Anti Ai - Blog Posts
Hey so Catholics aren't fascists! Maybe learn what it is before assuming all Catholics are Nazi Bigots (There are poc.catholics and queer Catholics). Please and Thanks.
Oh damn the Catholics have joined in on the war against AI "art".
We need to ban AI 'Art' that's just stealing from artists who ACTUALLY do work and not sit at a computer typing in prompts and stealing the artists work.
AI is a fucking joke
Few of the artist affected by AI art thievery.
Posts by Jon Lam Art.
Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.
If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.
Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.
Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.
I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.
This is so, so important!! I don't want to have to do this, but likely will do so anyhow, so please please make an account!!
Guys, if you read on AO3 please try to create an account. So many of us writers are going to be forced to lock down our fics to registered users out of necessity to help keep AI away, and it kills us because we don’t want to stop any of you from reading.
AO3 is invite only. So if you know an AO3 user, ask if they have an invitation to give you (we’re given invite codes to share with others who want to join) because that’s an easy way to get in. If you don’t know someone you can ask, this is AO3’s instructions for requesting one from them…
I know this seems like an extra step and maybe you don’t think you need it and can just read from people who haven’t locked their fics. But this isn’t just about you as the reader. If you enjoy fics and you want to keep them coming, this is how you support your favorite writers! If our stats and comments plummet, I guarantee writing is going to start going down as well. Nobody wants that! So please consider making an account and signal boosting this as well! 🙏🏻
**NOTE: AO3 indicates (as of today) there’s 48k some people in the queue for invites and they’re sending out about 5k per day. That’s not a bad wait at all!!**
pov: ai artists when their ai speed paint gets exposed for being, well, ai
Reblog to kill it faster
I need to talk about ai art, because like one I hate it but two I see this shit on instagram reels and like I would never use it but like I feel like the people who do could be so much more creative. Like it’s always like a cat that’s really buff and his wife left him, and like sure we could do that like one time but ever ai post is just a shit variation of that like I feel like you could make like incredible worlds and shit. And I’m not saying I could do better (but I probably could) but like It just shows how unimaginative and lazy ai “artists” are. IMPRESS ME
this is going viral on the tweeter currently so. for you also. miku is not ai!!
so a huge list of artists that was used to train midjourney’s model got leaked and i’m on it
literally there is no reason to support AI generators, they can’t ethically exist. my art has been used to train every single major one without consent lmfao 🤪
link to the archive
So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.
AI art bros are big mad about it.
This. All of this.
I had a tattoo client ask if I ever used AI to design tattoos for me. Man I spent the better part of a decade doing shitty bit work as a graphic designer and now that I have the space to do whatever I want, I'm gonna let the computer generate random garbage for me? What next should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?
I am actually so annoyed with the use of AI in scholastic settings and in Artists settings.
Someone once tried to defend the use of AI by saying;
“Without AI I wouldn’t pass this class” -someone who has always pulled top marks in the subject
“AI isn’t embarrassing to use as long as you are just using it to avoid research” -someone who wasn’t using it to avoid reaserch
“AI isn’t even a true AI because it’s made by a human so it’s basically research” -someone who doesn’t even use AI and pulls too grades in my grade
“I take what Chat GPT says and reword it when i translate it” -MANY people in French classes in my school
“If it isn’t caught by *inset website for detecting AI* then it doesn’t really matter because I put enough effort in” -someone online who wasn’t using AI for an essay
“Well, *insert famous person* uses it to create * insert art*” -post on instagram
“I only use it to write emails for work” -my uncle about his job where he is a supervisor
Do these people genuinely not understand how stupid these arguments sound. How none of these are valid arguments to justify using AI especially for “creating” art. Most of these were said to me when I shared my opinion on AI
I’ve also heard people refer to using generative AI to create pictures and calling themselves AI artists. They do not understand that what they are doing is typing into a machine that then takes the work of many real people and artist and puts them together.
Do I think AI is Inherently evil? No.
But I do believe that it should not be used in a scholastic setting at any point and that when it is used it should be advertised that it is AI.
