#yes by AI I mean large language models such as chatgpt etc. it's faster to type

[goldpilot22]

this is the first I've heard about NaNoWriMo being sponsored by an AI writing service, and I'd just like to say, what???

see, I work with AI for one of my jobs (rating, reviewing, and fact-checking AI responses) and the thing is. you know how every writer has a distinct "voice" and a particular writing style?

well guess what... so do these AI language models. and guess what... it's not a good one. the AI writing style is becoming synonymous with content farm slop. I've seen enough AI writing while working that I can just about instantly recognize when an article I'm trying to get information from (sometimes for work, lmao) is AI-written, and it causes me to instantly lose trust in any information the article has. because guess what, AI language models are not good at facts. they're predictive text machines, not web search machines. and the text they predict is boring, generic, uncreative, error-prone, and structured in the same few generic ass ways.

please don't use AI to write your novels... every writer has their own unique style and AI does not have your style nor your creativity.

watching @nanowrimo within a single hour:

make an awful, ill-conceived, sponsored post about "responsible"/"ethical" uses of ai in writing

immediately get ratio'd in a way i've never seen on tumblr with a small swarm of chastising-to-negative replies and no reblogs

start deleting replies

reply to their own post being like 'agree to disagree!!!' while saying that ai can TOTALLY be ethical because spellcheck exists!! (???) while in NO WAY responding to the criticisms of ai for its environmental impact OR the building of databases on material without author consent, ie, stolen material, OR the money laundering rampant in the industry

when called out on deleting replies, literally messaged me people who called them out to say "We don't have a problem with folks disagreeing with AI. It's the tone of the discourse." So. overtly stated tone policing.

get even MORE replies saying this is a Bad Look, and some reblogs now that people's replies are being deleted

DISABLE REBLOGS when people aren't saying what nano would prefer they say

im juust in literal awe of this fucking mess.

[trans-elrond]

This, plus a few additional notes:

Generative AI uses a lot of water—way more than you think, and way more than is possibly ethical for a totally unnecessary product. if you care about the environment, you will be opposed to generative AI.

For those tempted to use AI for essays, stories, chatbots, or other written work: ChatGPT cannot give you accurate information; at best it will "hallucinate" obviously wrong information, at worst it will spew out racist/bigoted garbage because it was trained on a huge chunk of the Internet, which is famously racist and bigoted (here's author Ted Chiang on AI's "blurry picture of the Internet"). As a result, these programs are accelerating misinformation at speeds previously unknown to humanity. If you care about truth and social justice, you will be opposed to generative AI.

Works made from generative AI (both art and written works) are on extremely shaky legal ground and opens you up to copyright infringement lawsuits if you ever share it publicly, because again, the training data was the a huge chunk of the Internet, including a ton of copyrighted material. Authors' works were used to train LLMs without their consent, and for free; they will never benefit from LLMs stealing their work, and if they had been given the chance to withdraw consent, many would have. If you care about plagiarism issues and paying artists and writers for their labor, you will be opposed to generative AI.

Finally, the use of generative AI as a shortcut to creating art and fic stunts your creative growth, hinders your imagination, and limits creativity. You're getting used to using a (stolen!) tool instead of expanding your own repertoire of artistic techniques and skills, from ideating to sketching to coloring in art, to story outlines to dialog to characterization in fic. From personal experience as a writer, it's the hardest parts of writing that teach you the most about your craft, and you will be an extremely stunted artist if you don't find your own, personal way through those hard spots. If you care about human potential for creativity and the craft of art and writing, you will be opposed to generative AI.

Does AI (using the phrase broadly, in terms of neural networks, pattern recognition, etc.) have helpful uses in life? Yes, especially in the medical and data sciences, which is why it's important to specify when we're talking about generative AI. Generative AI trained on stolen data like Midjourney and LLMs (large language models) like ChatGPT cannot coexist with environmental justice, social justice, fairly paying artists, or human creativity.

"But won't neglecting to learn AI mean I'll get left behind in my job/artistic profession?" A hearty NO to this sentiment. There's a huge anti-generative AI surge in the arts world and there are lots of us who understand the many, many problems with using it. Even in the business world I've read essays that show how non-AI users are faster and more productive (and more accurate!) than those using gen AI.

In my own field of TV writing, most pro writers I know are deeply against it! As for the fools who use it... Let's just say they're not usually getting jobs. (Using gen AI for artistic shortcuts usually doesn't mean your a very skilled artist yourself—and yes, pro writers can usually tell that something was generated by AI.)

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and SAG-AFTRA in the USA, and the European Union (which is currently involved in drafting legislation about AI), are also very, very opposed to free-for-all use of AI and are actively working towards restrictions to its use. If you ever want to be a pro artist, writer, filmmaker, cosplayer, or any part of the culture/arts world, or if you have any respect for the professionals currently on the front lines of arts and culture, then using AI at all, or being ignorant of the above points, is going to be a black mark on your record forever. The professionals are deeply aware that you do not train your replacement for free!

Anyway, Haladriels, Rings of Power fandom people, etc.: do better! Don't make AI generated work! Don't engage with AI generated work! Fandom is best when it's made with love and hard work, from the heart, with our own hands. Don't cede ground to AI corporations—make original stuff you love because you love it!

I love Haladriel fandom here on Tumblr, but I have seen a couple of people make AI Haladriel art and video footage and get likes for it and I really wish people would stop interacting with AI produced material. AI can be ok when it's used for manual and repetitive tasks, not for manipulating a footage of the actors......

This ask has been sent to me... And I'm not the biggest fan of AI tech myself tbh.