permission.

[sprout-fics]

Just sent this e-mail to team@lore.fm

Good afternoon,

I am the owner of SproutFics on AO3 and Sprout-fics on tumblr.com. I am contacting you to opt all of my works on both tumblr and ao3 out of your lore.fm app services. I do not give consent or permission for any of my works to be used for any purposes of the Lore.fm app or any other apps created by Fadamu Nur and her team. This includes all current and future works posted under my alias of Sprout-Fics, SproutFics, and any accounts owned and operated by me.

Even if this app claims to be in compliance with AO3 user agreements, I personally find it appalling that it does not require the consent of authors to have their works copy and pasted onto a different platform. Your service should be opt-in, not opt-out. The fact that it is not shows little regard for the permissions, consent, and intention of authors for their works. I understand the desire to create accessibility for readers, but I vehemently disagree with the way this app is operated and find it extremely disrespectful to writers to not request permission to use their works.

Please respond to this email to ensure it was received, and that my works will not appear on lore.fm or any other apps created by Faduma Nur and her team. Good day.

Sprout-fics.

[tyrinecarver]

I can't stop watching it. Also I love them. Help.

Artwork © Tyrine Carver and Wil Woods of Musetap Studios

Process videos on my tiktok @ Musetap Get the print at musetapstudios.com! -- Twitter/Pinterest/Artstation/DeviantArt/Tiktok: Musetap -- Facebook/Instagram: MusetapStudios -- MusetapStudios@gmail.com

[whumpster-dumpster]

Opinion on AI generated whump content?

I'm not a fan. Whenever I happen to see AI whump content, I feel nothing. No effort, no interest, no passion, no fun. I see no point in it.

[strawberryscarecr0w]

Friendly reminder NOT to use AI to create original characters! I had to talk a friend out of using it so I’m gonna share here: If you’re not an artist but want to make an OC, use artist friendly websites like Picrew.me!! If you can’t find something you like, commissioning artists is always an option.

[chaos-frog]

Writing is one of the most profound forms of magic. It basically IS magic, honestly. The closest thing to magic we, as humans, can do. And as writers, we craft whole other worlds. Cities in the clouds, kingdoms under the sea, worlds where quite literally anything can happen. Each word in a sentence in a paragraph on a page in a book... it's all a carefully placed spell. And in writing we breathe life into characters. Characters we put bits of ourselves into, characters that walk, talk, and fell as vividly as any of us. We conjure epic journeys and intimate moments, painting with emotions and ideas, all created to resonate deeply with our readers.

We explore themes that touch on the very essence of what it is to be human. We talk about love, loss, hope, despair, offering readers a mirror to their own experiences and a window to perspectives they might never encounter otherwise. That is something AI writing can't quite capture. AI can emulate words that are already written, but it cannot draw from its own experience, from its own humanity. That's why the writing always feels off, how it never quite captured the human experience.

And it's because writing should be solely for humans. The beauty of writing lies in its accessibility and potential. Any person could pick up a pen and start writing, tapping into their human experiences and projecting them onto the page. But writing is more than just putting words on a page. It's that human act of creation, that way that we share our innermost thoughts and dreams, our means to connect with others across time and space. Through writing we don't just tell stories- we create entire universes for ourselves, for other people. It's something personal, something so innately human.

Write. Don't let AI steal that passion from you. CREATE.

[azimuthalis]

Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

[apostate-in-an-alcove]

Oh damn the Catholics have joined in on the war against AI "art".

[softwaring]

this reply kills me 😭 article link

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Begging people to stop reblogging this AI trash from “The Phantom Painter” on Instagram (instagram.com/phantom.painting). I’ve been seeing it on my dash more and more often from people who are otherwise anti-AI and either can’t tell it’s AI or don’t care because it looks cool.

This is the kind of shit that is VERY CLEARLY trained on the works of existing talented artists’ with distinct styles and this asshole is selling prints and making a profit off of stealing other people’s hard work.

Don’t give people like this money or attention and they will go away.

Please, if you’re going to buy art prints, buy them from an actual artist.

[mistysblueboxstuff]

how much fun are we having in this timeline folks?

[tyrinecarver]

This was a commission from C.G (tag yourself if you want!), who I met at con. I had never drawn cursed cat Alastor before. Those eyes are killin' me lol.

Artwork © Tyrine Carver and Wil Woods of Musetap Studios --- Prints & gallery available at MUSETAPSTUDIOS.com --- Tiktok/Twitter/Pinterest/Artstation/DeviantArt: Musetap --- Facebook/Instagram: MusetapStudios --- Tumblr: tyrinecarver --- Contact: MusetapStudios@gmail.com

[ayeforscotland]

A Willy Wonka pop-up event in Glasgow had attendees calling the police after they paid £35 and the event didn’t deliver what was promised.

Event goers were promised a whimsical adventure all themed around something Willy Wonka might create in his factory.

Source

The keen-eyed amongst you might have noticed something a little bit…wrong.

Imagnation Lab. Encherining Entertainment. Catgacating. Live perforrmances. Cartchy tunes. Exarserdray lollipops. And my favourite “A pasadise of sweets teats”

But what did the event actually look like? WELL.

Feel like the marketing team got a bit carried away.

[whaledocboi]

ai generated images make me increasingly sad and tired the more i see them in more and more casual contexts. i dont know how to explain, but it just fills the world with a bunch of nothing. no matter how visually stunning the pictures might be, there's nothing behind it for me. no dedication, no emotions, no feelings, no hard work or creativity, nothing i can truly think about, admire or enjoy. i dont think thats how art is supposed to be