#ai is just theft

[lunarmansions]

There's so much fearmongering about AI and robots and the inevitable technological future closing off all human work but I think it is far more likely only a small subset of computerized work is going to remain in twenty to forty years. Part of this is my experience on the ~ i n s i d e ~ as a former minor tech executive, part of it is the experience of my extended family in Japan after their crash in the 90s. Do people realize that so much of the AI/robot/digitization stuff is subsidized market front running? Basically a group of wealthy companies get together, decide a market they want to corner, define the budget and timeline, and get to work annhilating the existing market so they can swoop in with their replacement (ideally as a monopsony provider a la google or amazon). If an 'industry' is big enough, like very fast chips, governments will even get involved to block competitor countries' products to secure their national champions.

The biggest problem with all of this (it has been going on longer than I've been alive, like forty five years now) is that it has chewed up so much personal livelihood everywhere that enacted these policies that only like 15% or less of the people in those countries can buy the products produced. Because most people don't have the disposable cash any longer to buy the expensive computerized crap except under duress, like when they have to get a new car or new computer. I enjoy playing and making video games too, but I know why so many are in the industry: it is one of the few remaining options to be an independent producer because it requires minimal tools and can be bootstrapped solo by not paying for your own labor.

So I think what is actually going to happen is a big shift back to hyper-local production, of everything, and there will be an emphasis on employing as many people as possible (so taxes can be collected) instead of 'efficiency' and 'productivity'. It will take a lot longer than the dummies in charge think because decades of neoliberal looting will take decades to repair. And this is going to collide with wild weather changes and power outages (another reason why the data centers and robot future aren't going to be widespread). But it will be cool because there will be a return of actual diversity of stuff that is created instead of the same four companies churning out copies of the same stuff. I like to imagine things like regionally-specific mp3 player styles in the same way we describe old pottery. There will be an assumption that the AI and mass scale tools are just there for plagiarism and theft so you'll have to actually go in person to do coolhunting, and it will be impossible to scale up or influence off it because all the platform middlemen will be gone.

#the future #hyperlocalism #don't fear the robots #ai is just theft

[ducktollers]

[ID: two sketches of dogs in black ballpoint pen on white paper. the first is the heads of two borzois with their noses nearly touching. the second is a full body sketch of a pointy-eared white dog nosing at the ground. end ID.]

lookit some dogs

#my art #havent posted in one million years n i feel like posting sometning #so i have bic pen dogs #also ive been so anxious abt nft ai art theft bullshitery that im just gonna watermark anything i post #bc ive always thought id seem obnoxious like ‘i think im so good that i expect my art to get stolen 🤓’ #like wtf i never think that abt anyone else . bruh #but anyways . been thinking i should just do it whether or not i think someone wuld art theive me #just to relieve the anxiety abt rhe current state of Everything internet #anywaysss anyways wnaysyes

[cozylittleartblog]

luzan

(acrylic charm on my etsy)

#toh #the owl house #luzan #titan luz #art #toh fanart #the owl house fanart #i always meant to share the art for this one. sold out. and then just Forgot #also because people keep stealing my merch art and erasing my watermarks with AI :) now i have to do This :) #this is so depressing. like genuinely. that everything that's merch art or Not a silly 5 minute doodle- #-has to have these... absolutely Massive watermarks on it now. because theft is so bad. because its never been easier to erase my watermark #like being an artist doesn't suck enough already.

[sfaira]

Six years late, but apparently that is what was needed so I could not fail miserably at trying to draw everyone's favourite Detroit machine I am obsessed, spent his week reading fanfics and watching various clips but still, as I'm a person of one fanart per character I think you shouldn't expect more Connor xD A shame really, cause it seems I'm just starting to learn how to draw him but I don't want to get my own hopes up. Anyways, I'm free now, I contributed to the fandom after all these years.

