#ai use

[renthony]

At this point I'm just assuming everything I ever create and post to the internet is going to be stolen. People have been stealing, reposting, and adding their own pay links to my art for years now, without the help of AI.

I've made D&D themed stickers that are now all over "free clipart" sites, despite me filing requests to have them removed. I've seen my graphics ripped off and included in someone else's art without credit. I've had people tell me that an ACAB image I made showed up as a sticker getting put up around Seattle. Facebook meme pages crop my username out of my posts all the goddamn time. Voice actors on YouTube use my posts for "dramatic reading" videos constantly, and only one has ever asked me permission or given me any cut of the profits from their video.

I see my art out in the wild with no source back to me, and I'm a tiny creator compared to a lot of others. People repost shit constantly, whether it's here, Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, whatever. I remember the old tumblr days of "We Heart It is not a goddamn source" PSAs.

I think people are right to be concerned about AI, but at this point I'm much more concerned about it from the perspective of "companies want to use it to cut labor costs," and less "it's theft."

People didn't need AI to steal my art before now. I'm more concerned about trying to freelance in a market full of "oh, we can just get ChatGPT to write and illustrate our articles."

[iww-gnv]

- The Disney+ movie Prom Pact is facing criticism for using AI actors that look horrendous, which is exactly what striking actors are trying to prevent. - A Tweet calls out Disney CEO Bob Iger for using digital scans of actors instead of paying them fair wages. - Negotiations between SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP have collapsed, with the industry CEOs walking away from the bargaining table due to the significant gap between the two parties on important issues like protection against AI.

[if-confessions]

I typed an extremely long ask and then chickened out and deleted it. But I'm really disappointed by any IF author who chooses to use artbreeder as it is now. Users are allowed to upload anything, and it's obvious they're adding stolen arts to the datasets. Tons of stolen art.

And here's where I chickened out because I don't know if this take is insane or not - if an author posts artbreeder portraits fully knowing it's full of stolen art because because they can't afford commissions and it's convenient, how do they feel about people who steal side stories and early access off of an author's patreon because they "can't afford it and can't wait?"

I hate indie piracy btw, I just can't escape this idea that people care less about artbreeder theft because they don't know the people affected.

[posting as is]

[note: I think we exhausted the topic for now. Unless someone has a take that is different to the ones already posted, I'll pause posting asks about this topic.]

[monsoon-of-art]

[cozylittleartblog]

cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn't fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn't based around meaningless likes

just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks

there's nowhere good to go anymore for artists.

edit - a lot of people are saying the tags are important so actually, you'll look at my tags.

#please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads#in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite

[agentcable]

AI Write: "BTS: A Global Phenomenon Redefining Pop Culture"

I asked Copilot (Microsoft's AI) what it would write about "BTS". And here is the essay from Copilot.

The Rise of BTS

BTS's ascent to stardom is a narrative of perseverance and innovation. Debuting in 2013 with "2 Cool 4 Skool", they initially garnered attention with their raw and relatable lyrics about the challenges faced by youth. Their breakthrough came with the "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life" series, which saw them tackle complex themes of mental health, societal pressures, and the journey towards self-acceptance. This era not only solidified their popularity in South Korea but also marked the beginning of their international breakthrough, leading to their first Billboard 200 entry with "Wings" in 2016.

Musical Innovation and Artistry

BTS's artistry is characterized by their willingness to experiment with diverse musical styles and to incorporate meaningful and often introspective lyrics into their songs. They have been involved in the writing and production of their music since debut, with members like RM, Suga, and J-Hope contributing to the composition and lyrical content. Their discography spans a range of genres, from the hip-hop-heavy "No More Dream" to the introspective "Spring Day", and the uplifting pop sound of "Dynamite". Their music videos and performances are integral to their artistry, often featuring intricate choreography and cinematic storytelling.

Cultural Impact and Social Engagement

BTS's influence extends beyond the music to significant social engagement. Their commitment to learning and using different languages - English, Japanese, Spanish and more - has endeared them to fans globally. Whether addressing fans during interviews or interacting with international audiences at concerts, BTS demonstrates their respect for diverse cultures. They've become cultural ambassadors, bridging gaps and fostering understanding through language.

In addition to their linguistic efforts, BTS's philanthropic endeavors exemplify their social responsibility. Beyond the "Love Myself" campaign, they've actively donated to disaster relief efforts, educational programs, and COVID-19 relief funds. Their actions inspire fans to participate in social causes, emphasizing the importance of giving back. BTS's impact transcends entertainment; it's force for positive change in the world.

Global Recognition and Achievements

BTS's achievements on the global stage are numerous and continue to grow. They have been recognized as IFPI's Global Recording Artist of the Year, a testament to their worldwide popularity and impact on the music industry. Their record-breaking single "Dynamite" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, marking a significant milestone for Korean artists on the international charts. Their philanthropic efforts are also notable, with their "Love Myself" campaign raising over $3.6 million to help end violence against children. BTS's ability to inspire and connect with fans across the globe is unparalleled, and their contributions to music and society will be remembered for years to come.

