#boycott ai writing

[gay-jewish-bucky]

PSA:

If you're against AI writing, instead of using it and sharing the results to "prove" to people how bad it is at writing, you don't actively help train it to more proficiently and naturally plagiarize the hard work of actual writers, people whose work was scraped without their consent or knowledge. The AI is not making things up out of thin air. Every single word the AI "writes" contains the stolen work of actual people.

[mothbiite]

If you use generative ai to "write" your stories...you deserve to be bullied out of writer spaces.

[nando161mando]

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[theeccentricwritter]

I can only describe myself as hit with grief and irate. Grammerly is no longer safe, neither is Office Word for online writing. I have long since abandonded Movellas and Wattpad and Google Docs. Everyone seems to be AI scraping from writers. And the silly part is no one cares when I say your AI boy friend of (insert popular character) is stolen from other artists. No one cares when I say you shouldn’t use chat GPT to awnser questions because it’s stolen from someone who cared enough to answer it.

Writing as a whole is going to be demolished in a digital sense. I did my best to research programs that I could write in online. Because I had forgot my computer charger. This way I could transfer it to my office word 2007 document later and all I found were places that were hungry to devour written content to fuel there AI fires.

{[IMPORTANT TAKE AWAY FOR THOSE WITH ADHD]}

- I know this may seem like a rant but please look up what ever you write on even if it’s just the notes app on your phone and “ AI or AI scraping “ at the end of it. Us writers are being bled for profit and seeing none of it. -

Starve the machine, return to paper, or enclosed system type. I for now will only be keeping any digital documents I am writing on flash drives in order to try and protect data scraping. But honestly having anything online of my writing is giving me anxiety.

Side note:

I already know anything I publish (if I ever publish) will be harvested and fed to an AI as all our beloved written media already is. But I don’t want to allow some generative platform to profit with any form of my work without me knowing.

[khepiari]

"My art sucks, so the only alternative is to steal other's work?" It is not a sentiment we endorse.

Until and unless you work on any form of creative process or hobby yourself, you will not value any form of art and hobbies. That's why we keep asking people to write, draw, sing, and create their things to understand and appreciate the time and love people spend on their passion projects!

[just-your-average-cryptid]

“waahhh I can’t give up Starbucks I need my caffeine”

Do you legit need coffee to function in the morning? Use it to self-medicate? I get that - so go find out if you have local coffee shops and try their stuff. Get a carton of iced coffee from the store. Get one of those little bottled coffee drinks. Whatever will work for you, do it.

Do you just like getting stuff from Starbucks? You like their drinks? It’s just for a treat? You’ll live. Again, local coffee shops. There are other places with coffee and pastries. You can go somewhere that’s not Starbucks, I promise.

I haven’t posted much about I/P for the sake of my mental health but this is ridiculous. If y’all can’t bear to go without Starbucks and McDonald’s you are not ready for any kind of meaningful activism. If you can’t put up with inconvenience, you’re not ready for actual risk to yourself. Because yeah, this isn’t easy or safe all the time. So put your money where your mouth is or accept that your “allyship” only applies when it’s convenient.

[silvandar]

As a writer who has completed Nanowrimo in the past, I was infuriated to see their stance on AI. In a small way, I want to make my opinion known in the runup to November.

I signed this petition to voice my anger, and I invite you to do the same.

[danascullysjournal]

I was just shopping for some graphic shirts and I ran across one designated “AI Designed”

Screaming crying throwing up staring into a void of nothing ai is taking everything I love, making bastardized owl pellet mash ups and trying to sell it to me

[gay-jewish-bucky]

Using AI "Writing" Programs for Any Reason Actively Trains the Program to Plagiarize More Effectively

These Machine Learning Programs are Not Sentient, They Rely on Any and All Engagement to Improve Their Output Quality

Your Intentions Don't Matter, Using these Programs to Satisfy Your Morbid Curiosity (or Sharing the Results, and Thus Encouraging Even More People to do the Same) So You Can "Prove How Bad It Is" Completely Undermines Your Anti-AI-Writing Stance

[leidensygdom]

WOTC is hiring a "Principal AI Engineer"

After multiple scandals of them trying to "covertly" using AI (and denying it, when found out, up until the evidence was too big to deny), declarations from Hasbro's CEO, Chris Cocks, saying how much he loves AI, after their empty promises with dubiously worded "No, we won't use AI (in our final products)", Wizards of The Coast is now hiring a "Principal AI Engineer".