#my art #connor rk800 #detroit become human #dbh fanart #dbh connor #I love him #i want detective series with him and hank #i wish i had an idea to draw him in some more interesting way #feels kinda ironic how i have to nightshade this art of a sentient ai machine fighting for rights #because what we got in real world so far is just theft

[0vergrowngraveyard]

the idea of rping with an ai is actually so baffling to me

you mean you’d rather rp with a bot that you can’t randomly break character with and giggle and scream about characters/situations/literally anything with??? that just feels so boring and lifeless

you’re not communicating with someone who shares your interests, you’re communicating with something that was programmed to talk like the character. theres no connection there so like what’s the point???

i’m bad at explaining things but hopefully you get the point. basically it’s dumb as hell

#graveyardtxt #‘but i have anxiety and can’t talk to people’ and? #i’ve always had crippling social anxiety and you’d still never catch me dead with a character ai #also this is coming from someone who doesn’t have any friends i’ve made from when i used to rp so like #it’s just so weird #and stupid #it’s also contributing to theft from real people #what’s the point #fuck ai everything #anti ai #character ai

[awakefor48hours]

The thing that's really getting to me about AI art is that this is just megacorporations' way of to avoid paying people because why bother going through the hassle of paying an artist for their work when you can just use an AI to steal it for you.

We all know about the starving artist stereotype and the fact that artists are starving isn't because of the artist but it's because of their clients. So many people have divorced the art from the artist and never give a damn about them and so many times you see interactions that are boiled down to:

>> Client: I want *something so elaborate that it'd take a professional a month to make* in a week >>Artist: Okay, that'll be $100 >>Client: ExCUUSE ME

To use a real example of this

Only $3,000?! That's laughable and insulting especially considering just how much money Fortnite makes.

Megacorporations have always done their best to mass produce and undercut their workers but art has always been a huge problem. You can literally see the budget with art. But now with AI, it doesn't matter. A robot can now steal art from an artist that’s “too expensive”. This isn't even an over reaction, either, because it's already happening. Not only did these artists not consent to this, some of them even denied for it to be used.

This isn't the same thing as inspiration for humans. When humans use art as inspiration, it changes, grows, and evolves with their skill but a robot is just stuck like this. They just cut and paste work from something that took someone years of sleepless nights to do.

BTW, if you're an artist and a corporation does steal your work, you're not completely screwed (under US law). This reel does a good job of explaining what you can do if someone reuploads your work even if you didn't file for copyright.

Also, as someone who used to have an AI generated profile picture, I'd like to apologize. I always just saw AI as a fun toy and nothing more. I never thought AI generated pictures would actually replace artists.

#anti ai art #ai art #ai art is not art #ai art is theft #just pay artists ffs #top posts

[melyzard]

Okay, look, they talk to a Google rep in some of the video clips, but I give it a pass because this FREE course is a good baseline for personal internet safety that so many people just do not seem to have anymore. It's done in short video clip and article format (the videos average about a minute and a half). This is some super basic stuff like "What is PII and why you shouldn't put it on your twitter" and "what is a phishing scam?" Or "what is the difference between HTTP and HTTPS and why do you care?"

It's worrying to me how many people I meet or see online who just do not know even these absolute basic things, who are at constant risk of being scammed or hacked and losing everything. People who barely know how to turn their own computers on because corporations have made everything a proprietary app or exclusive hardware option that you must pay constant fees just to use. Especially young, somewhat isolated people who have never known a different world and don't realize they are being conditioned to be metaphorical prey animals in the digital landscape.

Anyway, this isn't the best internet safety course but it's free and easy to access. Gotta start somewhere.

Here's another short, easy, free online course about personal cyber security (GCFGlobal.org Introduction to Internet Safety)

Bonus videos:

(Jul 13, 2023, runtime 15:29)

"He didn't have anything to hide, he didn't do anything wrong, anything illegal, and yet he was still punished."

(Apr 20, 2023; runtime 9:24 minutes)

"At least 60% use their name or date of birth as a password, and that's something you should never do."

(March 4, 2020, runtime 11:18 minutes)

"Crossing the road safely is a basic life skill that every parent teaches their kids. I believe that cyber skills are the 21st century equivalent of road safety in the 20th century."

