#ai kills creativity

[akeldama-art]

Sources you can use instead of AI:

- Magazines

- Pinterest

- Sears Catalogue books (if what you’re drawing is set in a different time period)

- Anatomy books, skeleton/skull books

- Photography books

- Paintings (again, if what you’re drawing is set in a different time period—this helps with outfit design because it’s a primary source)

- Going outside

You don’t need AI for reference, nor for character creation. There’s a wealth of much more ethical and reliable sources that already exist.

[foxilixo]

ai is actually scary, like I'm just about to go to college or uni for animation and I feel like I'll never actually get to work my dream job because ai has fucking stolen it from me

[12u3ie]

Stop using AI. You are killing artists. I am not joking, and I will not be nice about it.

[fangswbenefits]

It makes me so, so sad to see fellow Astarion simps using AI chat bots... I know it's not done out of malice, but those bots are fed the works of actual writers in order to expand their vocabulary and solidify their use.

From what I've seen, most of them aren't even good to begin with and the replies are just so... weird. That is not Astarion. That's Astarion from the dollar store...

Yeah... :(

[vcendent]

art vs industry

Sometimes I'm having a good day, but then sometimes I think about how industry is actively killing creative fields and that goes away. People no longer go to woodworkers for tables and chairs and cabinets, but instead pick from one of hundreds of mass-produced designs made out of cheap particle board instead of paying a carpenter for furniture that is both made to last generations and leaves room for customization. With the growth of population and international trade, the convenience and low production costs are beneficial in some aspects, but how many local craftsmen across the world were put out of business? How many people witnessed their craft die before their eyes? There is no heart or identity put into mass produced items; be it furniture, ceramics, metalwork, or home decor; and at the end of the day everybody ends up with the same, carbon copy stuff in their homes.

I'm a big fan of animated movies, and I see this same thing happening too. When was the last time western audiences saw a new 2D animated movie hit theatres? I can't speak for other countries, but, at least in America, I believe The Princess and the Frog was the last major 2D movie released and that was back in 2009. Major studios nowadays are unwilling to spend the time and money that it would take to pay traditional animators who have spent years honing their craft to go frame by frame, and to pay painters to create scene backgrounds. We talk a lot about machines replacing jobs, but when the machines come, artistry professions are some of the first to be axed (in part because industry does not see artistry as "valuable" professions). Art, music, and writing are no longer seen as "real" jobs because they belong to the creative field and there's this inane idea that anyone who goes into those fields will be unsuccessful and starving. I'm not saying that 3D animation is bad, it has its own merits and required skills and can be just as impressive as anything 2D, but it has smothered 2D animation and reduced it largely to studios that cannot afford the tech to animate 3D.

And now we have this whole AI thing to deal with, stealing existing artists' work to "train" it to take over those few professions that, until now, required actual people to do them. Internet artists have already been dealing with people complaining about the price of art for years and now have to face their work being stolen to train AI. With AI technology, anyone who undervalues the work of the artist can now get something generated at little or no cost to them, all at the expense of the artists themselves. Why would studios pay script writers when they could just get an algorithm to do it without pay? Why pay actors to bring characters to life or pay models to pose for ads when CGI has progressed enough we could digitally render humans and cut out having to pay people entirely? Why use practical effects or film on location when green screens and adding in-post is faster and so much cheaper? It's no wonder we had the SAG-AFTRA strike. AI has already been trained to write children's books and produce music, continuing down this road will replace authors and musicians too at the convenience of cost. How much longer until the actual, real-life people behind all forms of artistry become completely obsolete?

Industry is just driving the cost of people-made crafts up and up with every mass produced product and every streamlined shortcut to reduce costs, which only makes it harder and harder for artists of all kinds to make a living, as very few people want to pay for the time and skill of artists when they could just pick something off a shelf or feed AI a prompt and get something satisfactory enough, yet not what they actually wanted, for so much cheaper.

[sassyhobbits]

the rise of anti-intellectualism is directly correlated with the exponential growth and popularity of AI generated "art" and "literature". when people never bother to think or care about a creators intentions to begin with (which there ALWAYS are when something is made by a human), then they wont give a shit if a computer is spitting out content without thought or heart. just as long as theyre getting content fast and cheap.

i feel like im watching the demise of the creative in real time.

