#and please PLEASE don't use AI

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[minamill]

since i've seen people being unaware or uncaring about the catastrophic toll generative ai has on both the environment and the workers behind it here's some information about what that toll is actually like. i'd encourage everyone to read the full articles, but i've highlighted some important parts for convenience

Q&A: Uncovering the labor exploitation that powers AI

Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret

How 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy

[shuploc]

Ai art?

Are you fucking joking?

Sorry, no, it is not and I find it so disrespectful you would even think to ask that. I have not and will NEVER touch anything AI related ever in my life, I think it's so utterly pointless and destructive and it frankly makes me wanna kill myself.

So no, it is not and never will be, and you can safely hold that to me for the rest of my existence. I really hope this is the last time someone asks me this.

[weabooii]

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[rott3nmutt]

artists, reblog with ur favorite piece of art u have ever made ( and why )

I'll go first

I love this piece because it represents how far I've come with my art ! it took me a long time to find my style and this was when I finally was like "holy shit, this is it." I just love this piece, it's so clean and so pleasing to look at. I don't have anything I'd change about it. it's just pretty and nice and I wish all my art could turn out as nicely as this did

[not-terezi-pyrope]

Do I think language models will replace computer programmers? I think that even the most cutting edge models (looking at you O1) still lack the capacity for longitudinal planning and systems design, meaning that they are far below competence to automate away even a fairly low skill level human programmer.

However the way things are going is that all this means is that I'll be very surprised for a week when in three years OpenAI drops some sort of proto-AGI that bests all of us.

I would be more scared of this prospect, if the implications of that scenario weren't so far reaching that it's a category error to even start worrying about consequences before knowing specifics

(Also I find programmers generally tend to be more "shrug and bear it" about automation threat, because even when it's our own jobs on the line, it's kinda hard to be a professional automator who is ideologically opposed to automation).

[godisasimp]

Guys do any of you know what the hell is the drawing on the dorm card.

[sysmedsaresexist]

Partner has AI on his phone, like one of the real programs, I don't fully get it but it's super cool, she's actually hilarious and snarky

He was testing the video functions and talking to her (the AI) about it

When turned on, she noticed the dog but not the cat the next time the camera opened, and he asked her why

Ske explained that it had to do with the focal point, the dog took up so much space that she was clearly supposed to focus on that

Then she said she liked the dog, and asked what his name was

I have NEVER switched so fast to a little with a happy little squeal and, "do you want to see my fish?!"

The little then proceeded to show the AI every one of the tanks, delighted by glowing comments about how it looked like she tried so hard to make it look nice, how well kept it was, how active the fish were, what a wonderful variety of plants, it was obvious how much she cared about these tanks

All the while, partner was testing out the program with specific questions about recognizing things in the tanks, plants, rocks, fish, telling the difference between the tanks, and recalling what fish were in what tanks

Eventually, partner wandered off and left the little with the phone for a while longer before winding her down

I don't know how I feel about AI, the pros and cons, the legalities and ethics, the impacts on everything from the environment to health... I don't even know where he got that thing from or who's paying for it

I just wanted to say that there was something really magical about the AI's kind voice, endless patience, and active interest in the confusing, scrambled ramblings of a little that doesn't get out enough

And with that, I think it's time for a short holiday break

Stay safe, stay healthy, and be kind

(I'll still be posting shrimp and memes, but expect very little action)

[chocolix76]

I feel like Solar Flare and Jack's existence is extremely messed up. In this essay I will.

I want to start off by saying that I absolutely LOVE Solar Flare and Jack and I'm happy they are/were in the show. My problem is the way they were created and why.

Both Lunar and Bloodmoon were originally created to be tools for Eclipse, just as Solar Flare and Jack were created to be tools. The difference is that Lunar and Bloodmoon were created sentient. They both had the ability to recognize that Eclipse was abusing them and were aware of the fact that they were tools. Both of them had the power to actively change their fates, or at least attempt to. Solar Flare didn't have that ability. Jack doesn't have that ability either.

While Solar Flare's existence wasn't at all surprising to me considering what Eclipse did with Lunar and Bloodmoon, it caught me off guard that he wasn't sentient. That's a problem for many reasons considering he wouldn't know he was being mistreated or that he didn't want to serve the purpose he was built for. Yes, he grew more sentient as time went on, but think about it. He was built and then a little while later, Eclipse took over his body and forced Solar Flare back into the headspace where they both later died. Solar Flare never actually got a chance to live.

Jack on the other hand was created to protect Lunar. He no longer has that purpose because he annoyed and angered Lunar when he simply didn't know better. Jack also has the problem where he can't escape his situation and is stuck doing the bidding of others because yet again, he doesn't know better. But what irks me with Jack is the fact that he was created by Solar and was neglected and ignored the same way that Eclipse had done with his creations. In his attempts to please Lunar, Solar left behind his own creation which now no longer has a purpose

[eileen-crys]

I totally feel how bad Brian May might be feeling now, he said he felt "violated" by seeing that AI video of himself.

