#AI garbage

[drferox]

So I have been massively burnt out this year, partly due to illness and separation stress, but I have been trying to do all the self-care things that I encourage people to do when you’re trying to make a brain be well, and one of those is writing fiction.

Just short fiction, because my brain balks at the idea of picking up the really big, long neglected projects. But short fiction is still fiction and if I write enough of it, then maybe I’ll build up enough momentum to pick up the bigger projects again.

So I thought that maybe if I can write enough fiction, because there’s a bit of horror flavour running though these pieces, I could narrate them for YouTube and work on the momentum for yet another project that fell by the wayside between the MS, relationship breakdown and single parenting.

Which is why I searched for ‘how to run a scary stories YouTube channel’.

And boy oh boy did that induce some rage.

I genuinely hold the art of writing in high regard, and I recognise that it’s a learned skill and difficult to do. All creative pastimes are. But there are a bunch of ‘entrepreneurs’, and I use the term with a great deal of sarcasm, that have decided to use A-Bloody-I for every single part of telling a story, except one. And for that single piece that they do not outsource to a computer program, they simply copy what has worked for other people.

There are videos providing instructions for people about how to use A-Bloody-I to:

Generate a YouTube channel name, banner and profile picture

Generate a story of the desired word length

Generate a fake voice to narrate that story

Generate a background image and thumbnail

At which point why did they even bother? They don’t even listen to the story that they generate before uploading. I know it’s all about the dream of money, they think 5 minutes of work every day will earn them an income, but what they have generated is soulless garbage.

The results have all the dressings of a horror story, but they don’t have the body of one.

It is like fae realm food- looks a little too good and all the reflections are wrong if you look too close, but it won’t satisfy the way the real thing does. You can’t really live off it.

But the more I know to look for it, the more of it I find. Particularly with fake voices, that seem to have trouble with words like vague or Dalek for some reason.

My main solace here is that these ‘entrepreneurs’ seem to be employing the same strategy in their own niche, flooding themselves with endless AI generated content coming from the same one idea, so at least they get to create their own hell I suppose.

[foldingfittedsheets]

My kindle was bought and paid for years ago, but apparently you need to pay extra to get the screen to stop downloading and presenting you new ads. I fucking hate the very principle of this.

Previously they’ve been trashy romance books with women embracing dragons which I didn’t care that much about. It was a vague annoyance.

But now they’re fucking insane AI generated garbage.

This one popped up recently. At first I was like, “Where the fuck is his thumb.” But then other things started jumping out. Like the insane words. “The Sprit”. The gibberish plinth they’re standing on.

In a similar vein

I like to call this one, “Oops all bodies” as the main unicorns are just fused together. They must be fucking either Sleipnir or Shelob cause then you start to see all the extra legs on those monstrosities.

There’s also a strain of Rugged Manly Books

This atrocity popped up. They doubled down on that tricky hand and made it facing both ways just to be safe. Also gave the sword two hilts. Just to be safe. Couldn’t bother to fit the text on the cover or decide where the rest of the sword was.

This title can’t even be deciphered into English. That poor fire is being menaced by the weirdest dagger of all time and the hands once more trying to cover all their bases.

[beginnerblueglass]

There’s quite a lot going on here. He was 67 when he died, but was born only 61 years before that, but was actually 86. I do not know what Yoda’s data pad has to do with anything.

[aevimyrt]

if you're an artist, should you be scared of ai?

i think the answer is - yes and no? I've been ruminating on this question for months now, it's given me a lot of anxiety - and honestly, if you are a professional trying to get into the industry, then I assume AI had already taken a bunch of entry level jobs from bigger companies and corporations who want to cut corners in every way possible, cause that's unfortunately the way capitalism works.

but still, ai is a relatively new thing and a trend - there are a lot of shiny gimmicky apps and programs, like the godforsaken ghibli thing or every app that is heavily pushed and advertised, but it will die down as all trends do. right now people, who don't really pay attention to art, like playing around with it, cause it's new and fun for them, they don't care about the bigger consequences of it cause everyone's life is shitty rn and they cannot afford to concern themselves with other people's lives also worsening.

