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jesperfaheys-defenseattorney · 29 days

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You mfers using AI to make art and drawings and then putting you're fucking signatures on it???? What is wrong with you?

You didn't make it. You typed something into a computer that then stole from artists who genuinely took time to draw, create, be inspired and passionate about their work. But you want a quick and easy route instead of practicing and learning and actually making an effort, you used AI

And people started to notice. There are signs and repetitive flaws because it's not an authentic creation. And you don't like people calling you out on it, because you know it's wrong, so you put a signature on it to make people think it's a genuine drawing you made. You're thieves and liars, and you should be ashamed of yourselves.

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lesbiancarat · 22 days

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want to give my two cents on the AI usage in the maestro trailer--

i think seventeen doing a whole concept that is anti-AI is very cool, especially as creatives themselves i think it's good that they're speaking up against it and i hope it gets more ppl talking about the issue. i also understand on a surface level the artistic choice (whether it was made by the members, the mv director, or whoever else), to directly use AI in contrast to real, human-made visuals and music in order to criticize it. i also appreciate that they clearly stated the intention of the use of AI at the beginning of the video

however, although i understand it to an extent, i do not agree with the choice to use AI to critique AI. one of the main ethical concerns with generative AI is that it is trained on other artists' work without their knowledge, consent, or compensation. and even when AI generated images are being used to critique AI, it still does not negate this particular ethical concern

the use of AI to critique also does not negate the fact that this is work that could have been done by an actual artist. i have seen some people argue that it's okay in this context because it's a critique specifically about AI, and it is content that never would have been done by a real artist anyway because it doesn't make sense for the story they're trying to tell. but i disagree. i think you can still tell the exact same story without using AI

and in fact, i would argue that it would make the anti-AI message stronger if they HAD paid an artist to draw/animate the scenes that are supposed to represent AI generated images. wouldn't it just be proof that humans can create images that are just as bad and nonsensical and soulless as AI, but that AI can't replicate the creativity and beauty and basic fucking anatomy that's in human-made art?

it feels very obvious this was not just a way to cut corners and costs like a lot of scummy people are using AI for. ultimately it was a very intentional creative decision, i just personally think it was a very poor one. and even if some ethical considerations were taken into account before this decision, i certainly don't think all of them were. at the very least i feel like the decision undermines the message they want to convey

i would also like to recognize that i myself am not an artist, and i have seen some artists that are totally on board with the use of AI in this specific context, so clearly this is not a topic that is cut and dry. but generative AI is still new, and i think it's important to keep having these conversations

#melia.txt #also want to add that as musicians svt are more directly threatened by AI generated audio than they are by AI generated images #and yet AI generated images is what was used in the video #and i guess the MV director/production company are the ones directly responsible for putting that in there #whether it was their initial idea or not #and they work in a visual medium so perhaps that makes it more 'fair' but idk it just feels like #the commentary is around music. which makes sense. and using human produced music/sound #but then taking advantage of AI images #idk just feels weird #i mean i don't like it either way #like i said in the main post i understand the intention behind the creative decision #and i'm still happy svt are speaking against ai at all i do think overall they're doing a good thing here #i just don't agree with the creative decision they/the production company/whoever made #edit: deleted the part about not boycotting svt over this bc ppl were commenting about boycotting bc of the 🛴 stuff #i meant specifically /I/ am not calling for a boycott because of specifically the ai stuff #was just trying to make a general point that im not making this post bc i want to sabatoge svt or whatever #bc kpop fans love to pull that catd whenever u criticize anything #so yeah just removed that bit bc i dont want ppl getting confused what im talking about #respect ppl boycotting because of scooter/israel stuff but thats not what this post was intended to be about #edit 2: turning off reblogs bc im going to bed and having asomewhat controversial post up is not gonna help me sleep well lol #may or my not turn rb's back on in the morning

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chvrchbvrning · 10 months

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ai sucks, spread the word

#noise musicians against ai #noise music #electronic music #experimental music

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tippenfunkaport · 1 year

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FYI, I have also locked all my fanfics down to registered users only because of the AI scraping on AO3. I'm one of many fan creators doing this right now and I know it stinks for users without an AO3 account, but it's the only option writers have available to us at the moment to stop our work from being scraped and stolen.

If this makes you mad, the Federal Register is currently open to comments on AI accountability until June 12th, 2023.

It only takes a second to leave a comment to ask for legislation that works used in AI creations or training MUST secure the express consent of the original creator before they can be used. If we can get protections for artists, writers, musicians and everyone who creates that their work cannot be used in AI without their permission, we can go back to making fanworks freely available without fear of them being misused. Until then, we're stuck playing defense until the courts catch up.

(If you're a fan creator looking to do this as well, AO3 has a tool to let you do all your fics at the same time in seconds. On your dashboard, go to Edit Works and you'll be able to change the status on everything at once.)

If you missed the context, AO3 recently found that the archive was scraped for use in AI services like ChatGPT and Sudowrite. While they put in protections in December 2022 to try to stop it from happening in the future, it's not foolproof and there is nothing they can do about works already swiped prior to that date. The archive is recommending fan creators restrict their works to registered users only to prevent against additional large scale scraping in the future.