For example:
I saw an improve performance where the first half of the performance was written by 2020 Chat GPT then the actors improved from there. I personally think this is ok because it was the gimmick of the show
A family member of mine enjoys using AI to create pictures and exploring the limits of what it can create. (At this point in time) he uses it as something to do and does not believe that he is an artist or is creating this “art”
Using AI to help you manage tasks (goblin tools is what I’m thinking off but I imagine there are other instances where this applies)
Summarizing medical documents and research paper in order to decipher the language that makes it harder for “regular people” to understand
I don’t understand how anyone who creates their own art or writes their own papers or does their own research can be ok with the use of AI
Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.
Okay. It's time for an AI rant.
My nephew is 13 years old. Whenever he writes a paper for school, I check it over and fix all of his mistakes for him. He said to me, "Maybe I'll proofread your paper for you in exchange," meaning one of the scholarly articles I write for work. I said, "Cool," and gave him the file. And he said, "Well, this is full of errors! See, you always say you have a lot to correct on my stuff, and look at all the stuff you got wrong!" And I said, surprised, "What? Where?" Because I'm sure there are typos in the draft I sent him, but not, like, that many.
And then he pointed to the screen and said, "Look at all the blue and red lines you have."
And I said, "Yeah, but those are wrong. Like, those are blue and red lines I'm ignoring because the computer is wrong." And then I paused and added, "You know you can't proofread a paper by just looking at the red and blue lines, right?" And he gave me the blankest look, because that clearly is EXACTLY what he thinks. And it became even clearer suddenly why, whenever I correct something on his paper, his immediate reaction is, "It didn't have a blue or red line."
There's a very good reason for that: THAT'S BECAUSE THE COMPUTER ISN'T SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT IT WAS WRONG.
I am so tired of being sold the idea that computers are better than humans and so we should just outsource everything to them, which is clearly the lesson my nephew is absorbing in U.S. middle school. COMPUTERS ARE NOT BETTER THAN HUMANS. Like, maybe they are better at humans at crawling through rubble to find people trapped inside. They are also better at preserving things in a searchable format. Things like that. Very limited circumstances.
I don't want to sound alarmist but everything I hear about people using generative AI freaks me out. It's not just that I'm freaked out by people being like, "I use it to write novels!" (Although I don't see how they do, I have tried to have it write fiction for me and the output was truly terrible.) But I recognize my bias around creative writing and so no one needs to credit my views on artificial writing. But! Other things are alarming, too! "I use it to brainstorm x, y, or z." But...why? Why not just...use your own brain...to...brain...storm? The computer doesn't even have a brain to brainstorm with! And you might be like, "But it comes up with things that my brain would never think of!" So would other people! You could also brainstorm with other people! Or even through Google to see what other people have thought before you (not AI). Please don't belittle the wonder of thinking.
I just feel like the marketing around generative AI boils down to "Wouldn't it be easier not to use your own brain to think about things?" Everyone. No. It would not be. Please just trust me on this. I'm not just an old person who is out of touch with technology or something. I promise. USE YOUR BRAINS. IT WILL BE OKAY.
how c.ai works and why it's unethical
Okay, since the AI discourse is happening again, I want to make this very clear, because a few weeks ago I had to explain to a (well meaning) person in the community how AI works. I'm going to be addressing people who are maybe younger or aren't familiar with the latest type of "AI", not people who purposely devalue the work of creatives and/or are shills.
The name "Artificial Intelligence" is a bit misleading when it comes to things like AI chatbots. When you think of AI, you think of a robot, and you might think that by making a chatbot you're simply programming a robot to talk about something you want them to talk about, and it's similar to an rp partner. But with current technology, that's not how AI works. For a breakdown on how AI is programmed, CGP grey made a great video about this several years ago (he updated the title and thumbnail recently)
I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend you watch this because CGP Grey is good at explaining, but the tl;dr for this post is this: bots are made with a metric shit-ton of data. In C.AI's case, the data is writing. Stolen writing, usually scraped fanfiction.
How do we know chatbots are stealing from fanfiction writers? It knows what omegaverse is [SOURCE] (it's a Wired article, put it in incognito mode if it won't let you read it), and when a Reddit user asked a chatbot to write a story about "Steve", it automatically wrote about characters named "Bucky" and "Tony" [SOURCE].
