#generative AI is different from that

[fyeahnix]

as a society, we really need a better understanding that just because something is labeled as AI does NOT mean it's generative AI. AI has existed for a LONG TIME before generative was a thing....like bffr

[warmfuzzyanimal]

nothing to boil the blood in the morning quite like coming across an etsy page of AI generated furry adopts and going "okay, well, surely no one's *buying* these seven fingered airbrushed freaks," but, alas. almost 600 sales. making literal hundreds of dollars off of stolen work. fuck off and blow up.

[reminiscentrainclouds]

Shin AI doodle collection (he is on my wall)

[corvid-language-library]

Damnnnn I just got wind that the NaNoWriMo website's shutting down

[vvickydisc]

All the players in the Entangled AU wearing masks/having different color schemes around their eyes like Gangle is genius!!!

thank you!!!

[garfunkytunes]

ai art is not real art, and ai writing is NOT real writing

[skeletalheartattack]

Subtitles below the keep reading:

Hey you, shut your mouth and look at my paw! DON'T FORGET!! [Incomprehensible sped up gibberish] This... Journey... Money... Loads of coins. [Incomprehensible sped up gibberish] What-about-her? What-about-her? ... What-about-her? 'She still like me? [Quiet but mostly incomprehensible gibberish about subtitles] O P S O P N O-1 1. Here's the spell: Love the mermaid, for sure! The mermaid is HAPPY! Okay! It's pretty normal for a fish, right? Guuuyyyssss, beeeee caaarefuuulll wiiiiith theeee GIIIIIRRRRLSSS!!! [Incomprehensible] Oh! Silly! Oh yes! Lamb chop boy! [Incomprehensible] [Very quietly, while white noise is playing over it] Goood eevening, aand weeelcome too the shoooowww... [In the background] Ohhh, mooney!

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

Ao3 comment section that made me scream

[darkdragon768]

[balthazarslostlibrary]

"At daytime, Dexter is a policeman specializes in blood at the Miami police department, but at night, Dexter turns into a different person. He becomes a murderer, kills the serial killer who has escaped from justice."

[hide-your-bugs-away]

Music-related content mill YouTube channels making uncanny AI videos about the Animals' history is almost funny to me for how ridiculous they are but then I remember that the emphasized details of said history (usually regarding Alan and Eric's relationship) are going to be the over-exaggerated parts that have been regurgitated uncritically since the 90s for the most shock value and drama and will just poison the well for their impressionable audience of boomers and "did you know the bassist of the Animals managed Jimi Hendrix?" fun-fact sharers, yet again pushing the blame and scapegoat status onto Alan and sullying interpretations of their relationship (and the band's general dynamic) further.

...Bring it on. Those shitty channels may work hard to spread misinformation, but my overly affectionate art and earnest infodumping about a band and a musical duo only like eight people care about works harder. 😎

[mittensmorgul]

There’s another post going around about this, but tumblr won’t let me reblog it but...

When I read a story written by a human being, I’m not just reading it because I want to read a coffee shop AU with a specific plot description. I’m reading it because it’s making a connection to another human storyteller and seeing a piece of them carved into the words. Storytelling is a human act of sharing joy, angst, tension, resolution, satisfaction. It’s an act of love.

Writing and reading a story isn’t just an act of creation and consumption. I hate that commercialism and AI are reducing it to that sort of transaction. Like oh, you need words on this subject and that’s the end of it. Like what we really needed was just a vending machine we can push buttons on to get a fix, as if the human creating the story wasn’t a factor. That the author’s life experience and views and feelings haven’t infused the words with their own unique touches.

I’ve read hundreds of coffee shop AU’s over the years (and thousands of fics in general). I’ve seen many similar tropes reused across stories, and just like an AI would, I’ve learned things about writing them that I will always carry with me. But unlike an AI, a human author is not just the sum total of coffee shop AU’s we’ve consumed. Even if we used the same prompt, the same sets of tropes, the same characters. I will always choose the human-crafted story over the computer generated one.

Because again, I’m not just looking for a very specific fix via a series of words. I’m looking for a human connection through story.

Unlike an AI, I have BEEN to a coffee shop. I’ve had experiences in coffee shops. I’ve had funny little meet-cutes with people. I’ve accidentally spilled coffee on myself and knocked heads with someone as we both rushed to wipe it up. I know what it FEELS like. The machine doesn’t.

I’ve also read millions of things that aren’t fanfic, or coffee shop AU’s. I’ve experienced things OTHER than going to coffee shops and having meet-cutes. And I know what all those things feel like when processed through my personal human lens of experience, which is different from every other personal human lens of experience.

All the machine can do is spit out what it THINKS a human experience is, and I honestly don’t care about that at all. Fic is not a “product” to be “generated.” It’s an art form that connects us to other people who share the same love of a thing that we do.

People who, even when all writing the same characters in the same setting to the exact same prompt, will all add something or have a viewpoint about something or bring a completely different personality and life experience to the story that no one else on the planet could. That’s what I’m actually reading.

[paradoxicalpaldeann]

honestly the funniest shit ive seen this week is all those stupid ai chat apps stealing the ads of their own competitors. like. i knew you had no originality but this has to be a cosmic joke at this point

[maddiemuu]

one bit of anti-ai rhetoric i really hate is the idea that suffering to make art somehow makes the product more virtuous. i especially see this said in reference to disabled artists and i find it condescending at best.

[ghostcrows]

no here's what it is here's what it really is i think when we canonize certain things as part of a particular era or time period its like we have to abandon those things because we have now drawn a line between the past and the present. and i dont like looking at it that way. even tho it is sort of inevitable. and if you do carry those things forward with you then you become representative of the era. now u are a time capsule against ur will. but luckily (?) the overarching Popular Culture we used to have has split off into one thousand million separate algorithms and microtrends so we might never have a truly cohesive and collective Cultural Era again. <- kind of knows that isnt true as im saying it but i mean its definitely not the same right

[yepthatsacowalright]

Esther once again articulating the the thoughts in my brain about humans and modern communication perfectly.