#anti a.i. art

[hellyeahheroes]

Why It's Morally Okay to Steal A.I. Artwork by the Jimquisition

[nando161mando]

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[theforswornelite]

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Me: Do you guys have Bullseye?

MS: No

Me: Songbird?

MS: No

Me: Moonstone?

MS: No

Me: Nighthawk?

MS: No

Me: Radioactive man?

MS: No

Me: ...BARON FUCKING ZEMO?

MS: No

Me: ... then what do you have?

MS: You guys Like A.I.?

Me:

[kyliafanfiction]

The thing is, I wish I could use AI art ethically.

Like - don’t lynch me yet - there are things that I want art for (that doesn’t exist) that I want badly enough to pay for. I have commissioned art for that, and I will in the future. 

But there’s also stuff I’d love to see visually that is more... a passing fancy, or just not worth the amount of money it would cost to pay an artist what they’re worth to get it made. A ‘hey, what would this look like’ or ‘I’ve got to get a visual for a major NPC for tonight’s Pathfinder Game’, etc. (Though usually I’d be needing multiple visuals per session since I tend to introduce a lot of NPCs). But they’re not things where the need is enough that I would spend money on it (nor would I have the time required, in some cases). It’s not for a project that makes money, after all.

I can of course hunt through google images, but between mislabeled images, poor search parameters (because my google-fu is weak) and increasing amounts of AI art flooding the net, that’s easier said than done sometimes. I’ve spent hours sometimes looking for just the right image for a character (which is one of the reasons I’ve started saving what I like @kylia-likes-character-art and tagging it with various things to make it easier to search through. Gotta add in a bunch of backlog too.) 

And I recently saw a thread on a forum where an artist with some serious disabilities talked about how certain AI art tools help them create art easier by helping them wrt their disability. And I’d be all for that. Creators using AI as an aid - I don’t actually object to that, when it’s done ethically. (If it can be)

But the problem, of course, is that AI art generators are trained on art they didn’t have permission to use, in the majority of cases (to say the least), and even sometimes when they had ‘permission’, they really didn’t thanks to poor wording and pre-toggled options on websites. Etc. And I’m not in favor of stealing art. 

Plus, using AI art is implicitly endorsing everything else that comes from it - and that’s where capitalism comes in. See, I don’t actually hate capitalism per se. I don’t want to completely abolish it. But in it’s current state, Capitalism is pretty shit, and corporations already are using AI art for all sorts of things, taking jobs away from graphic designers, and cheapening the overall aesthetic value of our world. Because AI art is generally only ever ‘good enough’. But ‘good enough’ is cheaper when it comes from AI. 

So we see book covers done with AI art, we see advertising campaigns done with AI generated imagery, in some cases. More and more, we’re seeing AI generation happening for things that should really involve paying someone money to create. 

And that? That’s not okay. That’s really not okay.

[crystalsandbubbletea-art]

This is a cry for help

Alright so I want to be able to protect my art from A.I, but the only A.I poisons I am currently aware of is Glaze and Nightshade, and unfortunately from what I can gather so far they aren't available for Android phones, which sucks because I only use my phone for art (My PC is absolute shit so I can't do art on it-). :/

Are there any A.I poisons for mobile-?

[crystalsandbubbletea]

I want my article feed to stop recommending me A.I generated content.

I want my article feed to stop recommending me A.I generated content.

I want my article feed to stop recommending me A.I generated content.

I want my article feed to stop recommending me A.I generated content.

I want my article feed to stop recommending me A.I generated content.

I want my article feed to stop recommending me A.I generated content.

I want my article feed to stop recommending me A.I generated content.

I want my article feed to stop recommending me A.I generated content.

(I swear if I get ONE more article that contains ANYTHING A.I generated I will throw the biggest tantrum known to man-)

[glasseswearingrabbitdetective]

Just reported an ai art app ad … on tumblr … ugh.. pls :))) ik the company pays you but TT it had horny angle so maybe that’s enough to get rid of that shit GKAKVKA it’s inappropriate for minors! (Probably?)

[thehyperrequiem]

I prefer drawings that are made by human beings and drawn fresh from hands, not robots!

Reblog to kill it faster

[bleakbeauty]

Intelligence is a spectrum, and there are otherwise neurotypical people who are at the low end of it. Hesitation to admit that stupidity exists is actually part of anti-intellectualism.

[sirfrogsworth]

Do you remember that Aussie sword guy who used to talk about medieval weapons?

And, like, he seemed pretty good at talking about swords and shit. He seemed to have a good grasp of the history and tactics. He'd analyze movie weapons for their realism and that was fun. He did demonstrations with real weapons. For a time I really looked forward to his videos popping up in my feed.

He seemed like a harmless sword-fighting aficionado.

But then I guess he wanted to spread his wings. So he started down an anti-woke path. Giving questionable critiques about media and feminism. He started defending boob armor by showing historical examples even though most of those were decorative and not battle ready like in the games.

Then he admitted he was a fan of The Daily Wire.

And that was disappointing.

I missed him nerding out about swords, ya know?

Well, Shad decided to spread his wings again.

He has become...

*bad French accent* An artiste.

You see, he types words into a little box. Then a little robot does a google image search and steals a bunch of art. Then that robot reconfigures that art to be nearly indistinguishable from the source material. Well... aside from the occasional artist watermark.

Whoops!

A.I. art is very difficult. Sometimes when you type words into the box you get a woman with 5 lopsided anime tiddies. Or 20 fingers on one hand. It takes time and effort and experience to type in the perfect magic words so that you get something close to your imagination that doesn't belong in some sort of Lovecraftian horror ripoff.

For example, check out this cool "pirate hat" I asked A.I. to place on my head.