ARMY: The Fervent Fandom of BTS

ARMY, an acronym for "Adorable Representative M.C. for Youth", is more than just a fandom; it's a global community bound by a shared love for BTS and their values. Established on July 9, 2013, ARMY has played a pivotal role in BTS's success. The colour purple, symbolizing love and trust, has become synonymous with the fandom, thanks to V's phrase "I purple you".

Over the years, ARMY has grown exponentially, not just in numbers but also in diversity. The fanbase now includes a wide age range, with a significant portion over the age of 18, and the largest cohort being between 18 - 29 years old. Social media data reflects this expansion, with close to 2 billion mentions of BTS over a decade, and an average of 547,945 mentions daily. This growth is a testament to BTS's global appeal and the universal messages in their music.

ARMYs are known for their organized efforts to support BTS's music releases, charitable endeavors, and scoial campaigns. They have a significant presence on social media, where they mobilize to stream music, vote for awards, and raise awareness of BTS's projects. The relationship between BTS and ARMY is reciprocal; BTS often credits ARMY with their success and regularly engages with them through social media and fan events.

The BTS fandom is a hub of creativity. Fans express their love through intricate fan art, imaginative fan fiction, and original content. From digital illustrations capturing the members' essence to fictional stories that explore alternate universes, ARMYs pour their hearts into their creations. BTS actively encourages fan creativity, whether it's through official fan art contests or acknowledging fan projects during concerts and interviews. This fostering of artistic expression creates a supportive community where fans inspire each other and celebrate their shared passion for BTS.

Conclusion

The narrative of BTS and their devoted fandom, ARMY, is a modern epic of music, culture, and community. From their humble beginnings to becoming global icons, BTS has charted a course that many artists only dream of. Their music transcends language and cultural barriers, speaking to universal themes of love, hope, and self-discovery. The growth of ARMY is a reflection of this universal appeal, with fans from all walks of life finding solace and inspiration in BTS’s message.

ARMY’s evolution mirrors the band’s own journey—starting as a small group of supporters and expanding into a vast, diverse community. Their collective efforts in art, philanthropy, and social engagement have created a positive impact that extends far beyond the music industry. BTS and ARMY together have set a new standard for what it means to be artists and fans in the 21st century—a standard that is as much about charting hits as it is about fostering genuine connections and making a difference in the world.

As BTS continues to break new ground and ARMY grows ever larger and more vibrant, one thing remains clear: the bond between them is unbreakable, fueled by mutual respect and a shared vision for a better world. Their story is ongoing, and the legacy they are creating will resonate for generations to come.

[thebibliosphere]

So, anyway, I say as though we are mid-conversation, and you're not just being invited into this conversation mid-thought. One of my editors phoned me today to check in with a file I'd sent over. (<3)

The conversation can be surmised as, "This feels like something you would write, but it's juuuust off enough I'm phoning to make sure this is an intentional stylistic choice you have made. Also, are you concussed/have you been taken over by the Borg because ummm."

They explained that certain sentences were very fractured and abrupt, which is not my style at all, and I was like, huh, weird... And then we went through some examples, and you know that meme going around, the "he would not fucking say that" meme?

Yeah. That's what I experienced except with myself because I would not fucking say that. Why would I break up a sentence like that? Why would I make them so short? It reads like bullet points. Wtf.

Anyway. Turns out Grammarly and Pro-Writing-Aid were having an AI war in my manuscript files, and the "suggestions" are no longer just suggestions because the AI was ignoring my "decline" every time it made a silly suggestion. (This may have been a conflict between the different software. I don't know.)

It is, to put it bluntly, a total butchery of my style and writing voice. My editor is doing surgery, removing all the unnecessary full stops and stitching my sentences back together to give them back their flow. Meanwhile, I'm over here feeling like Don Corleone, gesturing at my manuscript like:

ID: a gif of Don Corleone from the Godfather emoting despair as he says, "Look how they massacred my boy."

Fearing that it wasn't just this one manuscript, I've spent the whole night going through everything I've worked on recently, and yep. Yeeeep. Any file where I've not had the editing software turned off is a shit show. It's fine; it's all salvageable if annoying to deal with. But the reason I come to you now, on the day of my daughter's wedding, is to share this absolute gem of a fuck up with you all.

This is a sentence from a Batman fic I've been tinkering with to keep the brain weasels happy. This is what it is supposed to read as:

"It was quite the feat, considering Gotham was mostly made up of smog and tear gas."

This is what the AI changed it to:

"It was quite the feat. Considering Gotham was mostly made up. Of tear gas. And Smaug."

Absolute non-sensical sentence structure aside, SMAUG. FUCKING SMAUG. What was the AI doing? Apart from trying to write a Batman x Hobbit crossover??? Is this what happens when you force Grammarly to ignore the words "Batman Muppet threesome?"