#you need to protect yourself #internet literacy #computer literacy #internet safety #privacy #online #password managers #security questions #identity theft #Facebook #browser safety #google #tesla #clearwater ai #people get arrested when google makes a mistake #lives are ruined because your Ring is spying on you #they aren't just stealing they are screwing you over #your alexa is not a woman it's a bug #planted by a supervillain who smirks at you #as they sell that info to your manager #oh you have nothing to hide? #then what's your credit card number? #listen I'm in a mood about this right now #Youtube

[beefcake-penguin]

So... this post is going to be quite different from my usual "blorbo-posting" and fandom related shenanigans, but I really want to put this out there, make my position clear, and maybe alert others who haven't heard this unfortunate news yet.

I am an avid horror film fan. I am always seeking out any and every new release. So I was eagerly anticipating getting to see Late Night with the Devil when it came out today.

Unfortunately, now that the film's creators themselves have confirmed that A.I. art was used within the film, I absolutely will not be supporting this movie.

It's hugely disappointing to me that a movie - and an independent movie at that! - would resort to using generative A.I. in this manner and I'm appalled at the creators of the film for doing this.

And I've already seen the bandwagon counter-arguments on reddit, so let me be clear: I don't care how "minor" the presence of the art is in the film. I care that this was done at all. These are the types of "baby-steps" that have led to A.I. being such a prolific cancer already. For it to infiltrate actual, studio-funded and released films, now?! That's too far. And for the argument of "Oh, its presence in the film is so small! It's really not that big of a deal!" I would respond that commissioning/hiring an artist to create something so "small" wouldn't have been a big deal in the grand scheme of the film's production budget, and would have been a HUGE deal for that lucky artist to get their work to be shown in a feature film. And it also wouldn't have supported the blatant art theft that is generative A.I., so that's a pretty big deal too.

Another response I'm seeing is: "How sad these people [aka: people like me who refuse to support the film in theaters because of this shit] are going to refuse to see this great film over something so minor!" To which I would say: I'm upset too, to be quite honest. I'm upset that greed and laziness in such a "minor" part of this film is going to keep me from seeing a movie that - for all intents and purposes - looks like a lot of passion was put into from the cast and crew and really looks like a horror film that would be right up my alley. But it is more important for me to stand on this principle: I absolutely refuse to support any project that contains ANY use of A.I., no matter how "insignificant" it might be. Because of course it will start small. A title card here, a poster in the background of a scene there. But is it "insignificant" or "small" to the artists whose work this A.I. is scrapping to generate its images? No, and you can be certain that it will also not be a "small" matter to other studios that see this and think that they can incorporate this abhorent technology into their films as well. A "minor" use of A.I. is a slippery fucking slope and it is NOT one that I will support or encourage.

#late night with the devil #anti ai #ai art is theft #i'm so profoundly fucking pissed at this. how fucking dare they? #and in that linked article they seem almost smug about it. absolutely atrocious #this was just kind of a word-vomit stream of consciousness post. sorry for any errors #i just really needed to scream angrily somewhere about this shit

[sharada-n]

As a disabled person, I'm so disgusted by what happened on the @whumptober blog recently and how they're trying to sweep it under the rug.

Discussions about AI aside, deleting replies from disabled people speaking out against the rampant ableism you're spreading and that is happening in your comments/reblogs, is so fucking gross and I can't believe they did that. Like, I used to love the whump community but now it just feels incredibly unsafe.

The whump community has always been accused of being ableist and I hate that now I can't even argue against it because some of the biggest names in this community apparently are really fucking chill with silencing disabled people for speaking out against that behavior.

These mods and anybody who is supporting that behavior can go fuck themselves <3

#whumptober #whumptober 2023 #not that them deleting all comments speaking out against AI scraping and rightfully pointing out art theft isn't also gross #or how they promised they would discuss it in the team and then ghosted everybody #like wow this is fucked up you're literally just deleting people who make a valid point about you spreading misinformation and ableist shit #real heroes #whump community you've led me down

[petitesmafia]

why are people using AI to steal from artists instead of using AI to create Adam Frankenstein from the hit bsd light novel stormbringer

#enas.txt #stormbringer #bsd stormbringer #ai art theft #i'm just saying if it could i would #adam frankenstein #yall need to redirect ur coding skills elsewhere #bsd chuuya

[phthalosworld]

AI "artists" will look an actual artist, who has put years of practice, energy and time into their craft, dead in the eye, and go," We're the same!"