Clearly, I am not skilled enough at typing words into a box to get a proper pirate hat.

It. Is. Not. Easy.

I heard someone say you have to type things in a box for 10,000 hours before you start getting truly masterful generations.

I mean, you can't type "marathon runners" and expect that to actually work.

THIS REQUIRES SKILL, PEOPLE.

And I am a lowly amateur. I can only dream of becoming the box-typist Shad has honed himself into.

The thing is... Shad is very upset.

He is upset that you don't like his "art" and he is ready to die on this hill.

So... before he croaks on a mound of bullshit, he has something to show you. He has created something truly brilliant and when you see it, he is convinced you will validate his considerable efforts.

Before I show you his "Not. Easy." artistic masterpiece I'd like you to sit with what he has said for a second.

Ruminate in the verbiage.

Process the ideas and points of view presented.

Digest his plea for you to accept and love his hard won battle after typing words into a box to manifest his imaginings.

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Have you sat?

Ruminated?

Processed?

Digested?

Okay, here it is...

[nando161mando]

[chaos-triangle]

I despise A.I.! Kill the A.I. in the most brutal way possible!

"We have a new AI feature!" "With the power of AI..." "Our AI..."

I am going to abandon technology and start only inscribing things on clay tablets

[theforswornelite]

WOOOOW!!! They really hate their VFX artists and be bankrupt enough to buy RDJ and the Russo brothers THAT much.

[stash-of-furbies]

THE POWER OF NEO

(Based on that new Spamton keychain that’s coming out soon! I interpreted the art as being he has big shoulder pads and not a neck collar lol)

I used an anti a.i filter on this and it made it look even better imo! Gives the art an awesome futuristic look while also my art not getting scraped is a definite plus.

[merwgue]

The amount of people that use A.I art in this fandom is actually insane. On both the pro and the anti parts. Like wdym the "official" art of rhysand is A.I?? Literally what?? And even tamlin art sometimes,and when you tell a bitch she's like "it's my page" Well you can shove that art right up your ass because you're supporting artist being out of JOBSSSS

Anywho support actual artist like

@thrumugnyr

@copypastus

@ladymidnight-goesforth

@works-of-heart (who was actually accused of using A.I art, this shows how damaging it is)

@dimalry

@ceoofyearning

@jmoonjones

@geniemillies (I just saw their tamlin art?? OH M GEE???)

(Give me more in cmmts bc I genuinely have the memory of a goldfish)

[ingloriousgigi]

I actually talked about this on Twitter but A.I. is such a bad idea for many reasons because you can't copyright an A.I. story. The courts passed a ruling that only human-made things can get things copyrighted. So, basically, someone can steal your story and you can't even sue.

The Clarkesworld AI Spam issue is one of those stories that to me really highlights the limits of the tools that hype is obscuring. Clarkesworld is a well-established Sci-Fi publishing magazine that today had to suspend all of its submissions due to being overwhelmed by ChatGPT generated entries:

This inspired a lot of discourse around the idea of a ‘crisis of credibility’ on the internet, AI sweeping away the boundries of authenticity in a flood of forgeries. How can magazines even operate in this new environment, one might ask?

Which is weird because this environment isn’t new at all, as the editor, Neil Clarke, comments on in his blog post around the problem:

Since the early days of the pandemic, I’ve observed an increase in the number of spammy submissions to Clarkesworld. What I mean by that is that there’s an honest interest in being published, but not in having to do the actual work. Up until recently, these were almost entirely cases of  plagiarism, first by replacing the author’s name and then later by use of programs designed to “make it your own.”

The issue isn’t that spam exists, its the quantity:

This is undoubtably a gigantic spike, and 100% it is induced by ChatGPT.

But hold on - is ChatGPT actually *better* at this that previous spam tools? Niel doesn’t think so, even if he is worried about the future: 

I’m not going to detail how I know these stories are “AI” spam or outline any of the data I have collected from these submissions. There are some very obvious patterns and I have no intention of helping those people become less likely to be caught…

… What I can say is that the number of spam submissions resulting in bans has hit 38% this month. While rejecting and banning these submissions has been simple, it’s growing at a rate that will necessitate changes. To make matters worse, the technology is only going to get better, so detection will become more challenging.

And how expensive was the plagarism before to do anyway? It was copy-pasting text, automated word replacement programs, and done, that is trivial. Its a little harder than ChatGPT, sure, but you could make a thousand in a day no sweat, automated scripts randomizing names and jumbling nouns from a list. 

The success rate also seems to be zero! Neither plagarism nor ChatGPT generates any story worth a damn, these aren’t being accepted. Neil is quite confident he is catching 100% of them and I believe him on that, these tools cannot write good fiction of any length beyond a paragraph. 

So what is the ChatGPT’s advantage over previous, ‘dumber’ spam that justifies a 100-fold increase in spam usage? I am not seeing one, and I don’t think there is one besides marginally lower per-spam costs. Phrased another way, what was stopping someone from submitted 500 spam entries in one month in 2021? Nothing but interest in doing so.

Which is the rub of why this is happening - it isn’t because ChatGPT is good at this task, its because its the hype thing to do. Everyone is talking about it, everyone is trying it out, everyone is trying to find “delta” so they can ride the hype train. A bunch of people, some who may have even had axes to grind against Clarkesworld, have heard of this brand new fun tool and are flooding into the market to take advantage of it. But there might not be much to take advantage of; hype is fleeting, particularly in the face of no results as this effort is getting. As it fails, unless that axe really needs grinding about all else, spammers will move.

All of this to say that this story is, again, not a story about AI at all. AI is just the reason these already-bad parts of the system are being tested in the public eye.