I also said this in the tags of a previous reblog, but when you're talking to C.AI bots, it's also taking your writing and using it in its algorithm: which seems fine until you realize 1. They're using your work uncredited 2. It's not staying private, they're using your work to make their service better, a service they're trying to make money off of.
"But Bucca," you might say. "Human writers work like that too. We read books and other fanfictions and that's how we come up with material for roleplay or fanfiction."
Well, what's the difference between plagiarism and original writing? The answer is that plagiarism is taking what someone else has made and simply editing it or mixing it up to look original. You didn't do any thinking yourself. C.AI doesn't "think" because it's not a brain, it takes all the fanfiction it was taught on, mixes it up with whatever topic you've given it, and generates a response like in old-timey mysteries where somebody cuts a bunch of letters out of magazines and pastes them together to write a letter.
(And might I remind you, people can't monetize their fanfiction the way C.AI is trying to monetize itself. Authors are very lax about fanfiction nowadays: we've come a long way since the Anne Rice days of terror. But this issue is cropping back up again with BookTok complaining that they can't pay someone else for bound copies of fanfiction. Don't do that either.)
Bottom line, here are the problems with using things like C.AI:
It is using material it doesn't have permission to use and doesn't credit anybody. Not only is it ethically wrong, but AI is already beginning to contend with copyright issues.
C.AI sucks at its job anyway. It's not good at basic story structure like building tension, and can't even remember things you've told it. I've also seen many instances of bots saying triggering or disgusting things that deeply upset the user. You don't get that with properly trigger tagged fanworks.
Your work and your time put into the app can be taken away from you at any moment and used to make money for someone else. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people who use AI panic about accidentally deleting a bot that they spent hours conversing with. Your time and effort is so much more stable and well-preserved if you wrote a fanfiction or roleplayed with someone and saved the chatlogs. The company that owns and runs C.AI can not only use whatever you've written as they see fit, they can take your shit away on a whim, either on purpose or by accident due to the nature of the Internet.
DON'T USE C.AI, OR AT THE VERY BARE MINIMUM DO NOT DO THE AI'S WORK FOR IT BY STEALING OTHER PEOPLES' WORK TO PUT INTO IT. Writing fanfiction is a communal labor of love. We share it with each other for free for the love of the original work and ideas we share. Not only can AI not replicate this, but it shouldn't.
(also, this goes without saying, but this entire post also applies to ai art)
In case any of you here also use X/Twitter.
Whenever someone criticises AI in fandom, there’s always a bunch of people wailing “but I use AI to write! :(” , as if their hurt feelings have any weight. Bad news boys, if something sucks it really doesn’t matter if you like doing it. It still sucks. AI will still pilfer the real work of real people, launder it, average it, and feed it back to you at the cost of the planet in a way that will become increasingly monetised by (and is already controlled by) corporations - as well as gradually filling the internet with lowest common denominator SEO sludge.
“But my writing is bad without it” - if that’s the case, your writing is still bad with it, because AI-generated material is not your writing. You have many options, including some combination of “getting good” and “learning to accept being bad”, just like the rest of us. If you actually like writing, grit your teeth and get to work; if you don’t, then that’s fine. The world is full of oceans of cared-about, thought-about work, much of it free. Glory in it!
(BTW, if you haven’t read Ted Chiang’s articles on AI, I highly recommend; all of the ones I’ve read have been amazing. Here’s one!
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art )
Using AI for a creative work feels like breaking someone’s really well thought out magic system and when you bring someone back from the dead the author or dm is like “hey dude you cant do that” and you’re just like “yuh huh”
my commissions are almost always open! my pricing is pinned on here and also on my carrd under commission info!
in totally unrelated news, i happen to be an artist with my commissions open
if you're an artist, drop your commission info in a reblog! now's no time to panic; we've got to help each other more than ever!
Seeing a concerning amount of AI destiel art, and honestly it’s such an insult to the characters themselves. Two characters so defined by their humanity and you render them in AI slop? Die in a hole.