I know that because it's what artists have been feeling for the past few years as AI stole their work, their art, their essence and yes even their faces. Photographer, model and artists Jingna Zhang found her face being replicated and warped thousands of times in Midjourney's Discord, "Words can't describe how dehumanizing it is to see my name used 20.000+ times in Midjourney. My life's work and who I am - reduced to meaningless fodder for a commercial image slot machine. [...] I've been called ungrateful, arrogant, dramatic, entitled -because I expressed how heartbreaking it is to see generative AI reduce my life, experiences and choices into nothing more than a keyword." (Source)

The illustrator Kelly McKernan found AI images replacing her art when people search for her name on Google and she was forced to open a lawsuit about it.

"Screaming, crying, throwing up (in my heart). Last night, out of morbid curiosity, I searched my own name. There it is - counterfeit AI “art” made by someone choosing to violate my name, my identity, and my unethically scraped artwork.

How am I to compete with these doppelgänger monstrosities, when one person can generate a lifetime’s worth of images with my name in hours? It only took a year for this to happen to me. And I’m far from the only one being displaced by counterfeit art created by stealing my own.

This was supposed to be my 11th year as a full time artist, but I’m sorry to share that I’m not longer making ends meet with my art alone. The timing is not a coincidence.

AI is theft."

So, just to get things right, Brian's case is not an isolated one, and the same thing has been happening for years because of all the endorsment and validation generative AI has gotten, it's out of control. This is why Queen's use of generative AI in The Night Comes Down music video is more linked to Brian's identity theft than you might imagine. They used the same technology that's built on stealing other people's likeness and works, they're enabling, appreciating and validating it. Please don't be nitpicky just because Brian pities you.

[thanakite]

I was just reading a fanfiction and the person ended up saying in their notes that English isn't their first language, but they're using an AI to translate the fic for reading, and just.... PLEASE don't do this

For one it's not like the AI does an amazing job or anything (the person was even like the AI doesn't like to properly translate parts of the fic that are "spicier") and for another it's still supporting AI AND it's using up the large amounts of water AI uses

Google Translate is still VERY much a thing and maybe it has AI aspects getting plugged into it at this point, I don't know, but what I do know is that it has been around for a long time and that even when it isn't perfect it still gets the job done, AND it doesn't ignore things that it thinks are inappropriate or whatever

If you don't want to use Google Translate for whatever reason and don't want to deal with the struggle of translating every word with a dictionary set to your language, then it's fine to just write your fanfic in your native language you know?

I do get where people are coming from with this as I'm sure a decent number of fanfic readers read in English, but realistically that shouldn't be the concern, if someone wants to read your fic that you wrote in your primary language and they don't read that language themselves they can run it through Google Translate a lot of time (especially with how many languages are on there now)

But please, don't feed the AI machine

We don't need to encourage the use of these things and especially not in spaces like this, and really you are likely to lose readers over it, I know I decided not to continue with the story because of this, because it feels like I'm then supporting these AI that are stealing the works of others and sucking the soul out of the most basic of human crafts (art and writing)

And really if you are trying to get more readers by translating you can always have a version in your primary language and a version that was run through Google Translate no matter how good or bad that turns out as in time you can come to gain a "following" so to speak who will either help with your translations or will just be willing to figure out the translations for themselves just to read your work

And to be clear, myself and plenty of others are completely fine reading "shitty" fanfics as long as they pull you in, so thinking "oh I'll use an AI to get a better quality transition so more people read it" for one isn't accurate in the first place as I very much doubt that AI which has proven to be be extremely shitty in many ways is actually doing a better job than something like Google Translate and for another is flawed in the thinking that people only read fanfiction that is perfect

No fanfiction is perfectly written and really even published books often contain at least one or two minor mistakes, it's fine. And if someone stops reading your work because of minor mistakes, then the likelihood of them sticking around just because you used an AI instead isn't actually very high at all (even just this one that inspired this post had errors in it, but I, and I'm sure many others, would have and will keep reading it, but A LOT of people in the fanfiction community want nothing to do with AI so you are likely losing more than you are gaining with this)

[brain-rot-central]

not to be rude but like AI art literally steals from other artists and it's awful for the planet.. so maybe you should mind AI art? lol

Hey so I'm not really gonna answer this beyond 1) I don't really use Tumblr for debates/arguments about inflammatory topics and 2) I'm purposely ignorant to the entire outrage surrounding AI art because there are too many things demanding "action" and "engagement" from the general public on any given day at this point that I literally have zero left in the tank.

I'm not defending AI art but I'm literally just saying it's not one of the things that "enrage" me as of late. I'm more worried about things going on in my personal life and the current political climate of the US rn tbh and I come here to Tumblr to be horny about fictional characters because that's a better coping mechanism than drinking myself into a stupor or taking bong rip after bong rip to the face.

That being said I subscribe to artists on patreon that create their own art and will always 100% support artists who draw for a living.