but soon, it will even out - the trends will die down, each "new best ai" will be old and done, people will stop thinking about it in their day-to-day lives. and the ones who get swept up in its appeal, weren't gonna pay attention or buy your art anyway, they just were not your target audience. obviously technology is always advancing, but, as much as AI bros like to talk about "the fragility of the human ego" - there is no way that AI will fully replace the human experience and relationship, between an artist and the observer. if you're creating art because you're passionate, or like developing your skills, or just cause it's relaxing and enjoyable for you - there is nothing that can replace that, cause humanity had always been and always will be creating. even if you're a professional, there will be a niche in which you will be able to fit, because deep down, humans love to feel connected to the art they consume - that's why people still comission clothes from tailors, instead of buying only fast fashion; why people trade their crafts with each other; why there are fairs, markets and conventions for every niche you could think of, you just have to search a little; why people still praise old masters even long after their death; why good art teachers are so valuable to students all around the world; and so on. the human connection - of you to your art, of your art to the consumer, of you to your customer - cannot be replicated by any image generation garbage.

[gunpowdercarousel]

Ngl, the fact that the Daggerheart website uses AI art is a pretty big turn off.

It just looks cheap.

[justdavina]

The @justdavina Of San Francisco AI Doll Collection 2025

[aces-and-anime]

Ah yeah… very maximised… obviously

Thank you for helping with my “AI-Putomation” , “invuice matching” & “financial animatics”

[victusinveritas]

Ah, yes, the five genders: Black, Middle-eatern, South-Easten, Huging, and South Asian

[cringywhitedragon]

Warning on Youtube: Highly disturbing AI cat videos that depict literal gore.

And I thought content farms and Elsagate were bad but this shit has to be the worst.

I am not posting any links because this shit has literal GORE in it but here are some of the (tamer) thumbnails

There are worse thumbnails out there but the actual contents of these videos often depict gross shit like vomit, blood/gore, children and pregnant women in distressing situations, animal cruelty violence, scat, etc.

And they’re targeting it at KIDS! KIDDOS!

LIKE THE LAST PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE WATCHING THIS SHIT.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REPORT THESE VIDEOS AND OR GET INTO CONTACT WITH SOMEBODY FROM YOUTUBE IF YOU CAN. REBLOG THIS POST AND SPREAD AWARENESS BECAUSE THIS SHIT NEEDS TO GO!

(To make things worse is that I found a WIR gif I was going to use for the haha funnies but it fits way to damn well for this. These things are like cybugs.

Train, create, multiply.

And if they aren’t stopped, this site’s going to be nothing but a rotten husk of forgetten dreams (I butchered that quote buts it’s been a long time since I’ve seen the movie ;-;)

[foldingfittedsheets]

This insane AI book popped up and my beloved @aorryn47 then sent me this narration.

"Gony Irest: How to Become Great Leader"

"Enhance your life and that your Drean Team team throuh chonlcorarhe through self-confidence, charisma, conlience, and manspeneating skikls"

[artapir]

Coupla takes on the poor condemned pliosapient from Bound & Determined, via Midjourney's retexture feature.

[millionmovieproject]

[gunpowdercarousel]

AI is kinda funny to me as a thing to witness in real-time. It's like if I saw on the news "Startup working on advancements in Giant, Uncontrollable Fires has just started a Fire that they promise will be the Largest and most Uncontrollable Fire Yet".

[dumbsack]

cringe ass AI-generated Kevin nae nae baby

[thesullenwordsmith]

meta doesn't allow reporting posts for intellectual property violations and copyright infringement now.

I just did it last week with an Ad that used the Ghibli art style. People using it for funsies and in mass amounts - enough to have the servers "melting" - was bad enough.

Now people are straight up running digital Ads on STOLEN ART. But, I could report it atleast last week.

I tried to do it with a different Ad today. Guess what? Meta simply took it out.

Guess I'll have to DM Miyazaki himself to abide by their "reporting criteria". :))

Well, artists, this is a bad bad time for you to put up your art on ANY meta platform. PLEASE. AI can and will eat up your art and shit it out to some talentless organization to profit off of it.

And you bet they'll make it impossible for you to even sue them.

[lakefoundtheirexit]

These ad aren't even trying to be convincing anymore