#fuck genai

[insanebluegenius]

I was double checking something about Indiana Jones today and the google AI summary tried to explain to me who Diana Jones might be, with a list of people who it though I might mean..... none of whom where Indiana Jones.

The first google search result was the Indiana Jones Wikipedia page.... so I can't even figure out what the AI was feeding from there.

that’s a good one

[potoh]

Two stunning winners ✨️

[8pxl]

PSA 🗣️ another scammer using genAI without disclosing it

mixlgirl (used to be pixgirl) has been posting generated AI (targeting fandoms) without disclosing it, passing it off as their genuine art and has apparently scammed at least one person into ‘commissioning’ them. this is a public PSA so yall can block them, and not interact. please do not harass them!

it’s incredibly shitty to be disingenuous while posting AI but even shittier to scam people with it 🤢 stay diligent yall

[animalphotorefs]

Why are animal facilities not named in repository photos?

Hey folk, let's talk about something important! All of the animals on the repository website are anonymous - but why?

The answer: to prevent AI hoaxes.

So here's the thing. "Escaped zoo animal" hoaxes have always been a popular pastime for a certain segment of the population. GenAI has made this way, way easier and much harder to identify as a hoax. Those hoaxes commonly occur after major disasters (or just when someone wants to cause chaos) and can be really dangerous if they divert resources from other critical things.

One of the best ways to identify hoax videos as AI gets increasingly more sophisticated is to actually know what a facility looks like, and which animals are currently living there. If someone wanted to cause harm using my site, and the site identified where/when photos were taken... it would make it easier to replicate a specific place, or a specific animal.

I can't stop people from scraping the site and using it for evil, but I can up the difficulty level.

Fuck GenAI.

[existennialmemes]

Look at the Horrible Little Guy I drew today 🥰

[theallianceofcelestials]

Important thing just popped up for fic writers and artists

Hello everyone! I'm writing this because I've locked my fics on AO3, due to a GenAI scrap of AO3. Most of my works are sadly affected, and have thus gotten stolen, except for like the newest two. @morriganfey has locked hers down too, and some others may too in the future.

If you want to read my works, whether new ones or old ones, you should get an AO3 account! I promise it makes things much easier!

If you're a writer on AO3, you might want to take a look at this Reddit post, see if any of your works are affected

This is a problem regardless of fandom or anything. If your fics weren't locked down already, and they fall between a certain number of ids, then it got stolen.

Now I've tagged this with mostly my own fics and the fandoms I've been posting fics in, but I've also tagged some Anti-AI tags and some tags relating to AO3, so hopefully a couple more people will see it too.

It'd be great if people could reblog this. Because regardless of fandom, this is a problem for everyone, both for artists and for writers

Thanks everyone! Even if this is really annoying, I know

[allseeingmoth]

my dad uses chatgpt to make art for him and yesterday he was like "fine, you're an artist. if you don't want me using AI then you can draw me a picture of a duck using an egret to push a goose down a hill" so I did. Thought Tumblr might appreciate the anti-ai goose.

[newtsnaturethings]

Reducing the art of Hiyao Miyazaki to a “vibe” and “aesthetic” pointedly ignores the very political anti war themes present in his work. 

I mean ffs one of the trademarks of his art is a balanced relationship with nature and the earth. It’s not just about the stunning nature backgrounds and visuals. There’s a message and a reason! And genAI NOTABLY uses a shit ton of resources and water to generate one image!!!! What the fuck!!! 

And all it produces is some soulless rendition that strips the original meaning of the work. 

Anyways rant over. Watch Princess Mononoke and Nausicaä and the Valley of the Wind. 

[birds-and-the-birds]

are you fucking kidding me

[lost-letters-from-atlantis]

