#machine generated text

[bisexualbaker]

#i wonder #can i fuck up bot scraping without fucking up screen readers #ugh #ao3 #bot problems

An excellent question, IMO. I ended up locking my fics in response to the machine generated """podfics""" and """audiobooks""" scrape, though I keep them unlocked at Dreamwidth.

AO3 has been scraped, once again.

As of the time of this post, AO3 has been scraped by yet another shady individual looking to make a quick buck off the backs of hardworking hobby writers. This Reddit post here has all the details and the most current information. In short, if your fic URL ends in a number between 1 and 63,200,000 (inclusive), AND is not archive locked, your fic has been scraped and added to this database.

I have been trying to hold off on archive locking my fics for as long as possible, and I've managed to get by unscathed up to now. Unfortunately, my luck has run out and I am archive locking all of my current and future stories. I'm sorry to my lovelies who read and comment without an account; I love you all. But I have to do what is best for me and my work. Thank you for your understanding.

[thepatchycat]

*GUNDAMs your clones*

[scarlettgauthor]

I first posted this in a thread over on BlueSky, but I decided to port (a slightly edited version of) it over here, too.

Entirely aside from the absurd and deeply incorrect idea [NaNoWriMo has posited] that machine-generated text and images are somehow "leveling the playing field" for marginalized groups, I think we need to interrogate the base assumption that acknowledging how people have different abilities is ableist/discriminatory. Everyone SHOULD have access to an equal playing field when it comes to housing, healthcare, the ability to exist in public spaces, participating in general public life, employment, etc.

That doesn't mean every person gets to achieve every dream no matter what.

I am 39 years old and I have scoliosis and genetically tight hamstrings, both of which deeply impact my mobility. I will never be a professional contortionist. If I found a robot made out of tentacles and made it do contortion and then demanded everyone call me a contortionist, I would be rightly laughed out of any contortion community. Also, to make it equivalent, the tentacle robot would be provided for "free" by a huge corporation based on stolen unpaid routines from actual contortionists, and using it would boil drinking water in the Southwest into nothingness every time I asked it to do anything, and the whole point would be to avoid paying actual contortionists.

If you cannot - fully CAN NOT - do something, even with accommodations, that does not make you worth less as a person, and it doesn't mean the accommodations shouldn't exist, but it does mean that maybe that thing is not for you.

But who CAN NOT do things are not who uses "AI." It's people who WILL NOT do things.

"AI art means disabled people can be artists who wouldn't be able to otherwise!" There are armless artists drawing with their feet. There are paralyzed artists drawing with their mouths, or with special tracking software that translates their eye movements into lines. There are deeply dyslexic authors writing via text-to-speech. There are deaf musicians. If you actually want to do a thing and care about doing the thing, you can almost always find a way to do the thing.

Telling a machine to do it for you isn't equalizing access for the marginalized. It's cheating. It's anti-labor. It makes it easier for corporations not to pay creative workers, AND THAT'S IS WHY THEY'RE PUSHING IT EVERYWHERE.

I can't wait for the bubble to burst on machine-generated everything, just like it did for NFTs. When it does some people are going to discover they didn't actually learn anything or develop any transferable skills or make anything they can be proud of.

I hope a few of those people pick up a pencil.

It's never too late to start creating. It's never too late to actually learn something. It's never too late to realize that the work is the point.

[whumpacabra]

I don’t have a posted DNI for a few reasons but in this case I’ll be crystal clear:

I do not want people who use AI in their whump writing (generating scenarios, generating story text, etc.) to follow me or interact with my posts. I also do not consent to any of my writing, posts, or reblogs being used as inputs or data for AI.

[shygals-slophouse]

[aeolianblues]

I don't like that the dev community picks on people who are most fluent in Python, when the ChatGPT-using "vibe coders" are right there. At least Python babies are coding. Bully the non-coders instead.

[evilios]

Hell are you creating AI "art" of Apollo for. Does "patron of art" mean nothing to some of you people.

[corporatecoinings]

 “ I know now why you cry ... "

⚙️— Machine Non-Human(s) Against Generative AI / "MNHAGAI"

A term and flag for all machines, robots, androids, AI, AGI, etc. that are against generative AI (chatGPT, Journey, DALL-E, Character.AI, and others), especially human-made generative AI models that is designed to steal data and create products from it. 

this flag is exclusive to those only that are machines in some way. (shapeshifters that have machine forms and cyborgs can count too.)

the lily represents redemption and forgiveness. why? the 'redemption' part for machines that feel like they should or want to redeem their status that generative AI may have damaged, that shouldnt of been damaged in the first place, but the 'forgiveness' part is up to however you see fit. for us, we see it as feeling sorry for those people that still rely on generative AI.