#ao3 #archiveofourown #archive of our own #ai #artificial intelligence #Sudowrite #tech news #fandom #fanfiction #fanfic writing #pro tip from me to you: you own the copyright to your fanworks #not the characters and details from the source material obviously #but your writing itself is yours and can be registered and protected as such #ChatGPT #tech bros #psa #important psa #ao3 writer

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luvtonique · 2 months

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I just woke up and I chose violence let's go.

Look all I'm sayin' is

If you're gonna attack AI generative art

You should, for the same reason, attack Toby Fox.

The reason I've seen the most for people not liking AI is that it's not "Real art" and that it "Takes jobs from artists" and that it "Steals from other artists"

Well, then, let's talk about how Hopes and Dreams by Toby Fox uses fake Violins to mimic a symphony orchestra. Toby could have hired a real orchestra but he used a fake one and y'all came in your drawers over it.

Why'd nobody ever lift a finger to cover social media in how Toby Fox doesn't deserve to make money because his song "Undertale" uses a fake guitar that sounds just like a real one? He could have hired a musician to play guitar but he didn't! That cost a REAL guitar player a job, didn't it?

And how come when it was found out that Toby Fox stole entire lietmotifs from other games like Kirby n shit, y'all had like 600,000,000 excuses to defend him?

I don't dislike Toby I think he's amazing, like 100/10, one'a the brightest examples of a success story of all time and one of the nicest most pure-hearted people on earth who made two of my favorite games of all time and a ton of my favorite music. Spider Dance has been my ring tone for like 8 years.

I'm just saying, the literal same reasons I see people attacking AI gen art is shit that Toby does, all of it, and y'all worship Toby for it but attack artists.

And neither here nor there, but hear me out?

Y'all will say you're in defense of artists keeping their jobs and their livelihoods which is so very noble of you, but if an artist draws shortstacks that are just a little too short, or if an artist utilizes AI, or if an artist draws Rose Quartz skinny, or if an artist draws Sans and Frisk getting a little too Frisky, or if an artist votes for Trump, or if an artist says a dirty word you don't like, or if an artist draws a black person that looks just a little bit too stereotypical, or if an artist draws a lesbian character getting fucked, or if an artist doesn't believe in gender identities, or if an artist doesn't put trans characters in their graphic novel, or if an artist makes a sexy character with butt-jiggle the protagonist of their video game; Y'ALL ARE COMPLETELY OKAY WITH SAYING THAT ARTIST SHOULDN'T BE MAKING MONEY, AND BANDWAGONING A HATEMONGERING BRIGADE AGAINST THEM.

Or in the Sans and Frisk case: PUT SEWING NEEDLES INSIDE OF COOKIES AND GIVE THEM TO THE ARTIST WHO DREW IT, PUTTING THEM IN THE HOSPITAL.

Listen

Spare me this "We hate AI because we care about the jobs of artists" shit, you lying scoundrels. You don't care about my job! You've tried to cancel me like 500 goddamn times, got my Patreon frozen twice, got my PayPal frozen over 100 times even right in the middle of conventions, flooded my stream chat and spammed the N-word in chat trying to get my Twitch banned, flooded my Discord multiple times with links to CP trying to get my Discord banned, and you have entire Discord servers literally called things like "Jay is an asshole" and "The We Hate Jay Society" (YEAH I KNOW YOU FUCKERS EXIST, HI, HAVE FUN SCREENCAPPING THIS).

My artistic career has been under fire for the past 12 years because I draw things y'all disagree with, have opinions you don't like, and have family members who vote for politicians you think are the boogeyman that's the cause of all your problems (and haven't disowned those family members). With all due respect, when I hear "We hate AI because we believe in fair wages for artists and want to protect the jobs of artists" I just wanna strangle your lying ass.

You hate AI because it's popular to hate AI.

AI is like a prosthetic robot arm that helps you carry the groceries, and disabled people like myself (rheumatoid arthritis) benefit from its uses greatly (such as being able to draw backgrounds much easier which has greatly improved my art and INCREASED MY COMMISSION REVENUE DUE TO MY ART QUALITY IMPROVING [But y'all don't care that AI helps artists earn more money, you hate AI because you claim it's hurting artists' ability to earn money]), but you're so hung up on people using the robot arm instead of their real arms that you think you're some crusader against injustice.

You aren't.

You're just looking for reasons to attack people, it's what you do. I've been dealing with y'all looking for any goddamn reason to attack someone that you can muster for the last 12 years, hell even before that I dealt with you types. You just want to hate, you want to be prejudiced so fucking bad that you look for literally any reason you can possibly find to make some vaguepost about how much you hate an artist and post it to Reddit, and then when you get called out, get so surprised that I found your bitch ass that you start pretending you didn't mean any ill will, and start pretending that you're someone else in the most pathetic attempt to dodge blame I've ever seen.