Your teammate says he finished writing your college presentation. He sends you an AI generated text. The girls next to you at the library are talking about the deepfake pictures of that one celebrity at the MET gala. Your colleague invites you to a revision session, and tells you about how he feeds his notes to ChatGPT to get a resume. You say that's bad. He says that's your opinion. The models on social media aren't even real people anymore. You have to make sure the illustrated cards you buy online were made by actual artists. Your favourite musician published an AI starter pack. Your classmates sigh and give you a condescending smile when you say generative AI ruins everything. People in the comments of your favourite games are talking about how someone needs to make a Character.AI chat for the characters. People in your degree ask the answers of your exams to ChatGPT. You start to read a story and realise nothing makes sense, it wasn't written by a human being. There's a "this was written with AI" tag on AO3. The authors of your favourite fanfics have to lock their writing away to avoid their words getting stolen. Someone tells you about this amazing book. They haven't actually read it, but they asked Aria to resume it for them, so it's almost the same thing. People reading your one shot were mad that you wouldn't write a part 2 and copied your text in ChatGPT to get a second chapter. Someone on Tumblr makes a post about how much easier it is to ask AI to write an email for them because they're apparently "too autistic" to use their own words. Gemini generates wrong and dangerous answers at the top of your Google research page. They're doubling animation movies using voices stolen by AI. It's like there's nothing organic in this world anymore. Sometimes you think maybe nothing is real. The love confession you received yesterday wasn't actually written by your crush. If you're alone on a Saturday night and you feel lonely, you can talk to this AI chatbot. It terrifies you how easily people are willing to lay their critical thinking on the ground and slip into a state of ignorance. Creativity is too much work, having ideas by yourself became overrated these days. When illustrators fear for their future, people roll their eyes and tell them it's not that bad, they're just overreacting. No one wants to hear this ecologist crap about the tons of water consumed by ChatGPT, it's not that important anyway. There's AI sprinkled in the soundtrack of that movie and in the special effects and into the script. Giving a prompt to Grok is basically the same thing as drawing this Renaissance painting yourself. McDonald's is making ads in Ghibli style. The meaning of the words and images all around you slip away as they're replaced with robotic equivalents. No one is thinking anymore, they're just doing and saying what they were told. One day, there might not be any human connection anymore. Without the beauty of art, we have nothing to communicate, nothing to leave to the world, and our lives become dull. Why would you befriend anyone when you can get a few praises and likes on Instagram by telling a bot to copy Van Gogh's style on a picture of your cat? It's okay, you're never really alone when you can call your comfort character on c.AI anytime. You don't even know how to solve basic everyday problems, ChatGPT does it for you. One day it'll tell you to jump on the rails at the subway station, and maybe you'll do. You sacrificed your job, your friends, your partner, your family, and your planet. After all this, it has to be worth it. If Gemini tells you to drink bleach tonight when you search a receipt for dinner, then surely, it must be right.

[thatwomanlovingpotatofromtwitter]

Oh wow look what I made with my hands!

[onbearfeet]

Before you use ChatGPT to write that thing, please know that one of the YouTubers I research/write for just sent me a script he got from someone else that was very obviously generated by a large language model, and we roasted it for about an hour. There was a lot of "why does it keep talking about a bag of leaves like it's a novel concept" and "I think that paragraph gave me a stroke" and lots of "I sincerely hope you didn't pay actual money for this."

We can tell. We can tell you didn't use your brain, and it pisses us off. The mistakes you make aren't nearly as stupid as the ones the machine makes, and they are MUCH easier to fix. When you turn in genAI glop, you're asking the recipient to either put in a shit-ton of work making sense of it or just write you off entirely.

Just write your own shit! Make it terrible! It literally CANNOT be worse than the slop spewed out by the planet-burning plagiarism engine! And definitely don't expect to be paid or get credit for turning in what amounts to lorem ipsum!

That "writer" got fired, btw. Not least because neither the YouTuber nor I wanted to spend all that time using our brains to fix what he shat out without using his.

[wyrdheathen]

What I want AI to be able to do;

- My chores

What I don’t want AI to do;

- Have my religious experiences for me.

- Make Art for me.

- Write a book for me.

- Take my hobbies away.

[keep-a-eye-out-for-this-scam]

Hello there,

There is a scam going around that I want people to watch out for. This scam is using Palestine people cries for help by copying and stealing their campaigns and using bots (mostly likely ai bots since how AI came popular in 2023-2024 ish) to make these stolen campaigns safe and valid.

People have called out this scam but do not give details on what to look out for, which can be harmful, and it can train people's minds to treat every Palestine people's cries for help all "scams"

So I'm going to tell you what I have seen. So lately, on my account I been getting these anonymous asks and link their account in their account they have a website in their bio I have never seen Palestine people use in the past. The website is called Chuffed.org, and it sets red flags in my head. Soon, I found a post made by a Palestine person saying this Chuffed.org is a scam.

I sadly don't have this post as I lost it, and I don't know if that account is still up due. Sadly, Palestine people's accounts get banned by Tumblr. I remember I was going to reblog it, but I forgot.

