#AI neg

[artiesartapparels]

I hate how my tiktok fyp just constantly is covered in AI content, things like character AI, AI filters, and Vocal AI like that plankton one. It pisses me off cause no matter how much I click uninterested, a new trend will come along.

[kalikoking]

i'm not really deep in stktwt, i never really did much with my gaming/streamer account on twitter and now i dont really use it, so To Be Fair, i might just be seeing the wrong people, BUT

GOD that ai song cover rubs me the wrong way. i wish i could report and get it taken down, but i suspect the only way would be maybe? if he copyright striked it? idk if that would work. but the thing that annoys me more is the fans i saw on twitter

before anyone brought it up to him on stream, i saw some fans discussing it, and i scrolled through the thread and Not A Single One seemed to think it was bad. they were all "omg imagine if it were really him singing, it'd be so good, i love it" like excuse you, that is a whole stolen voice?? that you are praising?? because "this is the closest we'll probably get to him actually singing" yeah well fuck you what about his boundaries??

so that wasn't great at all

But Then chat brought it up in stream, a bunch of people asking if he'd heard it and what he thought. twice. maybe even more. and multiple times this man said "it's really weird, i dont think people should make this sort of thing without consent." but what did i see on twitter? "haha syk said the ai cover was so bad he might just make a real one instead, what if this is actually how we get syk singing?" I'M SORRY???? HE SAID MULTIPLE TIMES THAT IT MADE HIM UNCOMFORTABLE AND HE DIDNT LIKE IT, AND HIS LIGHT HEARTED JOKE IS WHAT YOU FOCUS ON?????

grow a fucking conscience, he's not your little puppet for you to make dance and sing

[blueberryfruitbat]

AI and Tumblr

In the event of any kind of AI Art API is to be trained on this platform I do not give permission for my art to be sampled or used to train AI without financial compensation, artists hold the copyright to our art and any intentional mimicry or sampling of my art by an artificial intelligence is infringing on an artist's rights to their creations.

We as artists will not take this grim proposal between Tumblr and Midjourney laying down, this was the last safe heaven for a lot of us and you are now holding knives to us entirely to solve your financial woes instead of offering meaningful solutions. You are going to bleed your community of all trust and all revenue you still eek out of us. Your ways have changed from one of a community built around passion for fandom and the creative mind to one of greed and exclusion. You have been showing true colors and they are ugly, they are sickening, and they will kill your platform. If this deal goes through, may your platform die slow and painfully, may you watch your most loyal of whales walk away and leave you drying out in the hot pavement that is bankruptcy.

[ohhgingersnaps]

I'm seeing some frustration over fandom creatives expressing anger or distress over people feeding their work into ChatGPT. I'm not responding to OP directly because I don't want to derail their post (their intent was to provide perspective on how these models actually work, and reduce undue panic, which is all coming from a good place!), but reassurances that the addition of our work will have a negligible impact on the model (which is true at this point) does kind of miss the point? Speaking for myself, my distress is less about the practical ramifications of feeding my fic into ChatGPT, and more about the principle of someone taking my work and deliberately adding it to the dataset.

Like, I fully realize that my work is a drop in the bucket of ChatGPT's several-billion-token training set! It will not make a demonstrable practical difference in the output of the model! That doesn't change the fact that I do not want my work to be part of the set of data that the ChatGPT devs use for training.

According to their FAQ, ChatGPT can and will use user input to train itself. The terms and conditions explicitly state that they save your chats to help train and improve their models. (You can opt-out, but sharing is the default.) So if you're feeding a fic into ChatGPT, unless you've explicitly opted out, you are handing it to the ChatGPT team and giving them permission to use it for training, whether or not that was your intent.

Now, will one fic make a demonstrable difference in the output of the model? No! But as the person who spent a year and a handful of months laboring over my fic, it makes a difference to me whether my fic, specifically, is being used in the dataset. If authors are allowed to have a problem with the ChatGPT devs for scraping millions of fics without permission, they're also allowed to have a problem with folks handing their individual fics over via the chat interface.