No, you're not. A person who has spent actual time improving their craft and a person who paid 5 dollars to an AI art generator are not on the same level.

If your only medium is AI, then YOU ARE NOT AN ARTIST.

#fuck ai art #anti ai art #ai art is art theft #fuck ai music #fuck ai bros #ai art is not art #im just so mad

[milimeters-morales]

goddd so i’m seeing a pin on character ai right and you know me, i’m the biggest hater of it and will make sure you know how annoying it is and how much i hate it and why each time it’s brought up that you’re using it, and these corny ass comments and these honestly sad ones… “why do you care if i talk to ai i’m coping” “i can’t vent to anybody so i just use my comfort characters” like that is very sad and i’m sorry your life is like that. DO NOT SHARE PERSONAL INFO WITH “““““AI”””””” THAT SHOULDNT BE A CONTROVERSIAL STATEMENT 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ really annoys me too the “it’s harmless” “they get a bit freaky tho-” you have no idea how bad i want to explain the issues with both those statements using a fucking picture book

#aside from the other issues i have like. the people hsing ai to have online sex or whatever with child characters #and the theft of ACTUAL literature . like COME THE FUCK ON. #i get it you’re coping. please just stop acting like this is harmless just look it up just because we say it’s cringe doesn’t mean there+ #is no reason for us to say it!! #they act like coping will always make the mechanism right. #not spiderstuff

[withacapitalp]

Given the new wave of AI BS that's coming to tumblr I'm not going to be posting full chapters here anymore. I'm still going to be posting snippets and tags when I update for people who've asked, but no more full chapters or oneshots. Unsure of drabbles, but most likely those are going to AO3 as well. There's no way to completely avoid AI scrapping but I'd rather make them fight to take my things rather than handing them over on a silver fucking platter

#keep ai out of fic #if you use ai #like at all #sincerely just fuck off #no matter WHAT you use it for you're using a tool #that has inherently been built on theft #you're using an exploitative system #full stop #there's no justification no oh well I only use it for x or y #no #you're using something that steals #get off whatever paints you're huffing #and start working against this stuff

[stranded-ziggy]

Gonna be real, I don't like seeing AI written fics either...

If you support artists fighting AI please extend that support to writers as well...

It might just be a fun little gimmicky thing (trust me I know I played around with AI writing in the early days too...mostly just to make crack stuff) but you posting positively about it is almost definitely going to inspire other people to go try it out.

#with the writers strike and all that its just not a great time too in general maybe #anti ai #ai is theft #i don't wanna make anyone feel bad #can't stress that enough just yeah

[cookii-moon]

Okay that looks like some sort of AI edit, yeah.

Could also just be a copy or a photoshop edit but the weird random bits (like one of the hair strands glowing ??? And none of the highlight colors working well, plus parts of the clothes on the left just being randomly transparent-) makes me think it’s definitely AI of some sort.

So now they’re doing blatant art theft AND ai art… sigh.

#ninjago #ninjago cole #cole ninjago #lego ninjago #jay walker #ninjago jay #ninjago kai #kai jiang #ninjago lloyd #Why would you do ai art AND art theft #When you’re a known art thief #who thinks that’s a good idea #It was already bad enough #If only they could just actually make their own art #It doesn’t even matter if it’s “good” or not #tumblr has one of the most accepting ninjago communities #I don’t get it #if they don’t want to be called out for art theft.. just… don’t do art theft #It’s so easy

[tippenfunkaport]

Just... the fact that it's, "We sold your data to AI companies!" and they didn't even pretend for 5 seconds that it was a profit share or revenue stream users could opt into really says it all.

#not to mention that they implemented it under cover of night #and made it opt out only #absolute thief behavior #fucking tumblr #Tumblr #ai #artificial intelligence #WordPress #automattic #if it's such a great thing for creators why aren't you willing to pay us for it? #oh that's right because the theft is the point #it didn't even occur to them to pretend we were owed for our own content #just speaks volumes #never mind the whole whoopsies we shared it already! #and now we're just hoping the AI companies are really stand up guys and agree to remove it element #'company built entirely on theft probably gonna just give stuff back if we ask nicely' #yeah yeah sure that's believable #'yes your content is worth money but only for us tee-hee'