[tangerinecherrygal]

found the most beautiful reylo art and it’s labelled ai. sigh.

[the-unending-journey]

Just wanna say, I always enjoy reading the responses I get from my rare WoL/OC q's, even if I don't have the spoons to respond. Y'all are so creative and have really interesting characters! And I love how we all view this little world we play dolls with in various different ways

I don't care if this comes off as corny or people might think I'm being disingenuous or whatever, but I really do love how people are just able to create these myriad stories and characters. And it really gives me the motivation to try and do the same for my own

[its-de]

Imma be quick,i have to get this off my chest..

If you don't like a post.. KEEP SCROLLING might not be your cup of tea but for someone else they would be gulping it, the point is don't spread negativity by leaving anon hate to others just because you didn't like something about what you read, either say something nice or keep your comments to yourself and KEEP SCROLLING

I saw someone leaving this ask to my dear friend @reilemon after she posted her zayne post

Hope you're reading this anon and let me educate you a little because you obviously skipped the 101 on how to not be an annoyance online..

1- When reading a fic/headcanons, especially the nsfw/suggestive ones.. let's be honest no one actually cares about the accuracy of the medical names, but if you do, then just scroll and find something else to read it's not that hard 🤷🏻‍♀️

2- GROW TF UP AND DON'T SEND ANON ASKS JUST TO CALL OTHER PEOPLE'S WRITINGS "CRINGE"

Do better.

[hollowsart]

I hope ai art dies soon.

this is all ugly trash that keeps showing up in my searches.

I just want to see some ACTUAL REAL afro futurism armor!!!

SHOW ME ACTUAL ART!!!

[chipped-chimera]

Stumbled on this - so for anyone out of the loop part of Reddit blowing up last year was because it was making use of it's API prohibitively expensive for the average person to use, killing off a lot of (superior) third party apps used to both browse and moderate the platform on mobile.

I don't know if it was stated explicitly at the time, but for me the writing was on the wall - this was purely to fence off Reddit's data from being trawled by web scraping bots - exactly the same thing Elon Musk did when he took over Twitter so he could wall off that data for his own AI development.

So it comes as absolutely zero surprise to me that with Reddit's IPO filing, AI and LLM (Large Language Models) are mentioned SEVERAL times. This is all to tempt a public buyer.

What they do acknowledge though, which is why this video is titled 'Reddit's Trojan Horse' is the fact that while initially this might work and be worth a lot - as the use of AI grows, so will the likelihood that AI generated content being passed off as 'human generated' on the platform will grow - essentially nulling the value of having a user-generated dataset, if not actively MAKING IT WORSE.

As stated in the video - it's widely known that feeding AI content into an AI causes 'model collapse', or complete degeneration into gibberish and 'hallucinations'. This goes for both LLM's and Image Generation AI.

Now given current estimates that 90% of the internet's content will be AI generated by 2026 that means most of the internet is going to turn into a potential minefield for web-scraping content to shove into a training dataset, because now you have to really start paying attention what your bot is sucking up - because lets face it, no one is really going to look at what is in that dataset because it's simply too huge (unless you're one of those poor people in Kenya being paid jack shit to basically weed out the most disgusting and likely traumatizing content from a massive dataset).

What I know about current web-scraping, is OpenAI at least has built it's bot to recognize AI generated image content and exclude it from the scrape. An early version of image protection on the side of Artists was something like this - it basically injected a little bit of data to make the bot think it was AI generated and leave it alone. Now of course we have Nightshade and Glaze, which actively work against training the model and 'poison' the dataset, making Model Collapse worse.

So right now, the best way to protect your images (and I mean all images you post online publicly, not just art) from being scraped is to Glaze/Nightshade them, because either these bots will likely be programmed to avoid them - but if not, good news! You poisoned the dataset.

What I was kind of stumped on is Language Models. While feeding AI LLM's their own data also causes Model Collapse, it's harder to understand why. With an image it makes sense - it's all 1's and 0's to a machine, and there is some underlying pattern within that data which gets further reinforced and contributes to the Model Collapse. But with text?

