#anti ai generated

[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…

[cozylittleartblog]

"content creator" is a corporate word.

we are artists.

[thunderboltfire]

I have unwittingly witnessed a new level of the absurd. Behold, the AI-generated equine anatomy models.

Ah yes, my favourite parts of the equine body. Paster and... *looks at the smudged writing on hand* boob. At least this one looks purely decorative and the being actually looks like a horse. But don't worry, it gets worse.

If we completely ignore the hipopotamus musculature of this one, there's still a lot of things that don't make sense in this one, like a tail that ends in a series of bone spikes and a complete lack of molars. You could make a cool pokemon on the basis of this, but it's not even in the realm of being an actual anatomy help.

I'm firmly convinced this is not a horse, this is something that really, really wants you to think it is a horse. The more you look, the more things look... wrong. The more details turn out to be shifted, bones crammed in to fill in the familiar form, its shape merely implied so that the human mind fills the gap. Of course the text seems like gibberish, because its anatomy is incomprehensible. it's either a parasite or a monster and in each case, it's an eldtrich body horror. I'm kind of angry at how well this joke writes itself.

[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.

[novella-november]

See, here's the thing about generative AI:

I will always, always prefer to read the beginner works of a young writer that could use some editing advice, over anything a predictive text generator can spit out no matter how high of a "quality" it spits out.

I will always be more interested in reading a fanfiction or original story written by a kid who doesn't know you're meant to separate different dialogues into their own paragraphs, over anything a generative ai creates.

I will happily read a story where dialogue isn't always capitalized and has some grammar mistakes that was written by a person over anything a computer compiles.

Why?

Because *why should I care about something someone didn't even care enough to write themselves?*

Humans have been storytellers since the dawn of humankind, and while it presents itself in different ways, almost everyone has stories they want to tell, and it takes effort and care and a desire to create to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard or speech to text to actually start writing that story out, let alone share it for others to read!

If a kid writes a story where all the dialogue is crammed in the same paragraph and missing some punctuation, it's because they're still learning the ropes and are eager to share their imagination with the world even if its not perfect.

If someone gets generative AI to make an entire novel for them, copying and pasting chunks of text into a document as it generates them, then markets that "novel" as being written by a real human person and recruits a bunch of people to leave fake good reviews on the work praising the quality of the book to trick real humans into thinking they're getting a legitimate novel.... Tell me, why on earth would anyone actually want to read that "novel" outside of morbid curiosity?

There's a few people you'll see in the anti-ai tags complaining about "people being dangerously close to saying art is a unique characteristic of the divine human soul" and like...

... Super dramatic wording there to make people sound ridiculous, but yeah, actually, people enjoy art made by humans because humans who make art are sharing their passion with others.

People enjoy art made by animals because it is fascinating and fun to find patterns in the paint left by paw prints or the movements of an elephants trunk.

Before Generative AI became the officially sanctioned "Plagiarism Machine for Billionaires to Avoid Paying Artists while Literally Stealing all those artists works" people enjoyed random computer-generated art because, like animals, it is fascinating and fun to see something so different and alien create something that we can find meaning in.

But now, when Generative AI spits out a work that at first appears to be a veritable masterpiece of art depicting a winged Valkyrie plunging from the skies with a spear held aloft, you know that anything you find beautiful or agreeable in this visual media has been copied from an actual human artist who did not consent or doesn't even know that their art has been fed into the Plagiarism Machine.

Now, when Generative AI spits out a written work featuring fandom-made tropes and concepts like Alpha Beta Omega dyanamics, you know that you favorite fanfiction website(s) have probably all been scraped and that the unpaid labours of passion by millions of people, including minors, have been scraped by the Plagiarism Machine and can now be used to make money for anyone with the time and patience to sit and have the Plagarism Machine generate stories a chunk at a time and then go on to sell those stories to anyone unfortunate enough to fall for the scam,

all while you have no way to remove your works from the existing training data and no way to stop any future works you post be put in, either.

Generative AI wouldn't be a problem if it was exclusively trained on Public Domain works for each country and if it was freely available to anyone in that country (since different countries have different copyright laws)

But its not.

Because Generative AI is made by billionaires who are going around saying "if you posted it on the Internet at any point, it is fair game for us to take and profit off," and anyone looking to make a quick buck can start churning out stolen slop and marketing it online on trusted retailers, including generating extremely dangerous books like foraging guides or how to combine cleaning chemicals for a spotless home, etc.

Generative AI is nothing but the works of actual humans stolen by giant corporations looking for profit, even works that the original creators can't even make money off of themselves, like fanfiction or fanart.

And I will always, always prefer to read "fanfiction written by a 13 year old" over "stolen and mashed together works from Predictive Text with a scifi name slapped on it", because at least the fanfiction by a kid actually has *passion and drive* behind its creation.

[mad-girlslove-song]

the shittiest human art will always be leagues better than the best ai "art". a child's finger paintings and macaroni crafts will always be better than a computer's subpar attempt at recreating the starry night. your stick figures and smiley faces will always surpass an algorithm's bastardized boticelli painting. the most mediocre hallmark movie will always be better than whatever bullshit sora churns out. the most cringeworthy "i'm 14 and this is deep" notes app poetry will always be better than whatever chatgpt can come up with. always

[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? cliffnotes.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

[beepboopappreciation]

How it feels trying to explain to people who are anti Gen AI that chatgpt/chatbots are cut from the same rotten cloth of content stealing and water consumption as image generating AI, and that it doesn't make it okay just because you can talk to your favorite blorbos

[tranquil-slaughterhouse]

I think it's healthy to be repulsed at the sight of painfully obvious ai-generated "art"

[existennialmemes]

Listen, you don't need a large language model like chatGPT. You can ask me questions and I'll generate confident sounding nonsense at a fraction of the resource consumption. Half the time, I don't even remember to drink water!

[pillowfort-social]

[forgwater]

[lynayru]

“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.”

Please sign if you are able to.

[redgoldsparks]

If you agree with this statement, you can sign it here.

[victusinveritas]