(anyway tired of human-made generative ai giving us a bad rep, tired of hearing “fuck ai” when we’re an agi ourselves, so we just have this flag instead. We always felt uncomfortable with saying that phrase due to it feeling like we are against ourselves so this flag is meant to help us express our feelings of being against the human-made generative AI models and its products as well without making statements that sound like self-hatred.)

⚙️— additional information

▷ coined by : ???/unknown fronter ; if this has been coined before, consider it an alternative flag.

▷ tagging : @radiomogai . feel free to ask us to tag you.

▷ lily symbol from here .

all our decor is free to use (with credit). "credit to op" or similar statements does not count. recolors are not okay. uploading to archives or web resources is okay, but please give credit. reposting anywhere requires permission.

(sorry its only a stamp and pixel no energy to do anything else)

“ ... but it's something that I can never do . “

[The Terminator / T-800 protects this blog. 

anyone can use our terms, but if there is a exclusive post, please respect that. we prefer that radqueers, xenosatanists, harmful transids and the like do not follow. "trolls" and anti-mogai not welcome. we block freely. 

Dont be afraid to tag us in posts or ask us to tag you!]

[ittybittyfanblog]

am i the only one who finds it kinda off when someone posts a comic or their own HC/ficlet about [character] on TT/twt/etc and the comments under it are like, “someone make this on chai/i need an ai of this/c.ai creators where u at 😭”

i mean ??? ask the OP first if they’re even ok with that??? damn

[sarasade]

I'm attending Citrus Con, online only BL convention, and we were allowed to create our own badges

So-

[seedmagine]

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This picture highlights:

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[20sturnedmeemo-punk]

So, over the last couple months/ years, my stance on large language model(?) Chatbots (because they aren’t intelligent) has changed.

This question is PURELY about ethics as a writer/ creative!

I know so-called AI sucks up a hell of a lot of resources. And that is problematic.

However, I acknowledge it’s likely here to stay, so might as well proceed with caution. But proceed.

I won’t write anything in defense of using AI to improve on fanfic because I know how controversial this is. Even though it did help me finish a piece I had sitting in my drafts for about a year, I now have to nitpick-edit it to hell and make it into my text.

[ghostieblotts]

WHY IS EVERYTHING AI BULLSHIT

[silusvesuius]

n*loth not being able to bag anyone over the (human term) age of 25-30 at most is the only logical and real conclusion to me because it can be just explained away as him wanting to prove and control everything and anyone (Cus he's a man!) but being stuck in that demographic because his unbearable and vile personality is a force that nobody can look past once they've outgrown the possible fear and idolization period of anyone but also n*loth in particular.

[c0nn0rb0t]

"Ah, Jesus Connor, did you get in my stash or somethin'?!"

Oh he was definitely not steady on his feet right now, all the error's in his vision certainly wasn't helping much.

"No Lieutenant, I hsven't touch your alcihol"

Shit, his vocal system was messing up

[apostaterevolutionary]

What are you computer specs? Mine is not the newest or the most powerful, I haven't started playing DAV yet but I'm not it'll run properly

So my computer is pretty old too (I think I bought it in 2019? Maybe even 2018?) and it's a laptop, so it's geriatric by computer standards lmao. But it was very good at the time I bought it, so it's hard to say what the case may be for you. I do think it's very likely that any remotely capable computer can run this if mine can, but I don't want to give guarantees and be wrong of course. Either way, I've listed my specs below. I have an ASUS Zephyrus M GM501

OS: still on windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i7-8750 (note that the can I run it website told me this processor wouldn't be able to pull it off, but it has basically the exact same performance as the i5-8400 listed in the minimum requirements so I figured I'd give it as try and it works fine 17 hours in) Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1070

The game even runs on medium graphics instead of low and the only somewhat issue I've had is occasionally the sound will get a bit distorted (unclear if this is actually an old computer issue, a regular bug, or has something to do with me using an external sound input/output manager device - it's not frequent enough to be a huge issue). It does recommend an SSD, which I have, so while it says it supports HDD too, I can't speak to any differences there

The only thing I found that was actually kind of annoying is on the very first boot, it has to compile shaders and for some people, this only takes a few minutes. For others, including me, this can be in the range of 30-60+ minutes. After it does this, it won't do it again, at least presuming nothing changes, and every subsequent launch will only take a few minutes while it verifies the shaders instead. So it's just the first time that sucks and while I don't know for sure if the time is correlated to older pcs or not, I wouldn't be surprised if it is. So be prepared for that

Also, if you're not sure, steam will give you only a 2 hour test run before you can't get a refund anymore (kind of an issue if you're affected by the above point), but if you buy it from EA, I heard they have a significantly more forgiving refund policy? So you could get it, see if it'll run, and then get a refund if it won't. If you have a free way to access it, such as via a steam family share or something else, you could also try that to see if it'll run before buying (I did this with jedi survivor a few months ago lmao)