[Context: The OP of this post accidentally revealed who they are on Tumblr, and then when I called them out on Tumblr, they pretended they were someone else because they were scared I was gonna out them on Tumblr and they tried pathetically to cover their ass, and even politely said "I never wanted to garner hate against you" when they literally posted "I hate the way he draws women" on r/mendrawingwomen and flooded the comment section (mostly now deleted) with how "disgusting of a person" I am, while I was in the comments politely giving context to the shit he was saying about me, and he started getting furious when other people were liking my art and agreeing with me instead of him. I have like 600 screencaps of all the cringe this guy spewed, but I'm not gonna post it all because it's tangential anyway. Case in point? This guy's blog is absolutely covered with how much he hates artists for drawing things he doesn't like, and he regularly posts about how AI is taking jobs from artists. Not gonna out his blog, but that's who he is. A shining example of exactly what I'm talking about. "I hate AI because it takes jobs from artists!" "THIS MAN-THING DRAWS WOMEN IN A WAY I DON'T LIKE AND HE'S A DISGUSTING PERSON, EVERYONE JOIN ME IN HATING HIM AND TRYING TO RUIN HIS REPUTATION AND THEN WE CAN CELEBRATE WHEN HE LOSES HIS JOB!!!"]

Like, y'all can sit there and act like you're defending me and artists like me all you want, you're liars. You're boldfaced fucking liars. You are disgusting. It's completely pathetic watching you attack a tool that can be used to improve our art, and claim it's in defense of the authenticity of our art and the continued financial stability of our artistic careers. Fucking give me a break.

You're looking for people who say positive things about AI art so you can attack them and feel justified because it's popular to attack them.

All while sitting there and gladly swallowing the cum of any musician who makes amazing music with synths, fake symphony instruments and autotune.

"We care about the jobs of artists."

Yeah.

Long as those artists fall in line with your opinions and only draw things that agree with said opinions, right?

Wouldn't wanna care about the jobs of "problematic" artists who draw "offensive" stuff or vote for politicians you don't like.

Final note: This isn't even an attack against any political opinions or activism or anything like that, but I'm being realistic here because these are the people I see brigading against AI art. It's not me saying those people are dumb for having their opinions or political standpoints or being activists for their beliefs, it's me saying those people are the ones who are constantly attacking AI art in "defense of artists," while in the same breath attacking artists for not sharing their political standpoints or also being activists for the same causes. If you truly, truly cared about the livelihood of artists, you'd stop attacking artists' livelihood for disagreeing with you. Or for that matter: Any reason. Stop attacking artists' livelihood, or stop pretending you care about it. Be consistent, at least.

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letteredlettered · 5 days

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Just going to address a few of the types of comments I see about AI on tumblr dot com.

I've seen people say that it's useless, because real human emotion is what the world needs now.

I've seen people dismiss it as a fad, cheering for it to crash and burn like bitcoin or NFTs.

And I've seen people passionately discuss how a) AI is using the intellectual property and creative work of human people to learn, without crediting that property, work, or the creators that enable that AI to exist, b) with that knowledge, AI can recreate or replicate the work of human artists, writers, and other content creators, thereby rendering artists/writers/creators without the means by which to earn a living. Many of these passionate (important, true) arguments end with some kind of conclusion like, "This is why AI is evil and no one should ever support it's use."

Let's just talk about the last one first. Importantly, I don't want to minimize or reduce the problems that artists, designers, writers, musicians, etc all face due to AI. It's not just artists. Anyone who creates content and puts it on the internet can have it stolen without credit by AI. AI can take an article written by a journalist, change the words slightly, and generate a fake name and fake photo so that the journalist who wrote the article makes no money while the company with the AI rakes it in. It's a huge problem that is destroying livelihoods as well as avenues of creation, expression, and information-sharing that will only get worse.

But to conclude that AI is therefore evil is kind of like saying social media creates toxic environments and therefore the entire internet is evil. Social media sucks, but I use the internet for keeping in touch with friends and banking and taxes and learning about the world and fandom and watching TV and learning about problems at work as quickly as possible and donating to charities. I mean, like, the internet does kind of suck; enshittification is real, but I think we all understand that the internet can be a useful tool.

Similarly, AI is being used to save lives. It solved the protein-folding problem, which not only saves lives but can help humanity in tons of other ways. It can identify certain signs of cancer more quickly than any human could. And before you say "well it's fine if we're only using it for science," you should know that the identifying cancer thing got discovered because some bakery wanted AI to identify pastries for pricing reasons. AI can process the billions of data that are necessary to consider to mitigate and prevent further climate change; it can help us come up with ideas for how to do so. In a bizarre example, AI can recognize which wood comes from which tree to help authorities discover illegal lumber trafficking which depletes endangered trees and protected forests. AI can help predict and prepare for the next pandemic. AI can explore space. AI can spot fake news.

Vilify certain uses of AI as is just and necessary, but vilifying all of AI just means that fewer people understand what AI can actually do, which means fewer people working to ensure this tool actually works for us rather than against us.

Second, let's just talk about AI as a fad. This idea frankly boggles me. AI is not bitcoin. AI is the internet. It's the computer. It's electricity. It's the compass. It's not just going to change the world, it already has, and it's not going anywhere.