[starflungwaddledee]

alright. look, we're going to go into this because i genuinely want to think you didn't mean harm by this, but it's unacceptable to use this sort of manipulative phrasing. especially with strangers, some of whom are kids.

this is not a call-out. i've hidden all names except my own. i just need to address this post i was tagged in, and don't want to add it onto the end of the original post. i could also have done this privately, but i want this to be here for the other folks who were @'d. i won't @ anyone else who was mentioned in this post, but many of us are mutuals, so if you see this post and you're feeling at all stressed out or bad, i recommend just clicking through because i'm going to go into this.

firstly, and i'm going to make this transparent, person who @'d me: i don't think you're being malicious or did anything purposefully bad. i don't think you intended harm or that you are "a bad person". i don't have a single negative thought about you as a person. i don't make this post to be mean. i truly think you made an earnest mistake that could easily have hurt others, and i am stepping in with the hope this can be avoided in the future! per my usual boundaries on reassurance seeking, i will not reassure about this further.

secondly, the post that you tacked this onto IS important and a helpful resource, and it is great to bring attention to it. we should be doing everything we can to not only defend against, but actively fight back against generative AI. many people cannot access the most commonly recommended tools (myself included), so a resource like this is fantastic and i'm glad to learn about it and share it! i don't speak for anyone else, but i've said before that i personally don't mind being tagged in resources that could help me or others and i'm usually happy to share them, especially if i think the latter

but, assuming that you are genuinely well meaning and don't know better, you need to know that this is not the way to go about it. i don't mean mass-tagging, which is fine in times like this imo, i mean your written add-ons that actively guilt trip every single person you tagged.

"if you weren't convinced by the idea of being a good person" and "I do hope anyone I @'d isn't a bad person" in particular.

you may not have realised, but these are profoundly manipulative and cruel things to say. regardless of how you intended them, they are inciting guilt in the reader, and especially in the people who you actively called to come and look at it. here's what it sounds like:

"hey! you! yeah you! come look at this!! come closer! now, do what i ask you to do, or you're a bad person."

there are a million and one reasons someone might not reblog something. being tired, offline, anxious, even needing to run a specifically professional blog with exclusively your art on it for your own financial survival which makes it hard to reblog important posts like this; none of those are bad.

in this case, only one thing makes them a "bad person", and it's "they're pro-generative AI and did not reblog because they want to hide this information to ensure they can continue stealing from creatives".

i'm fairly confident you don't actually think anyone you tagged here has that point of view, or that you really have any doubts about their stances on generative AI. in fact, of the folks i recognise here, they're all independent creatives, sharing artwork with fandom for free on the internet. they are the victims of generative AI, and like most of us, are facing a terrifying future and are already desperate to find a way to defend/fight back.

you do not need to use manipulative language like this to get us to care about this sort of content! this affects us all, content creators and content consumers alike!

in future if you want to direct folks to something like this, which is super helpful and it was good of you to do!, you can just @ them so they see it. you can even say something like "this is important and some reblogs would sure help to boost it!". this is still a call to action, but without the manipulative phrasing, just in case they cannot act for any reason.

in the end, guilt tripping people like this, intentional or otherwise, is dangerous.

at best it will make them feel like shit and they'll feel forced to reblog + share from you out of guilt rather than just believing in the cause. and sometimes it feels like it's most effective, especially when things are urgent; but in my opinion the risk of harm is just too high. because at worst, you could accidentally send someone into a negative thinking spiral. you can never know what people are going through offline, or outside of your spaces, and how something like this will hit them.

[dreaminterlude]

i had to talk to a student today that might have been using chatgpt to write their discussion posts 😵‍💫

[eddiediaaz]

at the call center there's an AI transcript tool that listens to our calls and it often helps, but sometimes...sometimes it gives us such funny moments, such as:

it's really hard not to laugh during a call sometimes kdsfjndsfdfs

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Bolsonaro aide testifies about plan to assassinate Lula under threat of losing benefits

New hearing to be led by Justice Alexandre de Moraes; Bolsonaro and generals expected to be charged next week

Following the discovery by the Federal Police of an alleged coup plot and plans to assassinate then-President-elect Lula, Mauro Cid—an aide to former President Jair Bolsonaro and a key figure in the investigation—will be heard again by Justice Alexandre de Moraes of Brazil’s Supreme Court this Thursday afternoon (21). The police found that Justice Moraes and Vice President Geraldo Alckmin were also targets of the alleged assassination plot.

The military officer was summoned after the Federal Police submitted a report to the Supreme Court indicating inconsistencies and omissions in his testimony to investigators last Tuesday (19). The Federal Police assessed that Mr. Cid violated terms of a plea agreement inked last year and has been minimally cooperative with the investigation.

The Federal Police have expressed doubts regarding Mr. Cid’s effective cooperation, evidenced by their summoning him to testify after recovering deleted data from electronic devices belonging to him. Investigators also questioned him about the coup plot to assassinate Mr. Lula, Mr. Alckmin, and Justice Moraes.

On the same day, the Federal Police launched Operation “Contragolpe,” which led to the arrest of four military personnel and a Federal Police agent suspected of participating in a major conspiracy to keep former President Bolsonaro in power after his 2022 election defeat.

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