I do want to add that if you've done this to a fic, please don't take this as me being upset with you personally! Folks are still learning new information and puzzling out what "good" vs. "bad" use is, from an ethical standpoint. (Heck, my own perspective on this is deeply based on my own subjective feelings!) And we certainly shouldn't act like one person feeding a fic into ChatGPT has the same practical negative impact, on a broad societal scale, as a team using a web crawler to scrape five billion pieces of artwork for Stable Diffusion.

The point is that fundamentally, an ethical dataset should be obtained with the consent of those providing the data. Just because it's normalized for our data to be scraped without consent doesn't make it ethical, and this is why ChatGPT gives users the option to not share data— there is actually a standardized way (robots.txt) for website servers to set policies for how bots/crawlers can interact with them, for exactly this reason— and I think fandom artists and authors are well within their rights to express a desire for opting out to be the socially-respected default within the fandom community.

[babycharmander]

I feel like the people who are super into character AIs just… really haven’t read enough fanfic. Like, so much of the output of those things is just generic sludge, like, the most basic, boring response to whatever you typed in. It’s not in-character, it’s just an algorithm coughing up the most obvious response it can think of.

If this is the stuff you’re enjoying, I highly encourage you to read literally anything else.

The most poorly-written OOC fanfic is better than a character AI by virtue of it at least having been written by a human. It’s not the most obvious algorithmically generated sludge—it’s something a real person wanted to write.

Or like, if you want to write stuff yourself while playing off another person… maybe join a roleplay group, or find an RP partner? It’s not like they’re hard to find these days. Of course you need to learn basic RPing etiquette, which might seem intimidating, but once you learn it I promise you it is SO much more satisfying than receiving sludge responses from an AI.

Please engage in fandom in literally any other way—I promise you it will be more fun than what you are currently doing.

[powdermelonkeg]

Google is getting progressively, frustratingly more useless.

[deepseametro]

Like.. You don't get to preview what the robot's going to make for you. You just have to enter the words and see what it does. You don't get any feedback between what exact keywords have produced what exact outputs. I mean some things are obvious! But some things aren't obvious at all. It's a little puzzle you have to figure out. How do I get this robot to understand me? What am I missing?

Like, how good are you at describing art? Do you know the names of styles? Art movements? Techniques? Materials? Do you know how to describe lighting, or the camera angle, or the position people are standing in? The thing is, if you don't tell the robot any of this stuff, it's just going to fill in the average for you. And the average is people standing static in front of the camera with a single color background. People talk a lot about how easy it is to prompt and like.. I mean yeah, you can literally type in one word and hit enter. But it's not going to be anything interesting!

In order to make good art, in order to make interesting art, hell even in order to make the robot make what you're actually thinking of.. You have to have this really vast and wide and educated vocabulary on art. and all the words you used to describe it. And there's so many words! I promise you, you do not know how to describe art as well as you think you do. When you draw a picture, you don't have to think in words. You can visualize it in your head and translate that into movements. That's very very different from knowing how to describe it. Can you describe your own art style? Do you think you could get a robot to generate art that looks just like yours?

[satsuha]

valerio for 60min challenge

[sunnibits]

is anyone else so tired of ai art that seeing “bad” beginner art is like. a huge relief. like I would rather see one million bad anatomy pointy anime girl mary sue ocs than have to look at a single ai generated image again. an 11 year old drawing fanart of my little pony will always be a thousand times more valuable and meaningful than some bullshit garbage someone generated with a machine that steals other people’s work because they couldn’t even be bothered to try and make it themselves.

to anyone out there who’s just starting out with art, or thinks their art is “bad” or “cringey”, please keep doing what you’re doing and don’t give up or turn to ai just because it’s easier. your creative expressions are infinitely important more than ever and they give me hope any time I see them <3

[darkwood-sleddog]

Based on the recent staff post i sent the below concerns to staff in the feedback form. 1.) does opting OUT of third party sharing protect content that is reblogged by blogs that are opted IN? Will content from opted OUT blogs on opted IN blogs be scrape-able? 2.) The staff post says "We already discourage AI crawlers from gathering content from Tumblr and will continue to do so, save for those with which we partner." Does this mean that opting OUT of third party sharing does not apply to companies tumblr has partnered with? Or does the opting OUT toggle mean that opted OUT blogs are protected from third party sharing even if that third party is partnered with tumblr? 3.) Can tumblr please address the rumor that data has already been scraped from tumblr and given to an AI tool? 4.) Will the opting OUT of third party sharing toggle have to be re-toggled to maintain opting OUT like the tumblr live toggle?

