#ai is a plague

[troythecatfish]

[fireflysummers]

FireflySummers’ Guide to Arguing Against the Use of AI Image Generators

(AKA I hate AI image generators so fucking much that I published a whole ass academic article on it)

Read the Paper: Art in the Machine: Value Misalignment and AI "Art"

Citation: Allred, A.M., Aragon, C. (2023). Art in the Machine: Value Misalignment and AI “Art”. In: Luo, Y. (eds) Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering. CDVE 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14166. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43815-8_4

The purpose of the original paper and now this post is the following:

Provide at least one academic article that you can cite. (Full paper + citation available below)

Make explicit community values that have previously been implicit, in order to better examine your own perceptions of the online artist community, and where you sit within it.

Provide rebuttals to common pro-AI talking points, with the intention of shutting down the conversation and reclaiming the narrative. 

What this paper and post cannot do:

Act as a sole authority about the online artist community and its values. We are not a monolith, and it is up to you to think critically about what, exactly, you want to take away from this discussion.

Provide a way to convince AI Evangelists that what they’re doing is wrong and bad and needs to stop. You will never convince them. Again, focus on shutting them down and reclaiming the narrative.

Final Disclaimer: I'm a very fallible researcher who is still very much learning how to do academia. I cannot speak for the entirety of the online artist community or fanartist community. We all have different lived experiences. I have done my best to include diverse voices; however if you have concerns or critiques, I am open to hearing them.

If you show up to debate in favor of AI image generators, you will be automatically blocked.

Credits:

Editors, Meme Experts, and Annotators: @starbeans-bags, @b4kuch1n, @cecilioque.

Tutorial Examples: @sabertoothwalrus, @ash-and-starlight, @miyuliart, @hometownrockstar, @deoidesign, @cinnamonrollbakery

If you have read this far, thank you very much. I hope that you have found a constructive lens for approaching the war with AI image generators, as well as a new tool for shutting down debate and reclaiming the narrative.

[theinstagrahame]

Announcing: Restful Actions

(It's here. You can go get it now!)

Restful Actions is a collection of 10 minigames for downtime periods in any TTRPG. They're designed to help players resolve character conflicts, complete goals, heal or explore, and take much shorter shopping trips. (You can, in fact, download the shopping trip minigame as a demo!)

For GMs, the goal is to give you a break, so you can start preparing the next Big Event. The minigames invite players to fill in some details of the world, creating shops, landmarks, even creatures.

You can pick up your copy here:

I've talked about this thing in more detail here:

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

Anyway if you are one of those people who genuinely believes ai creations are a good thing then that suggests you have never produced a creative work worth protecting from theft and corporate-sponsored irrelevance, ever, and/or that you do not give a shit about one. single. person who has. And that is so, so much sadder and says so much more about you than any stupid jokes you could make about creators trying to protect their work being Luddites or whatever.

[batcavescolony]

I didn't think if have to explain this, Human mediocrity is hundreds of times better then ANYTHING an AI could come up with.

[slothspaghettiwrites]

Hi friends,

I'm not sure why some people don't understand this, but using generative AI (ie midjourney and the like) to create images and audios of your fave fictional characters is wrong.

It's not only theft of artists whose style you are replicating, but it's also theft of the actors identity. Literally one of their major selling points is how they look and sound, and by feeding it into an AI engine, you are spreading one of their key money makers around for free.

Imagine if you worked really hard on a fic and someone just copied it with a few name changes and claimed it was theirs? Or worse, sold it for profit?

That is essentially what Generative AI is doing to art.

It's theft of intellectual property. There is no ethical use of this sort of AI.

Support human artists. Support human writers. Support humanity.

[marvelmaniac715]

I used Chat GPT (don’t be mad at me, there was a reason) to show how bad AI is. I asked it to write a Nightmare Time script and THIS is why real, talented, hardworking writers shouldn’t be replaced by AI:

[bucky-bucky-bucky-bucky]

So everyone saw all the stuff about how AI “art” steals from real artists.

