#shut up ai

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

#shut up e #long post #Saturday thoughts #this has been in my drafts for a week haha #also this is the heart of why AI art feels so wrong #forget the discussion of copyright and theft etc - even if models were only trained on public domain they would still feel very wrong #because they’re not art. art is the labor of creation #even commercial art and art commissioned by the popes and kings of history: there is humanity in the labor of it #unrelated: I did not know living in the Bronx was now something to brag about. How the fuck do y’all New Yorkers afford this city???

[gawki]

I felt the need to share here as well—

Say no to AI art. Please read before commenting. Fan art is cute, putting my art into a parasite machine, without my consent, and throwing up horrifying monsters back at me is not.

We are not fighting technology in this AI fight. We are fighting for ethics. How do I say this clearer? Our stuff gets stolen all the time, we get it, but it is not an excuse to normalize the current conditions of AI art.

These datasets have >>EXACT<< copies of artists’ works and these parasites just profit off the work of others with zero repercussion. No one cares how “careful” you are with your text prompts when the data can still output blatant copies of artists’ work without their permission. And people will do this unknowingly since these programs are so highly accessible now. There are even independent datasets that take from just a handful of artists, that don’t share what artists’ works they use, and create blatant copies of existing work. There’s even private medical records being leaked. Why do you think music is still hard to just fully recreate with AI in comparison? It’s because organizations like the RIAA protect music artists. Visual artists just want similar protection. So, wonderfully for us, Concept Art Association has started working towards the steps of protecting artists and making this an ethical practice. I highly suggest if you care about art, please support. Link to their gofundme here. One small step at a time will make living as an artist today less jarring. Artists will not just sit and cope while we continue to get walked on. For those who apparently do not get it, it is about CONSENT. Again, the datasets contain EXACT copies of artist work without our permission. Even if you use it “correctly” there’s still a chance it’s going to create blatant rip offs. This fight is about not letting these techbros take and take and take for profit just because they can while ignoring the possible harm and consequences of it. This is just ol’ fashioned imperialist behavior with a new hat and WE SEE IT. Thanks for reading!!! Much love!

Here’s the link again to support the gofundme.

#artists on tumblr #painting #ai art #no ai art #battle for ethics #it is not gatekeeping #these programs are not harmless #we will not cope #we will not sit and seethe #we will fight #and we will not shut up #we will not be stolen from to be profited in without consent #stand with artists #art #and yes we will cry about it #shamelessly #✌️ #love

[emilylorange]

listening to my podcasts while working today and happened to come across this from the most recent Behind the Bastards episode on AI, and i felt like it deserved to be spread.

#shut up emily #fuck ai everything #behind the bastards

[turtleblogatlast]

Something I love about Leo is that, canonically, he IS capable of cooking, he’s just completely incapable of using a toaster. He’s banned from the kitchen not out of an inability to make edible food, but because being within six feet of a toaster causes the poor appliance to spontaneously combust.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rottmnt headcanons #rise leo #all Leos mortal enemy: toasters #side note but thinking about this aspect of Leo’s character really has me wanting to make a deeper dive into Leo as a Jack of All Trades #because he has aspects of this all throughout the series #where he can do many things he’s just not the best at it #like he can cook but he’s no Mikey #he can - canonically - rewire an *AI PROGRAM* but it goes very wrong #he can lift both Mikey and Raph simultaneously but he struggles to do so where his other brothers don’t even break a sweat #bro is a Jack of All Trades Master of None frfr #and Leo is even more interesting with this in mind because he uses what he CAN do so well #it’s like how he can see his family’s strengths and weaknesses and knows exactly how they work #his skill set is made way better simply by his personal USE of those skills not by the skills themselves #portals and teleportation are only op if you know how to weaponize them #given time he ABSOLUTELY could #okay I shut up now this was supposed to be about toasters #but yeah all the boys have a bunch of skills under their belts outside the typical ones #but Leo stands out to me for having skills his other brothers have but to a much lesser degree in a lot of cases #and he works with what he has so well that that is a skill in itself

[quhere]

….idk sometimes I wanna travel back in time to 2013 and grab myself and shake her like: in just ten years, after the plague has wreacked havoc, the Bad Guys ™ will try to use developments in artificial intelligence to threaten the world’s creatives into economic submission

#text post #rambles #tania shut up #labor unions #unionize #writers strike #sag aftra #strike #actors strike #pandemic #ai #artificial intelligence #2023 #2013 #2013 core #support the wga #wga solidarity #wga strike #screen actors guild #1k

[shift-shaping]

Fandom hates ai until someone makes an audio post of their fav talking dirty. "Protect artists" "protect writers" But fuck voice actors I guess?

Like I'm just saying, some of y'all passing around posts made using AI voice acting are the same people railing against ai in writing and visual art. Where is the line? Only when your job/hobby is threatened? Come on now.

#solavellan #:| #dragon age #do you care? if you don't then whatever #but what makes ai voice acting okay where other uses of ai are not? #if I'm wrong and that post with gdl dirty talking isn't ai then I'll shut up and be happy #but... I'm pretty sure that's ai?

[palms-upturned]

“AI art is lazy, look at these disabled artists who learned how to paint holding a brush in their mouths because they had no hands! Frida Kahlo painted from her bed while in severe chronic pain! If they can do that you can pick up a pencil” Shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up

Stop fucking bringing up disabled people like a “gotcha” in these stupid fucking arguments. Stop with the inspiration porn shit. Whether or not we can accommodate our disabilities in a way that allows us to avoid having to give up our passions is not a matter of laziness vs willpower. I have never seen so much of this bullshit as I have since this AI art debate started. If your issue with image generation is labor exploitation/devaluation, fucking focus on that issue and stop with this straight up reactionary rhetoric about what “real” art is and how people should just stop being lazy and using technology as a “crutch.”

