#anti ai generated

[thelocalmuffin]

Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

chatgpt is the coward's way out. if you have a paper due in 40 minutes you should be chugging six energy drinks, blasting frantic circus music so loud you shatter an eardrum, and typing the most dogshit essay mankind has ever seen with your own carpel tunnel laden hands

[vexic929]

I think a lot of what pro-AI people are really wanting is stuff that already exists but they don't know it's out there like

can't format a work email? templates

don't know how to write a resume? templates

writing a thank you card or a condolences card or a wedding invitation? templates templates templates

not sure how to format your citations in MLA or whatever format? citationmachine.net

summary of something you're reading for school/work? cliffsnotes.com

recipe based on ingredients in your fridge? whatsintherefrigerator.com

there's a million more like, guys, we don't need AI, we never needed generative AI

[prismagic]

Discord has added generative AI features to servers.

Here are THREE THINGS you need to do today.

1️⃣ YOUR SERVER

Go into server settings -> roles -> Default permissions

Search for "external apps" and disable it

2️⃣ YOUR FEEDBACK

Access Discord support -> https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

Go into Help & Support > Feedback/New Feature Request

Denounce generative AI and request the feature be removed. Bring up privacy concerns for yourself, your data, and for minors.

You will get an automatic reply to this request- PLEASE REPLY TO THE EMAIL TO PUSH IT TO THE TEAM or else it will get discarded.

3️⃣ ON MOBILE

Access your app store

Leave a 1 star review and publicly denounce generative AI and Discord's use of it

Reblog this to spread the word, I'm tired of the enshittification of the things I use in my day to day life.

[leidensygdom]

So, Discord has added a feature that lets other people "enhance" or "edit" your images with different AI apps. It looks like this:

Currently, you can't opt out from this at all. But here's few things you can do as a protest.

FOR SERVERS YOU ARE AN ADMIN IN

Go to Roles -> @/everyone roles -> Scroll all the way down to External Apps, and disable it. This won't delete the option, but it will make people receive a private message instead when they use it, protecting your users:

You should also make it a bannable offense to edit other user's images with AI. Here's how I worded it in my server, feel free to copypaste:

Do not modify other people's images with AI under ANY circumstances, such as with the Discord "enhancement" features, amidst others. This is a bannable offense.

COMPLAIN TO DISCORD

There's few ways to go around this. First, you can go to https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/requests/new , select Help and Support -> Feedback/New Feature Request, and write your message, as seen in the screenshot below.

For the message, here's some points you can bring up:

Concerns about harassment (such as people using this feature to bully others)

Concerns about privacy (concerns on how External Apps may break privacy or handle the data in the images, and how it may break some legislations, such as GDPR)

Concerns about how this may impact minors (these features could be used with pictures of irl minors shared in servers, for deeply nefarious purposes)

BE VERY CLEAR about "I will refuse to buy Nitro and will cancel my subscription if this feature remains as it is", since they only care about fucking money

Word them as you'd like, add onto them as you need. They sometimes filter messages that are copypasted templates, so finding ways to word them on your own is helpful.

ADDING: You WILL NEED to reply to the mail you receive afterwards for the message to get sent to an actual human! Otherwise it won't reach anyone

UNSUSCRIBE FROM NITRO

This is what they care about the most. Unsuscribe from Nitro. Tell them why you unsuscribed on the way out. DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY. They're a company. They take actions for profit. If these actions do not get them profit, they will need to backtrack. Mass-unsuscribing from WOTC's DnD beyond forced them to back down with the OGL, this works.

LEAVE A ONE-STAR REVIEW ON THE APP

This impacts their visibility on the App store. Write why are you leaving the one-star review too.

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Regardless of your stance on AI, I think we can agree that having no way for users to opt out of these pictures is deeply concerning, specially when Discord is often used to share selfies. It's also a good time to remember internet privacy and safety- Maybe don't post your photos in big open public servers, if you don't want to risk people doing edits or modifications of them with AI (or any other way). Once it's posted, it's out of your control.

Anyways, please reblog for visibility- This is a deeply concerning topic!

[ariel-gremlinzkeep]

This right here is the thing.

When people were blowing up sharing the "get your art/writing off ex-twitter" a lil bit ago they were met w/ a lot of people (correctly) pointing out the first parts of the TOS. The bit about them being allowed to distribute your posts w/o risk of copyright against them.

Yeah. That was standard. Worded a bit freaky imo, but standard enough.

It's *this* that was the main issue. The legalese for feeding your creative works into the AI generating machine.

It was pointed out by some that it is more akin to an advancement in the algorithm to cater posts & ads to you in a more personal way.

While yeah. Maybe that is true. It will def be an at first thing. Ain't no way it will *stay* that way. It'll ever so slowly slip into feeding the AI generated image/writing/voice algorithms. It *will* end up being plagiarism & in some cases it's essentially theft of identity when talking the deep fakes & the voice ones.

Do I think more sites will adopt this policy?

Yeah. I am sure they will. They will make money off of it.

Do I think we should still make a fuss & stink & remove ourselves before we are fed into the ever churning mill of gnashing digital teeth that is AI generated art/voices/writing?

Also yes.

While I can totally understand the appeal of using AI generation for INSPIRATION on a personal level. Hell. Even a small business level. *But* the big fat cats will use it in nefarious ways.

They will use it to replace the script writers. The Novelists. The background artists. The animators. The logo/marketing artists. The promo artists. The character designers. The voice actors. The singers. The songwriters. The FUCKIN DEAD in the case of deep fake shit. & so many more.

This tool that should have been just that. Another tool to be used to aid the Creative. Will be used by the industry to choke the life out of the Creative.

It is heartbreaking.

It is sooooo important right now to not support it. Especially with the WGA & SAG-AFTRA strikes right now. Their lives are already being ruined by this shit.

Don't feed the machine. It don't matter if it's an indie Creative or a big bucks Creative. Just don't do it. Please. Maybe the tool can be used again for its (being optimistic here) original intent as an aid tool, but right now it's not good.

AI generators shouldn't be permitted to replace Creatives.

Period.

Heads up for artists - Twitter has updated their privacy policy to enable any and all tweets to be used to train AI models.

If you have your art on there you may want to take it down before it comes into effect on September 29th

[softwaring]

we’re really out here living in an AI dystopian hellscape and this shit has just begun… the future is grim…

[nando161mando]

They will decide to kill you eventually.

[cozylittleartblog]

"content creator" is a corporate word.

we are artists.

[meanya]

I saw a post before about how hackers are now feeding Google false phone numbers for major companies so that the AI Overview will suggest scam phone numbers, but in case you haven't heard,

PLEASE don't call ANY phone number recommended by AI Overview

unless you can follow a link back to the OFFICIAL website and verify that that number comes from the OFFICIAL domain.

My friend just got scammed by calling a phone number that was SUPPOSED to be a number for Microsoft tech support according to the AI Overview

It was not, in fact, Microsoft. It was a scammer. Don't fall victim to these scams. Don't trust AI generated phone numbers ever.

[thatsthewrongwallcraig]

Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.

[marbleheavy]

i actually do think i’m better than people who use AI

[comikbook]

i do think im better than people that use ai for their “art” btw. i also think im hotter and funnier.

[fixing-bad-posts]

I don't care. I don't care. AI entertainment without anything in it. could it hurt? yes. By using AI the investors make money on theft.

[kieshartzishere]

If you hate AI stealing from artists, if you hate AI stealing from musicians, if you hate AI from stealing from voice actors amd God, if you hate AI stealing from writers then stop using Character AIs.

Don't be so two-faced on where you stand in this fight.