Because of this post, I have been blocking all the accounts and anonymous asks with this link. Despite me blocking the anons, they still show up in my inbox, so it makes me believe these scammers are using bots since from my knowledge if you block anonymous, they can't sent anonymous messages to you from the account's/Device's ID.

The scammers are making posts in the same format as Palestine people's posts with this Chuffed.org link. Sometimes, they use PayPal or Ko-Fi under it.

Now PayPal and Ko-Fi are trustworthy websites, but they aren't fundraisers' websites, unlike Gofundme, which is a fundraiser website.

Ko-Fi is a website made for creators (like artists, writers, voice actors, steamers, etc) to get income from their fans/followers.

PayPal is used for businesses and online payments services for individuals.

There was a PayPal scam using Palestine people's cries, which I fell for, I never gave them money but posted it to spread awareness since I thought it was real. It's not until someone called it out under my comments. They gave me proof that it was a scam, so I deleted it and blocked the scammer.

It is not always anonymous. they ask their bots to send the copy and paste the scam ask, if you do turn it off to avoid it, they can use their accounts unless you block them."

Please always check the link in the bio. If it is a Chuffed.org link, DO NOT RESPOND TO IT! IF YOU SEE IT ON A POST, DO NOT REBLOG IT! Just block them and report them.

Always check the links.

Gofundme is the website, many Palestine people use as its a trustworthy websites that is used for fundraisers in need to support themselves, friends, families etc. In this case, Palestine people need to get to safety and buy food/water for themselves and families.

Thank you for reading this. Please be safe.

Keep supporting Palestine people's fundraisers

Keep checking links

If it's a link that's you don't recognise, do not press/click on it.

[existennialmemes]

Last month I decided to start learning how to draw. Purely out of spite for genAI.

I am disabled, my hands literally ache from handwriting, and I struggle with spatial processing & fine motor skills. Drawing was something I always felt was out of reach for me.

But hearing the genAI proponents use a strawman of disability to justify their shitty theft machine made me so angry I decided to just start drawing badly to spite them.

And you know what? The artists were right. Make Bad Art. Detach yourself from the goal of "Being an Artist" and just immerse yourself in the extremely human phenomenon of drawing.

My goal is not to make a "pretty" picture. My goal is to make a recognizable picture. To sloppily sketch down lines that another person could look at and immediately understand.

To have someone say "Wow, that's an awful picture of a deer" is such a badge of honor, because that means they knew it was a deer!!

Being able to convey pictographic information is a superpower and despite what the genAI advocates insist, it's an extremely accessible one

I make little doodles like twice a week. I stop when my hands are starting to hurt. I erase a lot and made peace with not having straight lines, and I'm having a tremendous amount of fun.

So I guess I owe a big thanks to the disingenuous arguments from the pro genAI crowd, if not for how easily disprovable they were, I probably never would've started drawing.

[theallianceofcelestials]

Update on the AI scrapping situation

I really wish I didn't have to make another post about this, but here we are.

The AO3 dataset, while currently unavaible on the HuggingFace website. has been made into a downloadable, still avaible Torrent file by the person who scrapped AO3

And all the others are avaible here too!

This person scrapped all of these works, whether they be drawings or writings, for AI purposes and to sell them!

The website datafish, the one these are avaible on, is based in Russia, and from what I know it's not responding to DMCAs. Despite all these datasets consisting of stolen work, so far nothing has been done against these!

This was brought to my attention by @mazois in the previous post's comment section, and I've did a little bit of further digging into this, but just know I'm not an expert in this! I'm just another scared person who's work was stolen

This dataset is still downloadable! This can still be downloaded and used by anyone who wishes for it!

Now I really hate doing these tumblr posts, mostly because I shouldn't need to, but also because I kind of feel like I'm bothering people with this, but I just want everyone to have a chance to do something about this.

Right now I don't know if the same approach will work with this one. Even enough DMCAs get filed, maybe something will get done. But I don't know. All I know is that these things are still avaible, even at least one of those that were deleted off of HuggingFace

Now I've tagged the same things as before, with a couple extra added tags, and I'll also link the last post relating to this issue here

Now, while this is a shitty situation, please do not harrass this person! Not because of the whole don't get on their level or whatever, but because it might help them get these datasets back online if they can say they've been harrassed over this! If we want something to get done about this, we must not give this person ground to push back!

Sorry to bother everyone about this again, but I wanted to share this in case someone wanted to know this.