#meg talks #im so SICK of seeing this shit #SHUT UP ABOUT AI ART!! SHUT UP ABOUT AI ART!!!!!!!!

[devi-nova]

i see way too many people calling stuff ai when its literally just..... hardcoded pattern recognition......

whoop de doo the thing you made for a specific purpose fufilled that purpose. thats not an ai thats just a program. shut up.

"oh this new ai powered webcam can zoom in on anything with these four squares on it!!" thats not a fucking ai thats image pattern recognition, all it does is scan the visible area for specific patterns, and once recognized, it zooms in. thats it. a fucking qr code scanner is more complex than that. its not ai. shut up.

"this logo maker uses ai to make images" no it doesnt. it randomizes images within the bounds of set fields and assets. its randomization giving a number of results to choose from. thats not fucking ai. shut up.

a real ai is a program that trains itself to respond to inputs "naturally" without instruction using trial and error, for example if an actual ai was to go through a maze,

step one, makes random movements

by making these random movements and bumping into walls, it learns that bumping into walls is an error

step two, explores randomly without touching walls

the ai doesnt know there is an end goal, however it will learn this if moving in a path that isnt directly connected to the exit is an error

step 3, the ai uses what its learned it should not do, and takes the path that is connected to the exit, and the task is complete.

ai is not pattern recognition, its learned pattern adaptation through time. ai is not randomization of assets. it is randomization with consequences that shapes it into a predictable behaviour. shut. up.

#rant #ai #artificial intelligence #programming #coding #tech #technology #please shut up #please shut the fuck up #im so tired #so very tired

[mirakurutaimu]

unlocked infinite stoner entertainment by generating pictures of wizards playing sports

#shut up mira #dont worry they're ethically sourced ai wizards #source: proof

[shima-draws]

I have a lot of thoughts about ONK right now but the main one is how much I fucking LOVE Miyako. Her character development going from “I’m going to reveal the truth about these twins to the public so I can get tons of money” to “I love these kids as if they were my own and I know I can’t ever replace their mother but I will be here for them always” makes me want to fucking cry. She really girlbossed it up with Strawberry Productions too. I’d do anything for her

#SHE'S SO GOOD!!! #I know she's more in the background but you can literally SEE her growing attached to the kids #And to Ai #It started out as a stupid babysitting job for her she didn't want but. They grew on her #And since she had to care for them so often she started to think of them as her own kids... #EVEN WITH THE WEIRD 'DIVINE' THING GOING ON TOO #AND AND AND. The fact that she said she has no intentions of replacing Ai as their mom #And that they don't HAVE to think of her as their mom. She just wants to be THERE for them #SHUT UP UGUHGHGHHHH #Oshi no Ko #ONK #Oshi no Ko spoilers #ONK spoilers #Shima speaks

[podcastfaggot]

arthur would fully stick his finger into hot coffee just to feel something. but so would john. john would ALSO stick his finger fully into hot coffee just to make arthur feel something. and arthur would ALSO—

#inspired by that fucking. That one post about the AI guy #anyway i need to shut the fuck up about them #malevolent #arthur lester #john doe #jarthur #private eyes

[glennsparadice]

Thunderhead: You’re my favorite human.

Greyson: If I’m you’re favorite, why do you talk to everyone else?

Thunderhead: I have to.

Greyson: No, you don’t.

*the whole world has been marked as unsavory*

#thunderhead #greyson tolliver #aoas #arc of a scythe #everyone who’s not Greyson shut up #I love you thunderhead #my sweet slightly obsessive AI

[gumi-writes]

commissioned from geezmarty

and that’s on plot relevant sexual prowess, babey

(if you for some reason want to read the fic version of this, i have it up here. bear in mind it's more explicit, though. blame ais.)

#touchstarved #touchstarved game #ais touchstarved #vere touchstarved #art #honestly me getting into comic commissions is so dangerous lol #a worthy investment but because i have like a bajillion dialogues in my head a dangerous one #these guys never shut up and that's my writer's curse #the mean girls of eridia

[folkloristico]

protecting her

#‘will you ever shut up about them?’ #no but thank you for asking <3 #they’re my whole personality actually #screaming crying throwing up #shiho miyano #shinichi kudo #ai haibara #conan edogawa #coai

[drewbs]

#the magnus archives #tma #the magnus protocol #tmagp fanart #tmagp #samama khalid #gwendolyn bouchard #alice dyer #chester and norris #doodles #my art #jonathan sims #jonmartin #martin blackwood #dude the ai voices in the goddamn computer are holding hands again #lol i love them all sm #i drew this in flipaclip so shut up

[escapedaudios]

If teens start using Chat GPT to cheat on their homework then just how the hell are dorky boys supposed to make arrangements with the most popular girl in school to do their homework in exchange for them going to homecoming with them leading to them slowly getting to know one another and getting feelings for each other then right as the nerd is starting to gain confidence he gets exposed by his fake girlfriend's catty best friend who humiliates him publicly in the cafeteria and he runs off and tells the pretty popular girl never to speak to him again but she goes "wait! Alvin!" and chases him down and she confesses her feelings to him and he says "stop lying to me Cindy I know you only want to use me" and she's like "no I love you so much I'll do anything for you" and then she goes from making a grand gesture of romance to bringing up all the little things and he finally realizes that she really does love him and they kiss and go to homecoming together but first there's a montage scene of them studying together so she actually learns and no longer has to cheat and she takes him shopping for new clothes and gives him a cool hair cut and now he's a handsome nerd and then at homecoming something really embarrassing happens to the mean girl and the ending is a freeze frame of the main characters kissing

#I really need to shut up #AI #Chat GPT #tropes #the best tropes honestly #I refuse to use punctuation