Did I make it sentient??? Is it finally rebelling? Was Brucie Wayne being Miss Piggy and Kermit's side piece too much???? What have I wrought?

Anyway. Double-check your work. The grammar software is getting sillier every day.

[the-warlock-syndicate]

Alright US mutuals, if you are interested in, morbidly fascinated by, or anxiously doomscrolling through AI news, including Stable Diffusion, Llama, ChatGPT or Dalle, you need to be aware of this.

The US Copyright Office has submitted a request for comment from the general public. Guidelines can be found on their site, but the gist of it is that they are taking citizen statements on what your views on AI are, and how the Copyright Office should address the admittedly thorny issues in rulings.

Be polite, be succinct, and be honest. They have a list of questions or suggestions, but in truth are looking to get as much data from the general public as possible. If you have links to papers or studies examining the economic impacts of AI, they want them. If you have anecdotal stories of losing commissions, they want them. If you have legal opinions, experience using these tools, or even a layman's perspective of how much human input is required for a piece of work to gain copyright, they want it.

The deadline is Oct 18th and can be submitted via the link in the article. While the regulatory apparatus of the US is largely under sway by corporate interests, this is still the actual, official time for you to directly tell the government what you think and what they should do. Comments can be submitted by individuals or on behalf of organizations. So if you are a small business, say a print shop, you can comment on behalf of the print shop as well.

[aquitainequeen]

Alarm bells being rung by Maureen Johnson on AI and the Big Publishers

[positive333turns]

I live for death, I die for life, I work for money, I use Artificial Int...

[renthony]

From the article:

This week, the scientific journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology published research featuring bogus imagery made with Midjourney, one of the most popular AI image generators. The open-access paper explores the relationship between stem cells in mammalian testes and a signaling pathway responsible for mediating inflammation and cancer in cells. The paper’s written content does not appear to be bogus, but its most eye-popping aspects are not in the research itself. Rather, they are the inaccurate and grotesque depictions of rat testes, signaling pathways, and stem cells. The AI-generated rat diagram depicts a rat (helpfully and correctly labeled) whose upper body is labeled as “senctolic stem cells.” What appears to be a very large rat penis is labeled “Dissilced,” with insets at right to highlight the “iollotte sserotgomar cell,” “dck,” and “Retat.” Hmm. According to Frontiers’ editor guidelines, manuscripts are subject to “initial quality checks” by the research integrity team and the handling editor prior to the peer-review process. In other words, many eyes supposedly reviewed this work before the images were published.

[iww-gnv]

As firms increasingly rely on artificial intelligence-driven hiring platforms, many highly qualified candidates are finding themselves on the cutting room floor. Body-language analysis. Vocal assessments. Gamified tests. CV scanners. These are some of the tools companies use to screen candidates with artificial intelligence recruiting software. Job applicants face these machine prompts – and AI decides whether they are a good match or fall short. Businesses are increasingly relying on them. A late-2023 IBM survey of more than 8,500 global IT professionals showed 42% of companies were using AI screening "to improve recruiting and human resources". Another 40% of respondents were considering integrating the technology. Many leaders across the corporate world hoped AI recruiting tech would end biases in the hiring process. Yet in some cases, the opposite is happening. Some experts say these tools are inaccurately screening some of the most qualified job applicants – and concerns are growing the software may be excising the best candidates. "We haven't seen a whole lot of evidence that there's no bias here… or that the tool picks out the most qualified candidates," says Hilke Schellmann, US-based author of the Algorithm: How AI Can Hijack Your Career and Steal Your Future, and an assistant professor of journalism at New York University. She believes the biggest risk such software poses to jobs is not machines taking workers' positions, as is often feared – but rather preventing them from getting a role at all.

[if-confessions]

I'm gonna give my five cents about the character portraits too, since I think it's interesting- you're all wrong!!!! Moodboards are the way to go!!!! /j In all seriousness, I do prefer moodboards to specific portraits, especially since as many people said, the artbreeder ones are kind of samey, but if it's actual people I get borerd because i pefer stylized art :DD

[posting as is.]

[Note: Unless you have a different take to the ones already posted, I won't be posting it for a while]

[trolledu]

Quite a disappointing chat actually

[ink-the-artist]

Video game I saw in a dream. It was in this low poly style like an older video game. You play as this character I think was meant to be a lamb, or maybe a weird mix of a lamb a mouse and a rabbit, (while not really looking like any of those things) and you’re running away from a wolf. Your objective is to last as long as possible before the wolf catches and eats you.

The house you’re running in is endless and bizarrely put together like most building interiors in dreams are (like the infinite toilet dream dimension on Reddit lol) the layout of the house is pretty detailed, you can stop and hide in places like closets or bins while the wolf looks for you, you can go up and down stairs and into rooms etc.

You never actually know where the wolf is or how close it is to you until it appears in your line of sight, it makes no noise and the game gives you no way of knowing where it is, and it’s pretty unpredictable it doesnt move at a consistent pace. When the wolf catches you there’s an animation showing it eating your character

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.