Okay fam sorry (not really) that all this gen ai bs is popping up from me but I had to do a school assignment where I was forced to use gen ai and I’m pissed about it, and also shit’s going down on ao3 with fic scraping and all. Remember to support creators and stay safe everyone!!
Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.
We can do something they can’t, make anything into existence…..
Like drawing them pregnant >:}
The pencils breaking into smaller pencils
And why they treating word pencil like a slur. Reblog to scare ai losers away 🤭
I HATE GENERATIVE AI I HATE AI “ART” AND I HATE THE EXCUSES PEOPLE COME UP WITH TO JUSTIFY IT
“ohhh but i don’t know how to draw” THEN LEARN?!?! DO YOU THINK ARTISTS ARE BORN WITH A PAPER AND PEN IN THEIR HANDS??? TO ME A BEGINNER ARTIST WILL ALWAYS BE MORE TALENTED THAN GENERATIVE AI USERS
“ok but its inaccessible” if you have an app on your device that lets you generate ai images you can definitely download a free drawing app!!!
ok but seriously at least TRY to do something yourself. oh you got ai to draw for you??? ok and what did you actually achieve there? did you learn any new skills? did you actually improve? every time you put your pencil on your paper you get a tiny bit better!! even if you’re not that good at drawing it doesn’t matter as long as its truly your own creation.
if you need ai to make something you could have made yourself are you going to need ai to eat your dinner next??!
Never sell your integrity, if you make something, at least make it with your hands and your effort, not some tool that steals from thousands of people, you are worth more than that, they don't deserve a crumb of the creativity and perseverance humans have.
I think a lot of what pro-AI people are really wanting is stuff that already exists but they don't know it's out there like
can't format a work email? templates
don't know how to write a resume? templates
writing a thank you card or a condolences card or a wedding invitation? templates templates templates
not sure how to format your citations in MLA or whatever format? citationmachine.net
summary of something you're reading for school/work? cliffsnotes.com
recipe based on ingredients in your fridge? whatsintherefrigerator.com
there's a million more like, guys, we don't need AI, we never needed generative AI
To AI " artists".
Rant incoming.
Yeah, it's in quotations for a reason, you are no artist if you use AI to create.
So let me start by telling you how much of a lazy person one has to be to use AI to create for them, are you really that inept that you can't be bothered to pick up a pencil? So scared of failure you'd rather not even try at all and let the computer do so for you? That is just pathetic.
And before you use that excuse of " but disabled people..." that's incorrect, people have adapted to make art if they desired despite disability for a long time before ai existed, these are real artists that put in effort into what they create, not some lazy sack of potatoes like " AI artists" are.
In fact, even a child is more of an artist than "Ai artists." are, because at least a child has love for their creations, whatever they might be, a computer cannot do that, a computer cannot have emotions, without that, art is hollow, it's... not really art at that point, even a child's drawing has more soul and thought behind it than any ai slop will ever have.
" but it draws better than I ever could... "
Seriously? Let me remind you it does make mistakes too, it was made in our image, but it doesn't have the same logic a real artist has, it will have it's limitations, a computer cannot be a human being, it will not think like one.
And if you never even picked up a pencil in the first place, how do you know you absolutely can't be a good artist? You never tried, your sloth kept that future from you.
If you are too afraid of falling you'll never fly, so to actual artists: go on and make those mistakes, that's how you learn.
" but it'd take a lot of time to learn."
And? Of course it will, it is a skill, it will take time, but the journey is how you develop, you cannot expect to achieve anything in life easily, it will take effort on your part,like it or not.
So stop making excuses and maybe try actually drawing for once, without your precious little tool doing it for you, if someone like you can actually manage being anything more than mediocre that is.
" it's not stealin..."
Would you call doing some modification on someone's drawing and claiming it as yours stealing? Of course it is stealing, from several people even, it hurts actual artists and you deserve to have your stolen "art" drowned in poison, you incompetent buffoon.
I do not support AI art, and if you do... kindly take yourself out the door or I will do so for you.
In short: if you are an " AI artist" you are not welcome here, you are not even an artist, just a mediocre human being that I will be glad to block, take your shitty slop elsewhere, preferably to the trash.