And as highlighted (the highlighted version was posted by @/SpicyEncounters on Twitter), this does include AI usage for all sorts of things- Including writing, audio, and art. (Which is an incredibly broad amount of subjects, but the wonders of AI is being able to have a single guy hitting the keyboard 'til the plagiarism machine pukes something decent)

This is no surprise to most people, I think, but it's still a great time to just boycott WOTC, and make noise about this everywhere: Social media, on your way out for your DnD Beyond subscription, amidst many others. Don't give them the money. The cents they save from not hiring artists shouldn't be worth much amidst many users refusing to use their products and bringing their money elsewhere. They already had massive layoffs- Which of course heavily hurt their artists, and this was the "natural", greedy next step.

I keep thinking about getting sent death threats over bringing up this in the past with people who were too deep in on the corporate bootlicking. Who would've thought that the same company that threw their creators under the bus with the OGL would now be looking forward to keep running them over for a measly profit.

[asaltyarchon]

A writing event that is pretty popular just came out in support of using Ai to “write”. So… what are we doing instead of NoNoWriMo? I don’t want them having any website traffic no Google searches no use of their hastag NO DONATIONS nothing at all going forward until they change their stance on this. What a (1) massive insult to the writing community as a whole but (2) an insult to the disabled by implying only disabled people use Ai to write and (3) an insult to those who may not be well educated implying they can’t write either without Ai aide!

Quoted from the above link below ⬇️

We also want to be clear in our belief that the categorical condemnation of Artificial Intelligence has classist and ableist undertones, and that questions around the use of AI tie to questions around privilege.

Classism. Not all writers have the financial ability to hire humans to help at certain phases of their writing. For some writers, the decision to use AI is a practical, not an ideological, one. The financial ability to engage a human for feedback and review assumes a level of privilege that not all community members possess.

Ableism. Not all brains have same abilities and not all writers function at the same level of education or proficiency in the language in which they are writing. Some brains and ability levels require outside help or accommodations to achieve certain goals. The notion that all writers “should“ be able to perform certain functions independently or is a position that we disagree with wholeheartedly. There is a wealth of reasons why individuals can't "see" the issues in their writing without help.

General Access Issues. All of these considerations exist within a larger system in which writers don't always have equal access to resources along the chain. For example, underrepresented minorities are less likely to be offered traditional publishing contracts, which places some, by default, into the indie author space, which inequitably creates upfront cost burdens that authors who do not suffer from systemic discrimination may have to incur.

I am actually gobsmacked at this and unless they change their stance I really think we need to let them crumble into dust and disappear.

Edit: guys they’re sponsored by a subscription based Ai…. Archive link here for proof. This explains why they’ve done this, and why we all should double the fuck down and boycott them.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

AI For Good, AI For Bad, AI for All

We talked about how to view AI as a writing tool, but I also want to acknowledge the worry about AI replacing creative jobs is completely valid, and we need to treat it with the caution it deserves. In an uncertain future, there are steps we can take to protect ourselves and our fellow creatives:

Support creative unions, back union strikes. The WGA strike is a critical example of how fair pay needs to be a factor, ever-changing technology is affecting creative jobs across the board, from novel editing to art direction. Support creative unions, back union strikes, and boosting efforts to form unions is one way to support the future of creative art remaining in the hands of those who make it. Support animation unions, support voice acting unions, support the formation of new unions to protect the future of workers.

Push for regulation. Even those working in AI are sounding the alarm that we need to have government regulations in place to ensure these systems are used in a way that benefits society, not tears it apart. Paying attention and participating by supporting candidates and policy will matter. Some promising motions have been made by the US Supreme Court rejecting copyright cases involving AI, but more needs to be done. We can get to a better future if we try.

Fight back against sketchy AI practices. Tor has once again been caught using an AI cover instead of paying an artist, something I promise you they absolutely can afford to do. Some companies are quietly switching out real narrators for AI. We do not need to accept a world where those critical to the writing process, be they editors, artists, or narrators, have their jobs stripped away by companies that make more than enough money to pay them. Call it out, don't buy content affected by it, and call it out on social media.

Be open and honest about how you use AI. As I've said before, I don't think AI is something you should boycott completely. What I do think is important, though, is to talk about how you use it. Trying to work out a plot snare, for example, or generating an AI image to help you figure out how to describe a room are decent examples of how it can be used as a tool, and it should be encouraged if it can genuinely helpful. Calling out AI-use passed off as original work is going to get harder, and one thing we can do is be honest with ourselves and others about how we use it.

Pay for your shit. Listen, I work in education. I'm double-dutying it when it comes to being a broke writer and a broke educator. But if you're an indie author and you need a decent cover and an editor that'll act more as a grammar-checker, you need to work with real people, which means you need to pay them what they're worth. As a creative you are part of a community of people who will need your support, as well as support you in turn. You'll only be doing yourself a disfavor by turning your back to it.

A better future is worth fighting for - and we can fight for it, no matter how bleak it looks.