AI is your spam filter. AI is your auto-correct. AI is why you see the ads you do. AI is why you get emails about deals for trips when you've been thinking about making a trip. AI is in your GPS, planning your route. AI is your search engine. I'm not trying to sell these things as positives right now; I'm selling them as realities. AI is not going away because it is already here, you who said you hoped it was like bitcoin are already using it, it's not going away.

AI is going to drive your cars. It's going to design ads specifically targeted to you as an individual. AI is going to be your children's friend and it's going to buy your groceries, and I'm just not sure there's much you can do about that at this point.

But last I want to talk about what the world needs now, because it does need humanity. It needs humanity to understand that the enemy is not AI; the entities that threaten our humanity are not AI entities. The entities that threaten our humanity are the corporations that are currently building AI with corporate interests in mind, with commercial interests in mind.

It might sound like I'm splitting hairs here. Maybe the folks who are so against AI on tumblr dot com are against AI because corporations are developing AI and what they mean when they say that AI is evil is that the current outlook on AI is just not that great because it is not being regulated and studied by enough governments, many of the general populace are either ignoring it or condemning it, and those who are most focused on its development have capitalist agendas that mean AI is going to be a lot worse before it gets better. But somehow, I'm getting the idea that the view on AI is not that nuanced--and it needs to be.

The humanity we need now, imo, is curiosity and ingenuity and passion, and we need that curiosity and ingenuity and passion directed at AI. If we get curious, if we inform ourselves, if we know what it is and what it can be and how to use it, then we can start to make demands of our governments for regulations. We can start to make demands of companies for how this should be used. We can start to incorporate AI into our lives in a way that gives us more time and space for art and creation and writing, not less. If we, as a species, were careful about this, we could use AI to make our world better, not just for humans but for every living thing and so many of the unliving things. We just have to pay attention.

Meanwhile, James Bridle's pointed out in Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence, "We tend to imagine AI as embodied in something like a robot or a computer, but it can really be instantiated as anything. Imagine a system with clearly defined goals, sensors and effectors for reading and interacting with the world, the ability to recognize pleasure and pain as attractors and things to avoid, the resources to carry out its will, and the legal and social standing to see that its needs are catered for, even respected. That's a description of an AI--it's also a description of a modern corporation. For this 'corporate AI,' pleasure is growth and profitability, and pain is lawsuits and drops in shareholder value. Corporate speech is protected, corporate personhood recognized, and corporate desires are given freedom [. . .] Crucially, [corporations] lack empathy, or loyalty, and they are hard--although not impossible--to kill."

Then he quotes Charles Stross, who wrote, "We are now living in a global state that has been structured for the benefit of non-human entities with non-human goals."

We could be treating technology itself not as something humans, in our dominance and supremacy, impose onto our world, but rather as a natural intelligence evolving alongside us. In so doing the focus would not be on creating machines that seek only profit and extraction, but rather make the world a better place. To do that we should be forming relationships with this technology and at the same time, rediscovering our relationships with the world around us. And just like anything the steps to get there are first curiosity, then education, then legislation.

#ai #artificial intelligence #long post

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bucky-bucky-bucky-bucky · 7 months

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So everyone saw all the stuff about how AI “art” steals from real artists.

Everyone has seen SAG-AFTRA and the WGA fighting against studios using AI

Everyone saw musicians stand up against AI

And yet, y’all are STILL making these Sebastian AI posts? It literally goes against everything that artists are fighting for. Get it together.

#sebastian stan #seb stan #sebastianstan #sebstan #sexy seabass #in sebastian we stan #sexy sea bass #ai #ai art #ai generated #stop fucking using AI #AI art is not art #AI steals from artist #ai is theft #ai is not art #ai is a plague #ai is bad #have you not been paying attention

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thatonebabybat · 3 months

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Just came across a goth band that used AI for its cover art.

I was upset to see this happening, but I realize that a lot of people still don't really understand AI art and what this means, So allow me to elaborate for those who are unaware: AI art is generated using information from large databases of stolen art (art that is taken without permission, compensation, or credit) from human artists who pour years of work into their craft and dedicate hours to every piece they make. Oftentimes the art from these databases is so closely copied by the AI that you can still see jumbled up watermarks in them. It tends to look good or realistic only at a glance, but lacks in quality on closer inspection and messes up on details like hands, plants, eyes, etc. [there are lots of posts and videos out there that could help you learn how to spot ai art when you see it, I recommend looking into it if you're unsure of how to tell] As both an artist myself and a goth, I just can't support this knowing not only that ai art hurts other artists' livelihoods, but knowing what ai art represents. For those who've made the ai art generators this person used, it's just a way to mass-produce images, not with any care or passion, but as a cheap, consumerist alternative for corporations and businesses that can't be bothered to hire real artists or put in the work themselves. They don't care about the details, or the art itself, it's just about quickly and easily making a marketable product at the expense of others. Without real artists and the real labor and love they put into their work, AI art couldn't exist. And yet, it's commonly used as a way to dismiss those same artists as "obsolete" and "a thing of the past". In my opinion, it goes against everything the goth subculture has stood for for the past 40 years. I'm going to give the musician the benefit of the doubt and assume that they just didn't realize the harm that ai art does, I've known a lot of people who've used it with innocent intentions without really understanding the technology, but it's important to me that this doesn't become a common practice within the subculture. I hope they realize their mistake and do better in the future.

