#AI content scraping

[themorningnewsinformer]

Cloudflare AI Bot Blocker: A Game-Changer for Web Publishers

Introduction The digital publishing world is fighting back against unauthorized AI data scraping. With the launch of the Cloudflare AI bot blocker, over a million websites—including media giants like Sky News and Buzzfeed—can now block AI bots from collecting content without consent. This transformative tool gives creators the control they’ve long demanded over their digital work. Why Is…

[godhusksapostle]

I do not AI WRITE, I do not AI DRAW, I do not listen to AI MUSIC, I consume HUMAN MEDIA, and if it isn’t created by someone IT IS NOT ART.

[razehider]

this doesn't seem to be widespread knowledge around here yet but there's a big trend among dogshit content scraper accounts to grab a real photo (usually of ✨Aesthetic Nature™✨ or something similar, which is why it's relevant to me) somewhere, and recreate it using AI to avoid crediting the photographer. this can even trick people who are somewhat familiar with the subject matter if they're not paying attention but looks incredibly wrong upon closer inspection

here is some complete garbage as an example. because these "photos" are not completely made up by AI, people into spiders know the species and will recognize their features without looking closely, getting tricked in the process. if you know spider anatomy and look closely though, both of those look like utter abominations. the original photos these two were based on are here and here, by the way

these just so happen to be things i'm familiar with and i would probably get easily fooled by AI recreations of plants or fish or whatever. my point is that if you're not an expert on everything that exists you're not immune to these, so i would probably recommend caring about photo sources unless you actively want to look at this repulsive trash

[amalgamasreal]

Here's an even better TL;DW I just thought of:

Google is probably planning on stealing your unfinished fanfictions with your unknowing permission and using AI to turn it into their latest TV shows on an upcoming streaming platform.

Delete your shit off their Cloud Platform unless you really really want them to potentially turn your Omegaverse/Mpreg/Selfcest/Timetravel OC into a reality somehow, only with even less soul because it'll be written by a computer and acted by SCABS.

It's up to you.

SOURCE

Bit of a long video but worth a watch.

TL;DW though is that hidden in the Terms and Conditions for Google's AI Labs is a nice little poison pill that says they get access to your entire Google Drive if you opt in.

So if you're an author of some type and you keep your unpublished works in your G-Drive that means an AI will get to scrape all of it and by opting in you will have given them permission to it. The content creator goes on to predict that Google is going to let out their own streaming service where the scripts, and potentially the art if it's animated, will be almost or entirely AI generated using that scraped data as a baseline and the authors/artist's who's work was essentially stolen in its most raw form to crib from will have zero way of fighting Google on that in our current legal system.

This is of course right in the middle of the writers and actors strike where we're seeing just what lengths studios will go to in order to screw everyone but themselves.

They go on to recommend that if you keep any creative or personal works on Google Drive that you pull it off as soon as possible and delete your entire Drive. They acknowledge that of course this doesn't mean Google really deleted the data but if you do it before they start compulsory opting everyone in there's a chance your work might get overlooked. They also recommend several free editing programs that aren't run by corporations like Google with LibreOffice (the default office program of most Linux distros) being named.

Finally they go over methods of shaming Google which I feel like you just have to watch for comedies sake so I won't describe them in full.

Now this is from me: I know the majority of people don't have the ability to build and manage a big archive just for themselves, but if you're a creative NOW IS THE TIME to educate yourself on what you can do to protect your works. Cloud storage was always iffy at best, but with AI scraping entering the mix it's now downright malignant. Get a bunch of thumb drives, buy some external hard drives, if you have the money buy a pre-built NAS, and if you really want to get into learn how to build your own NAS. These are the old ways before cloud and they're coming back again, more important than ever.

[adeceasedtulip]

I've been seeing a lot about that AI company scraping ao3 for works and I know everyone has been filing DMCA take down claims for their work. The OTW has also filed on ao3 users behalf for the stolen works.

The good news is, that the data set has been temporarily taken down but the "creator" of it has filed a counter claim.

And after getting lost down a comment spital (which you can read here) its clear that the "creator" believes that they have a right to it since our works are based off of copyrighted content.

Their exact words in the thread linked were: "You do realise AO3 is a far more viable target for a DMCA than this dataset, right?"

As someone who knows a fair bit about copyright, this is so ignorant. If they bothered to do 5 minutes of googling then they'd see that when the materials are changed and non-profit then it is NOT a viable target.

To everyone who filed a claim and protected your works, keep it up!! People like this need to be shown that stealing from writers, artists and other creatives WILL NOT BE TAKEN LYING DOWN.