[thegirlwhorideslikeasamurai]

I'm in the mood to post Chapter 7 of my Vitya prequel Thousand Spotlights in early November. But since I'm my doing my own writing event called NoAIWriMo in November (I boycott NaNoWriMo until they ban AI, so probably forever), I have a lot of stuff on my list that's more important than a neglected story. Like preparing the November chapters of Can You Hear My Heartbeat or plotting the last third of my sequel In Love and War so that I can finish writing the draft in November. There's only one week of October left and I'm quite sad that I likely won't have time to prepare yet another chapter because it's the first time in forever that I'm actually in the mood to keep this story going, and I don't know if I will still be in a couple of weeks from now.

(preparing = revising a chapter one last time before posting. I only post finished and revised stories, but there's always some stuff to fix)

[wispstalk]

today in LLM Derangement Syndrome: nanowrimo released a statement that use of AI tools would not disqualify anyone from participating, so tech-illiterate tumblr users have made a bunch of hysterical posts calling for boycotts and accused them of nefarious motives because ProWritingAid is one of their sponsors:

i'd never heard of this one, but I have heard of Grammarly, which has been around for fifteen years. by all accounts it's not very good, so I don't use it. But this is what these apps do:

(from this zapier article comparing the two pieces of software)

And yes, more recently these programs have features where you can select a section of your own text and prompt a continuation. so i guess you're plagiarizing yourself in that scenario.

So my question is: if we've all decided this type of tool is unacceptable, are we now demanding that professional writers disavow their works as "artificially generated" if they have ever used Grammarly? Are we boycotting these writers and publications? If you've ever used the grammar suggestions in your own writing software, are you boycotting yourself? Does the boycott extend to spell-check?

[solarbird]

Hilarious.

I can’t be bothered to write anything new, so here’s a post from – jeez, barely over a month ago, that links a huge number of the previous articles I’ve written about this fetid shitball and his fascist propaganda and disinformation machine.

Apparently – despite his demands – he hasn’t been able to get Republican state attorneys-general to prosecute people and companies which do not give him money. In a general sense, he thinks boycotts should be illegal – well, at least, where he’s concerned, because of how special a boy he is.

Back in November, he went off extensively and in public about how not paying him money is censorship, that advertisers have a moral and/or ethical responsibility to give him money via advertisiing on X Twitter.

The main takeaway coverage at the time delivered was him telling advertisers to go fuck themselves, using almost exactly those words! But if you watch the whole interview, you get the greater message about how not giving him money is a crime and should be illegal.

It’s truly bizarre, and that’s not even including the bit about how all the copyright action against AI bots won’t matter because LLMs will become God AIs before any of the cases get resolved in court.

No, really. It’s an offhand comment and not pursued, but holy shit, it should’ve been.

Basically, the man is well beyond weird, and full-bore into a delusional fascist messiah complex. He’s been there for a long time, and in plain sight. Being on X / Twitter just helps feed it, as he turns it further and further up.

So do highlight the trainwreck, but do not help pay for it. Given how much money he’s throwing into this election and why he bought Twitter, from a functional standpoint, literally every tweet is an ad for MAGA and/or Trump, so I wouldn’t be doing any of that, either.

And for the gods’ sakes, don’t rely on “X” for information and organisation, particularly close to November. If it’s not obvious, he will yank it out from under you when you need it the most.

90 days remain.

[strab3rr]

First of all, thank you very much for answering our questions and taking care of everyone here. I have a question for you. Will you make a manifesto about the wars and bad events in the world? By the way, some people think that everyone's reality is different, some think that there is only one reality, so I'm curious about your thoughts on this subject. Sorry for my english cause english not my first language. thanks babe🤍💝

let me give u a secret first, im neither english teacher nor a native english people🤩 nobody cares if u do mistakes in your nonnative language(which there was no mistake), nobody cares even if u do mistakes in your native language, we are people not some ai chats. its okay to make grammatical wrongs please be confident about ur speaking/spelling/writing etc and thats all.

i believe that we shift when we manifest something.

there's infinite realities right? there is a universe/reality you have all your dreams in a second. and there's a universe that never stops to ruin your dreams. you just make a choice to live which one.

and about manifestos no i dont think im gonna do one. war was always a part of us(human kind) nobody could stopped even if someone did its just caused another. im not saying you cant manifest a world without wars ofc you can but as i was sayin there's infinite realities if you stopped this one what about others?

however i do my volunteering about wars and people who need help in our world, i do boycotts for east turkistan and palestine. i donate money, clothes, food and i make sure those things go to right places. and i pray for them.

you can choose to live in a world w no war, you can shift and live there forever but in some universes(including the universe u'll left when u manifesting) will have wars and bad events.

its a deep topic and im not qualified for talking too much so lets cut here.

i hope you liked the answers of your questions.

loves, siena