Do not support AI art Do not use AI for your music or marketing Do not allow this consumerist, capitalist outlook on art to become commonplace in a subculture that has stood against those very values for so many decades.

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unichrome · 7 months

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AI and the value of labour (but only if it's yours)

Few of you have missed the whole AI/AI-art/ChatGPT-debate by now and even though few have the technical literacy to actually know what it is and its implementations, it hasn't stopped people from having opinions on it, and wow they sure are Opinions. It's mainly about how it's art-theft and will put already struggling artists out of business because now there's a chance that their dandelion found in a deviantart furry artwork they made using GIMP once will now be seen made sort of in the same style on a 250x250 pixel generated picture from a free online generator. And now I'm going to be snarky about it but also highlight a problem seen from the other end of this - the value of labour, and I'm not talking about the artists labour here.

But first let's look back a little bit for some well-needed perspective:

The logic for this is nothing we haven't seen before; you can't copy art and have it made available for just everyone to use like this! In the early 2000's it put musicians out of business and destroyed music forever with the introduction of napster. Pirate bay is why movies no longer are being made. It has destroyed art as we know it when people tauntingly right-clicked on a cryptobro's NFT and clicked "save as" (which I assume is also very problematic for the people who are vehemently against AI art? It's a literal 1-to-1 copy of your work). Media corporations are dying because intellectual properties are no longer protected under the copyright laws after 70 or so years. In the 90's there was even some video star who literally murdered a radio star. With the introduction of vinyl, it even killed live music forever.

So technology has been destroying just about all forms of art as we know it for a while now and each time it's the same doomsday predictions from the newly formed kind of art-christianity where some art has soul (Good, Skilled Laboured artists) and others hasn't (Evil, of course).

Now for the informative part of the post:

In the 1970's, computers as we know them today began forming, and with it, the value of a computer programmers skill and labour. Alongside with this, they saw a growing problem: Corporations owned everything they made, and corporations will also have the whole say about what will be present on a computer and the price of everything present on it.

This was not very appreciated by neither the programmers, and nor the customers (although few saw this growing problem coming). So in a weird twist of fate, programmers became one of the most left-wing labour-rights occupation you could find by forming Free Software Foundation, GNU, and essentially setting the stage for you to be able to use the free GIMP software instead of buying a staggering price for Adobe's Photoshop. It enabled you to download firefox instead of buying a copy of internet explorer. Because yes, before this kind of software activism formed, and the general environment of software development became to make it as freely available as possible - and having an outright despise for corporations like Novell and Microsoft for taking such huge amount of money to their own pockets instead of the developers, literally every piece of software cost money. A LOT of money.

This kind of 100% for free software usage we're used to has also led to us no longer being appreciative of the work and skill that goes behind keeping a software not only developed and updated continuously for decades, but also spending money on keeping it hosted and delivered to you for free. We even joke and scoff about the mere thought of having to pay 0.99 Euro for an app we'd use daily and a developer spent 2 years in the making. Meanwhile, when someone offers to pay someone merely 10 euro or so for a handmade blanket, there's an outrage about the value of labour and skill. And rightfully so! I support that, and so should you, even if it's labour that you weren't the one making.

And it doesn't end there either - we all know corporations has no trouble finding new ways to charge you money. Organisations like Free Software Foundation, various Linux projects and Mozilla have campaigned for a freer usage in general, leading to fair-use laws, campaigning for the right to repair your technology instead of having to buy new one all the time, as well as preventing corporations from banning every other piece of software on a computer that they don't want you to have (from a competitor or free alternative of their software).

I mentioned Adobe specifically, because in the wave of anti-AI-art outcry, artists are campaigning for a ban on making software that uses other peoples artistic similarities (not copies mind you, similarities, meaning making it a copyright infringement to have art that is similar to yours, since that's what AI-art algorithms create), and I'm sure right off the bat many of you can see the huge problem with that, but Adobe sure isn't. They're also gladly in on this, because that would mean that free alternatives of Photoshop like GIMP would also become a copyright infringement. So would a lot of our other free software we use daily and take for granted.

That's all I wanted to say about this I think. The TL;DR version is basically to value labour even if it isn't yours, and to not take it for granted. As a final part to remember about AI is that it is a tool, and like any tool it can be used for good or evil. AI is what made it possible for us to make sense of the large hadron collider data and made enormous leaps in scientific discovery in just a few years, that would otherwise had taken 500 years to sort through by humans, and with a much higher rate of error.