[icicledream]

"so many things using the term ai feels like deliberate obfuscation" i hate to tell u this but we have been using the term ai for video game npcs and scientific models and automated tools and generative tools for many decades.

like if this was a more recent acronym yeah it'd feel deliberate but all of those things are, in fact, forms of artificial intelligence

and sure they're trying to buzzword it bc of the genai craze but that shouldn't take away from the fact that we've been using that acronym for decades

[thatonedemonnamedlucifer]

kinda stupid post but ngl i wish people would stop calling themselves "anti-ai" when they really just mean "anti-ai generated material" and/or "anti-replacing humans with ai".

[tuttle-did-it]

Dan Snow reviews an AI generated image of the assassination of Julius Caesar. Time frame: 06:05:00-09:18:05

Quote of the day: (from the Battle of Trafalgar segment) When the English killed Joan of Arc, they burned her body TWICE to destroy every little fragment of her being. And then they scattered her ashes in a river to make sure it could never become a shrine to her. And that's what I want to do with this image here. I need to shred it, I need to burn it. I need to scatter it across the landscape under a full moon so no evidence of its existence can it survive.-- Dan Snow

[wherenymphsroam]

headcanon posts are just bland and incorrect any more what is even the point bro </3

[miaqc1]

Many ppl are worring about their fanart, fanfic etc breing scrapped for AI but sadly not every protection works. I'm pretty sure my stuff on Ao3 had been scapped already. Even on Squidgeworld if some1 with bad intention grab the data. As for my website, I had no block in place and I have no idea how to put one. I don't want Anubis since if always consider me a bot and limit my access to websites T.T.

[bberry005]

archive locked all my fics because of all the ai scraping and like why am i genuinely sad about this

[codfiish]

(Saw the CAI post) I keep seeing ppl complain about the bot not getting pronouns right but I rarely get problems with tht, even for lgbt stuff. Maybe it was just bad luck??

… it wasn’t about character.ai. i do not use ai services at all if i can help it. it was a fanfiction posted on archiveofourown that i assume was ai based on what i know of how text gen ai works/“thinks”, and how ai text reads/feels to me, but it had no indication in the tags or description that it was ai. if it did i would not have clicked on it at all and would have immediately muted the person that posted it

also stop using c.ai

[telekitnetic-art]

It’s almost 10PM and I’m just processing the details of the new Tumblr AI policy stuff now. Not sure what to say other then. This might effect me posting my artwork.

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

”you just want to suck off copyright law!” i am Literally a sonic fan that is the last thing I want to do. i just think we should be able to break them equally and it’s fucked corpos can do whatever they want when Nintendo will send you to jail for a million years if you so much as think of doing a little copyright infringement.

[midnightactual]

to talk about AI in art more specifically, I think in so far as AI has any legitimate use in art, it's exclusively as an artistic aid. if you generate an AI image of a character, then draw on top of it using it as a loose reference (I'm not talking about tracing here), that's not really any different than using any other photo reference or inspiration. if you feed all of a character's dialogue to an AI, then have it crosscheck versus dialogue you wrote for them and make adjustments to your writing (I'm not talking about copying and pasting here), that's not really any different than having someone beta-read for voice or doing it manually yourself. it can be an effective tool for doing very specific and technical things faster and thus developing a better personal artistic intuition for them. it's acceptable as training wheels, like spellcheck but much more sophisticated

what is broadly unacceptable is to just let AI generate something and release it into the wild as-is or edited. AI making your life easier or giving you more confidence in making your art is fine. using AI to substitute for and try and shortcut the artistic process is not

[jaybeefoxy]

I am in the process of changing my AO3 settings so that only registered users can access my content. I refuse to allow people to train AI with my work. I recently had a guest request that I unlock the first part of a series on AO3.

I'm sorry, but I'm not unlocking my stuff for you, because AO3 has advised one of the few ways to prevent data scraping is by restricting access. This annoys me because my work's availability has to be limited because of someone else's intrusion. My apologies if this restricts your viewing/reading. Get an AO3 account or try to reset your passwords, please. Authors put their work on AO3 for free, and while we appreciate your comments and love, help us by not supporting AI.

Part of me feels like why should I bother to unlock my work if you can't be bothered to reset your passwords, or reregister on the site? That would make me feel like a bit of an a-hole for saying that though. I do appreciate that passwords are a pain, but if you value the stuff you read for free, I dunno, maybe you should make the effort? At the end of the day, I don't know you, so I'm not going to trust an anonymous 'guest'.