Everyone has seen SAG-AFTRA and the WGA fighting against studios using AI

Everyone saw musicians stand up against AI

And yet, y’all are STILL making these Sebastian AI posts? It literally goes against everything that artists are fighting for. Get it together.

[opspro2005]

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

I swear to g-d, if AI images make it so that I have to correct people about what both extinct AND extant dinosaurs look like, i'm going to actually lose my mind

[troythecatfish]

[robin-is-around]

Please please please just write. Write about your day, write about your friends, write about your characters (I don’t care if you think they’re “cringe” cringe is a stupid, fake word) —

just write. Please. It is so fun to look back at the things you wrote, “bad” or not, I promise you it is worth it. Write sentences, paragraphs, hell —

Write novels!! I love reading. And so do so many others. Someone will read what you write and someone will love it, even if you never get to know.

Or you can keep it private, vent, get your feelings out. Tear it up. Burn it. Keep it hidden. Keep it locked even.

Write!! I love writing and I love writers!!!

also hey ; whilst you’re here :

[arianimates]

So I got an ask (that might be a troll) saying that my art looks AI generated. And I just gotta ask, how??? First off, I'm kind of offended that my art was compared to the shitty abomination that is AI. Second, why would I waste my time feeding the Ai when I can just pick up a pencil and draw?? Third, at least my designs don't: - have inconsistent patterns - have fucked up looking hands - have stuff clipping into each other - have next to zero emotion Finally, I don't support Ai works of any kind here. And I like to think my art is actually good sooo Fellow artists, if you think that my art is AI generated, at least point out how it looks that way. Also Ai artists are not real artists. Ai is theft.

Fuck off

[therogerclarkfanclub]

Man, Twitter today was just pathetically sad. Roger was getting jumped left and right by stupid Twitter trolls who think AI is "not a big deal" and "who cares if I copy someone's voice, 'just for the lulz' ", and on top of that, several idiots assuming that Roger makes 10s of 1000s of dollars on each film/theater/TV role he gets, was just beyond sad.

Don't get me wrong, me being a huge fanboy of him I wish him nothing but the absolute best. Is he laughing his way to the bank? I sure hope so! I, for one, would be happy that his acting career is paying off and he is able to make loads of cash. Now, is this actually the case? I do not have the slightest clue, but I am not about to turn into a jealous arsehole if this were to be the case.

The hate he was receiving was just unbearably bad. What? A person cannot defend their own work? Their livelihood? Their means to put food on their table? Are actors are not entitled to receive fair compensation for putting their talents to work? Whether those talents are through Mocap or voice acting or just good ol' fashioned acting?

This screenshot below was one of the most pathetic things I've ever read, and clearly they don't know much about software licensing. And for the record, neither do I. All I know is that just because I buy a physical copy of RDR2 doesn't mean I own the assets inside that disc. It's still Rockstar's property. Arthur and the entire VDL gang still belongs to them, I am merely paying to have access and enjoy what Rockstar has made, but no, it is not "mine".

And even worse to think that someone "works" for you just because you paid a measly $60.00?? 😂

I don't even know what to say to this MFer here. This is just the tip of the iceberg for the level of stupidity Roger was dealing with today. But Roger, not being one to back down, dealt a quick swift burn to this MFer. Good for him.

But the entire saga is just nasty. I am only posting those two screenshots and honestly that is too much.

[athesists]

Just saw ai of destiel. Very disappointed in ittbh

[poetry-protest-pornography]

This fucking program will confidently suggest that I change a three word phrase into a two word phrase that has absolutely nothing to do with the original sentence, and it can't automatically correct "adn" to "and"? It can't recognize that? "This word is potentially misspelled", really?

And we want to let AI write actual books and papers? The AI that isn't confident enough to autocorrect "adn"?