#datatag #AI #computer science #labour #copyright

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reachartwork · 1 year

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look, because im getting a torrent of harassment now in my dms, hopefully this will quell you.

ive put in my fucking elbow grease. i used to be a musician. my parents have genetic problems with their hands and i got the lucky dice roll of being so autistic that i still to this day cannot tie my shoes. and you know what? i did what everyone said i should do with painting and i fucking knuckled down through it. i became a bassist. i've ripped my fingers open on coarse bass strings. even though my hands didn't want to learn how to finger properly i started using a pick and i got pretty damn good at it. i played in shows. i had a couple of bands. i could play schism by tool end to end without missing a note. i was in the process of mastering dream theater's dance of eternity before "becoming an adult" started catching up to me and i lost track of scheduling in the shuffle.

then the gentle joint pain that had been with me all my life bloomed into an arthritic condition of unknown diagnosis and now i can't hold a pick for more than a minute without dropping it against my will. i burnt eleven years of my life dripping blood sweat and tears on bass guitar and even that had been taken away from me.

ai art is one of the few ways i can express myself artistically now. i write, but that's for my eyes only. i've put in my fucking bona fides, but grinning and bearing it won't suddenly make my arthritis go away. no amount of "effort" or "discipline" will fix my body and magically make me be able to hold a pencil or a pen or a paintbrush without excruciating pain. i spend most of my day in bed now. this is what i mean when i say "i won't valorize pain". i'm not going to spend my life forcing myself to be in excruciating agony just to please people who don't think i'm a real artist because i make the pictures wrong. and i'm not going to learn how to fucking paint with my mouth, either.

if i could force myself through the pain, i'd be going back to being a musician, not doing this. but i don't put my masochism on a pedestal.

I CANNOT HOLD THINGS. can you leave me alone now?

#personal #discourse #ai art discourse #please seriously leave me alone about this #im so tired tonight

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aus-wnt · 3 months

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Back in 2006, long before Australia fell in love with the Matildas, Lydia Williams was in mad rush to finish an evening team meeting in Canberra. She wolfed down dinner and then her and her teammates bolted out the door as quickly as possible.

The reason? To catch a Pink concert at the AIS Arena.

Almost two decades later, they’re both still going strong – and on Saturday night, Williams got to meet one of her musical idols backstage before her show in Melbourne, presenting her with a little piece of history.

Relenting to intense public pressure after Mackenzie Arnold’s shootout heroics at the Women’s World Cup, Nike is now selling Matildas’ goalkeeper jerseys – something it has never done before for an Australian team, male or female. Pink and her daughter, Willow, were the first in the world to get their hands on the retail version, which goes on sale on Tuesday.

“She grabbed it right away. She was like, ‘These are sick’,” Williams said.

There aren’t many more famous people in Australia at the moment than the Matildas – aside, of course, from touring musicians Taylor Swift and Pink. The former’s tour wraps up on Monday night, but the latter is still going strong; so strong that Pink is basically an honorary Australian, given how often she seems to be performing here. She has sold more than three million career tickets here and in New Zealand, and her current show – the Summer Carnival tour, which runs through to the end of March – will be seen by more than 900,000 people.

“She loves Australia, and she loves Australians,” Williams, 35, said. “And supporting women’s sport, she’s a huge advocate. When she realised it was about the World Cup and the first release of the jerseys, her excitement and genuine curiosity ... she’s smiling big in the photo, so she’s definitely pumped about it.

“She’s like the Taylor Swift of our generation. If Pink had that level of social media back then she would be the equivalent to that.”

Nike is only selling the purple version of the jersey – not the black shirt Arnold actually wore during Australia’s dramatic penalty shootout victory over France in the quarter-final – but it’s a start.

England’s Mary Earps first put the issue on the table last year, saying it was “very hurtful” and an “injustice” that the apparel company didn’t produce goalkeeper jerseys for fans to buy, which she said stopped young people from aspiring to play in that position.

Williams, who was part of Australia’s World Cup squad as a back-up to Arnold, concurs.

“The amount of people who wanted to get a jersey was massive,” she said. “It’s so important for the visibility of females in sport and female goalkeepers. ‘Macca’ obviously had an amazing performance at the World Cup, and now for people who have her and myself and Teagan [Micah] and Jada [Whyman] as their heroes, it’s really exciting that they can have that opportunity.”

Williams will watch her teammates play the second leg of their Olympic qualifier against Uzbekistan on Wednesday night from the stands at Marvel Stadium, having recently undergone ankle surgery to give her a chance of making it to Paris 2024.

“Timing-wise, it wasn’t ideal, but if I had it later, it was even less ideal,” she said. “When you get over 30, it’s slow and steady wins the race. Hopefully, I’m not too far off now being able to join the team a little bit and be around the girls instead of being locked away in a pool or spa, in recovery mode.”

#lydia williams #matildas #auswnt

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The Liverpool one is definitely AI, it doesn't look like that in real life. The building looks weird and the wheel and the bus have been added in. The NY one looks weird when you zoom in on parts too. I don't think they would be sending somebody round the world taking photos of places to edit, and you're right about them not being stock photos

Excuse my research but I’m invested. 😂 I’ve never made AI photos before. Do you feed it several photos and it makes a combination of what you’re looking for? I thought the bus was fake but it looks like a real thing and there’s a Ferris wheel behind the building?

For the NYC one, this is the closest I could find but it’s not a complete match. That’s how I found out the “STER” might be Red Lobster. 😂

And Google couldn’t find this door at all.

If this is AI, I’m very surprised they’re using it. Many artists and musicians are against it because it threatens their livelihood. I wish CATB would make their own art or support other artists rather than whatever this is. 😩

#/end rant #talk

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spiderfreedom · 3 months

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I'm tired of hearing about Taylor Swift at this point. I'm especially tired of the strange discourse circling around her.