You can't really Nightshade/Glaze text.

Or can you?

Much like with images, there is clearly something about the way a LLM chooses words and letters that has a similar pattern that when reinforced contributes to this Model Collapse. It may read perfectly fine to us, but in a way that text is poisoned for the AI. There's talk of trying to figure out a way to 'watermark' generated text, but probably won't figure that one out any time soon given they're not really sure how it's happening in the first place. But AI has turned into a global arms race of development, they need data and they need it yesterday.

For those who want to disrupt LLM's, I have a proposal - get your AI to reword your shit. Just a bit. Just enough, that it's got this pattern injected.

These companies have basically opened Pandora's Box to the internet before even knowing this would be a problem - they were too focused on getting money (surprise! It's capitalism again). And well, Karma's about to be a massive bitch to them for rushing it out the door and stealing a metric fucktonne of data without permission.

If they want good data? They will have to come to the people who hold the good data, in it's untarnished, pure form.

I don't know how accurate this language poisoning method could be, I'm just spitballing hypotheticals here based on the stuff I know and current commentary in AI tech spaces. Either way, the tables are gonna turn soon.

So hang in there. Don't let corpos convince you that you don't have control here - you soon will have a lot of control. Trap the absolute fuck out of everything you post online, let it become a literal minefield for them.

Let them get desperate. And if they want good data? Well they're just going to have to pay for it like they should have done in the first place.

Fuck corpos. Poison the machine. Give them nothing for free.

[thisismisogynoir]

A Rant~IDFC bc I am TIRED!!!!!!!

I fucking hate how AI ruins everything and is shoved in my face all the damn time. How every time I use YouTube just to listen to music I see at least one video with an "AI Cover" of a real-life singer or fictional character getting their voice used for songs without their consent. Like, I'm sorry not sorry, but no, I don't want to see an "AI Cover" of Pinkie Pie and Rarity from FiM singing WAP(yes, I'm not making it up, that's a real video I saw recommended to me before). How ads I see for multiple companies will have AI in them or even outright recommend AI as a tool to use for your business or to write essays or to replace your own voice. I can't even read Quora anymore without the first fucking result I see being a Chat GPT answer: above the answers from real, flesh-and-blood, human beings. And they're fucking wrong. I looked up on Quora if any of Henry VIII's wives knew each other, and the(first) Chat GPT answer very stupidly spits in the face of history and says that all of them died before any of them could meet each other, despite that blatantly not being the case(plenty of the queens were each other's ladies-in-waiting before Henry married them, Seymour for Aragon and Boleyn, and Howard for Cleves, for example). So now you can get inaccurate history fed to you from an AI instead of looking at actual sources given to you by real people! Hooray! 😕

Just please Lord, let me go back to the days when AI didn't fucking exist, I'm so goddamn sick and tired of it being everywhere, everyday, all of the damn time.

[medievaltemptress]

Unless you are an artist that has had your work stolen by someone with more of an audience than you and not credit at all whatsoever; I don’t want to hear your imput

[cleocatrablossy]

Kids in my science class were talking about how they use AI for their English assignments. Like??? I get that being forced to write an essay is sucky as hell(I hate it too) but isn’t it sorta fun to break a story down? Like okay: you get your prompt and if it’s a bad prompt for how you’ve been viewing the story then yeah, sucks(or god forbid you’re writing an argumentative essay and your only options for your argument are given to you so you can’t actually make your own argument- I fucking hate this essay we’re doing). But there’s fun in the challenge! And even if you end up writing something that’s complete shit there’s still accomplishment in managing to sorta meet the prompt! It’s fun! It’s a challenge!

I mean my summer project 3 years back was a giant analytical essay on Revolution Radio by Green Day so I might not have the best ground to stand on here for what it’s like for most kids to have to write stuff for English class, but still????

[radellama]

You know. Everything is really shit for the creative/entertainment industry right now so I hope everything goes on strike. And I hope that with everything on strike there's nothing left to be used as be ai fodder and the ai fad crashes and burns like it's supposed to

[northssketchbook]

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