These are questions that to me must be without a doubt answered and even then tumblr does not have my trust to implement it well and keep my opted out content out of data sets.

[rvb-canon-tuckington]

here are some "quick" rvb restoration thoughts before i go to bed that i may expand upon later, in no particular order:

this movie was ABOUT tucker but tucker is not in it. there is a tucker sized hole. we see tucker only a little bit more than we see donut, but tucker is still there the whole time!!! at the beginning, i was excited for the tucker whump, but does it count if not a single character reacts to the truly horrifying news that their friend has been controlled for a few months by eight or nine ais, at least two of which have tried to kill him and everyone you love before? like even if they had retconned red and blue teams being friends (which they didn't), you're telling me that we never get to see wash's reaction to this news? carolina's? two people who lost a different friend to this exact gruesome process of de-personing? no one ever tells carolina that tucker is in there and no one objects when tex goes to fucking decapitate him? like i get that caboose was the only person to see that tucker was actually still in there, and he can't really be trusted to communicate things clearly, but they could have even just included some sort of discussion where they decide that they think that tucker would rather be dead than be dragged along in this parody of life (and with the way the ais were torturing him, he probably would have agreed.)

speaking of caboose knowing that tucker is still in there - grif and simmons abandoning caboose rubbed me SO wrong. usually if a character is trying not to involve themselves, they'll "run away" to the nearest place to hide, not GET ON A SHIP TO FLY AWAY LEAVING CABOOSE TO DIE AT POSSESSED TUCKER'S HANDS. i get why they (the writers) did it, but that doesn't mean i have to like it lol

why weren't they FRIENDS ANYMORE

where was donut

what was that wash b-plot. what did the wash b-plot add?? what it did: make me feel weird about dr. grey's character, kill doc off screen, and make wash useless in the main plot. what it did not do: make sense. when did wash get injured post chorus? why is he hallucinating, period? why was he institutionalized? (and why is the room number the same as his prison number?) why did they spend so much time on it for it to have no real conclusion? they didn't need to have this weird "wash is hanging onto the past via doc" plot to have the carolina-wash-freelancer ghost heart-to-heart. (also i have never laughed so hard as when i saw the post pointing out that they left wyoming out bc neither my friend or i noticed lol) why wouldn't he know there was a manual way to activate the recovery beacon since he was LITERALLY recovery one? so many questions, no answers. what have you done to my boy, burnie.

the pacing was ATROCIOUS. nothing happened for the first half of the movie, a bunch of stuff happened in the second half, and none of it felt resolved.

where was donut

why was everyone separated at the beginning? why was no one worried about it? where was donut? where was carolina? why was no one worried about where tucker was? had caboose been the lone blue for the few months that tucker was gone and wash was hospitalized? genuinely, my friend and i thought that the reds and caboose had been mind wiped and dropped into their undisclosed locations without knowing why, and the plot was gonna be them all reuniting and piecing together what had happened and getting tucker back. alas.

it felt like it was the grif-simmons-caboose show, which was interesting because that's not a problem i feel like i've had before with this show. even if i saw less of a particular character than i wanted to. they usually have a pretty good balance of characters and this movie felt like they suddenly Realized how many characters they had and fumbled it.

i did actually really like the tex reveal that was BOSS i LOVED IT

i have more thoughts but this is far too long already so i'll save it for later lmao

[sergle]

I just had a really funny thought that i will obv never act on but like. yk how if you draw more varied body types, you might get people in your dms or comments saying that this art made them appreciate their body. what if we started doing the opposite at artists who only draw thin bodies. “Just want to let you know I have one of your prints and it makes me hate my body ♥”

[gingerbredman1989]

A highly detailed and intricate negative space drawing of a hyper-muscular and handsome bodybuilder.

Ideogram AI

[lunacias]

my beloveds with bad taste........

[puppyeared]

they could make a new we didnt start a fire song with the amount of dystopian fuckery going on

[loveologystudies]

go my child. steal ai generated "adopts". create illegal closed species ocs. be crazy with it. nobody can stop you