Not every slight or criticism against her is misogyny, though I'm sure she would love to hear you say that. She is, after all, one of the celebrities who used a toothless version of liberal feminism as part of her brand in the mid-2010s and tied her own self-advancement with the cause of feminism. And she's a celebrity, so I get this move, but I'm not sure when we were expected to start playing along with it.

She is one of the savviest and most money-minded musicians out there. She does not need a defense force. She is not a representative of Women. She is not even a representative of Women in Music. She is not our elected rep or our godqueen or our leader.

Is there misogyny against Taylor Swift? Yeah, I'd say the AI-generated sexual assault pictures prove that. But criticizing the actions of who is probably the biggest name in music now is fair game. Especially since she's attempted to take a more political turn post-Lover. Her jets are fair game. Talking about her team using legal threats to intimidate the man posting her jet's whereabouts (24 hours after they take place, using publicly available data) is fair game. We dunked on Elon Musk for trying to do the same thing, or did we not? She's not getting undue criticism because she's a woman. She is literally the most popular human being in America. Possibly the world. When is the right time to talk about her?

Go listen to her music if you enjoy it. If you think the criticism is misguided, feel free to rebut it (not on this post though, I've had enough). But please, I am tired of the defense squad rushing to say it's sexist to talk negatively about her. She's not some rando who's being forced into the spotlight. She's a celebrity who is aiming for a third career peak via constant exposure. I'm sorry that the MAGA freaks are going after her! Normal people criticizing her are not the MAGA freaks and I refuse to partake in this bizarro polarization of being lumped in with them.

#mypost

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fandomnerd9602 · 1 year

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Wired (part one)

Gemma x Programmer!Reader

For @deafeningsharkslimeempath

"F1D0, find the 5/8th hexagon wrench" you issued the command to your robotic canine. The robot's ear perk up before running over to your toolbox. The canine's tail wags back and forth as it searches before picking up one wrench and laying it at your feet.

"Am I a good dog?" the robotic AI voice of your dog spoke up. You inspect it and smirk.

"This is 3/4 bud. But close enough." you pull out a few nuts and bolts and toss the metallic treats to your bud.

"Good try F1D0" you give him a little pet on the head. Your phone goes off. The caller ID reads "Emergency Services"

"Hello?" you answer with a shaky voice.

Losing your brother and your sister in law is one of the hardest things you ever had to do in your life. Your niece was in a neckbrace and all you and your fellow in-law, Gemma, the lead programmer at Funki was watching from the sidelines.

"Been awhile" Gemma gives you a sad smile.

"Too long" you flirt back. "How's BRUCE doing?"

"Fine. Still laying in the back of my workshop" she answers. You place a gentle hand on her.

"I'm here if you need me Gemma."

"I know. Just keep your horrible kazoo playing away from me. You're a better programmer than musician"

"One time! That was one time in college" you roll your eyes as the authorities lead you and Gemma into a small room. Legal custody for your now orphaned niece fell to Gemma. You offered to check in on them instead of them sending some therapist.

You helped Cady get settled into her new room.

"Uncle Y/N do you have to go?" she practically begged you to stay.

"I'll be back in the morning, C. Besides I need to get Fido settled into the motel room." you explain, "the only other available room is your aunt Gemma's and I can't put up with her obnoxious snoring"

You top it off with a little snoring sound, earning a little laugh from your injured niece. You turn to see Gemma looking at you and rolling her eyes. You follow her out and shut the door behind you.

"How do you do it?"

"If its my good looks, its my cross to bear" you joke.

"How are you so good with Cady?" Gemma looks at you.

"She just needs to know that she's loved. Gemma, you're an amazing roboticist but you need to wear your emotions a little more on your sleeve. Cady needs that."

You turn to head out the door.

"Is that why you never agreed to a second date?" Gemma playfully asks you.

"I never disagreed to one." you smirk back before heading out to your hyundai.

You got F1D0 settled into your little motel room and attached his server to the only working wi-fi source.

"Now lets go over the laws again, bud" you look at your robotic companion.

"i must not injure a living creature." the robot dog answers.

"Good. Now the second."

"I must obey orders unless it goes against the first law"

"Under some circumstances. I have the access key to that one. Now the last."

"I must protect my own existence unless it goes against laws one and two." the dog concludes, "am I a good dog?"

"Yes you are." you give the robot dog a pet on the head and look to a picture you carried with you. One of you and Gemma back in college, working on Bruce. Better times. Maybe it can work out.

To Be Continued...

#reader insert #megan #megan film #blumhouse #m3gan #m3gan (m3gan)#allison williams #jason blum #horror #male reader #universal studios #reader fanfic #reader story #Spotify

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magz · 2 months

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@trans-leek-cookie

Yes, Karla Ortiz and other big popular artists in her group in the anti-ai art scene are basically pro-capitalist grifters.

They helped with + promoted nightshade n glaze (made by UCLA and Chicago Uni), and established part of the narrative surrounding these tools as "solutions" while barely understanding it; so this groups' influence on these discussions can't be understated too.

(Am going to focus mainly on Karla Ortiz tho) The popular artist groups in question established:

The "Concept Artist Association" as a non-profit org in september 2022, with little transparency. This does not trustworthy. It used to also be a private LLC.

Made gofundme of $270k us dollar for part of class action lawsuit and lobbying, "protecting artists from AI technologies", while hiring and become part of Copyright Alliance (with notorious members such as Adobe, Disney, UMG). These tactics are known for making the lives of artists and creators hell (example: the many comic artists, writers, illsutrators, musicians that don't own their stuff n can't make anything of their creations IP because it's owned by Disney, or Marvel, or Nintendo now.)

Has supported and followed other "pro-artists" that try to extend this crusade of being against "art stealing" and "copyright stealing", to the Internet Archive being a menace. And gave support to others' efforts to shut down Internet Archive's library book lending, using same rhetoric. Synonymizing "book publishers" and big companies with "creators". (Though atm, only have 1 foto abt it on hand bc it's been a while)

Those professional popular artists have been criticized by smaller artists as copyright expansion benefits bigger rich artists while harming small ones n those that don't have resources to go against giants like Disney.

In the case of Karla Ortiz, she is known to do whatever benefits her as a big creator n barely listens to smaller artists. Support of NFTs, pro-capitalism pro-copyright, anti-archival, being generally reactionary about art. Whatever.

Obviously, with nightshade and glaze specifically, there are other criticisms to be made. like the apps' high requirements to run thus inaccessible to many, the technology and premise being outdated, this barely affecting the "big companies" people are worried about, the users' not understanding how any of this works, the doomscroll spiraling n fearmongering that many of its users do (inducing panic attacks in some artists about their "art is going to be stolen" bc they can't glaze their work).

Honestly, it gets very repetitive and it is very easy for people to start being anti-piracy classists (example: "don't pirate banned books even when it's by definition not accessible to you bc it's stealing from authors" is a common one) + anti-archival and pro-copyright when someone frames things a certain way, even when basically grifting and harming. Its a whole overarching cycle.

Tweet threads of related old discussions:

About concept art alliance.

When searching "karla ortiz nft".

#text post #o post #ai art discussion #tag #capitalism #sij

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umi-no-onnanoko · 3 months

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Happy Valentine day

Felice giorno di San Valentino a chi ama, a chi ha amato, a chi ama, a chi amerà.

Buon San Valentino ai sognatori, a chi cerca l'amore romantico, ai romantici, ai cinici, a chi ancora ci crede e a chi ha perso la speranza, ai solari, agli ombrosi, a chi ama senza essere corrisposto, a chi è solo e a chi è in coppia, a chi ha sempre saputo amare e a chi sta imparando a farlo, buon san Valentino a chi si ama e a chi non ci riesce ancora, a chi ha la propria persona accanto e a chi no, buon San Valentino alle mamme, ai papà, ai nonni e ai figli,alle famiglie ,buon San Valentino a chi la persona amata l'ha in cielo e a chi lotta per salvarla. Un San Valentino felice a chi ama i propri amici, i propri animali, a chi non si ama più, a chi odia l'amore, buon San Valentino a chi crede e a chi è ateo, buon San Valentino ai gay, alle lesbiche, ai trans, ai non binari, ai fluidi, ai pansessuali, buon San Valentino alle drag e a chi ha intrapreso il suo percorso, a chi ancora non sa quale sia, ai poeti, agli scrittori, ai cantanti e ai musicisti, buon San Valentino ai normodotati e a chi non vede,non parla, non sente, non cammina, ma ama con tutto il cuore. Che sia un buon San Valentino a chi lotta contro una malattia fisica o contro una mentale cercando di ritrovare l'amore per sé stessi e per la vita.

💘 Buon San Valentino a tutti. 💘

Happy Valentine's Day to those who love, to those who have loved, to those who love, to those who will love.

Happy Valentine's Day to dreamers, to those looking for romantic love, to romantics, to cynics, to those who still believe in it and to those who have lost hope, to those who are sunny, to those who are shady, to those who love without being reciprocated, to those who are alone and to to those who are in a couple, to those who have always known how to love and to those who are learning to do so, happy Valentine's Day to those who love each other and to those who can't yet, to those who have their own person next to them and to those who don't, happy Valentine's Day to mothers, to dad, grandparents and children, families, happy Valentine's Day to those who have their loved one in heaven and to those who fight to save them. A happy Valentine's Day to those who love their friends, their animals, to those who no longer love each other, to those who hate love, happy Valentine's Day to those who believe and to those who are atheists, happy Valentine's Day to gays, lesbians, trans, non-binary, fluid, pansexual, happy Valentine's Day to drag people and to those who have embarked on their journey, to those who still don't know what it is, to poets, writers, singers and musicians, happy Valentine's Day to able-bodied people and to those who do not see, do not speak, do not hear, do not walk, but love with all their heart. May it be a good Valentine's Day to those who fight against a physical or mental illness trying to rediscover love for themselves and for life.

-umi-no-onnanoko (@umi-no-onnanoko )

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